50th Anniversary year for your '68 Charger

[lloyd3]

Well, after 49-years of waiting, my car turns 50 on July 5th. The world is still here (nobody got nuked!), global warming hasn't destroyed us quite yet, amazingly...we still have gasoline (& we can mostly afford it), we haven't all died from AIDS, the workers of the world haven't quite united us all yet, there aren't any zombies walking down my street, we still haven't found Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster, no deaths from acid-rain occurred, no strikes by an asteroid yet, cars still can't fly, and no invasions by any (space) aliens yet that I know of.  Amazing!  

I was one of those "duck & cover" kids from 1962 (lots of bad dreams caused by that one), & I grew up in the shadow of the cold war. There was always something "threatening" going on in the world that was going to end everything.  I suspect that it was partly responsible for the fatalistic attitude of myself and many of my peers. "Live fast, die young & make a good looking corpse" was the mantra then. We drank "like fish" and screwed "like rabbits" because, after all "the end was near".  Fortunately, both I and my old car are still here.  Not exactly sure how all that happened, but I'm certainly pleased for us both.

How are folks celebrating this big year?

[Baldwinvette77]

man, i have no idea what im gonna do, i've only been alive since 93 and my 2 68's don't have very many original parts left...   but happy 50'th to every square inch of 68 steel they retain  

[moparstuart]

My car and I both turn 50 this year  , mine was built on April fools day

[BLK 68 R/T]

Wasn't alive back then. But I sure do love the cars and the music from back then
Mine has no tag or sheet so I can only guess based on date codes from some other items. But best I can figure mine was built sometime in early January of 68.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

[RECHRGD]

I turn 70 and the car turns 50.  The first 20 years of my life was rather boring.....

[richf]

Mine turned 50 on October 6th 2017.  My goal was to get it driving by that date, but alas life gets in the way sometimes

[Mogre]

Mine turns 50 on Feb. 6. HBD

[paironines]

SPD 610,  So June 10th 50 years old. Don't look a day over 49...

[timmycharger]

2/26

few more weeks till my Charger's 50th, She's getting a new oil pan, headlight switch and fuel pressure regulator!   

[41husk]

I turn 57 this year, so I definitely remember seeing these on the street as often as we see a Nissan Rogue today

[Mytur Binsdirti]

The other one I have...



And some previous ones...

[timmycharger]

Badass!

Love the "Boston Hustler" being a fellow Masshole 

Did you race that up NE Dragway? Any more pics of that?

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Badass!

Love the "Boston Hustler" being a fellow Masshole 

Did you race that up NE Dragway? Any more pics of that?

That car was a former drag car when I bought it. The picture dates back to the spring of 1979 when I first got it running. I bought it in January 1978 just a few weeks before the blizzard hit.

[VegasCharger]

.....I bought it in January 1978 just a few weeks before the blizzard hit.

Ah the BliZZard of '78. I'll never forget that day.

[triple_green]

5/17 and spring only color 66-1 dark metallic poly green

[TPR]

Next month is the big one for my Charger.
Hopefully a new exhaust system will be its birthday present.

TPR

[cdr]

My Charger is 6-19, I will turn 56 this year

[68RT440]

Mine has a SPD of 4/15, but the build sheet is gone so I'm unsure of the actual day that it was built...

[70 sublime]

My 69 was built Aug 7 1968 so does that count for 50 years 
I will be 54 this year

[68pplcharger]

Both me and the car turn fifty this year. Car is June 5th

[lloyd3]

70 sublime:  Absolutely! 50-years is still the big birthday. I don't have a good sense of the numbers, but lots of 1968 model-year cars were built in 1967, and arguably... just as many 1969s were built in 1968.  I don't have the build sheet for this car, so I can't state it with any authority, but from some subtle clues (ashtray, trunklid, etc.) I'm guessing that my car was very late in '68 production (with an SPD of 705). Assuming that the "scheduled production date" (SPD) was and is correct for this car (July 5th), I would have to believe that within 10 days to 2-weeks of it's completion, the line was shut down in order to make way for 1969 model-year production changes.

I was a sophomore in college when that big storm hit in 1978. We were stuck in the dorm for days on end.  It must not have been all bad, as I don't remember suffering too-many hardships (other than hangovers).  If I remember correctly, my buddies and I saw it as a nice little break from reality.

[cdr]

Mine has a SPD of 4/15, but the build sheet is gone so I'm unsure of the actual day that it was built...

my SPD 6-19 is the same on  F tag & Build sheet 

[tan top]

  awesome 68s Guys  

perhaps i'm too early , to the 50th party , my 69 is 50 years old ,  22 November 68 , according to  the SPD .... & ive owned  it 29 years this april   ...  ive been obsessed with second generation chargers since the late 70s , when I was a kid , you don't , well I don't , tend to realise how old these cars are now  , because they have been apart of my life one way or another since I was 7 or 8 years old , watching bullet DMCL , & little later DOH ...

[6pkrtse]

I agree. Been in love with second Gen Charger since the 70's when I was a kid also. I still have a little more time left until 50. All 4 of my cars & myself are from 1970.