Now this is one DIRTY Charger!

[69bronzeT5]

I'll bet he never gave you candy at Halloween did he? 

Theres like 7 houses on my street here. Everybody (including us) has 2+ acres and its a deadend street. Nobody and I mean nobody puts out candy

[JR]

Thats the dirtiest I've ever seen that car. He didn't get near that dirty on Bullrun.

[NYCMille]

Yes the car got dirty, yes there was salt on the roads and yes I blasted the under carriage of the car for a good 15 minutes with a high pressure hose so I got it as clean as I could. Would I take it out tomorrow and do the same thing?... ABSOLUTELY! I'll be perfectly honest with everyone and say that this car was the BEST purchase I've ever made - I enjoy the crap out of and I'll be damned if I'll save it for someone else to enjoy.

One day this car will start to get some rust and when that day happens I'll bring it to the body shop and have it fixed, just like when the tires wear out I'll replace them or when shocks go I'll replace them too. This is why the car will NEVER be done, it's a driver - there is always room for improvement, there are always things that can/should be changed. This car was new ONCE - 40 years ago, now it is just a really cool old car that the current owner really enjoys.

I can understand eveyone's avoidance to driving these car year round, but honestly, that's not me. It's supposed to be 60 hear in NYC tomorrow and you can bet that I WILL have the car out cruising through NYC tomorrow night for another little cruise. 

[dodgecharger-fan]

It's supposed to be 60 hear in NYC tomorrow and you can bet that I WILL have the car out cruising through NYC tomorrow night for another little cruise. 

If I leave here at noon, I could be in Queens before 8 tonight. 

[GeneralLeeTESH]

THOSE HAVE TO BE THE COOLEST WHEELS I HAVE EVER SEEN ON ANY MUSCLE CAR. wHO MAKES THEM? pLEASE LET US ALL KNOW THE VENDER, MODE AND PRICE !

[68charger383]

I can understand eveyone's avoidance to driving these car year round, but honestly, that's not me.

Like Jack Nicholson's phrase in bucketlist commercial....."Are you gonna drive that thing or buy it a dress?" 

[TruckDriver]

The salt on they put on Wisconsin roads in the winter destroys all the cars in the state sooner or later. It takes til around the end of April for the rain to wash it all off. You can wash your car super good, and you still can never get it out of the frame where it gets in at the gaps. Mike is definatly brave.

[69bronzeT5]

That he is! Its his car so I'm not gonna tell him how or when to drive it. The car looks great clean and it still looks great dirty! I'm having problems affording to finish my Charger. After all the money I plan on putting in it, I'm going to be abit weary about driving it in the winter. I can barely afford to finish it right now, I don't think I could afford to re-do it because of rust from salty roads .

[TUFCAT]

If Mike wants to enjoy his car year round that's fine with me    I don't have the desire for doing the clean-up....however,

If a car is stored in a DRY place - the salt is ineffective.....unless it gets moisture, dampness or some humidity. Dry salt won't eat anything.  You could drive it in salt, wash it, put it away in a dry environment, and be okay as long as it stayed dry..... I would also recommend driving it in a heavy spring rain - -  just to thoroughly wash everything out like WI Charger Guy said....   After all, it is an investment. 

[69bronzeT5]

Dry salt won't eat anything. 

Correct! I have a bucket of salt in my room for my fish tank and it dosent harm the walls or anything where as when the salty water from the tank splashes onto the walls, you have to wash it quickly or else in a weeks time, the wall wont look too pretty

[dodgecharger-fan]

http://www.counteractrust.com/     

[694spdRT]

Do they salt  the roads out your way?
Here in NE,Ohio the roads are going to chew a Muscle Car up this time of year.

Oh yes & quite heavily I might add.....I could deal with the dirt but its the salt that scares the crapola out of me!

  Rain or snow is no big deal.  Throw road salt in there and you can almost listen to them rust. The worst part is when the salt gets in places where you can't get clean. The heavy slush days are by far the worst. Often times the wheelwells on my daily driver are completely filled with that salty stuff. 

Nobody can ever claim Mike doesn't drive the wheels off his car so my hats off to him.  He enjoys his car and the upkeep that goes along with it so  .

[Charger_Fan]

To each his own, so have at it.
I've driven mine in the salt plenty enough in the old days, I'm not doing it any more.
I wish I had taken some pics back then, my Charger was scary nasty...big frozen bo-daggots hanging off the rear quarters (the kind that scrape the ground while driving & sound like you lost a wheel when they fall off), headlight doors frozen open, the whole car looked as white as the top was. No wonder I could see rust advancing each spring.
Glad I stopped when I did.

[TUFCAT]

http://www.counteractrust.com/     

I went to that website....and I don't buy into that.  Ferrous Oxide (rust) will eventually penetrate all metals. The best defense is a tough offense. Protect it well, keep it clean, and you won't have any problems.  Like something else.....

[Steve P.]

10pm at night here in the summer, the neighbour mows his lawn. At 10pm in the summer, I was working on the Charger with the garage door open and Metallica cranked

Maybe he was tired of hearing YOUR Metallica and thought YOU would like to hear something else.....