Charger 500 fans...

Charger Aficionado · January 17, 2006, 04:41:56 AM

I made myself a desktop photo, thought there may be someone else who would like to use it?

Please save to your desktop, (image will not be hosted long).

Ghoste · January 17, 2006, 04:51:00 AM

Cool, I saved it. Thanks.

69_500 · January 17, 2006, 09:55:35 AM

Definately got that one saved. Don't know if I'll use that one as my desktop or not, but probably in the future.

Charger Aficionado · January 17, 2006, 12:43:53 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 17, 2006, 09:55:35 AM
Definately got that one saved. Don't know if I'll use that one as my desktop or not, but probably in the future.

You know it made Icons' text hard to see, but I think there is a way to make text highlighted... I'll probably just print it out for my kid (we make Charger print-outs for his room)...

69_500 · January 17, 2006, 07:27:01 PM

Ah who needs to read the text, when you can just click on the icons. You know what icons are where right?

hemi68charger · January 17, 2006, 09:48:33 PM

Awesome.. I'z like !!!!!

Charger Aficionado · January 17, 2006, 10:41:24 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 17, 2006, 07:27:01 PM
Ah who needs to read the text, when you can just click on the icons. You know what icons are where right?

I put all my pix on the desktop (those all have the same icon, but diff text)... My desktop is Covered with icons.

69_500 · January 17, 2006, 11:20:01 PM

Ah I see, I keep my desktop simple and sweet. Not but about 15 icons on the desktop for me.

Highbanked Hauler · January 20, 2006, 08:48:54 PM

Mine does look better without the prop rod holding the hood up.My excuse is that I never was going to let it go this long as it is going back stock.It just never gets done.

hemi68charger · January 20, 2006, 10:08:46 PM

I see my son Jacob is immortalized next to Al's C500..

Troy

69_500 · January 21, 2006, 08:29:22 AM

Ah one of these days you'll get her back to stock Al. The hard part is done, you have kept ahold of it for this long. The easy part will be finding time to put it back to stock.

Highbanked Hauler · January 21, 2006, 07:50:03 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 21, 2006, 08:29:22 AM
Ah one of these days you'll get her back to stock Al. The hard part is done, you have kept ahold of it for this long. The easy part will be finding time to put it back to stock.

I hope it will be before I retire so I don't forget how

69_500 · January 23, 2006, 09:59:07 AM

How many more years do you have until you retire then Al? It shouldn't take that much to take your car back to stock appearance. Look at it this way, you already have a very easy 500 to recognize. It definately stands out in a crowd, and is of course one of my favorite colors on a C500 B5 blue.

Highbanked Hauler · January 23, 2006, 11:15:00 AM

Thanks ,what I hope to do is ( restore) it this time,at least I don't have to deal with rust.I want to powder coat some stuff and finish the under side and fix the spots that it got from riding on top of the guard rail. Technically I have 9 years till I can bail out of the collision industry but I want to do the time restoring Mopars the right way, hence the move to Raleigh NC.,long story. Al

69_500 · January 23, 2006, 11:46:30 AM

Your car will look great when you get done with it I"m sure of that. The pictures you have on your website of how it was before the accident look incredible. 9 more years of work huh? Thats not too bad, I think I have about 40 years left before I'll be able to start thinking of retiring. The way my life goes I'll be working till the day I leave this world.

Highbanked Hauler · January 23, 2006, 11:59:10 AM

Thats why I want to get the car done before I get my ticket punched and yes I think I too will rock till I drop,its a sign of the times.also I have to get the body shell done as a 500 stock car replica.Its almost ready to start putting the cage into it.Also that is where the sheetmetal is going when this 500 goes back stock.Since the 500s slipped through the cracks the first time I am going to do my part to make sure they don't this time.

69_500 · January 23, 2006, 12:09:41 PM

What motor are you planning on using in your C500 stock car replica? I don't think I've ever seen any information on what your intending to do with that car. Other than using the front end tha is currently on your 500. Are you going to paint it up to resemble someones race car? Or just leave it as blue?

Highbanked Hauler · January 23, 2006, 12:29:51 PM

The book is pretty much open on this thing from a hemi and a #3 white ( 500) car to a drivetrain out of a Craftsman truck series Dodge

and a 358 cu. motor.I have been thinking about a Hybred so the parts situation will be easier as I damn sure arn't going to pass it off as a REAL race car.Its a way to tell what these cars were built for.

69_500 · January 23, 2006, 12:39:57 PM

Are you talking about a real 500? Or was the comment about a #3 500 in refernce to a race car with the #3?

Either way I'm sure you'll do an incredible job on it. and I'm also sure tha you'll drive it and enjoy it.

Highbanked Hauler · January 23, 2006, 01:00:16 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 23, 2006, 12:39:57 PM
Are you talking about a real 500? Or was the comment about a #3 500 in refernce to a race car with the #3?

Either way I'm sure you'll do an incredible job on it. and I'm also sure tha you'll drive it and enjoy it.

Yes a #3 loose replica car.This is to save a parts car shell.When I get going on it again I will get some pictures up and scare the hell out of some people.

69_500 · January 23, 2006, 01:41:55 PM

Ah one of those cars that scares people huh. Pretty rusty? Or was it wrecked and pretty mangled? One of those cars that people would have passed on in the 70's to mid 80's but by todays standards is repairable.

Highbanked Hauler · January 23, 2006, 09:01:55 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 23, 2006, 01:41:55 PM
Ah one of those cars that scares people huh. Pretty rusty? Or was it wrecked and pretty mangled? One of those cars that people would have passed on in the 70's to mid 80's but by todays standards is repairable.

