I found a....

[Bandit72]

Okay, so I found a 69 RT in this guys yard by my house. Its originally hemi orange with black interior. The car has 69 tailights, 69 grille, 69 quarters but 68 fenders. The owner says that the car came original with 68 fenders because they put 68 fenders on early 69s to get rid of the extra 68 parts. Do u guys know if this is true?

-Cody-

he's full of shit. Just like the guy that was passing by and told me how he used to own a Charger like mine with a 446 6 pack Hemi

I get quite a few of those.....or better yet just the 440 Hemi

Best one I've heard was an auto mechanic talking about the 383 "baby HEMI".

did they only get put in 4 door coronets too?

[andy74]

This kid is almost as full of it as Silver!

very well put mark,my give a shit o meter has been peged here too,probably is silvers long lost brother/uncle/gay lover

[TylerCharger69]

Not to hijack the original thread...but  I have a question.....can a set of Hemi heads (426) be bolted onto a 440 block???  This  IS a serious question by the way...

[Ghoste]

There is a conversion kit to do that made by Stage V Engineering but shortly after they brought it to market, Chrysler began reintroducing 426 Hemi parts.  They are still in business and you can still get the kit but most of their business is aftermarket Hemi heads now.
So the answer is yes, but there is a little more to it than just slapping them on there.

[dkn1997]

I have also read in other forums that they do not even answer their phone and that they are more interested in hemi parts, plus at that time the heads cost over 5 grand.  for that money, you could put a supercharger and tons of other stuff on your 440, including making it a 500 inch stroker and blow the doors off of most hemis you will run into on the street

[mikepmcs]

Not to hijack the original thread...but  I have a question.....can a set of Hemi heads (426) be bolted onto a 440 block???  This  IS a serious question by the way...

Ace

Here's an article on this.

http://www.popularhotrodding.com/enginemasters/articles/mopar/bigblock/0506em_hemi/

v/r
Mike

[Charger_Fan]

Sounds completely legit to me...they even made a Daytona that way.
Here it is, completely factory original, right down to the original paint!

WTF?

This is a joke also like most of this post.....right?

Nope.
It was bought by a guy Hemigeno knows, last year sometime from the original owner, if I recall.
Here's a couple more that Geno took, notice the '68 markers in the Daytona stripe...

What ever happened to this car? did it get fixed or is it still "Joe Dirt"?

Last I heard, Geno's friend sold the car. Pretty sure it's being restored now.

[6pkrunner]

Nothing to say that a 69s fenders rotted out and were replaced by an available pair from a 1968. These were just cars for the first 10-15 years of their lives and were treated accordingly. They were not monuments to bow before and if a handy pair of 1968 fenders were available after a wreck/rot so be it.
But from the factory??? Not in this solar system.

[TylerCharger69]

    I agree

[dkn1997]

I'm startin' to think that this t9bronze69 guy is giving us the mushroom treatment:  feeding us shit and keeping us in the dark.  I am starting to have serious doubts that this charger even exists.

[TylerCharger69]

i thought that when the post first went up,  but I wasn't sure, and I wanted to read a bit about the subject before I posted.   The conclusion I came up with is......when the car was first being promoted in ads, television, brocures, etc.......wouldn't those particular promotion cars show the 68 style fenders?.....I couldn't find one anywhere that's a factory original anyway, so I lean towards the "never existed" questionnaire on this survey.

[69bronzeT5]

UPDATE: CHARGER PUNK went and saw this car today. THE OWNER DID TELL US A  STORY! Its a 68 318 car. Not a 69 RT with 68 fenders like he told us. Not my fault guys, its the owner fault! So please stop with the rude comments to me.

[70charger_boy]

I was always on ur side bronze.

[69bronzeT5]

Thanks man. Ive been talking to CHARGER PUNK alot lately and he said he got picked on by the older members when he was new to the boards.

[70charger_boy]

Thanks man. Ive been talking to CHARGER PUNK alot lately and he said he got picked on by the older members when he was new to the boards.

[69bronzeT5]

Deffintley. Most of the guys have been nice except for Bull and a few otherz. I feel sorta bad that everybody is picking on Silver. And that comment saying "probably is silvers long lost brother/uncle/gay lover " COME ON, UR SAYING THAT ABOUT A 14 YEAR OLD KID!

[70charger_boy]

Yeah one of these guys said I act so stupid that they elected to graduate silver and rank me below him.  I don't know, he doesn't bother me, The only people who bother me are the dudes with over 1,000 posts

[69bronzeT5]

I agree totally.

