Introduction (Hope this is the right place.)

[MoparGrl]

Hello! I'm Kristen, and I almost made a bad decision on buying an old challenger. That led me to challengertalk forums, and they strongly advised me against it, I declined the car, and went to Carlisle this last weekend. (Also thanks to one of the guys on that forum suggesting I try it out.)

I arrived on Thursday morning (with my boyfriend) we slept for a couple of hours and made our way over to the fairgrounds. We looked around and spent hours just mapping the place out in our heads. We didn't find the corral until later that evening, one of the last places we looked. We were disappointed that there weren't many cars out that day, but hyped about seeing everything the next day.

Friday I saw two cars that interested me a pink gtx, and a blue charger. (You can guess which one I ended up buying.) The gtx wasn't a numbers matching car, and a lot of the work made me hesitant to spend the money the guy was asking for it. I walked away from it and knew I didn't want to buy it. It was disappointing.

The blue charger I saw I looked at on friday, but wasn't convinced I wanted to buy it, it was an automatic, and I had my heart set on a 4speed. I left that day with some new friends, and had a great time, but still no car.

Saturday I spend the entire day buying the blue car. I had gone back to talk to the guy, and the extensive documentation, and the immaculate condition of the car sold me. I could live with an automatic.

I spent that evening tracking down an enclosed trailer to buy, and went back to the room exhausted, but with a new car and a new trailer.

Sunday we loaded the car onto the trailer, and drove back to NC, which is where I reside. An exhausting, but super fun weekend.

A little bit about myself, I'm 25, I was married to a Marine for just shy of 6 years, and he passed away. (It wasn't in the war.) We were both Mopar fanatics, and he always told me if I died he would use the settlement to buy his dream car. I decided it was only fair to do the same for myself. His dog tags (with my wedding ring) now hang on the rear view mirror.

I'm sorry this is a little choppy, but some of it has been hard for me to write. I'll return with more about the car later, I don't know how many of you were at Carlisle and got to see her in person, but here are some pictures.

http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Iamsquishy1n2/library/Laura

[grdprx]

Beautiful 68! 

Welcome to the club! 

[tan top]

 hello & welcome      nice looking 68 

[moparstuart]

welcome

   was this the  GTX            

[cdr]

welcome to the best charger forum .

[Back N Black]

Very nice 68,  was the previous owner on this site? the plate looks familiar.

[MoparGrl]

Not sure if he was or not, I could ask him. And thanks

[maxwellwedge]

That is a mean looking car Kristen - congrats!      And welcome to the site.

[68X426]

His dog tags (with my wedding ring) now hang on the rear view mirror.

Welcome Kristen. You are awesome and tough. You belong in a Charger 'cause you are truly a Mopar Grl.

[tan top]

Very nice 68,  was the previous owner on this site? the plate looks familiar.

i was thinking that rings a bell from somewhere     

[Baldwinvette77]

Welcome! Nice car and touching story, hope you stick around, and perhaps its a good thing you didn't get an old challenger, we already have a girl with one of those 

[Bob T]

Welcome and great score finding a good 68!
Nice looking car. Go and put a tank of gas through it and tell us how it goes , we love pictures.



Bob in NZ

[polywideblock]

welcome to the site     very nice car 

[bull]

Welcome. Nice 68 (the best year IMO). Don't feel too bad about the 4 speed thing. They're rare and pretty tough to come by.

[BrianShaughnessy]

 

   Nice car!   Welcome!

[TUFCAT]

WELCOME!!  Car looks great.    Get some correct exhaust tips asap!  Congatulations on your purchase 

[68X426]

perhaps its a good thing you didn't get an old challenger, we already have a girl with one of those 

You are killing me! 

[71ChallengeHer]

Welcome! Nice car and touching story, hope you stick around, and perhaps its a good thing you didn't get an old challenger, we already have a girl with one of those 

. Welcome and congrats.  You are so bad @ Baldwinvette77 lol.     

[chargerboy69]

Welcome to the site.  I am sorry for your loss, great story. Oh, and very nice looking Charger.

[charge69]

You made a great choice of a beautiful '68 Charger. Nice tribute to and for him. Enjoy the Charger and stick around here for a nice forum.

By the way, the Cragar SS wheels are a great choice of wheels for the old school look! My Cragar ss package is due here tomorrow!

