DODGEE Paul & Adele Collins’

1966 CHARGER

When you hear the word “Charger” visions of an orange screaming V8 American car flying through the air instantly jump into your mind, but this cool car was cool even before them Duke boys trashed a Charger or two.

Paul had a vision in his head that he wanted this Charger to reflect the early NASCAR racing era with that staunch look of solid black wheels, big tyres and the traditional big white lettering. The silver framed Hemi Orange stripes along the side highlighting the manufacturers graphic and all done in a matte-like finish to give that non imposing “we’re here to go, not for show” look. He certainly achieved that with this staunch looking build. The reverse scoop on the bonnet grabbing air to shove down the fourbarrel carb on that 383 Big Block Hemi fully taking on the race aspect of these early Chargers. These Chargers are certainly in a league of their own. The Dodge builds of the day taking on every challenge to have a super cool car with sleek lines and room under the guards for big wheels feeding the horse power from them technically awesome Hemi engines to the ground. Then back it all up with a very classy interior to give them a sophisticated appearance but still filling the classy black and chrome dash with gauges to let you know that when you sit in that driver’s seat and take hold of the steering wheel, there is something exciting going to happen when you stomp on that gas-pedal. Dodge only built around thirty-five thousand of these so you can imagine there won’t be too many cruising the streets these days. Paul found this one in Masterton living in a shed and being a factory Big Block with a four speed gear box bolted to it, it was a must to have! He soon got a plan together to make this