Delusional Charger sellers

[raminduction]

In the UK you have people asking £54995 ( $67000 ) for standard 383 cars !!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dodge-Charger-1970-/122309343292?hash=item1c7a34783c:g:iPkAAOSwnHZYd8ju

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C821563

[alfaitalia]

....and it cant be great or it would have had age related 1970 number plates...which would be ending in H...rather than the 1979 import date plate it has ending in V. You only get that if you cant convince the inspector that enough of it is genuine and original. My 69...like most....ends in G.

[Bronzedodge]

Here's one from out west:

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/6041993942.html

[Kern Dog]

What a piece of shit. Was the car pulled from a swamp ?

[VegasCharger]

Here's one from out west:

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/6041993942.html

Good luck selling that car for 13K w/o a title and rotted frame rails.

[Mike DC]

It amazes me more every year that we still don't have a whole reproduction 68-70 Charger unibody.

[Kern Dog]

I'll bet the smart executives at AMD are looking at it. The Dynacorn Challenger seems to have been a dud but the Charger seems to be gaining and gaining all the time.
How much would an enthusiast pay for a 68-70 Charger body with 0 miles, brand new metal, dang near ready for paint

[alfaitalia]

Me? Not a lot. That's a kit car....not a Charger....IMO. A lot of patching and repairs in mine (might need one rear fender depending how it goes....but trying to avoid). I know its been debated a lot on here...but a 1969 Charger (or whatever year) needs to have most of the body from 1969 to be a 1969 Charger. Anything else is a simile of one.

[Kern Dog]

Yeah, but how many would care?
The mega dollar shops that throw $200,000 to build one would start with a clean canvas.
The movie studios would have more to blow up.
The East Coast guys would not have to spend $10,000 just in parts, THEN have to either pay some shop to replace every rotten panel OR fumble his own way through.
It may never happen but it is an interesting thought.

[Mike DC]

     
   
The debate about whether repro bodies are 'right' or 'wrong' . . . meh.  That ship has sailed.  The industry is cranking out multiple different old cars & trucks now.  It's not even a big story anymore when they announce another new one.  

I fail to understand why the hobby always rates E-bodies as more desirable than the 68-70 Charger.  IMO that has never been the public's feeling.

[Lennard]

I fail to understand why the hobby always rates E-bodies as more desirable than the 68-70 Charger.  IMO that has never been the public's feeling.

[comet_666]

Yeah, but how many would care?
The mega dollar shops that throw $200,000 to build one would start with a clean canvas.
The movie studios would have more to blow up.
The East Coast guys would not have to spend $10,000 just in parts, THEN have to either pay some shop to replace every rotten panel OR fumble his own way through.
It may never happen but it is an interesting thought.

[darbgnik]

I fail to understand why the hobby always rates E-bodies as more desirable than the 68-70 Charger.  IMO that has never been the public's feeling.

I agree. Especially since the new retro Challengers came out. They aped most of the good style points of the original, and skipped a few of the bad. Strange to say, but ever since the new ones came out, the older ones haven't looked as good to me. At least to my eye......

[HANDM]

I fail to understand why the hobby always rates E-bodies as more desirable than the 68-70 Charger.  IMO that has never been the public's feeling.

I agree. Especially since the new retro Challengers came out. They aped most of the good style points of the original, and skipped a few of the bad. Strange to say, but ever since the new ones came out, the older ones haven't looked as good to me. At least to my eye......

I would venture to say that the new Challengers have given the 70-74's a new lease on life and desirability. If FCA would completely redesign the charger to look more like the 68-70's then that would raise the desireability and demand for the dynacorn "kit" cars, in my opinion accourse.

[VegasCharger]

X2

[DeltaV]

No comment.

https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/6045713128.html

[68X426]

No comment.
https://houston.craigslist.org/cto/6045713128.html

Oh how that one screams out for comments!

He'll trade for guns. $6k worth of guns for that?

[Kern Dog]

Will trade for land? Even at $6000, how much land can you get for that money??

[cbrestorations]

Will trade for land? Even at $6000, how much land can you get for that money??

you could buy a whole city block with houses for 6k in Detroit lol

[Wingwalker]

I'm so glad I was able to buy some 68/69 Chargers back in the late 80's.
They weren't cheap, but hey, at least you could drive them...

A 68 383 auto for £3500, a 68 R/T for £4500 and a 69 R/T for £5500 from a UK dealer

Those were the GOOD OLD days indeed!

The 69 R/T was in fact, shipped back to the USA back in the late 90's, by Sunshine Classics UK.
A fine car indeed and very famous in the UK, reg no. LFN 7.
Fastest street car I ever drove, she would go 'OFF the CLOCK', yep a 150mph CLOCK!!!

WW.

Just remembered, I sold the 68 R/T to a friend in 1990 and he still has her.
A totally RUSTFREE non-vinyl, num-match Vegas car,,,lucky lad, now he's a slightly older lad... 27 years and counting (cars)...

[Arbitrage123]

Charger with a Durango frame....really

https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/6051271144.html

68 Charger General Lee restomod - $44000

"This thing is a few steps away from being a show stopper. Titled as a 68 charger F yeah. Truley a one of a kind, but you know that already. Shes sitting on a durango frame and it retains all the newer amenities and 4x4 wtf yes its a 4x4. She has the small block V8 and is waiting for a big power swap. Deck lid signed by the original cast and the horn even plays the iconic tune. Im looking for cash or maybe one badass elenor clone. If you had some cash and a nice cobra or saleen fox body lets talk."

[Mike DC]

That Durango/GL has been around a while.  It shows up on Ebay again every few years.  Always an unrealistic number.  I dunno if it has ever actually changed hands. 

[Kern Dog]

Those make me cringe. I loved the Dukes of Hazzard but the 4wd General Lee abominations are terrible.

[RCCDrew]

There actually was a Dukes episode where they put big tires on the General to take it off road. Doesn't make this right though.

[Mike DC]

           
4x4 muscle cars are their own topic.  Lots of older ones are left around.  

I think it's like one of Finnegan & Frieburger's Roadkill ideas.  Fun to build, fun to goof around with at first . . . but the end result never justifies the parts & resources used on it.