Whatever happend to dick landys 68 and 69 chargers?

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

has anyone seen them in the past or now? do they even exist or did he wreck them back then???-MATT

[tipopiola]

I know there was an article in Mopar Muscle or Mopar Action a year and a half or 2 years ago about one of his 68's that had been found.  The painful part of that it was found on Fort Hall indian reservation in Pocatello, Idaho by someone who had no idea what it was.  He was just gonna use it for a parts car.  I had scoured that reservation with my brother looking for mopars (theres still a ton of GM stuff there), and we didn't come up with much.  That article came out a few months after I had searched around the reservation so apparently someone told the guy what he had and he probably made a fortune off it.  It had no drive train, but was originally a 440 R/T auto car.  Still had all the decals and paint on it so I can't imagine how it would have sat there for that long without anyone recognizing it.  Oh well, I've got enough on my plate anyway.  Tipopiola

[Rolling_Thunder]

heres one  ---  his 68 i think ?  The 1968 was a a heater delete car - it was not a R/T - the 1969 was

[Ghoste]

Any idea when or where that pic was taken?

[ChargerHound69]

That would be a nice car to have.

[Mike DC]

       
Just proves there are still some 2nd-gen scores to be found.  The price has gone up, but they're still out there.

     

[moparsinbarns]

That pic of the 68 is the one from the magazine that tipopiola was talking about

[Ghoste]

Of course, we still haven't answered the question about what happened to either car as far as where they are right now.

[262chargers]

Don't know where they are now, but heres one "back then".

[262chargers]

Another I wonder where it is now? 

[262chargers]

2 more...

[tan top]

i also remember reading about that charger in a mopar magazine,  wasn't the reservation miles away from the nearest road ,may be Dick Landy has records of the vin numbers some were, to prove when and if the cars are found they are the original cars,because back in the 70's there must have few  "  look a likes " built buy  landy fans .

[Ghoste]

I don't recall ever seeing Landy's 69 in that color scheme before with the yellow stripes and yellow brake drums.

[tan top]

I don't recall ever seeing Landy's 69 in that color scheme before with the yellow stripes and yellow brake drums.

      me neather 

[262chargers]

Heres an interview with Landy, towards the end he talks about what cars he still owns, or has control over, as he put it. No mention of the Chargers, but good reading anyways.
http://www.dodgeforum.com/m_117310/tm.htm

[Ghoste]

Wow, thanks for the link.  I have been a Landy fan for many many years and he just doesn't do many interviews and it's kind of sad because he has a lot of things to share and he's an interesting speaker to boot.

[262chargers]

I have been a Landy fan as well, since as long as I can remember. I never knew he didn't actually "smoke" the trademark cigars he always has hanging out of his mouth, until I read that interview.   

[tan top]

great link   (262)  thanks, good reading .

[262chargers]

I've got 100's of old pictures, I'm only 28, I wish I could have been around "back then" 
This is my favorite Landy car, a local guy has a 318 67 Coronet for $1500 that I'm pondering buying and turning into one like this...
(sorry for the big pic)

[262chargers]

[262chargers]

[262chargers]

[262chargers]

Not a Landy car, but how about an AWB first gen? 

[mustanghater]

did you find that thing?

[Rolling_Thunder]

I to have never seen the silver and yellow color combo...     actually looks pretty sweet   

[Brock Samson]

i dont think it's actually yellow i think the reds color shifted to that part of the spectrum on some old emuslion...

[262chargers]

i dont think it's actually yellow i think the reds color shifted to that part of the spectrum on some old emuslion...

I thought that at first too, but wouldn't all the colors have changed? That Holiday Inn sign behind it and everything else looks normal.

[mustanghater]

they both look like they faded to yellow.

[Ghoste]

No, it's a different color scheme.  I've never seen that 3D effect on the lettering on the 69 car before either.  For that matter, if you look at the magazine scans of the 68 in this thread, you'll see that one has DODGE in a 3D style and the other is a straight on look at the letters.
All of the pics I have close at hand here show the 69 with the straight on style of letters.

