It’s been about six months since the Liberty Walk LB Works kit for the Dodge Challenger first surfaced at Tokyo Auto Salon, and I have to say, I’m surprised how many Challenger owners have decided to take the knife to their cars to fit it. There were actually a few different Liberty Walk kit equipped Challengers at Wekfest San Jose, including this machine from LTMW, which particularly caught my eye.
Coated in Dodge’s unmistakable Sublime Green hue, the Challenger was impossible to miss inside the hall of the San Jose Convention Center, and every time I glanced over at it there was a sizable crowd nearby.
If I’m honest, I’m still not completely sure how I feel about the LB Works kit for the Challenger. On one hand the retro 1970s lines of the car lend themselves well to the over-fender look – perhaps even more so than some of the other modern cars Liberty Walk has worked with.
On the other hand, the Challenger is a huge car and it can be hard to alter the body this much without the result coming out awkward. This car though, seems to wear the look as well as any other I’ve seen.
The key to pulling off one of these kits is in the ride height and wheel department, and thanks to an Air Lift Performance setup the Dodge is able to bring the shakotan feeling to life. The big-lipped Rotiform mesh wheels and Toyo R888s also help to complete the look.
Along with the signature over-fenders, the kit also includes a duck-tail rear spoiler which matches in quite well with the Challenger’s retro styling.
While this sort of thing certainly won’t float everyone’s boat, I do like the crossover appeal this car has. The slammed height, big fenders and stretched tires are something you won’t see on many modern muscle cars – while the Challenger itself is an unusual sight in a scene usually dominated by German and Japanese imports.
Now that I’ve shared some of my impressions, I’m curious to hear what you guys think about this. Has Liberty Walk gone too far? Or is this one of the best applications of the style yet?
Mike Garrett
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its a no. no no no no no no no
Hells yeah!
that car is like the ugly girl who likes to have a lot of sex... Luckily, Liberty Walk knows how to make her sexy too.
Looks like the rocket bunny s14
It looks nice but the rear lip spoiler is meh fitment and the front diffuser is not aggressive enough.
I think the black seal around the over-fenders make it look like there's a fitment issue, but it might look better in person. Overall, like you said, I think it works well with the pseudo-classic styling.
I like it a lot, it reminds me of a vintage trans am racer. It'd be better if it were on a static suspension though.
I think the kit looks sweet on that car thoughI have to agree Air ride is pretty lame. can you imagine seeing a hellcat pull up beside you looking like that? it would scare people back to their garage
When you can depart that far from the stock lines and still make it look this good, that's saying something, Kudos to Liberty Walk. But whoever put Japanese tires on an American car, boooo.
This body kit, thicker tyres, a little bit higher (maybe an inch) and that would be perfect for a modern day track attacker
hate over fender, love rest
The wheels look a little out of place inside the huge wheel arches, and the front overfenders could be a little more subtle, but in general, I like it.
It looks cool if I squint my eyes
Very nice in Verde.
Gorgeous In Galbinus.
Menacing in Midoriiro..
.. Might of run out of ways to say green..
Big car, big engine, big arches, coloured for an equally big impact. It's not like you don't know what you are getting with a LBW car, but I guess that's the point. All about starting converse and discourse. And yet again the car certainly does that.
I love it, but I like most green things. Apart from the hulk. He sucks.
Same shit, different lard ass car. Not impressed by excessive fender flares.
Some of these comments seem as if a 5 year old made them.. Saying it's a "lard ass car" or "boo" for putting Toyo tires on the car, just sounds like something a child would say.
I love everything about this car.
Thanks for the nice little article Mike.
kind looks like a matchbox car that got stepped on and now the wheels are bent up and it looks disproportionate. Also way too much green, overdone need something else to compliment it, even a striped or black hood would have made this 10x better.
I love this car
This car is awsome! This is the kind of car people can relate too and also very achievable by the workin guy or girl.
Thanks and keep up the good work
As interesting as a mullet on an asian fellow.
If this was an amateur's work i would say thumbs up, but this is all they do. Over and over again...
