Why do you own your car?

[lloyd3]

Is it love? Is it an investment? Is it a family heirloom?  Why do you take the time, spend the money, and do the work that it takes to keep one of these cars?

[JB400]

I wanted it, I got it.  It's in model car form right at this particular moment, but I still like it   Don't really care how much it's worth.

[polywideblock]

its the result of a promise that i made to myself 30 years ago,that one day I'd own a "real" American car

[GOTWING]

As for the Superbird, I followed up on a phone call i got from a old high school friend, it fell right in in my lap 

[triple_green]

It was the car I wished I had had in high school.....

[billssuperbird]

The first time I saw one I wanted one.my son will get it and I know he will never let it go

[areibel]

It was the car I wished I had had in high school.....

I bought one just after I got out of high school, A B-5 383 auto car that had been hit in the rear and had new quarters, tail light panel, etc..  I went to the dealer and bought an NOS "I" piece to fix the dinged up one- $21!   I drove it a couple years and it wouldn't pass PA inspection, there was a hole in the front frame rail.  I parked it, and my Dad sold it off when I went to college.  The current one I've had about 6 years, but it's in no where near the same condition!

[moparstuart]

Family influence me to like Mopars but worked hard to build what i wanted and the way i wanted it ,   My dream car yup .

[kab69440]

So that no one else can have it.

[marshallfry01]

It was the car I wished I had had in high school.....

Same for me! I've always loved the charger though. Nothing else has the body lines like a 2nd generation charger.

[Patronus]

Just figured I saved her from the earth a lil bit longer. Wasn't in it for the '69 Charger.. it just happened. I figured Mopar was the right way to go. I love em all, build em all too.

[Matthan]

Because I watched the Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid and had to have a 1969 Dodge Charger!

[Dino]

Fell in love with the bodylines, nothing comes close to it.  It's probably the only muscle car I'd spend this much time with, don't care all that much for others.

[Old Moparz]

Is it love? Is it an investment? Is it a family heirloom?  Why do you take the time, spend the money, and do the work that it takes to keep one of these cars?

Because I'm a sadistic idiot.

[projectanimal]

For the love of the car and hobby!  It also makes me smile each time I walk in the garage!! 

[Cooter]

Cause nobody else wanted it...

[Daytona R/T SE]

Humans annoy me.

And since I'm such an unsociable shit,  

Spending all this time alone in the garage banging on my junk,  

Helps to limit my exposure to the great unwashed masses,

[1970Moparmann]

Been a car nut since I dropped out of my mom.   Started to appreciate Mopars around 14 - 15 when all I saw were Camaro's and Vette's.  First time I saw a Superbird, it was love....  Knew it was my ultimate car..  Dream came true.

I have been known to buy some cars to flip to fund a restoration.   One of the flip cars is still in the garage from 8 years ago... WTF.  Wife won't let me sell it.   

[XH29N0G]

Long story- My first car was a red 1960 valliant that my grandfather bought to wind up my dad when he was in College.  Dad wanted a 300F.  My grandfather also bought one of those.  Anyway, we got the valliant and I came along in the mid 60's.  I used to sit in the back seat and reach through the package tray into the trunk.  Then in March of 1970 we traded it in for the Charger.  I remember the exhaust in the winter, the smell, the cursing of my mom when the choke stuck open and the car would not drop below 30 mph.  I later remember popping the clutch while we were rolling the car back home (choke stuck again), the engine started, and I passed another car in reverse.  Finally Dad sold it to me in 1983 and I kept it ever since.  Now it is getting restored and I don't know what I'll do after I drive it to my parents house to show it to them.

[hawkeye]

It was on my bucket list.  Everyone should be so lucky as to own a 2nd gen charger sometime in their lives!!

[Baldwinvette77]

Why do i own my charger? when was 9?, me and my friend wanted to buy the "dukes of hazzard car" (i think this was back around 2000) we never found out it was a dodge charger until about a year later i think, movies like blade, fast and furious 1, dukes of hazzard 2005, etc. kept the dream alive, my friend gave up, i kept looking, in 2011 fast five came out and at that point i was getting sick of seeing dozens of chargers wrecked in movies, and decided to buy a cheap totaled charger that not many other sane people would buy to build 

[ChargerD100]

Always has been my favorite, my aunt (deceased) bought me a charger hot wheel when i was 5 and that started the lust for one as well as dukes re runs, so my car is gunna be a tribute to the general with the vectors i got for it and to my aunt (gunna put a couple decals under deck lid of things she liked and remind me of her, cubs decal and a grave digger monster truck decal, and the car is named terri cuz of her)

[Rosco]

Grew up watching Dukes when I was little. Then the movie came out just as I was starting to really get into cars, and whatever problems the movie has, the General Lee was not one of them!
At first I wanted a General Lee, but as more time passed I realised i just wanted a charger, and the more time that passed, the more I wanted one.
And then finally, I was in the position to buy one 

[ws23rt]

Our first car tends to imprint on us. Mine was a 57 desoto when I was 14.  While working on it I saw reference to double rocker shaft engines in my chilton repair manual. I got hemified. I've been a mopar guy every since and the B body cars from 64 to 71 hold the lasting attraction. ( Hmm Those were the years of the 426 Hemi.)

[Fitz73Chrgr]

My Dad had a '68 when he was in high school and a '74 when I was young.  We got the '73 as a project when I was in high school and there will be another 2nd gen in the family some day.