MM Muscle - 1971 Dodge Challenger

[Jeff]

More curiosity... I dig the purple (a lot) but what's the reasoning for the orange motor parts?

That's how most all the Mopars came from the factory back in the day.

Well, some of them anyway. An orange engine denoted "high performance" Basically anything 340 or bigger was a "muscle car" and the engine was orange. Engines smaller then 340 in a car and anything else (even big block in truck, RV, or boat) were corporate blue in color. This 318 engine was originally Corp blue. We pained it black with chrome accents when we redid it years ago. Now we are going orange to simulate a 340 4bbl.

Corp blue


Our Challenger's broadcast sheet. Discovered stuck in the coils under the rear seat.


I scanned these two photos as well. Polaroids taken during the first tear down.