The way the front flare meets the front lip is awkward. Same with the way the rear flare meets the bumper skin.
Spoiler fitment looks like shite.
For such a big car, the slam is too much. Reminds me of a gym rat that skipped leg day so often his legs telescoped inside of him.
Aside from that, the kit looks great!
Chri5 Duncan FYI The bodykit is Japanese too.
Chri5 Duncan FYI The bodykit is Japanese too.
They could have done a better job. Now this looks like cheap generic fiberglass bolt on kit (well, it is, but without cheap part) There are many widebody kits with better aesthetics for Challengers.
They could have done a better job. Now this looks like cheap generic fiberglass bolt on kit (well, it is, but without cheap part) There are many widebody kits with better aesthetics for Challengers.
Love it!! Like someone said, I would love to see this kit on a car done up as a track day monster! Would look badass with some thicker sidewalls, racecar stance, and some spraypaint on the tires
Love it!! Like someone said, I would love to see this kit on a car done up as a track day monster! Would look badass with some thicker sidewalls, racecar stance, and some spraypaint on the tires
Patiently waiting for Lotus kit...
I think its safe to say the Over Fender Fad ended early 2014
I think its safe to say the Over Fender Fad ended early 2014
so much for your comment 2 years later Demon comes out
Terencey Chri5 Duncan The bodykit is Japanese? Really, I would never have guessed, a Dino article on Speedhunters and there's something Japanese about it? No way, I can't believe it.
Terencey Chri5 Duncan The bodykit is Japanese? Really, I would never have guessed, a Dino article on Speedhunters and there's something Japanese about it? No way, I can't believe it.
tirehookup Overfenders have been and will be around performance cars as long as there are performance cars.
tirehookup Overfenders have been and will be around performance cars as long as there are performance cars.
@Guest Because we should all like whatever is presented and if we don't like something then no one wants to hear about it? That's boring to me sorry. And nothing ever gets improved if faults aren't pointed out, or at least perceived faults so they can at least be evaluated. That's how stuff gets improved, by elevating what is liked and discarding what is not.
My only issue is with the height and the wheel width.
Fix that and you have a good pro touring look going on. Nice color and all, but I wish to see more performance than beauty/looks.
My only issue is with the height and the wheel width.
Fix that and you have a good pro touring look going on. Nice color and all, but I wish to see more performance than beauty/looks.
I'm just not feeling it. The overfenders look just a little too big, and the wheels look a little too small. Even then....I'm not sure. I like the concept of the ducktail out back, I think it suits the car, but as others have said the fitment on this application leaves a little something to be desired as well.
It has a few angles it looks ok from, but those dead on profile views....it's not for me. I like the idea for the back, but I feel like this particular kit has missed the mark a little.
tirehookup When do you speculate the term daily will end as a fad? Using daily as a verb annoys the bejesus out of me.
tirehookup When do you speculate the term daily will end as a fad? Using daily as a verb annoys the bejesus out of me.
Not sure how many of the people commenting in here have actually seen this car in person... but it is amazing to say the least. and it sounds oh...so.. menacing. I've been lucky enough to check this car out twice in person and I love it! Sure its on air, sure the tires are very low profile...but in person this car works from every angle for me!
Love it!
Hate it... but I also really hate air ride suspension. You took at decent (and I say decent because the Challenge is already kind of a pig) modern muscle and made it... well... useless.
Before you get on my case about the execution or anything like that, let's just take a minute to think about the process of deciding to put this kit on your car. You're effectively saying: "No, I don't need my muscle car to go fast anymore. I don't need it to be fun in the canyons. I don't need it to be an effective quarter mile car. I don't need it be able to easily pull into a parking lot. I don't need to be able to carry my buddies around in it (at least not without jacking it up, at which point it now looks like a really ill-thought out flare job)."
Maybe my issue with the car isn't the fact that it's a Liberty Walk Kit on a Challenger, but rather a Liberty Walk Kit isn't actually improving the car it's put on. You add big flares, with wheels that arguably, don't actually fill them up. Oh, and buy the way, you can't actually take advantage of all that addiction track because you've slapped on some air ride, floaty, land yacht crud so that you can get the car low, at the expense of making the car actually go fast... anywhere.
