A long held dream fulfilled...not Ford related...something better!

[2011G6E]

Finally. Everyone should do this if they can manage to swing it.

When I was 17 years old back in 1982, late that year I bought a VH Charger. I loved it. It went like stink, it was heaps of fun...but back then "it was just an old car", and in mid 1983 I traded it in. It had cost me $1600 from the local Holden dealership, and I traded it for about the same.
This was the old girl...

And every. Single. Day since then I've missed it, kicking myself for being so goddamn stupid as to get rid of the Charger. I've also driven the missus (and anyone else in earshot) mad for the last 33 years by endlessly saying "I'm going to get another one one day", but never had the chance as I watched the prices soar during the supercar boom.
Now the prices have dropped back to normality...pretty much...and I thought "bugger it". I'm about to turn 51, and you start to realise there are very likely less days ahead than there are behind, and time doesn't stop a-tickin. Time to act.

One personal loan later, we started shopping, and found this 1974 VJ Charger on Gumtree...mild but very strong reconditioned 245 hemi with new extractors and quality big exhaust system, three speed floor shift manual, the classic Valiant steel sports wheels (complete with the original trim rings and center alloy cap!), full instrument 770 dash and three spoke wheel. It had rust repairs done in the past but some were a bit "lazily done" and I intend to re-do them properly. This is staying with us until I fall off the perch. No trading this Charger on any bloody thing...
Little bit of finishing off work and a coat of paint in the original Green Go colour (already painted under the bonnet when they replaced the motor and it's BRIGHT green), flog off the WB ute and, later, the Celica, and I'll be reliving my youth in earnest...



Everyone should chase (and catch) their dream at least once in their life...

I know it's not a Ford...but I'm telling every bugger...I couldn't be happier...