Is there any member here from New Hampshire area?

[cavemanno1]

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for someone from New Hampshire area to possibly check a car out for me!
The car is in Milford.Unfortunately the seller hasn't  responded to my emails and there is no phone number(ebay ad).Don't know if he ignores me because of the hundreds if emails he gets or because i'm from abroad.
Anyway,if anyone lives near by,have time to drop an email to the guy and check the car out i'd appreciate it!
Of course i'd pay for your time and gas!!!

I know it's a long shot but from here(i live in Hungary)is impossible to find a car and any help would be greatly met!

Thank you,

Peter

[Mytur Binsdirti]

By the looks of this car, he's doing you a favor by not responding.






http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dodge-Charger-/221834197312?forcerrptr=true&hash=item33a6593940&item=221834197312&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2

[six-tee-nine]

Move on brother....

[71 SE3834V]

"Pete in NH" is located in NH but yeah, that looks pretty crispy.

[skip68]

It's a factory 4speed with air.      it's worth restoring obviously but for anyone overseas it's not.   This car will cost you 2 or 3 times as much to restore than it would to buy a decent driver.    You don't want this car caveman.       

[bakerhillpins]

This car came from the Bruce Cliche yard in VT..  Google will tell you all about it. Here are some more of his yard.. http://bruceclichecars.synthasite.com/

I knew the car was up there and had long suspected that it was one of the 6, 68 383 4spd AC cars but could never muster up the guts to go try to pull it out because I figured it was so bad I would be setting myself up for a disaster.  I'm half tempted to call and see if I can get him to post up the fender tag.

[skip68]

I'll bet it sells for $10k to $12k.       

[bakerhillpins]

That would be NUTS...    but then it would disappear behind closed doors and pop out as a fully restored and re-bodied Charger. 

[cavemanno1]

Thanks guys for your thoughts!
It looks like i can only get a car that guys over there would not dare to touch!
Believe me i'd buy a driver quality car for 25k rather then this but from over here i can't seem to find any!

Forgive my ignorant question but with AMD frame rails out there would not be possible to do it?
I don't know much about bodywork so don't know what is involved to make it right but i good bodyman would be able to fix it,wouldn't he?The most cost would be buying the parts and the labour cost would be far less since we have 30-22 bucks an hours labour cost here!

The seller got back to me.Said he is on holiday at the moment so he can't get more pictures of the frame rails.

If the frame rails were good and the engine wasn't shot i'd go for it!
When was the last time you saw a 4 speed '68 for sale?

I have started out wanting a '68 r/t 4 speed,then would have settled for a '68 r/t auto and now just a 4 speed would do just fine but can't find any 

Not saying i'm gonna buy it but desperate times desperate measures!

[Mytur Binsdirti]

I don't know much about bodywork so don't know what is involved to make it right

First off, you should really take the advise given here.

[Pete in NH]

Hi Caveman,

Milford is about an hour and a half south of me. I'll be away on a vacation trip for two weeks so, anything in the next two weeks is not possible for me.

To answer your questions on is it possible to restore that car, anything is possible but I highly doubt it would be worth it. If that car has been in New England most of it's life and then was sitting in a New England junk yard over our winters it is going to be very, very rusty. I see Chargers like this fairly often up here. Almost always the front or rear frame rails are gone, often both. Floors and trunk  floors are gone too. Basically, it's call AMD and tell them to send you everything they make for a second generation Charger. Sorry to be so negative but, our winters and the road salt is very hard on cars here.

Some one in northern Massachusetts would be closer.

[cavemanno1]

Hi Pete in NH!

Thanks but it looks like i'm gonna pass this one up!

[71 SE3834V]

Good call!
Says "almost complete" but I see a lot of the body missing.......due to rust! 
I wouldn't have counted on that engine being any good anyway. I bought my car, that had been sitting INSIDE for some 20 yrs. The engine ran, no knocks or ticks. After getting it road worthy I put 260 miles on it before the cam let go. Wiped a lobe. Upon teardown found the cylinders too far gone requiring boring. Long story short it needed a rebuild.
I can't imagine what that one would be like after sitting outside.

[bakerhillpins]

The seller got back to me.Said he is on holiday at the moment so he can't get more pictures of the frame rails.

Right there, that's a deal breaking red flag for me. Why does someone put a bunch of crappy pics up in an auction and then leave town while it's running?  Because he doesn't want anyone to know what it really looks like...  That thing must be nasty on the bottom.   

[skip68]

   how convenient.   If it was in that good of condition he would've taken pictures of those areas that really make or break a deal.   

[cavemanno1]

Yeah his pictures and him avoiding my question about the engine being stuck or not led me to start this post.Maybe if someone lived close to him could have checked it out.I didn't like the lack of pictures and description but i had to try at least to gather more info.

He is going to sell it whatever.4,5k and 3 more days to go.

[Pete in NH]

A very wise move in passing this deal up. These are cars that a few years ago would have been crushed as scrap. It's only because second generation Chargers have become so popular and the supply of decent restorable ones is drying up that these rust buckets are coming on the market. Someone local in New England knows how bad the rust would be and passes them up. The sellers only hope is to EBay the thing to some one out side of New England that wouldn't know how bad things are likely to be. The minimal pictures and excuses about providing more kind of tell the story.

[XS29L]

If that is the one from Bruce Cliche it looks like someone cleaned it up. The last time I saw it , in his yard, the inside of the windows were green from the vegetation growing inside. I believe it was a 383 2bbl 4spd. Don't remember it being an A/C car.

[six-tee-nine]

Buying, Sea freight to Europe import and tax. Then buying sheetmetal parts, sea freight for a roof and fenders and full size floor pans, frame rails. again imoprt and tax......

Even if you do everything yourself so labour cost is 0 this thing will cost you 20000 Euro's easily before you put one layer of paint on it.

When a factory 4 speed is a must, you gonna need to cough up more coin or learn to weld....

[AKcharger]

Caveman I know EXACTLY how you feel, but the right car at the right price WILL come to you. Nothing is more satisfying then buying the right car and nothing more depressing knowing you bought a lemon 

[myk]

The seller wishes that car could be called a lemon.  It's less than that..