You've accomplished the task of making a fast LOOKING car, at the expense of owning/driving a fast car.
Chri5 Duncan tirehookup Can you really call this a performance car though? I bet you that all the air ride stuff they've slapped on this car has nullified its handling performance.
Twitch_6 None of which can be accomplished because of the air ride suspension that allows these Liberty Walk Kits to be put together like this.
Twitch_6 None of which can be accomplished because of the air ride suspension that allows these Liberty Walk Kits to be put together like this.
why would anyone want to make this look like an import?
why would anyone want to make this look like an import?
@MTDatsun, you really have a hate on for the air ride eh?
Not that I completely disagree with you though. I'm not really into air ride, I just like the way this kit generally looks. Not specifically the stance or the low, just the overall look of the car.
I realise that this exact car would not be very good at the track. What I meant by my first comment was more that I would like to see a capable Challenger track car that looked like this. Not exactly like this of course, as the suspension and functionality necessary for speed would change the stance, but I think the kit would still look good on a functionally stanced car.
Overall it reminds me of an old racecar from the 70s with a modern touch, and that makes me smile.
@MTDatsun, you really have a hate on for the air ride eh?
Not that I completely disagree with you though. I'm not really into air ride, I just like the way this kit generally looks. Not specifically the stance or the low, just the overall look of the car.
I realise that this exact car would not be very good at the track. What I meant by my first comment was more that I would like to see a capable Challenger track car that looked like this. Not exactly like this of course, as the suspension and functionality necessary for speed would change the stance, but I think the kit would still look good on a functionally stanced car.
Overall it reminds me of an old racecar from the 70s with a modern touch, and that makes me smile.
Twitch_6 Once again I totally agree with you Twitch. This reminds me of an old Trans AM series car with a little umph. I'm not the biggest fan of air ride except towing. I would really like to see this kit on a true performance Challenger/Hellcat.
Twitch_6 Once again I totally agree with you Twitch. This reminds me of an old Trans AM series car with a little umph. I'm not the biggest fan of air ride except towing. I would really like to see this kit on a true performance Challenger/Hellcat.
Stupid, like every car currently featuring. StanceHunters.
Stupid, like every car currently featuring. StanceHunters.
This car looks like a car I'd make in GTA5. While I'm not a fan of airbags I really so like the overall cosmetic form presented. The fenders remove some of the boxyness of the original Challenger shape. I want to see LW build an FD spec Hellcat with this kit for next season. Maybe have Yokoi pilot it or some ish.
Challengers are Fat and slow anyways, jt might as well be fat and slow and look nice
Challengers are Fat and slow anyways, jt might as well be fat and slow and look nice
wished they squared off the fenders behind the wheels like some of their other kits. other than that finally some domestic love. Would love to see a rocket bunny version!!!
Liberty Walk golf cart...
Wanker
Love it...
Can't say what I think right now, gotta go to the bathroom, for ehhhmmm... something personal.
I would like to see it in black or maybe red with white stripes. Also it needs a more agressive back end, looks pretty stock from behind.
Can't say what I think right now, gotta go to the bathroom, for ehhhmmm... something personal.
I would like to see it in black or maybe red with white stripes. Also it needs a more agressive back end, looks pretty stock from behind.
Liberty Walk Trabant...
Liberty Walk Trabant...
new with an old style feel, big thumbs up
new with an old style feel, big thumbs up
Putasixinit Liberty Walk skrateboard...
i like the front, but the rear is just not aggressive enough and the sides need something, they look so empty
EvolveWRC there was a picture of a black one rolling around on facebook i think, it looks properly evil
Drop dead sexy
I wish I could see it with more sidewall and some side pipe action.
