72' Bengal Charger

[Moeggenpar]

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[TPR]

Thanks for the pics Bengal, and thanks for helping out Dino.
Man that looks good. You've done well to hang onto that for so long.

TPR

[68 BENGAL R/T]

    I have a numbers matching '68 Bengal Charger R/T.  It is a 440 R/T auto/console with a black vinyl top and black
interior and it is about 95% original.  Documentation: 999 codes on the fender tag and a build sheet
from the interior that says SPECIAL HANDLING JOB and lists the options.
    The first time I saw my Charger I was 11 years old and my cousin, who lived two houses away from me, came home
with his 17 year old new girlfriend in a beautiful Orange '68 Charger.  2 years later, her father got her a '72 Charger
and my cousin bought the '68.  I saw the car every day for the next 4 years.  When I turned 16 he let me drive it!
My cousin got a job on the east coast and he needed to sell the car.  I bought the car from him on my 17th
birthday for $650. I have owned it for 39 years.
    Now with my kids out of college I am hoping to begin my restoration project in the near future. 

[Charger_Fan]

That is so cool that you've been able to hang onto it for all those years.

[timmycharger]

Here we go...68 Bengal R/T's...68 Bengal R/T!   

Awesome car, thanks for sharing. Just curious, did it have a re paint at some point? the tail panel area looks to have more black than I thought it should have? I am getting close to the paint stage of my 68 and have been studying several tail panels of cars 

[68 BENGAL R/T]

Yes, it has been repainted. Back in about 1980, when I was a young poor kid, I had a friend do some bodywork and repaint the car.
It does have filler in the rear quarters but we did keep the the paintwork patterns almost exact to the original.