SUPER CHARGER

WHEN IT COMES TO SURPRISINGLY RARE MUSCLE cars, the 1971 Charger R/T doesn’t always come to mind, but only 3,118 were built. For comparison, Ford built just about 36,500 Mustang Mach 1 models that year.

So, yeah, the ’71 Charger R/T represents a thin slice of the Mopar muscle pie — and only 30 of them were factory sunroof cars. Only 30. Alberta collector and dealer Peter Swainson owns four of them, including one that was originally Tawny Gold and had been brought to Canada from California, but sat for years when the previous owner failed to pull the trigger on the restoration. Peter had his own grand plans for the car, but there were a couple of important details that held it back. “Well, it didn’t have a build sheet and the original engine and transmission were long gone,”