Best deal on a charger?

[h76]

What's the best deal you ever got on a charger? Any good stories out there about getting a charger for a really good deal?

[bull]

$50 for a '68 R/T with no engine or tranny back in 1986 I believe.

[Mean 318]

a friend came across a 68 318, old lady car, no rust for $1200! that was in 2000 I think he passed it up and didnt tell me!

[69charger383]

400 for my 69

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

$1,200 for my 69 R/T SE eh, 3 years ago now I believe?  That wasn't my best deal though......

Ryan

[greenrt_se]

1991 I buy my 69 R/T SE from LA ,only 400usd

[Ghoste]

I bought a 68 Road Runner for 75 bucks and traded that car to a buddy for his 69 Charger.  That was in 1983.

[myk]

I paid $2500 for mine back in '94...

[BB1]

$500. back in 1983, new 383 engine too.  I lived in SoCal, no rust.

[dongar69]

300.00 for my '69 R/T and 100.00 for a parts car. Both in 1981.
btw.... still have the R/T

[41husk]

I traded a 69 IH mail jeep I bought for $100 for a 71 Charger with 440, traded that car for a 70 Super bee.

[twilt]

$100 for a rust free 71 body with PERFECT fenders
$500 for a rust free Orange 71 SE 383/console/buckets black leather interior, running car with a 440 in it. bad trans
traded a 72 skylark for rust free 71 with 440 and a 69 parts car.
15 71-74 parts cars for $500 or less   

[CaptMarvel]

Ive told it before, but I drove my factory 68 R/T home 3 years ago for 3K cash from the 2nd owner who was leaving town. Havent regreted a minute of it. Its got a bit of front fender crinkle and a tiny bit of rear quarter rust, other that that its all original and in very good shape! hows that for a deal?

[santacruzcharger]

My grandfather, the orginal owner, sold me my '70 Charger 500 for $1.00 back in 1988.  I was one happy 17 year old, hell of good deal.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

my dads full rotisseried show quality restored gloss black 1968 charger with a 440(560hp at that time, 610hp now) for $9500 , sat for one year after its resto as owner lost interest and for that price,  his mind-MATT

[Silver R/T]

paid $2200 for mine...you tell me if its good deal or not

[twilt]

my dads full rotisseried show quality restored gloss black 1968 charger with a 440(560hp at that time, 610hp now) for $9500 , sat for one year after its resto as owner lost interest and for that price,  his mind-MATT

What's the best deal YOU ever got on a charger?

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[Manfred318]

$5200 for mine 5 years ago... all origional 68000 mi with a little rust in the trunk and and drivers quarter

[Ryan]

2 grand for a red on black 68 r/t that I got 2 years ago. Needs some work, but its rust free!

[rickhemi]

wow I read , and read, and you guys say $100, $300 , $2,000 I thought you were talking about die casts...not actual rel cars...now I fell awful, I paid $17.000 for my 68 383 , $25.000 for  68 RT  2 years ago and thought I was getting the best deal ever, were you guys get this cars at those prices ?

[Ghoste]

As I mentioned in my 75 dollar trade, it was the early 80's.  Things have changed a little bit since then.  Like today, Boy George picks up garbage as community service and in 1983 he picked up... oh, never mind.

[BB1]

A used Charger back in the late 70ds and early 80ds where cheap, there were not many people collecting them.

[rickhemi]

A used Charger back in the late 70ds and early 80ds where cheap, there were not many people collecting them.

right, in the 80's were cheap, but there are some replies that say 2 yeras ago, 5 years ago, still sounds like small amount of money compared todays values...

[TeeWJay426]

In 1977, paid 400 for my first 66 Charger.... rust free 383 auto. In 1978, paid 300 for a 70 318 Charger. In 1981, gave 150 for a 71 SE 383 Charger that had been sideswiped on the driver's side. Gave 5K in 1984 for my 66 Hemi Charger, that I still have.... for now, anyway.

[Goldfinger71]

In my opinion I have read about some good deals so far in this thread,however deals that you got in the late 70's and early 80's were pretty much the norm back then becuase no one wanted them or knew the money that they would be bringing now.
To me a deal is getting something in these days and times for a bargain.Something that really isn't of the norm ,but of course it does happen as you can tell by the some of the replies on this thread!

