Factory Upbadging

We can always dream...

 

I de-badged. I love the R/T in the grill, but all the rest is clutter- the cars body lines do the trick for me, tires/wheels, brakes, ride height, it all adds up right? It's all in the little details boys. Let the car speak for itself. If you know cars/sound, you will know it's a Hemi and, in my case, a manual trans. A 345,392 or Hellcat, it's alllllllll good.

Hey, I saw a 5.7 Challenger with a Hellcat supercharger on it, Racer X Vid I think......... Note the gas cap, that's not a fuel sticker, it's a black Mopar sign on a light black background.
I left the Dodge letters on the back. I'm, as of yet, undecided.

 

Hey Dudes long time yeah? I have a question, I was at a get together in Carmichael Ca yesterday, (its outside of Sac) Cars and coffee thing, and for a change there were a couple of new challengers besides me and a 70 plumb crazy challenger. Nice turn out but I noticed and have noted in the past some of the Dodges have a penstar emblem on the front passenger side fender, Its a factory thing on the older models, I kind of liked it. Now Im the guy who's not into badging, My car is stripped of all. I kept the challenger and the R/T badges on the grill and the blacked out hood with the R/T in it, so I shouldn't be the guy to say "Hey I like that", it's small and understated but go's with the Dodge/Chrysler factory thing. They make them still, the Penstar, in gold and silver and I bought one on eBay. It has instructions on where it goes and the size holes to drill, but hey lets not get crazy, no holes in my fender, like the fuelie badges on my truck Ill grind off the spikes and double back tape it, If I decide to remove it in the future a heat gun takes care of any problems. Anyone else see or have seen the add on for the newer year challengers?? Ive seen a black scat prob 2018 or so with all badging removed and a penstar on the passenger side fender, but that's it. ANYONE???? Im gonna try it and I'll get back to you, oh it was like 15 bucks, so on harm on foul right? Any thoughts on year mixing the badging, I like the factory history of the thing.

 

By the way the DODGE is gone from the back of my challenger, I took it off, I saved it though, so its just black plastic now, I debating what to do with that, Ive seen carbon fiber replacement panels covers all the plastic parts, inc round the tail-lites. Or old school pin striping there or maybe I have my pin strip guy paint MOPAR there, it'll look like form the factory chrome?? Also Im working on my engine cover, if Im gonna keep it I need to make it different, I cut some new holes into it where the gray 5.7 V8 cover, BS was, that's gone. so you can see through to the motor, I also mod'ed it to fit with the catch can and it's hoses. Looks pretty good so far I found some honeycomb mesh to cut into a replacement cover where the gray part (that piece on the top with the writing on it). These pics are old with the light gray part still installed so picture small honeycomb mesh where that was.. Note the pics I cut out a notch for the can and its hoses left is the new notch, right is the finished install. Looks Factory dudes..........

 

here's the catch can with the mod'ed engine cover cutout


see no DODGE just black
the cover w/o the center part and a few more holes in it, tried for factory look, will add mesh and send pic Plumb crazy 70 R/T at Carmichael Car n Coffee older Plymouth with the PenStar on fender this cars a 67 I think Dodge on, I really just did not care for it, now if it said MOPAR well we'lll see. Yes plate is Vanishing Point, still my fav car movie, the first one NOT the remake.........

 

well there it is for now anyway, up badge? or history badge? 12.5 down form the body line and 2.5 inches over from wheel well, yes I looked it up that's for dodge challengers..
Let Me Know what you think..... Later

 

When i was a kid hanging out at the plymouth dealership we had a parts bin full of the pentastar's badges, some customers that bought a new car thought that chrysler had left the star off of the drivers side, so to keep peace they installed one on the left fender to make them happy. as you all know this particular star was only on the passenger side fender only. I think the pentastar showed up on the passenger side fender in 1963 .I always liked the star.