How Long has your Charger been a project?

[Leonidas Rex]

I have had my 68 Charger RT for almost 2 years now. I almost had to sell the car a couple of months ago but was able to clear up some finances to keep it. I already have all the parts I need that I cannot buy reproduced. All of the pans have been replaced. The car now needs to be stripped and primed to continue the body work. I feel like this is never going to get done. After next year, the finances will clear up significantly. Then, I can put full concentration on the car. Just frustrating to see it sit.

How long has your project sat unfinished? For the guys that have finished, how long did it take you?

[terrible one]

3 years. 

[NYCMille]

Since the day I bought it.

[1st_charger]

From start to finish 9 years and 7 months give or take a week! but in that time I also finished college, bought a house got married and had a daughter in that order!

Start
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g140/scottiboy/?action=view&current=chargerbefore1.jpg

Finish
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g140/scottiboy/?action=view&current=charger004.jpg

Actually Finish is the wrong word! We'll say road worthy it will never be finished!

[TruckDriver]

4 years. But the car sat by a friend in Arizona til' Aug. '05. Ad since then, it has been in storage with some little things being done to it.

[Slowpoke]

Since 1982 i'm real slow 

[HITMAN 149]

brought it home oct 7th last year!!!!!!!  hope to have it pretty much done for the summer!?!?!?!? 

[Skyview69]

18 years and counting for my 71 Charger 

4 years for my 69 Charger 

[Mass_Mopar]

Since the day I bought it.

what he said

Bought it in 2001, took me 2 years to replace 4 floor pans, the truck pans, the extensions, the gas tank, fix the brakes, etc before I drove it for the first time.  Then another 1.5 years down for me to put a new driver's 1/4 on it and a new radiator in it and rebuild the carb

[miller]

about 4 1/2 years now... floors, trunk, interior, a little motor work... the big stuff is yet to come, we do little things ever year, but to be realistic until im out of college its hard to really give it a complete restoration, so its going to be a project for at least 4 more years!

[jgbailey57]

coming up on 8 years and counting for me, last time it was registered was 1992.  but i'm making progress, i bought a fender for it last week.

[chargerman68]

mine going on 6yrs....

[PocketThunder]

Since the day I bought it.

what he said

   

[694spdRT]

Bought the 69 in 1991 and "finished" it in 2005. 

For those that have not got their's done yet don't worry...they are never really done anyway. 

[hemi68charger]

'69 C500: running driving car that will eventually need a cosmetic resto.
'68 hemi Charger R/T: Owned for 10 years, been in the painting situation for over 5 yrs. But, that'll soon end
'70 six pack Charger R/T: I've had the car about 2.5 years now and it needs to be restored....

Troy

[HITMAN 149]

Bought the 69 in 1991 and "finished" it in 2005. 

For those that have not got their's done yet don't worry...they are never really done anyway. 

yea aint that the truth!!! just like my harley.. i bought it brand spankin new in 2001... and i still have tons of things i wanna do to it!!!  LOL
i guess that's what the winters are for!!! hahaha

[68chrgrwife]

mine going on 6yrs....

yeah but it sat for almost 2 1/2 years before any real work was done then it sat again for alomst 2 years while slowly being worked on and not it has been 2 years since we got it back and it is still not done..ok maybe it is but you keep finding more to be done....

[Joshua]

I've always made changes to mine during the 18 years I've been driving it.......but now that it's actually APART, it'll probably stay that way for 5+ years........

[41husk]

I took my Challenger convertible apart in 1992 and it is getting close but still not in paint, so 15 years and counting.  The chargers I got into drivable decent drivers with in about a years time each.

[moparstuart]

 bought the 69 six months ago almost running now.       Been working on the superbird convertible for 11 years
   you can read about that tale on this thread   
  http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,32617.msg355414.html#msg355414

[Chatt69chgr]

About 3 years.  I have bought several thousand dollars worth of parts  and restored several individual items but the car has not been taken apart yet.  The most important thing I have done is accumulate technical information concerning how to to my restoration and determine where to get the items I need.  I have chased the hardest to find items first particularly items that may not be reproduced as well as items that are available as reproductions now but may not be in the future.  This is a retirement project for me.  Something that I am enjoying and that I don't care about hurrying up.  When I get tired of messing around with the car, I delve into another of my hobbies for a while----book collecting and photography.  I fully expect that it will take 4 or 5 more years to get the car finished.

[six-tee-nine]

I only have mine for 6 months now but exept undenting the center grill trim piece i haven't done anything yet....too busy restoring my house for the moment...

[Leonidas Rex]

Now I don't feel so bad. Life just happened to place all of my projects on hold. I figured on at least 5 years so maybe that is not an unrealistic goal.

[kink67]

About 4 years for my 66 and counting.    My new project 68 R/T will be a little longer 4 or 5 years

Rich

[grdprx]

I've had my 68 for 2.5 months and I can't wait to get it on the road!  I hope for this up coming summer, but it needs a ton of work.  Paint, motor rebuild, etc, etc...  We'll see.....