[MoparGrl]

Welcome and congrats.  You are so bad @ Baldwinvette77 lol.     

Jackie right? You were in the Women's building at Carlisle? Sweet ride.

And I bought the original wheels, as well as the original radio when I bought the car. I have the radio, and one wheel, the other three are being shipped to me as we speak. I love the wheels on it, but I wanted the option to have the originals.

[68CoronetRT]

Welcome to the site! I'm fairly new to the Mopar scene and so far the crowd has been very welcoming!!

Lots of info on this site, and lots of knowledge floating around if you ever get stuck on something!

[71ChallengeHer]

Welcome and congrats.  You are so bad @ Baldwinvette77 lol.     

Jackie right? You were in the Women's building at Carlisle? Sweet ride.

And I bought the original wheels, as well as the original radio when I bought the car. I have the radio, and one wheel, the other three are being shipped to me as we speak. I love the wheels on it, but I wanted the option to have the originals.

yes, I was . And thanks you. Good choice. I like the ralleys on mine.

[MoparGrl]

welcome

   was this the  GTX            

Yes it was.

[71ChallengeHer]

Kristen, don't let these guys scare you off. It is a great family here. I think when they saw girl and old Challenger . They were like     Oh no,  or another one. ( joke )         But , they are great. Best site around.        

[Brightyellow69rtse]

fantastic looking car! my 2nd favorite year but im a little bias  you can learn so much about these cars form the people on here.

[fy469rtse]

welcome and nice choice, gorgeous car, jealous, you get to enjoy yours straight away, most of us are still restoring resurrecting our rust buckets , don't worry about the exhaust tips, your personalise your car your way, and as for the automatic, you can change them to perform and shift harder 

[FlatbackFanatic]

Welcome to the site. Great looking ride!!

[projectanimal]

Welcome aboard!!! 
Beautiful car!!   

[bmoparmofo]

Very sorry for your loss. A nice 68 you picked up, welcome to the site Kristen. 

[green69rt]

Welcome and keep in touch.  I think this is the best site for Charger owners, bar none!!  Nice to have anther feminine voice on the site.   

[4cruzin]

Hi Kristen!  I talked to you at the cuda-challenger tent and you were pretty excited about the car!  Nice score!   Glad you found a trailer and made it home safely!  Enjoy the site! 

[JB400]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on finding your car.

[Fred]

Welcome   

[General_01]

Nice car!  Welcome to the site.

[moparstuart]

welcome

   was this the  GTX            

Yes it was.

for me that would have  been a very hard choice as i love 68 chargers but I would have had to picked the GTX

[VegasCharger]

Hello Kristen and welcome aboard. Nice score on the best model year that the Dodge Charger produced. Man that is one sweet ride. You'll love it here!!!

Bryan   

[Ghoste]

That GTX is a nice car but I think you made the right choice.  Welcome to the group.

[Dino]

I'm very sorry for your loss.  Welcome to the board.  Beautiful car you got there.  4 speeds are rare but you can always stick a manual trans in there if you wanted to.  Anything's reversible in case of a resale.

[Todd Wilson]

Everytime I open that link to see the car my computer  throws up a window about 3 Trojan virus's..................


Todd

[Plum Crazy 68]

My car is my wife's car.  She bought it when she was 15, so there are a few Mopar gals here. 

Welcome to the Forum.

[MoparGrl]

I liked the GTX, but nothing on it was original. I asked him why he chose pink, he told me he liked eye catching colors, which is fine, but I asked him what the cars original color was and he didn't know. Even if it was primered when you bought it, if you'd paid any attention to the fender tag or vin number, shouldn't you know the original color of the car? That made me nervous. I wanted a car that was well documented, and built the way it should be built. I didn't mind spending a little extra money to get it. And my dad had a 68 gtx, which is why I'm partial to them, so my charger looks similar to his old car.

Don't know how big the image is... but here's the car.

Everytime I open that link to see the car my computer  throws up a window about 3 Trojan virus's..................


Todd

[NHCharger]

Very nice 68,  was the previous owner on this site? the plate looks familiar.

Me and Bakerhillpins spent some time drooling over that car (sorry about the drool marks). We also wondered about the name on the plate.
Welcome to the site

[Dino]

That's some interesting rear speakers you have there!   

