WHAT SHOULD I DO? PART IT?

[leeandgrant]

need frame rails??

need floor pans?


THE only thing that keeps me from cutting it up is I hold in my hand the clear title, which starts XP29H........ The last time the title changed hands was, yes i am not joking, 1973. The last time the car was registered was 1979. This thing has been sitting in a farmers field for the last 28 years rotting away. The floor pans and frame rails are almost non exsistant. Even the seat tracks are rotten away??

[moparstuart]

give it to me

[leeandgrant]

here are some more pics

[CB]

looking at those pics I can only say... money pit
CB

[tan top]

i don't like to see any charger parted .... but you got to ask  your self .do you really want to spend a year of your life or more   ...if your just going  do it in your spare time ....  working on it ... is it something you really want ...rare options  ...  ... color ?  ... 
  hard choice  as there is more & more good repop metal coming through .... not hard to restore just time consuming    i would have to think about this ....   

[Blown70]

Well to me plenty of photos to see there are NO rear frame rails left..... floor pans look completely gone, which usually means the torsion mount will be done for too.  I say let someone make a drag car out of it.  Heck no need to remove the back half its gone....

Sorry to say my vote is to part it.

[charger_fan_4ever]

Depends on how bad a guy wants to work and how much to invest in a car to restore it or sentimental value. Personally i looked at a few 2nd generation r/t's with no framerails/firewall and i wouldn't restore those cars. I held out for a r/t with a solid unibody.

Personally unless its a real hemi or 6 pack car I would let it die. When you have to change that much metal whats left of the original car other than the serial #?


My r/t does not need any unibody work , firewall,inner fenders but needs pretty much every panel replaced. If my car wasn't an r/t i wouldn't restore it.
That being said i wouldn't restore that car.

If you have the work farmed out the resto on the body alone will cost easily double what the car is worth completed. Then you have interior and mechanics to do. I have access to a professional body shop(brother) and will do alot of the work myself. With the parts and materials alone for the body and interior i'm budgeting $15,000 and that does not include the 100's of ours of work

just me.

[tan top]

 yeah just looking at these pictures again ...

Well to me plenty of photos to see there are NO rear frame rails left..... floor pans look completely gone, which usually means the torsion mount will be done for too. I say let someone make a drag car out of it. Heck no need to remove the back half its gone....

Sorry to say my vote is to part it.

part it  ....  if it was a    J code  or a XX29  ...   restore it

[Blown70]

yeah just looking at these pictures again ...

   
                 
part it  ....  if it was a    J code  or a XX29  ...   restore it

XP29H? 

[PocketThunder]

Part it out.  I have a '69 SE in the same or worse condition and i am parting it out. 

I agree if the VIN number began with XS29J, XX29 or XP29B i would restore it. 

[Old Moparz]

Part it, but I hope you didn't pay a lot for it because there aren't too many useful parts left. 

[68rt]

save what you can and keep what you need sell the rest

[leeandgrant]

Hey Charged, please ease up.  I am not the fastest typer in the world. 

Yes I am parting it out 

I posted this thing here to show how some people think that they will always get to a car and restore it and it just sits in a field and rots away.

The rear frame rails are non exsistant, the floor pans are big flakes of rust. The trans crossmember you can push through with your fingers. The rails foward good in a few spots but can not be saved and reused on something else.

As I am going through the car I am finding some real wierd stuff.

Some of the nice items left in the car is the rear window defroster, the roof is mint, I believe it would make a good canidate for a swap on a charger the rusted away under some old vinyl

There are a set of original magnum 500's with all four trim rings and center caps.

The wiring in the car is all good and I have not found a splice or cut or break anywhere. All ends are still good.

Original kick down linkage is there. Original hi-po exhaust manifolds.

The rear end is still in there resting right near the rear window valance. It is a sure grip with 3.55 gears.

It was one of those cars that you scratch you head why some one ordered some things and not others. Non power brakes but the light group, counsole, rear speakers but only an AM radio

Still trying to find the build sheet but I do not think I will find that.

Also, is this an origanal charger bumper jack??

[jaak]

Take off all useable parts, take the remains to a scrap yard. Thats what I would do.  I done that with a rusty charger I had.

Jason

[dpm68]

Yep, parts. Perhaps if it was an R/T....

[WingCharger]

Sell it to me. Dont kill a poor MoPar. It isnt its fault it was tortured its entire life! REBUILD!!!!

[chargerman68]

part it out sell what you can and find another better one

[BB1]

Or build a tube frame and set the body around it. Tubb it, put new floors, and a BIG Hemi!

But really it's gone. 

[Hemidoug]

What the hell is left to part? I'd make a race car out of it....full frame, caged, and tubbed. Hell half to work is done already ...with all the parts available it could make for a nice drag car.....

