1970 Hemi Challenger Convertible

[quick-bowtie]

The purple car that sold at Mecum is now in Florida..

[Tracker1]

There were 5 FC7 (purple) Hemi Challengers built in 1970. Three of them were 4-speeds.

The car from Sweden you are referring to was indeed Milton Robson's car Jannes. He brought it back from England in the late 80s and had it restored. The pictures from the previous post show the car with the white stripe removed.

[442w30]

The guy who runs the E-body ragtop registry is Swedish by birth. I've forwarded this thread to him if there's anything he can add.

[Bill Pritchard]

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The guy who runs the E-body ragtop registry is Swedish by birth. I've forwarded this thread to him if there's anything he can add.

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I hope he looks at it. I wonder if he has a burnt orange 70 Hemi Challenger convertible in the registry. I saw that car at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indianapolis in either 1980 or 1981. It had Indiana plates on it at that time. Haven't seen or heard of it since

[442w30]

He lives in the southeast and has a red/red 'Cuda ragtop:

http://www.cudaized.com/

[Tracker1]

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There were 5 FC7 (purple) Hemi Challengers built in 1970.

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Of course, I meant 5 purple CONVERTIBLES. Apparently, It was the favourite colour of people buying a drop-top Hemi challenger. For Cudas, it was Black: 4 or 5 TX9 hemicuda convertibles were built in '70.

I don't recall seeing a Burnt Orange hemi challenger on the registry though. But it's been a while since I saw an updated version, could be there now.

[442w30]

I think you're mistaken on the black 'Cudas.

Off the top of my head, there's two red ones, a Vitamin C one, a dark green one, a white one, perhaps two black ones, two purple ones . . . hmm . . . used to know this like the back of my hand - senility or changing interests?

Otherwise, what's interesting is that purple was THE popular color for the Challenger R/T, while black was not so much for the 'Cuda.

[PhilS]

5 black cudas, 3 of them triple black.

[442w30]

I got this so far . . . I really had a brain fart on the black ones as I had no recollection there were so many:

1) FC7 H6X9 4 speed
2) FE5 H6E4 auto with V6X
3) EK2 h6X9 auto V5X
4) TX9 PRX9 auto
5) FE5 H6X9 auto
6) EF8 H6F8 Auto V5X
7) FC7 H6X9 4 speed
8) TX9 H6B5 4 speed
9) TX9 H6T5 4 speed
10) TX9 H6X9 4 speed
11) TX9 h6X9 auto
12 and beyond) ????

[Tracker1]

They are actually a little more plentiful than that Diego. Here is Ola's and Kevin's latest research on 1970 hemicuda converts (also there are no FK5 burnt orange challenger hemi converts on the list as being produced, but I have learned never to say never). I have listed by quantity then paint code.
The three purples include Craig Jackson's car (of barret-jackson) which came from England, former owner was the president of British Steel, The Blakes have the 2nd purple in resto and the third is that crazy flame-painted metalflake 70s job that was on eBay for 1.5 million about 18 months ago.

1970 hemicuda verts

2 EF8
2 FE5
3 FC7
5 TX9
3 FY1
2 EW1
1 EK2