[dkn1997]

Deffintley. Most of the guys have been nice except for Bull and a few otherz. I feel sorta bad that everybody is picking on Silver. And that comment saying "probably is silvers long lost brother/uncle/gay lover " COME ON, UR SAYING THAT ABOUT A 14 YEAR OLD KID!

you have not been here long enough to know why silver gets picked on.   

where are the pictures that you shouted you were getting on 12/30?  that was more than two weeks ago and you said you would post them when you got home.....

your intentions seem good, but you should not be surprised when you post here, promise pics, and don't deliver.  When your are 14 and we all know it, we tend to be skeptical of anything you say.  right or wrong, that's just the way it is.  it's not totally your fault, but some of us have been in the hobby a number of years and it gets real old hearing some of the BS stories that float around. 

[Brock Samson]

who is roscoe?..
or who were you before?. 
charger punk MATT is cool because he obviously really, really loves these cars, we just like to tease you kids once inna while...
it's all good...
thanks Matt for diggin up all these pics you find!
BTW:
C.P. I seen a mess of mopars including a 2nd and a third gen in the Brad Pitt & Julia Roberts movie "The Mexican".
lots of other '60 iron too. 

[Drache]

69bronzeT5,

You'll kinda get picked on for awhile longer yet, hell I STILL get picked on by these guys! 

[Ghoste]

The only people who bother me are the dudes with over 1,000 posts

I knew I felt no love vibes coming off the monitor for some reason this afternoon.  Oh well.

[Brock Samson]

                                     

[70charger_boy]

The only people who bother me are the dudes with over 1,000 posts

I knew I felt no love vibes coming off the monitor for some reason this afternoon.  Oh well.

[hemigeno]

Sounds completely legit to me...they even made a Daytona that way.
Here it is, completely factory original, right down to the original paint!

WTF?

This is a joke also like most of this post.....right?

Nope.
It was bought by a guy Hemigeno knows, last year sometime from the original owner, if I recall.
Here's a couple more that Geno took, notice the '68 markers in the Daytona stripe...

What ever happened to this car? did it get fixed or is it still "Joe Dirt"?

Last I heard, Geno's friend sold the car. Pretty sure it's being restored now.

Yep, the car sold and has been taken to a resto shop in Jefferson County (Missouri).  Supposedly going through a nut and bolt resto, although I shudder to think of how much rust repair that car will require.  Even HLPAG would have flinched if they had seen it "before"

Sorry to chime in so late, I've been a little lax in checking out all the stuff in G-D.  I see where some of the Feud references elsewhere have come from.     This forum should be a place where the new members feel comfortable enough to make comments without fear, and for the most part I think that is the case. 

Most of the problems have arisen from some exhuberant folks posting about some things they were not able to back up.  When statements/claims are made that fly in the face of what the general understandings about these cars, the reaction is usually to question whether the new information is true - especially when it comes from a newer member to the site.  When they read on here "Early '69 Chargers used leftover '68 sheet metal", if the responses don't include SOME level of explanation as to what the general consensus is, the guests and less-knowledgeable members of the site could very easily assume this to be the truth.  After all, they read it on the internet, so it must be true, right??   

Don't forget that there are a lot of visitors to this site that don't read every post or go through the archives to look up past threads on similar subjects.  A classic example of this is the "ModTop Daytona" that ChargerPunk/Matt supposedly has pictures of.  I have read replies on the Aero board that infer another member's belief that this car exists, solely based on the claims written in CP's posts.  If I (and others) didn't reply back to set the record straight, all it would take to let this rumored car become entrenched in the readers' mindsets would be silence.  To me, that would be doing a disservice to the hobby.  It has nothing whatsoever to do with personalities with me, it's all about the facts.  Some of the replies are more tactful than others, but with this many members there is almost always someone on here who is having a bad day.

I have said it over and over in response to flare-ups on the Aero Forum (sometimes more aptly described as the Looney Bin) that the personal insults and attacks have no place on the board whatsoever.  That doesn't just apply there, it applies across DC.com.  Make whatever comment you need to in order to set the record straight about the FACTS, but keep the personal attacks to yourself.  Troy had to lock the thread that was started complaining about feuds, because THAT thread turned into a feud.

Those that spend any amount of time on this board will sooner or later learn that we aren't wound too tightly.  The internet is not, however, all that good at conveying how a person really intended a comment to be taken.  Until we get to know a member well enough to know how to take them, it might not be the best to assume that the rest of the readers will understand what you're trying to get across.  Best to err on the side of caution.  Same goes for the regular/old members when conversing with the new members, since they won't automatically know how to take OUR statements.

We welcome new members to the site - and all of us were once new members ourselves.  Lots of us really want to learn all we can about Chargers, and that includes what other members (new or old) might know about them.  Make whatever statement that you need to, just be prepared to back it up.

Troy has been kind enough to give us ChargerHeads a great place to hang out.  I somehow feel that if we don't do a better job of respecting other people we might not have as much latitude around here.




Geno