Pick up the 500 tomorrow (updated with pics)

[C500]

Some of you guys will remember when I bought the C500. It's the F8 green one with the hood callouts.

It's been almost 3 months since I paid for the 500, and she's finally ready for me to pick her up tomorrow. I'm taking her straight to a mate of mine with a sandblasting business and getting the underside cleaned up. She won't be home for a few days. Will post pics tomorrow. Can't wait to see her in the flesh!!

Dunk

[BigBlockSam]

 

[aussie daytona]

hi kiwi...i sure know how you feel.. , its been over 3 months since i paid for my daytona clone and its still at least a month from aus...worth the wait .. mat

[C500]

hi kiwi...i sure know how you feel.. , its been over 3 months since i paid for my daytona clone and its still at least a month from aus...worth the wait .. mat

I thought my 3 months was bad, but waiting another month...

[tan top]

good stuff , looking forward to seeing some pictures ........

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

You're on the home stretch so to speak! 

[WINGR]

Good luck Kiwi68, enjoy.

WINGR

[C500]

here's the pics from this afternoon. No nasty surprises with the car, she's a thing of beauty

[BPTRacing]

WOW
REALLY SWEET! 

[tan top]

    

[Ghoste]

What's on the stripe where it goes over the decklid?

[C500]

440 decal over the white stripe. that will be coming off pretty soon

[Ghoste]

It kind of looked like a 440 callout but I wasn't sure.  You answered the next question.
Car looks great!

[hemi68charger]

WooHoo !!!!!!  Her new home........  Happy nothing bad happened to her..........

Troy

[PocketThunder]

here's the pics from this afternoon. No nasty surprises with the car, she's a thing of beauty

A thing of beauty is an understatement!    

I'm loving those tires..   

[69bronzeT5]

Awesome looking 500! What are you towing that thing with

[C500]

Awesome looking 500! What are you towing that thing with

Thanks guys  . Its beeing towed with a 1999 VT Holden Commodore, V6, 3.8L...and struggling up the hills

[bzabodyn]

Wow - great looking 500! VERY aggressive looking... any pics of the interior/underside?

BZ

[C500]

Wow - great looking 500! VERY aggressive looking... any pics of the interior/underside?

BZ

Thanks BZ. No pics of the underside (still has all the factory undercoating). here are some pictures of the interior in this thread http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,39864.40.html

[BigBlockSam]

   good luck with her 

[C500]

I have started work on her already. Had the underside sandblasted and epoxied and the rust in the quarters also blasted. There was alot of rust and bondo in the quarters, and the trunk extension panels.  I will put some new steel in (will cut the Taiwanese repro quarters up and put new extensions). The guy I got the car from was pretty shocked there was that much bondo and rust, he's offered to pay for the new quarters and trunk extension panels. I'm really happy about that. I already have a new AMD trunk floor here for it. The main floor isn't as bad, has some pin holes, but nothing too bad.

Today I found the matching VIN number on the engine. Funny thing is, instead of XX like the dash has, the block starts XS. The rest of the characters are correct.

There was nothing stamped on the trans by the oil sending unit though. (Im guessing thats the only place to look on the trans).

Attached is a picture of her finally in my garage after 3 long months.

[pettybird]

the transmission stamp is on the passenger side, too--it's on a raised pad about 1/3 of the way back.  you can read it without jacking up the car.

I didn't know why you'd look on top and then I saw the '68 next to it 

[C500]

the transmission stamp is on the passenger side, too--it's on a raised pad about 1/3 of the way back.  you can read it without jacking up the car.

I didn't know why you'd look on top and then I saw the '68 next to it 

thanks, I'm going to check the trans right now.........and its is a matching trans too

Is anything else on a 69 stamped with the VIN/partial VIN (except for the body stamps)

[Ghoste]

That about covers it.  Thats interesting about the block stamp, most of us have heard of the early 500's with XS in the dash but I've never heard of one with XS on the block and XX on the dash.  Danny?

[C500]

That about covers it.  Thats interesting about the block stamp, most of us have heard of the early 500's with XS in the dash but I've never heard of one with XS on the block and XX on the dash.  Danny?

Someone posted recently that my 500's production day was the first day they used XX in the VIN instead of XS. I think it's Nov 14 from memory