another 68 wrecked!!!!!!! OUCH!!!!!!!! what a tool!!!!

[HITMAN 149]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge-Charger-1968-Dodge-Charger-Wrecked_W0QQitemZ110167953759QQihZ001QQcategoryZ6199QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

OUCH!!!!!!! what a tool!!!! (hope it's none of our members!?!?!?!) poor bastard!!!! ehh.... it'll buff right out....
"dude.. my old man is a TV repair man.... he's got this ultimate set of tools.... I CAN FIX IT!!!!!!"
what a shame!!! what a nice looking car... or it WAS anyway!!!!! 
maybee one of out finely skilled body men members will take it  and nurse it back to health!?!?!?!?

hey cody.... he's a picture for your wrecked chargers page!!!! LOL

[Hemidoug]

What a shame. He learned a difficult lesson...5 dollars worth of talent mixed with 0 common sense equals 30,000 dollars wrapped around a tree. If'in you gonna do a hole shot, make sure the car is STRAIGHT before you do it...And for GODS sake, if it starts to get crossed up...GET OFF THE THROTTLE!

[terrible one]

Damn. Look how bad the roof is tweaked (check out how it lines up with the vent window now). What a hard hit! That's not going to be cheap to fix. . .

[HITMAN 149]

yup!!!!!!

beautiful 68 charger - 0
big ole oak tree       - 1

[0X01B8]

so sad...I've never quite understood how these wrecks seem to happen.    showing off...next thing the car is totaled?  just seems so weird to NOT get off the gas when everything is going wrong...  remember all those 'posessed' Audi 5000s in the 80s?  people thought they were standing on the brakes but instead they were on the gas.

[The70RT]

5,000 dollar motor with only 359HP? Then you have an automatic and loose control..........must have hit some sand......or

[Mean 318]

thats a parts car... or something that someone with pipe dreams will buy and it will sit!

[suntech]

nope !! didnt hit sand!! He hit an oak tree!!
My tired 383, with 727 and 3,23 posi brakes loose, if i can just find some slippery asphalt!! Then i can fry tires on first 2 gears, whhen i firs get them loose!!
Sorry to joke about a sad thing as that car, but shit happens, and i guess he was lucky to walk away from it, with just a badly broken ego!!!!

[68charger383]

Looks like the fast and furious car, wreck wise....that car is done unless its name is Christine.

[HITMAN 149]

DON"T YOU TALK ABOUT CHRISTINE LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[0X01B8]

nope !! didnt hit sand!! He hit an oak tree!!

it's the Oak trees!     notice how nobody ever wraps their car around a Box Elder, or a Douglas fir?  always an Oak!  they must be stopped! 

[Rolling_Thunder]

can be back on the road for $4,000-$7,000     yeah....      right....

[TruckDriver]

 

[rav440]

nope !! didnt hit sand!! He hit an oak tree!!

it's the Oak trees!     notice how nobody ever wraps their car around a Box Elder, or a Douglas fir?  always an Oak!  they must be stopped! 

lmao 

[Charger_Fan]

nope !! didnt hit sand!! He hit an oak tree!!

it's the Oak trees!     notice how nobody ever wraps their car around a Box Elder, or a Douglas fir?  always an Oak!  they must be stopped! 

HHAAHHAAA!!

I don't understand how someone can not lift off the throttle either, when a burnout goes all wrong. I've had quite a few burnouts that went wrong in my day, but I've never pasted a tree...or a car...or a pedestrian...or...
He should have used the 'my throttle stuck' excuse.

If I'm reading that right, the accident was four years ago...I can identify with the feeling of not wanting to let a crashed Charger go.

[Mike DC]

IMHO you guys are overstating how wrecked it is.  It's a really bad hit, but it might still be worth fixing if it was really a $30K car before it was bent.  (Not saying it was for sure.  Assuming.) 

