Images: Manitoba Mopar Association

What happens when you have to sacrifice a car to the Automotive Gods? Would you cringe when you destroy one car in order to make your own love-of-your-life whole? That’s a situation that many have gone through. Randy Zaborniak had a clever solution that turns those lemons into lemonade.

The Manitoba Mopar Association tells the story: Randy stumbled upon a ’69 Charger that was the victim of an engine and interior fire, leaving little left aside of metal and roach clips. Cherry-picking what suited his needs for his own car, he surveyed what remained and started having pangs of guilt, he decided to use the carcass to practice his metal-work skills.

It was while having supper at the Old Spaghetti Factory that he saw half of a car as wall ornamentation and was inspired to do the same with the Charger, especially considering one side of his Charger maintained a resemblance to a Charger. However, he had his work cut out for him because the Charger’s unibody structure had certain reinforcements that required extra effort to overcome.

In order to maintain the roofline,  Randy had to cut the Charger 20 inches wide and built an inner structure to support the car using steel tubing. He straightened the heat-warped roof by welding the torsion-bar rods that once held up the trunk lid to the underside of the roof.

After wiping the sweat from his brow, he finished the Charger off with a unique two-tone paint job complemented by an R/T bumblebee stripe.

As the owner of a 1967 Charger and 1967 Coronet 500, Randy has created an answer to those who want more cars but don’t have enough garage space!