Very nice car.  Are you going to put the stock exhaust tips on?

[MoparGrl]

I was thinking about it, but we'll see. I'm going to leave her the way she is for now.

[Fred]

Everytime I open that link to see the car my computer  throws up a window about 3 Trojan virus's..................


Todd

Same here.

[Fred]

I liked the GTX, but nothing on it was original. I asked him why he chose pink, he told me he liked eye catching colors, which is fine, but I asked him what the cars original color was and he didn't know. Even if it was primered when you bought it, if you'd paid any attention to the fender tag or vin number, shouldn't you know the original color of the car? That made me nervous. I wanted a car that was well documented, and built the way it should be built. I didn't mind spending a little extra money to get it. And my dad had a 68 gtx, which is why I'm partial to them, so my charger looks similar to his old car.

Don't know how big the image is... but here's the car.

Very nice indeed.  

[Wicked72]

Welcome to the site!! The car is amazing, in love with the color. 

[CDN72SE]

Welcome to the site and congrats on the 68 it's beautiful, those speakers take me back about 25 years when I was rockin' the same look. 

[469 runner]

I was at Carlisle on Friday and saw that car.  It is a nice one.  You did well, you'll never regret buying it and if you ever decide to part with it you'll never lose money.  Sorry about your husband.

[TUFCAT]

welcome

  was this the  GTX            

The pink GTX at Carlisle was bought by a dealer in Michigan.  VIN is (U-code) 440-4bbl but its a real GTX (RS23). The block appears to be 8-69. No fender tag was pictured.

http://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/Inventory/DetailsPage/tabid/126/company/VANGUARDAUTOS/vin/RS23U0A153348/Default.aspx

[MoparGrl]

Interesting that they want $39,900 when the guy was selling it for $25,000.

It's a beautiful car, but when some of the striping doesn't match up, and some of the chrome lines aren't clean, not to mention the tuning of the car wasn't done... I just didn't want to pay $25k for a car that wasn't original, and that the guy couldn't tell me details about it bothered me. Wonder if they'll find a buyer at that price, considering I got my charger for about that and it's numbers matching, and you guys have seen it. (Pictures or in person.)

[71ChallengeHer]

Interesting that they want $39,900 when the guy was selling it for $25,000.

It's a beautiful car, but when some of the striping doesn't match up, and some of the chrome lines aren't clean, not to mention the tuning of the car wasn't done... I just didn't want to pay $25k for a car that wasn't original, and that the guy couldn't tell me details about it bothered me. Wonder if they'll find a buyer at that price, considering I got my charger for about that and it's numbers matching, and you guys have seen it. (Pictures or in person.)

Flipper !

[Fred]

welcome

  was this the  GTX            

The pink GTX at Carlisle was bought by a dealer in Michigan.  VIN is (U-code) 440-4bbl but its a real GTX (RS23). The block appears to be 8-69. No fender tag was pictured.

http://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/Inventory/DetailsPage/tabid/126/company/VANGUARDAUTOS/vin/RS23U0A153348/Default.aspx

I'm impressed.

[TUFCAT]

The place is only a few miles away from my house. They have tons of beautiful cars including this Charger!  

http://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/Inventory/DetailsPage/tabid/126/company/VANGUARDAUTOS/vin/XS29L8B305870/Default.aspx

[RECHRGD]

Now I wonder where the previous owner got the idea for that plate.....

[Mopar Nut]

Interesting that they want $39,900 when the guy was selling it for $25,000.

It's a beautiful car, but when some of the striping doesn't match up, and some of the chrome lines aren't clean, not to mention the tuning of the car wasn't done... I just didn't want to pay $25k for a car that wasn't original, and that the guy couldn't tell me details about it bothered me. Wonder if they'll find a buyer at that price, considering I got my charger for about that and it's numbers matching, and you guys have seen it. (Pictures or in person.)

You did good, congrats.

[MoparGrl]

I didn't pay 25k, I paid 40k for the charger, if there was confusion in my statement, I just meant the gtx isn't original in any way, and to me the work looked a little shoddy... they're now selling it for the price I paid for my charger which came numbers matching and with extensive documentation. (Plus the original wheels and radio.)

[Ghoste]

I still think you made the right choice.