[WingCharger]

Pull the rear axle, and sell those originals Mags to me!


I would be shit-happy just to have that car. I dont car about condition. As long as I own one, and it is saveable. One of those projects you worl on for pretty much your whole life, and then give it too your kids.

Is that good ole MoPar plant still in there? If it is, post up!

[Winged 1]

 
Wrong style jack for that year.
Should have a flat bar sticking out where the notch is.
Eric

[RallyeMike]

There are a lot of decent cars that SHOULD be saved, that could use the parts off this one. I see lots of stuff.

Anyone who thinks this car should be restored: Where do you think all the parts are going to come from to restore this pile of crap?! Another pile of crap that everyone wants to save !   

[Drache]

The moment I saw the first pic and seen how the rear wheels were sitting... 

[Ghoste]

Part it or race car.  I hate to see one bite the dust but that one has pretty much already bitten it.  It's an organ donor and the clear title holding you back is just a life support machine.  It's time to call in the family and pull the plug.

[craigandlynda]

part it out. its good parts will help restore life to a brother car thats needs a few things...what's gone is gone....help the rest to live on

[nakita7]

As someone who worked as a bodyman, I wouldn't even dream trying to 'restore' that car because you would have more time and money invested than the car is worth imho...

[chargerman68]

race that thing

[six-tee-nine]

there might be some good parts in it for some of us.

I see a maybe usable roof, upper part of the rear quarters might be good for repair of an accident car.
Save as much trim as you can, keep the doors (they look usable), maybe even a rad support or stuff like that.

Who knows when you could help out a fellow member here with OEM body parts.....

[KMPX2]

Some cars have to die to make parts for others.

[Fitz73Chrgr]

Can't save 'em all

[TeeWJay426]

It's gone..... give it last rites and part it out to save more worthy restorable candidates.

[69bronzeT5]

there might be some good parts in it for some of us.

I see a maybe usable roof, upper part of the rear quarters might be good for repair of an accident car.
Save as much trim as you can, keep the doors (they look usable), maybe even a rad support or stuff like that.

Who knows when you could help out a fellow member here with OEM body parts.....

I could use a piece on the driver's side where the door hinge's mount to. Mine is rusty but I have very limited cash right now.

But I agree with almost everybody else, its a goner. Part her out. Btw, could I please use the pics for my site Forgotten Mopars?

[leeandgrant]

THANKS!!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME

I cut up 70 charger about two years ago in about the same condition and got tore up one side and down the other by some mopar "purists"

My very first instinct was to cut it up and use/sell the parts 

Just thought I would do a little

OK guys off to work and time to kill a charger

[Joshua]

I wouldn't part it out......I park it out in the yard and plant flowers in and around it....Charger yard art baby!
And yes......I'm SERIOUS......haha

[leeandgrant]

MY NEIGHBORS HATE MY RUNNING MOPARS, IMAGINE IF I MADE A FRONT YARD FLOWER BED OUT OF IT.

I LIKE THAT IDEA THE BEST SO FAR JOSHUA

[bsakal]

that's a perfect HLPAG father/son project!

[ChargersETC..ETC..]

 Parted Out Too Bad
If you decide to sell parts later will you update the site or post ads on the site  or what

[rt green]

race car. it could be bad ass once again

[JimShine]

There are people out there willing to restores ones this bad. I sold one very similar a few months back for about a grand. It was so bad I would have taken $100 but it was bid up.

[moparheater]

somebody is dying to overpay fot it on ebay...auction it!!!

[leeandgrant]

UPDATED PICTURES OF CUTTING THIS BAD BOY UP



Charger convertible anyone???

[472 R/T SE]

You've obviously done this before.  Smart man doing the dissecting on a trailer.

You made the right choice.  Unless there's some kind of sentimental value, you're better off doing what you're doing.   

[leeandgrant]

Yes, this is the third mopar i have cut up.

I have found it easier to cut them up on a trailer. My junk trailer sits next to it and the rusted metal items get tossed in there as I go. That way I do not have to rehandle it to take it to the junk yard. They just drop the magnet in the and clean it out.

I will cut the sheet metal away from the drivetrain and back the trailer into the building and lift the engine off the trailer.

Man, that makes me sound lazy.....

[tan top]

   ...........    been busy dude  ...that roof panel looks  real nice

[leeandgrant]

Yup, the roof panel is already spoken for and has a new home..

[nakita7]

 

[69*F5*SE]

Parts if there's any left. Junk the rest.

[280bb0]

add up the parts cost plus cost of all or any work farmed out then ask your self would it be cheeper to look for a better car!   for me its  part it out!