It's not something I'd personally like to mess with either.  But IMHO it doesn't look any worse than re-skinning two thirds of a rusty shell with crumbling rear framerails.  We don't point fingers when half the nice Charger restos being done these days are 2/3rds reskinned even in the structural areas. 


IMHO this one might be do-able if you're willing to do the sheetmetal work at home once you've paid a shop to fix the frame.  Some of these modern frame-pulling shops can REALLY work wonders, and even the seller's optimistic estimates for the repair bill include replacing the subframe rails. 

And let's not forget that the entire '68 steel front clip sheetmetal is already headed for the repro catalogs as we speak.

 

[skip68]

I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago but no tree.  I was turning left on a street and I nailed it and in the blink of an eye I found myself going sideways toward a ditch.  My power steering is not hooked up so I was not able to correct the car fast enough so the only thing to do was let off the gas and hit the brakes.    Nothing happened and nobody saw me thank god but it did get my attention.  That was pretty dumb of me to do in the charger with the money I've got into it.  LESSON LEARNED,  MORE ROOM, LESS GAS, BETTER STEERING.     Chuck.............

[Mike DC]

 
We've all done a few stupid things in cars.  Either wrecked, or else sheer luck saved us from a wreck that we deserved to get into.

The car in the pics seems like a real heartbreaker though.  Stuffing it SO HARD with only 32 miles on the clock.  It's the kind of thing you'll never forgive yourself for.



And let's not forget that hitting an oak tree is a whole other ballgame from most things.  That guy's lucky if he walked away from that hit without any permanent damage to himself.

The car's damage probably woulda been half that bad if he'd gone into almost any other roadside obstacle.  Heck, if that wreck had been into another car, then it probably would have been straightened out & back on the road two months later.

[rt green]

perfect example of what happened to chargers back in the day

[2fast4u]

  Gentelmen we can rebuild him.......make him stronger, faster. . . .

[Khyron]

I'm ashamed with you all.... i'm the 20th post and no one else said it....











It'll buff out! 

[Mean 318]

[HITMAN 149]

thanks mean, for sticking up for me... khyron.. must have been blinded by his sweeeet paint job!!!! LOL

[Mike DC]

 
Lookit the driver's seat area.  Really mashed in.  And the lower part of the steering wheel looks broken. 

[71ChallengeHer]

  

[PocketThunder]

We were walking out of the Xcel Energy Center one night after a Weezer concert and a guy in a 32 Ford tries to do a burnout from the stoplight.  We saw it first hand, he fish tails it right in the concrete divider between the lanes.  Good thing there was a concrete divider or he would have ran us over.   He smashed up the drivers side fenders pretty good.  But lucky for him as I walked closer I could see that the car had glass fenders.  Just order another set from a catalog.  But anyways, he stayed on the gas and tried to correct himself when he should have just let up. 

[Charger_Fan]

Half of the problem in those instances is because there is an audience. Some of my worst crashes as a kid for example, were when I was showing off for people.

[Charger Aficionado]

See WHO Needs Crumple Zones?  lol 

Looks like it crumpled just fine... 

[chargerman68]

needing the exhaust......



think it will sell as a whole car?

[Mike DC]

 
I'd be surprised if it doesn't bring decent money, as either a fixer-upper or as a parts car.  There's still a lot there to work with.
That car is pretty bad, but it's no worse off than half the rustbuckets we see getting restored every day. 

Same with the hopeless parts-car bare shells that people still buy. 
Half those cars don't have a single "part" left on them and the lower half is totally gone, but people still pay $600 for them.

 

[Mean 318]

A guy would be ahead  to spend 6000 and get it for parts. Good black interior, 8 3/4 rear, trans, as long as the block ain't cracked it would be good, trim, LOTS of metal- look what it costs fro re pop panels and there you have 1 good 1/4 and one that could be fixed. trunk, rear window panel, tail light panel, door, rockers, patch panels for a roof, floor boards, rear frame, exhaust.... that could be a gold mine!

