Proud new owner of a '69 Charger!

[Fred]

Congrats mate. 
Sit in it and grin from ear to ear for as long as you can because you're going to have plenty of days where you won't be grinning at all once you get started on her.   
There'll be head aches and cursing for sure but there'll be elation every time something comes together.
And in the end, it will all have been worth it and you'll be grinning from ear to ear again when you finally take her cruising and have people giving you the thumbs up everywhere you go!

Best of luck.       

[JB400]

Congrats on the score.  The price on the windshield is pretty darn good as well.  You did no wrong on getting this one.

[Mopar Nut]

Congrats!

[charger Downunder]

That car should put a smile on ya. Your going to have some fun. congratulations.

[Chippa]

Congrats mate.  
Sit in it and grin from ear to ear for as long as you can because you're going to have plenty of days where you won't be grinning at all once you get started on her.  
There'll be head aches and cursing for sure but there'll be elation every time something comes together.
And in the end, it will all have been worth it and you'll be grinning from ear to ear again when you finally take her cruising and have people giving you the thumbs up everywhere you go!

Best of luck.      

Couldn't of said it better Fred.... very true its an awesome feeling!!!!!!

[dodgey68]

Congrats!   

I like Animal's plan:
Step 1: Beer.
Step 2: Look at it.
Step 3: More beer.
Step 4: Look at it some more. and a few revs/11's  in the drive way
Step 5: Repeat as necessary.

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[Rosco]

Thanks everyone for the congratulations and encouragement!
I hope you all realise this means another person pestering you all with questions for quite some time to come?
I'll make a start on pulling everything apart on the weekend, and I suppose I'll have to start a resto thread at some point, with lots of photos!

[Homerr]

Here's some inspiration for you, should you do a conversion.   



Nice purchase, lots of good times ahead working on it.

[Rosco]

Did a double take there - that looks VERY similar to my current daily driver's interior, except mine is still RHD of course!

[Laxy]

Congrats, you must have a permanent grin on your face at the moment!

[Darkman]

So if you leave it LHD, to get full rego it has to be perfectly factory spec - no modifications at all - but if you convert it to RHD, (which would be a BIG modification), then the factory spec rule doesn't apply, is that right? 
SA rego laws sound stupid...

That sums it up pretty much!

[Matthan]

Welcome...everyone knows 69 is the best!

[dyslexic teddybear]

Here's some inspiration for you, should you do a conversion.   



Nice purchase, lots of good times ahead working on it.

That looks halfway familiar.

M'ladys car is a Saturn Ion, so the gauges are in the middle. I hardly notice it in the daylight.....but driving it at night is really weird.

[aussiemuscle]

it's awesome you got a charger. i hope to do that one day (only had the australian ones)

16,750...

Is that Dollars ?

no, that's aussie bucks. totally different 

[Rosco]

it's awesome you got a charger. i hope to do that one day (only had the australian ones)

I might get one of them one day as well. Would be good to have one of each!

[69 ROCKET]

Have you had any luck finding parts suppliers in Oz? That are reasonably priced that is? Its a labour of love and $$$

[Rosco]

Yeah, bit of a price increase on parts, but nothing major. When you consider you don't have worry to about importing it yourself.

[fy469rtse]

Just did some checking, it was Darkman I was thinking of, not you, who's converting his '68.

Yeah, you don't need to here in Victoria either since it's over 30 years old - WELL over haha! Due to it's age, I could pretty much take it back to original, and register it, especially on Club/Historic Registration.

Yeah, I've been lucky enough to know a guy who has a Mustang, which I've driven a little bit. It's all good, specially if you've got someone in the passenger seat!

I forgot to mention, there's no fender tag - looks like it was removed for painting and not replaced afterwards, and no luck finding the build sheet. Any suggestions on where to look apart from under/in the rear seat? I don't plan on doing a factory spec resto, but it'd be one of those "nice to haves".

you can get a new fender tag made, you have a complete car so going over it will tell you what options it had or were ordered to the build sheet, register the car on the 69 charger registers site and they might be able to help with how that tag should look, the vin tells you a lot also they can help with also , where car was made , engine and such, give it a try