My free 69 charger R/T ....

[Pat1973charger]

So some I'm sure can rememeber my thread awhile ago about the 69 charger I bought that needs every piece of metal reproduced and then some. That car is a xp29, still a charger with a clean title and all numbers intact. I traveled over 12 hours to get it, not knowing 5 minutes from my house was a 69 charger rt in alder bushes behind a garage in "better" condition. Turns out this car was actually my wife's third cousins back in te 70s till he smashed the left 1/4 in the late 70s stripped some parts and left it to die. He passed in the mid 80s and it was forgetten I guess. Wife and I have been together for 12 years all of which I have wanted one and never knew it was just behind the garage at a house I had been to, no one ever mentioned it. I went to house and sure enough there it was. The new owner of the house gave it to me. It is a basket case will post pics later. What I know of it is it's a 69 charger R/T 440 magnum, stripe delete with white interior bucket seats with middle buddy seat? Column shift. What I am wondering is there was a small portion of the left front fender left with what's left of a "magnum" badge on it. Was the fender engine callout a factory option. A far as I can find out by talking to family and friends of the relative that owned it, the car was basically as it was from the factory, it still has most of the original paint where's there is paint. Also I don't know if anyone can make any more sense of the vin then I already have from the online decoder. Here is the vin "XS29L9B".
Thanks for the help,
Pat.

[lukedukem]

For Free?



Luke

[Ghoste]

There isn't anything else beyond what the decoders would tell you to share I imagine.  XS-Charger Premium Price Class  29-2 door hardtop L-440 (-1969 B- Hamtramck Assembly Plant
Even if its a wreck you get the bragging rights of a free 69RT.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

No badging on fenders from factory...free is always good!

[6spd68]

I think many will agree, you may be one of the luckiest members on this site 

Great score  !

[Stegs]

ill give you 100 dollars for it and pick it up

think about it, you will get 100X what you got into it!


great score, any pics?

[Cncguy]

Post pics. Great find start building.

[Pat1973charger]

Restorable yes, lots of time and $$ yes. I suppose I avoid the initial purchase price lol. Trying to get the title now it was lost in the same fire that the guy who owned it died in in the mid 80s. He had the car before he was married so not sure if his wife can help or not. Pics later when I get to my computer.

[bill440rt]

The price is right! Congrats! 

Pics, please. 

[Cncguy]

Getting Titles replaced has become easy. It might cost you a few hundred bucks but it's worth it. Knowing his widow might help getting a title, she will need his death certificate.

[lukedukem]

I'm not trying to rain on your parade but can someone clear up some legal questions i have.
you say that the guy who owns the house now gave you the car. he nor you have the title. now contacting the dead mans wife for help, she might want some money.
but if the guy who bought the house was given the car, when he bought the house, then you don't need to talk to the dead guys wife at all. it's considered his property to do what he wants. right?
I'm just worried about asking the wife an she wants money...
if it were me it would happen that way..
again, I'm not starting crap, or do i mean any disrespect to you or any family that was mentioned...

Luke

[Pat1973charger]

She knows I got the car, her daughter is my wife's cousin (somehow) and they chat ok Facebook all the time, she mentioned me getting the car and the daughter said she thought it was a great idea and she mentioned it to her mother. Oh, daughter is in her early 30s not like a kid lol. I called the DMV today they are seeing what that can do but didn't show any records of the vin. I'm sure the wife would have no problem taking the death certificate and getting a new title as she is still part of the family and it's a fairly close knit family. My delema is the car was his before they were even dating and off the road before they were as well.

[tan top]

 wow great stuff !!      looking forward to seeing pictures   

[MxRacer855]

Now that's a story! Congratulations! That one has to be rebuilt to show car quality just for the history behind it and how you acquired it!       

     

[lukedukem]

She knows I got the car, her daughter is my wife's cousin (somehow) and they chat ok Facebook all the time, she mentioned me getting the car and the daughter said she thought it was a great idea and she mentioned it to her mother. Oh, daughter is in her early 30s not like a kid lol. I called the DMV today they are seeing what that can do but didn't show any records of the vin. I'm sure the wife would have no problem taking the death certificate and getting a new title as she is still part of the family and it's a fairly close knit family. My delema is the car was his before they were even dating and off the road before they were as well.

Heck yeah man, your good to go. Sorry I had to ask, but I always think of the bad stuff. Drives my wife nuts

Luke

[TUFCAT]

Hey Pat, please hurry on those pictures man....you're killin' us here!     Have we mentioned how much we love pictures?  

[polywideblock]

cool story   

                                    just two questions what colour and where are the pics   

[skip68]

Pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures.   
Please please please please please please.     

[Daytona R/T SE]

Pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures pictures.   
Please please please please please please.     

[Pat1973charger]

im learning more and more about chargers and certain options, color codes etc but dont know for sure the color. I think maybe F8? you guys will know by the pics. I wish there was a build sheet left but sadly 15-20 years of no windows or doors means rodents have used anything paper or foam as nesting. sadly since the entire front clip was gone the fender tag was left exposed and rusted to the point it was just a pile of crumbling rust  .

the day I first found it



after lots of work with pick axes and large prybars to get it free from being sunk into the dirt up to the k frame and bottom on rear axle tubes




arriving to my house

[TUFCAT]

Sorry dude, you got a parts car. 

[Pat1973charger]

Sorry dude, you got a parts car.  :'(

Most would think so but I'll bring her back. Anything can be saved. I have the xp29 I bought in August for parts plus a 68 satellite. No out sourcing needed, I'm a licenced mechanic and father in law is a licenced auto body certified in the 70s when chargers started to rot. He knows them inside out upside down. We built a frAme jig for the xp29 resto but now the rt will go on it and piece by piece I'll turn it back into a solid shell. I have wanted a 69 charger RT since I was 8 years old and now I have one, if I let this one slide I know it'll be many many years before I find or can buy another one, with just having a 5 month old baby boy and the fact that they just aren't around here. I have my young family to support so money isn't there for a turn key car or and 15k car that needs 15k Into it. I will takes free car and put the 25-30k into it and have a nice rt over the next few years. I should add tht I already have front and rear rails, torsion crossmember, rear cross memembers, front and rear leaf spring Perches, inner and outer rocker panels and all floors. Really nice rear glass, enough glass to do the car twice minus windshield, restorable grille, two sets of tail lights, enough stainless trim to do two cars, lots of assorted small interior stuff a really nice original hood, good set of leafs, three rear ends, really nice trunk lid and various suspension parts and so on.

[fy469rtse]

good for you, if theres a will , theres a way,
yes others have brought back worse , get to it , and if you need advice , theres all the guy's on here

[JB400]

Best of luck on this one.

[1974dodgecharger]

theres a will theres a way....