I live in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. And the guy that built my car is Trevor Edgar (he's a "top-bloke" and regular funny guy), he has a business on his property and is obviously a Mopar nut! and builds Challengers and mainly Cuda's for customers (and himself) he has about half a dozen cudas in his workshop in various stages of builds. He is building a pro-touring style one like mine for himself which is painted black.

I have owned a few US muscle cars and exotic muscle, I love designing cars and coming up with something that looks outrageous and is a work of art. I had a 1970 Challenger convertible with a 650hp hemi in it (see my website - it is silver), had a cool 69 Camaro and have owned a few DeTomaso Panteras, they sound so tuff and look completely outrageous! ... http://wildpantera.com  I love all muscle-cars and Australia has some really really cool ones as well.

I bought the car as a shell and I designed it in my head and then photoshopped it before we started it, so we knew what direction we were heading in with the build. Trevor made it all work and come together, manufactures some parts himself if he needs to make it all fit!  I can tell you though, it wasn't an easy build to get the brakes and wheels and exhaust and engine etc etc to fit!

It has been an ongoing build for the last couple years and I've finally got it home and registered and can now terrorize the environmentally friendly streets of Brisbane & Gold Coast and burn rubber in the big 'Hemi' ... haha!

The car has been tubbed to fit 335's or 345's if required, and they will be my next set of tires! ... we played it safe and got 315's initially in case they were going to rub, but all good and there is enough room under there to go wider! springs have been re-located for the bigger boots.

Got big brakes to match the wheels 14" wilwood 6 pistons all - round.

Big crossover exhaust, Strange diff, 4-speed pistol grip (carbon-fiber), rally dash, shaker, Foose Fish-Tails 20x12 and 18x8.5, custom lip on back inspired by "Sick-Fish" smoothened off the rear panel and overiders removed. lowered all round, there is not much travel with diff to where it hits chassis and body-work underneath, so I am getting some stiff coil-overs for the car and that's the last thing left to do.

Interior is new and standard mopar with some brushed aluminum touches.

Hemi is mildly worked with a bit of a cam (bullet racing cams), sounds as good as it looks ...

All in all, I just wanted to build a Cuda that looked really nice and sounds good and goes good, your never going to have the toughest or most powerful car, so I wasn't chasing that, just wanted something that has 'impact' with sound, looks, and handling as it drives by and that's what I aim for with all my cars.

 

- 426 Big Block Hemi with hemi rocker covers, big cam etc. twin edelbrock carbs
- BIG cross-over exhaust and headers
- Shaker n hood pins
- Dana 60
- 18 spline 4-speed with carbon fiber Pistol Grip shifter
- Black interior with brushed aluminum fascia in rally dash and console etc
- custom smoothed off rear panel and bumper bar and custom spoiler (like sick-fish)
- Minitubbed and relocated springs
- about to get adjustable coil-over shocks installed
- Foose fishtail wheels 20x12" rear with 315's and 18x8.5" fronts with 245's
- Wilwood brakes 14" diameter with 6 piston calipers all round.