Challengers seem to draw a lot of hate. Sure they weigh slightly more than the moon and handle like they're drunk, but they are fun to drive, in that doing parking lot burnouts before blazing at triple digits down a dead straight interstate blaring ac/dc kinda way. Good looks, great power, great noise, pretty comfortable, deceptively nice interior since the redesign (although, really Crysler? A foot operated parking brake? Is this a dump truck?). It's like driving a really fast steam roller, you're not absorbing the bumps in the road, you're crushing them. Of all the things the current challenger reminds me of, as blasphemous as it may sound to euro purists, it reminds me of something like a 560SEC AMG from the 80s (admittedly far more elegant than a Dodge), which to me, is a good thing.
I have zero issues with fender flares or rivet on aero of any kind but I think people forget why rivet on aero is so popular to begin with. Back in the day of tangerine colored honda civics with 3 series head/tail lights the molded on body kits, while not tasteful to most (myself included) body work is not cheap and when you start adding the numbers up for a simple radius fender extension job the numbers can be brutal. Some of the JDM guys began just riveting on wider Fiberglass versions to accomodate the bigger tires & agressive offsets. In short, the rivet on style was a a cheap, easy, functional alternative. And Now, today, I sit here looking at a brand new 40k car with RIVET ON flares (no problem)...... ready..... WITH A $5,800 PRICE TAG. Let that sink in that a typical radius rivet on flare costs anywhere from 100-300 bucks on ebay, & while I AM NOT saying that these LB cars arent spectacular works of art & passion, I do believe that is is extremely hyped up over priced fiberglass.
And quite honestly for a ducktail (retailing for $1000 on LB website) which was designed specifically for this vehicle and this kit, I just cant find a single reason that it shouldnt have the most perfect tight panel gaps which would make even the workaholics mutter "tight butthole" underneath their breath.
Theres my rant, forgive improper grammar & run on sentences lol.
MTDatsun I think youd be surprised at how well an air ride vehicle can perform. No... It wont be as good as a car thats on monotube fully adjustable coilovers and all the extras. But that was never its intended purpose to begin with. Id be willing to be that car out performs a stock suspension car with ease. Especially if its an airlift performance kit that actually has adjustable dampers integrated into the assembly. Like I said though, this car is doing now what it was purposed to do with the added bonus of touting the ability to perform at an above factory performance level. I agree more with other comments that the kit looks good but isnt worth the price that has been placed on it. The fitment is not dead on perfect and there should be tighter gaps on these pieces. Not to mention that you can buy full quarters and fenders that look factory for most cars for a 1/4 of the price of this kit. I will say it looks mean though. I have a soft spot for a challenger at the end of the day and when it looks like this there is no reason not too.
Absolutely badass, i love it!
Looks good. I have no interest in American cars but it looks good.
Enough is enough. Time to do something original.
Enough is enough. Time to do something original.
@Tanner Nicholson Pretty sure this trend didnt start with the American Honda scene.
milkplus meh. looks like a typical old american car.
I love mopars but this will never beat (on looks) the 71 Cuda, also in lime green with the big 440 or whatever side decal.
Smiggins milkplus boo fucking hoo
I love ut
I love ut
Nice. Need more pics.
Nice. Need more pics.
riske86 Putasixinit Liberty Walk footwear, for those with wide feet. hey, i'd get one if there was one!
need LW Hellcat edition
I understand that for japanese standards an american car is exotic and worth of mods by the same standards a japanese or european car would bring the same emotions on the opposite public.
The car is obviously well executed but i think (and perhaps thats because of the recently released s14 kit that makes it look like one of those muscle cars) that some older kits, those we seen first on the internet some two or three years ago have something extra that those more recently dont. I like the work on this car, it is a good car, but the 86/brz kit, the rx7 kit... They have something that this kit doesnt. Maybe its the extra work on the bumpers, maybe its something else.
cutterjones13
To make it look less like a piece of shit.
Protip: Never ever let the side skirt or rear be lower than the front lip. Also rear being low has never been cool. Cut it as high as possible time attack style.
Protip: Never ever let the side skirt or rear be lower than the front lip. Also rear being low has never been cool. Cut it as high as possible time attack style.
Protip: Never ever let the side skirt or rear be lower than the front lip. Also rear being low has never been cool. Cut it as high as possible time attack style.
the car was very good
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