by 1997’s standards. So, loading the car up on the trailer became the easy part, and rounding up all the spare parts and pieces that had been taken off to make it into a drag car ended up being a major chore! By the time the weekend was over, however, Doug was heading east again with the GTX in tow, jammed full of parts, and his truck was holding just about everything it could. Still wearing the badly faded “Zebra 3” paint, this one had to have turned a whole lot of heads going down the interstate on that trailer! Since the car was rock solid, but needed just about everything, Doug didn’t waste any time pulling it com- pletely apart and starting the rebuild from the tires up. Repro parts for these were absolutely out-of-the-question back then, so he found a clean 1973 Satellite, bought it, and the little 318 in it blew up while he was driving it back home! Still the motor wasn’t what he’d bought it for; the complete trunk floor pan out of that car replaced the cut up one in the GTX and the Satellite ended up donating countless small odds-and- ends to the big red machine’s revival. Doug sought out his buddy, Nile Wing, over at Nile Wing Auto Art, and that’s where the majority of the restoration took place over the next two years. The original 440 was saved and rebuilt to stock specs; the original TorqueFlite is still in place, and all the missing air con- ditioning and factory high performance parts were located within those first two years. The paint you’re now looking at was done way back in 1999 at Nile’s 80 MOPAR COLLECTOR’S GUIDE