[The70RT]

A guy would be ahead  to spend 6000 and get it for parts. Good black interior, 8 3/4 rear, trans, as long as the block ain't cracked it would be good, trim, LOTS of metal- look what it costs fro re pop panels and there you have 1 good 1/4 and one that could be fixed. trunk, rear window panel, tail light panel, door, rockers, patch panels for a roof, floor boards, rear frame, exhaust.... that could be a gold mine!

I don't see 6K in parts. Plus who knows if it has repos on it already? I am sure the drivers bucket is bent. I would rather buy repop floors and trunk then try to remove them. I would have my doubt on the trans & motor as far as the motor was pushed back. Even the 4K that was on it last time I looked is too much. I would only give 2K....maybe.......but that's just me.

[Mean 318]

Aren't 1/4s like 2500? He said it has all original panels, 1 is good, 1 cold be fixed. Maybe I am off, but it seems like a good deal if you have to start with a shell of an R/T or something.

[The70RT]

Aren't 1/4s like 2500? He said it has all original panels, 1 is good, 1 cold be fixed. Maybe I am off, but it seems like a good deal if you have to start with a shell of an R/T or something.

I guess if you stripped the quarters and removed them and they were straight with no bondo maybe. The front fender has plenty of bondo though.

[66chargerkid]

The pictures makes me cringe... 

[Mean 318]

I guess I am thinking of a car that was mint before, guess you need to see it before saying what is worth... foot in mouth lol

[6670charger]

Older car with High performance engine and 40 year old handling + driver inexperience = destroyed 68 Charger.

What NOT to do with your Charger.

[451-74Charger]

1 word

HLPAG
another "Dukes" car in the making

[69bronzeT5]

HLPAG

"THIS MEAN GREEN 68 CHARGER IS A STUNNING PIECE OF MACHINERY!! FRESH 440 ENGINE BACKED BY A SOLID 727 AUTO. NO MAJOR COLLISIONS. IT WAS IN A MINOR FENDER BENDER BUT DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT UNDER $1000." 

[The70RT]

HLPAG

"THIS MEAN GREEN 68 CHARGER IS A STUNNING PIECE OF MACHINERY!! FRESH 440 ENGINE BACKED BY A SOLID 727 AUTO. NO MAJOR COLLISIONS. IT WAS IN A MINOR FENDER BENDER BUT DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT UNDER $1000." 

Your hired! 

[69bronzeT5]

HLPAG

"THIS MEAN GREEN 68 CHARGER IS A STUNNING PIECE OF MACHINERY!! FRESH 440 ENGINE BACKED BY A SOLID 727 AUTO. NO MAJOR COLLISIONS. IT WAS IN A MINOR FENDER BENDER BUT DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT UNDER $1000." 

Your hired! 

[Dodge Don]

How was that a "restoration"? Looks like any regular "driver" that got wrecked.

[bigroge1]

just a little duct tape, some vato zone spray paint, and some chicken wire it'll be good as new

[RallyeMike]

"THIS MEAN GREEN 68 CHARGER IS A STUNNING PIECE OF MACHINERY!! FRESH 440 ENGINE BACKED BY A SOLID 727 AUTO. NO MAJOR COLLISIONS. IT WAS IN A MINOR FENDER BENDER BUT DAMAGES WERE ESTIMATED AT UNDER $1000."

YOU FORGOT !!!! THE OVERUSE OF !!!!! EXCALAMATION POINTS!!!!! 


Is anyone feeling as bad as I am for the tree?  It's just plain foliage abuse !

[pettybird]

Older car with High performance engine and 40 year old handling + driver inexperience = destroyed 68 Charger.

you forgot "+ no insurance."



how the hell do you stuff 5 grand into a basic rebuilt short block?  gold coated crank?  kryptonite rods?  if it was an all out race piece, cool, but we had a 440 rebuilt from top to bottom for around $3k and that included eight cylinder sleeves...  (#'s match + idiot previous owner+bad machine shop way back when+the 1970's idea of what makes cars fast=owned.)