[RIDELIKEHELL]

Welcome and great choice of year 

[MoparGrl]

I do too, it's a lot of money to throw around on something to regret. I have no doubt in my mind I made the right choice. I LOVE my car. It's just morbid curiosity about the gtx... wondering if they'll sell it at that price. But it is a beautiful car, I do love the gtx, just not as much as I liked my charger.

[BrianShaughnessy]

welcome

  was this the  GTX            

The pink GTX at Carlisle was bought by a dealer in Michigan.  VIN is (U-code) 440-4bbl but its a real GTX (RS23). The block appears to be 8-69. No fender tag was pictured.

http://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/Inventory/DetailsPage/tabid/126/company/VANGUARDAUTOS/vin/RS23U0A153348/Default.aspx

That pink GTX was at Rhinebeck in May...    $37K sounds about what he was asking...  maybe 39.      Talked to the owner... was originally light bronze.   It was a fairly nice car but would have only been worth that much had it been an original pink car ...  more if it was #'s matching... which it wasn't.     

[MoparGrl]

He told me he'd like to get 30k out of it, when I talked to him, and when I asked him what the original color was he told me he bought it when it was already primered so he wasn't sure.

[Old Moparz]

Nice car & welcome to the site. 


By the way, you better wear a helmet when you're driving in case you slam on the brakes. You could get knocked unconscious by a flying house speaker.

[MoparGrl]

Haha, the speakers probably won't be staying in the car, but I have it on good authority that that was the thing to do back in the day. 

[71ChallengeHer]

Nice car & welcome to the site. 


By the way, you better wear a helmet when you're driving in case you slam on the brakes. You could get knocked unconscious by a flying house speaker.

true story. I have speakers like that in my 70 Barracuda . Got hit head on. And I got hit in the back of the head with the speaker .

[Old Moparz]

Nice car & welcome to the site. 


By the way, you better wear a helmet when you're driving in case you slam on the brakes. You could get knocked unconscious by a flying house speaker.

true story. I have speakers like that in my 70 Barracuda . Got hit head on. And I got hit in the back of the head with the speaker .

Well....that explains why you aren't normal.   

[MoparGrl]

Insult to injury! lol

[John L]

The place is only a few miles away from my house. They have tons of beautiful cars including this Charger!  

http://www.vanguardmotorsales.com/Inventory/DetailsPage/tabid/126/company/VANGUARDAUTOS/vin/XS29L8B305870/Default.aspx

And he has a very high opinion of all of the cars he has for sale. That Charger is for sale at $52,900.00 and was listed on Ebay today. I wish him luck.

[Mopar Nut]

I didn't pay 25k, I paid 40k for the charger, if there was confusion in my statement, I just meant the gtx isn't original in any way, and to me the work looked a little shoddy... they're now selling it for the price I paid for my charger which came numbers matching and with extensive documentation. (Plus the original wheels and radio.)

You still did good, btw welcome aboard.

[bzabodyn]

Welcome to the site and beautiful '68! I just scored a lighter blue '68 GTX restomod I should have in a few weeks (you mentioned your father had one). Enjoy it because its a beautiful iconic classic.

BZ

[71ChallengeHer]

Nice car & welcome to the site.  


By the way, you better wear a helmet when you're driving in case you slam on the brakes. You could get knocked unconscious by a flying house speaker.

true story. I have speakers like that in my 70 Barracuda . Got hit head on. And I got hit in the back of the head with the speaker .

Well....that explains why you aren't normal.  

Bob, who ever said I was normal ?           

[DC_1]

You made the right choice.....both in cars and year!!

[Brightyellow69rtse]

house speakers are nuthin. this it true i swear to god. i was driving in worcester mass one time. all i heard was this wicked loud salsa music. it sounded like complete crap absolutly no bass at all.  everywhere i went i could hear it after a while i saw the guy. he had this huge friggin like nuclear missile airaid horn lookin thing in the bask seat! it was tied down with rope  ill prolly never forget that

[68X426]

Jake and Elwood had the big speaker first. 

[Bob T]

Jake and Elwood had the big speaker first. 

"...and tonight is Ladies Night, here at the Palace Hotel Ballroom" 
I got the big tri colour poster bill copy framed hanging in my garage ..$2 admission 

[Fred]

Might be time to pull that movie out again.  Great movie, great music.