[Brock Samson]

here..

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://dicklandy.com/images/Dick_Landys_66.jpg&imgrefurl=http://dicklandy.com/&h=114&w=300&sz=25&tbnid=SiqS0uxda35c2M:&tbnh=42&tbnw=111&hl=en&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlandys%2527%2Bdodge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG&frame=small

       

[262chargers]

here..

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://dicklandy.com/images/Dick_Landys_66.jpg&imgrefurl=http://dicklandy.com/&h=114&w=300&sz=25&tbnid=SiqS0uxda35c2M:&tbnh=42&tbnw=111&hl=en&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlandys%2527%2Bdodge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG&frame=small

       

A small b/w pic of Landy's 66 Dart? 

[adauto]

262 loved the Great Lakes shots!! (Union Grove Wi for all you who don't know) Been a long time.............

[Brock Samson]

go to photo gallery. the seemingly yellow '69 'charger R/T is there in a color corrected photo,. it's red..

http://dicklandy.com/Gallery/index.htm

[6pkrunner]

Dandys colors during 1968-1970 were the silver and red. One of the 1970 Challengers wore the black/white/orange sway pattern that would resurface in later years. The 1971 Challenger wore the typical silver red pattern. The old altered wheelbase was siler with black and the 1967 R/T was blue with white roof.
The yellow is depigmentation of the red.

[Brock Samson]

  You might be interested to hear that I modeled my '69 after Landys' car...   

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

strato didnt ur car have big r/t emblems on the quarters ? and in the grill? how come its  a base now
? and landys car was silver not black or purple liek your car so how do you mean u modeled it after his car?

[Ghoste]

He must have changed the 69 around a little bit at least once, or he used more than one car maybe.  There are pics of that 69 with and without that 3D lettering.

[Rolling_Thunder]

I'm pretty sure he used more than one 69 Charger....    I have seen pictured with two different style hood scoops and side lettering

[Brock Samson]

F8:

that was my car fresh out the paint booth in '99 prior to instastalling the trim incl. front bumper, and i was thinking i wanted my car as close to landys' as i could legal get away with... of course with a 440... 
So maybe not that HEMI or the paint of course,.. but the "attitude".. 

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh ic my bad LoL

[Blusmbl]

heres one  ---  his 68 i think ?  The 1968 was a a heater delete car - it was not a R/T - the 1969 was

I'd be willing to bet a couple cases of Coors that the car pictured above isn't a Landy car.  That looks like a clone somebody made, the font is all wrong on the quarters, his name isn't on the door, and that isn't where the Cragar sticker is supposed to go either.

Edit: other dead giveaway is the hood and trunk hinges.  Landy's '68 had both a pin-on decklid and hood.  No wipers, either.

I've researched this a whole bunch, IIRC his '68 car is still around and was featured in several books in the past decade or so.  Not sure who claims ownership though.

There are several of his '68 Darts in existance, I saw one at the Detroit Autorama.  A famous collector in MN owns one, too.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

ok u can see here him standing beside a 68 charger r/t but in all the pics of his 68 car they are of a base car, anyone know what happend 2 the base car with the 66 hemi hood scoop??? (as you can see the r/t has a flat hood,the r/t car might be the one found in that indian reserve)

[6pkrunner]

A few shots of the base 68.

[Magnumcharger]

A couple more pics...to feed your appetite for visual stimulation.

[Ghoste]

Hmmm, I just noticed that both the ERTL 1:24 and the Revell plastic kit models of Landy's 68 are an RT... with a hood scoop.

[UFO]

Check out the vinyl roof.I`ll bet they used cars from a dealer stock,then worked them to their own needs.

[Ghoste]

Where'd you get that from?

[UFO]

In Hot Rod magazine,same issue as the "A pair of Dandys" story.

[Magnumcharger]

A couple more pics...