But hey it's my...

[Argos_Chargers]

In 1994 I paid 3K for my '66.  That may not sound too great, but the car had 39,000 original miles.  I bought it from the original owner who had done enough restoration on the car to get a B.C. collector's plate.  I have done almost nothing to the car since then, it now has 56,000 miles on it including a 5,600 mile trip to Texas.

[1BAD68]

$7500.00 for my 68 318 auto on the floor about a 1 1/2 years ago. Minimal rust, 74K original miles, Southern Cali. car. Drove it home 130 miles 

[Ghoste]

As far as I'm concerned it was a deal.  Hell, I was only making 2 or 3 bucks an hour back in 1980.

[Goldfinger71]

Im witch'a Ghoste......$75.00 is a deal.........................I WAS NOT trying to offend any of our member here,I was just saying spending a few hundred dollars on a used car, (in particular a musclecar) was pretty common back then becuase most of the mainstream folks didn't want em' anymore........
Everone who held on to their cars through all that time and still have them I SALUTE YOU!!

[JimShine]

I remember almost all 60's muscle cars were cheap in the early 80's. My uncles would go through a few cars a month paying $25 or trading beer for Chevelles, Roadrunners, Cougers, you name it. People would dump them when the front ends wore out, or the exhaust was starting to fall apart. Once in a while they would pay $100 for something nicer along those lines, but it was really rare.

[gers1968rt]

I found my 68 RT in Georgia while I was coming back from Florida. The guy was asking 500 for it. I bought even though I had to drive back to Ontario to get a tow vehicle and trailer. The guy said he had been asking 500 for it for 3 years but the local kids only offered 400. I wonder if they regret that now? gerry

[deputycrawford]

I was given a 73 back in 1988. It sat for a long time and you could see through the quarters into the trunk. It was rough but I drove that car for a couple of months before I got rid of it.

I also bought my current 69  383 console A/C car, with no rust at all, for $7000 in 2003. I trailered it from Georgia to southern Ohio, then drove it 3 1/2 hrs home to Toledo, Ohio. It had 90,000 miles on it. It still had every original hard part on the car. That means carb, wheels and covers, etc. not the tires. it still has most of the original interior in it now. I didn't think I was getting the best deal at the time but the prices are going through the roof.

[Lord Warlock]

Paid 800 cash for my 69 RT/SE in 1978, with 78,000 original miles, perfect interior and body and a color i've never seen a match on.  AND it came with a nice set of ET aluminum slot mag rims, and a magnesium 10 inch wide spare aluminum wheel.  This was my best buy, and my keeper car, still own it 29 years later.

Paid 250 cash for my 2nd 69 Charger R/T with 69,000 original miles in 1982, dark green/drk green vinyl top/green seats (it had been wrecked...hit a telephone pole and kinda warped the entire frame...but I took the motor/tranny out and various other parts, it had factory magnum 500s, which i still have. 

[Charger-Bodie]

i paid 200.00 cash for my first charger in 1985 it was sitting in a grove of trees even came with a bridge swiped 69 se parts car

[High Impact]

I know a buddy  who bought one for $75.00, 1969 RT/SE at a party one time back in the mid 80's.  This guy was all stoned and drunk and approched my buddy and said 'you're always bugging me about my charger.........give me $75.00 buck and she's your's dude"    So my buddy borowed money from everyone he knew to get enough to pay him.    Now it just sits and collects dust..... half tore apart and just wont sell it.  To bad,  Burnt orange color with Tan interior and top.

I Bought a numbers matching 68 RT with 54.xxxx miles and is a  440-4-speed, Dana  car a couple years ago for $6500.00   80% original silver paint.  Came from Florida back in 1977 and sat in a garage ever since.  Sweet Deals in this day-n-age.

[Steve P.]

VegasMike and I had a 3rd gen.  given to us about 20 years ago. Sold everything off...

[68isgr8]

even trade, a new hp computer for the coronet r/t -- 2 yrs. ago   

[konigcharger]

equal trade, a new hp computer for the coronet r/t -- 2 yrs. ago   

a 68 coronet is not a charger... a 71 well thats a different story