That's my baby. I have had it since high school, 37 years, 256,000+ miles and still unrestored. Luckily, it has survived marriage, kids, divorce, and now the next Gen of Grand kids (4) so far will get to enjoy it with Grandpa.
Both of my 70's are AMD replacements front and rear and are over 10 years old also. Fit and finish was good. The bumperettes even followed the contours nicely on the fronts of the red car and on both of the rear bumpers on both cars.
All of my classic cars are factory cooling systems with no issues unless I get stuck in something like the Woodward Dream cruise which can take hours to get a mile. The temps will definitely creep up. However, my blue Challenger makes more than double the horsepower of my more stock-ish with a...
Both of my 70's have the front valence trim. I think it dresses up the front ends nicely on all 70-74's. Nice comparison to my buddy's purple T/A without it.
I haven't ever done a back to back comparison myself. I remember reading some dyno results somewhere that a properly tuned and modified with the inner wall dams on a cross ram was 40-50 horsepower over a stock/oem single 4 bbl intake and carb set up. However, on a bigger 512 cubes the dominator...
Cool idea. I have two 70 Challengers. One is an R/T S.E. with the small rear window also. I guess I have never really had any issues backing up or driving mine all these years. I do also have the passenger side mirror option and that does help.