Thats it,it had all the rust you could use on one car.I am going to use a lot of 2X3 rectangular tubing and sheet metal

69_500 · January 24, 2006, 08:57:05 AM

Look at it this way, if it is that rusty it will be lighter, hence your cloned race car will be lighter.

I can't think of who drove a #3 car back then.

Ghoste · January 24, 2006, 09:04:04 AM

Ray Fox had a #3 car with a few drivers didn't he? Freddy Lorenzen and Jim Vandiver come to mind.

69_500 · January 24, 2006, 09:09:42 AM

I always associate Jim Vandivier with the #31 car.

Ghoste · January 24, 2006, 09:12:08 AM

Fox sent a 500 out too did he not? Who else drove for him, he used a bunch of guys right?

69_500 · January 24, 2006, 01:22:28 PM

I'm too young to remember, I wasn't born until 78.

Ghoste · January 24, 2006, 03:32:54 PM

Well I'm not that old either! Not quite two decades before you but I can't really recall either. I was just a puppy then, or am I just too old to retain it??? I don't know or can't remember. What are we talking about again?

69_500 · January 24, 2006, 03:49:39 PM

From talking to Charlie Glotzbach at the Monster Mopar he made it sound like back in 1969, drivers might drive one race for Baker, then the next week be driving for someone else. There wasn't a year long contract offer to many drivers back then. Most of them bounced from one team to another to try to complete the entire season. They would get 3-5 race deals, and only got paid a portion of what they won. If they didn't finish well in those races, they didn't make much ,and more than likely weren't kept around for the next couple of races.

Highbanked Hauler · January 24, 2006, 07:26:42 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 24, 2006, 08:57:05 AM
Look at it this way, if it is that rusty it will be lighter, hence your cloned race car will be lighter.

I can't think of who drove a #3 car back then.

Buddy Baker did at some point as I have seen pictures of him in the #3

Charger Aficionado · January 24, 2006, 10:25:09 PM

Quote from: Highbanked Hauler on January 20, 2006, 08:48:54 PM
Mine does look better without the prop rod holding the hood up.My excuse is that I never was going to let it go this long as it is going back stock.It just never gets done.

Gotta LOVE Photochop huh?

69_500 · January 25, 2006, 09:48:05 AM

Photoshop is great for fixing things in a picture, but then again there is something to be said for origional unedited pics too.

That aside, Al have you thought of trying to pick up one of those Engines that Petty Enterprises was selling a few years back. Not sure on the cu or HP of them, but I remember an article someone dropped on into a SuperBee at the Mopar Nationals this year.

Highbanked Hauler · January 26, 2006, 02:07:47 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 25, 2006, 09:48:05 AM
Photoshop is great for fixing things in a picture, but then again there is something to be said for origional unedited pics too.

That aside, Al have you thought of trying to pick up one of those Engines that Petty Enterprises was selling a few years back. Not sure on the cu or HP of them, but I remember an article someone dropped on into a SuperBee at the Mopar Nationals this year.

What I think I will do is try to get a wrecked stock car/ truck that is complete(might be cost prohibitive)that way I can slice and dice as needed.Put it this way,I haven't ruled out anything.I am moving to the heart of stock car country in about 6 weeks so it will be this fall before it gets underway.I've had people at Carlisle say to me ,how could you do such a thing to a 500.Wait till they see the stocker when they think its a real 500.That'll give them the runs

for sure.OOOOOOOOwell. My goal is to have it come close to passing tech.inspection. My goal is to bump up interest in older stock cars.

69_500 · January 26, 2006, 04:43:10 PM

Well when those people ask you how you can do something like that to your 500, you should answer them by saying this. "Well I bought it this way back in 1969 off of a southerner"

That would raise some eyebrows.

Looking forward to seeing a stock car replica that is a 500 and not a Daytona or a Superbird.

Highbanked Hauler · January 26, 2006, 08:55:56 PM

Quote from: 69_500 on January 26, 2006, 04:43:10 PM
Well when those people ask you how you can do something like that to your 500, you should answer them by saying this. "Well I bought it this way back in 1969 off of a southerner"

That would raise some eyebrows.

Looking forward to seeing a stock car replica that is a 500 and not a Daytona or a Superbird.

Of the meets I have gone to there is no vintage stock car represintation out on the field other than the Aero or Winged Warriors meets.Very few people care about stock car history.Its drag cars that get the spotlight.

69_500 · January 27, 2006, 09:45:59 AM

Thats true. I don't see many replica stock cars at any shows other than winged car meets. But not as many there now, as the marty Robbins clone is gone now, parts being used to restore a real Daytona. But there are still plenty out there.

Ghoste · January 27, 2006, 04:42:27 PM

Well I'm glad the parts are being used for a real one but I kind of liked the Marty Robbins car. I'll miss it.

Silver R/T · January 27, 2006, 06:28:30 PM

nice little poster

Charger Aficionado · January 28, 2006, 12:24:26 AM

Quote from: Silver R/T on January 27, 2006, 06:28:30 PM
nice little poster

Are you saying that's what you are? heh...

69_500 · January 28, 2006, 09:12:14 AM

Nah, he just couldn't keep seeying 500 threads without posting at least something in them.

nascarxx29 · January 28, 2006, 12:25:58 PM

I know of another guy who has a 69 500 it was from NJ .Hector Almonte formerly owned that car.It was from Weehauken NJ .That car is one vin number lower than 69 500s car.Last owner after him was a Mike H.Anybody know him or if he still has the car lastime I heard from him he was working on it in 2001

69_500 · January 30, 2006, 01:04:10 PM

I haven't heard of the car, don't have any info on a car 1 digit lower than mine.

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