The Hemi That Got Away...

[426HemiCharger]

Well sorry to say most of you have missed the point of the thread from what I gather.  The car you see that I first posted is NOT my car has NEVER been my car, I don't even know where it is.  I was just saying I could have bought it if I wanted to and that it was so close to my house and I missed it.  

I haven't lie on here C-Stripes is just bringing the Cardomain Profile into this to escalate the situation.  As for me I'm really not in the mood for appologies, I think I've appologized way too much whether I was right or wrong.

[426HemiCharger]

That it is a MP Racecar - Nothing  

That someone made it look like one - everything I said on Cardomain.

one question tho...and i'm really not here to argue the validity of your car as a MP racecar or whatever...but if it was...

I got my car on September 20, 2008 for my 15th birthday.  The car as I came to find out was actually a "Mopar Performance Race Team" race car.  This means that the car had its carpet stripped the ignition was modified, aftermaker tachometer,headers and various other mods.

if the 440 had headers on it...and...

(10/19/2008)

Removed the headers from the heads but the person that made the headers was a dumbs**t he had to put them snug against the engine.  This means that they are still under the hood and can't come out.  I got the spark plugs out of cylinders 1 & 8 both which are covered in oil and a seriously doubt that 2-3-4-5-6-7 are any better.

don't think a mopar race team would have hired that sort of people...but regardless dude...i'm not here to pick u apart...i don't think anyone is despite how it may look...but just tell the truth bro...its all good...your lucky that you have the money, space and parts to work on your charger dude...wish i could say that about mine...

Ok well that's why I said that someone made it look like a MP racecar

I'll appologize once: I'm sorry I didn't take the time to own the car before I bought it to know it's history 

[69bronzeT5]

Well sorry to say most of you have missed the point of the thread from what I gather.  The car you see that I first posted is NOT my car has NEVER been my car, I don't even know where it is.

We NEVER said you were trying to say it is your car You sir, are missing the point.

[C_stripes]

Well sorry to say most of you have missed the point of the thread from what I gather.  The car you see that I first posted is NOT my car has NEVER been my car, I don't even know where it is.  I was just saying I could have bought it if I wanted to and that it was so close to my house and I missed it.  

I haven't lie on here C-Stripes is just bringing the Cardomain Profile into this to escalate the situation.  As for me I'm really not in the mood for appologies, I think I've appologized way too much whether I was right or wrong.

I wasn't trying to make the problem bigger, I was just curious.

[Foreman72]

426...in an effort to return to the origin of this thread...whats the story behind the charger you posted in the first place...

[bk72]

426...in an effort to return to the origin of this thread...whats the story behind the charger you posted in the first place...

ya.... 

[426HemiCharger]

Okay, The purpose of this post was to see if anyone had any stories about how they missed a really cool car close to their house and once they found out it was there it was too late to do anything about buying it for yourself.

Well also that it was a HEMI!!!

[bk72]

Okay, The purpose of this post was to see if anyone had any stories about how they missed a really cool car close to their house and once they found out it was there it was too late to do anything about buying it for yourself.

Well also that it was a HEMI!!!

ooooo well than there was a 74 duster for sale by my house that i should have got instead of my aspen. buti feel i will find another

[Rolling_Thunder]

My parents forced me to pass on a 1970 RT/SE V-code 4-speed car back when I was 15...     good thing - in hindsight I would have wrapped the car (and myself) around a tree or light pole by the time I was 15.5            I had the $$$ but my parents were "our house, our rules"  ---   So I purchased my 68 Charger about 3 weeks later...      I had looked at a number of Chargers before buying but my parents limited me to a non-R/T...    leaving the 318 and the 383...      I looked at a White 69 R/T   440 4-speed car but there again - not able to purchase it...   

[bk72]

i was 15 when i looked at that duster and the day that i got my mom to let me buy it it was sold so a week later i went and got the aspen.and in a week it will be finished and i am selling the car and buying something else or save the money and steel the 73 charger from my mom and drive that every day

[426HemiCharger]

There is a '73 Charger with a landeau top I think it was originally green and had a 440 I never chaecked it out becuase my parents say it is probably too far gone, some panels replaced as whole and I doubt it has an engine

A '72 Charger was for sale on the main street in my town green with a green top, $8100 didn't even last 3 days!!!

[TeeWJay426]

I missed out on a 68 GTX Hemi 4-speed for 800 bucks when I was 16..... of course, that WAS in 1974.....

(My Dad knew better than to put a 16 y/o behind the wheel of THAT!)

[bk72]

my 72 charger that was given to me last year my mom paid 5000 for it and put about 7000 or 8000 into it. when we first looked at the 72 they wanted 9000. my moms 73 (steeling it) she paid 1800 for it and put 3000 into it it it is not bad looking , my dad got a 79 cordoba (may steel or let brother have)he paid 700 for it and put 100 into it for new tires, the 73 roadrunner (given to me) my parents paid 6500 for it and put 1400 into it ,and my aspen i paid 1100 for it and put 400 into the car and 1350 into rims and tires. you can get some good deals out there
and the aspen only has 22,401.1 miles and i can prove it by looking at the oil change stickers

[426HemiCharger]

HLPAG WANTED $19,999!!! Haggled to $14,540 but it was still a rip-off.

[Kevin68N71]

Well now that this thread seems to be on track, I'll share.

My sister's first husband's father had a stock, and was the first owner of a 1966 Dodge Coronet, with a 426 Hemi, console, 4 speed, white interior, bucket seats.  It was a Colorado car, lightly faded green, no rust, just faded paint.  It was on their driveway and hadn't been started in a year, so I helped him fire it up!  Very exciting.  I was 19, and wanted to save up and buy it from him, but with college and other things it never happened.

Years later I was reading a muscle car magazine and there was a whole feature article about a guy who bought a 1966 426 Hemi Coronet from a guy in Boulder, Colorado, and driving it back to Texas.  It had to be the same car, how many 1966 Hemi Coronets in light green with a white interior could there have been in Boulder?  That one really stung.

In 1985 I got a friend all lined up with a very nice 1970 Dodge Challenger RT, 440 4 speed.  This car needed new seats and could use paint but was just an excellent car, for $3000.  Of course, even though this was a college aged guy, his MOM wouldn't let him buy the car.  He was pressured to buy his cousin's lousy Camaro LT, complete with Batman decals on the dash, for $3000.  This leaking rattletrap ejected one of its custom T-tops on the freeway in Arizona, and my friend had to pay $1500 to have a replacement one custom fabricated.  Think about that.  Because of his mom's stupidity (believe me, she was an a$$) this guy paid 1/2 the price of a great car to fix a T Top of a lousy car, and if he had bought what I told him to he could put his kid through college today.  But no.

My other friend passed up an AAR Cuda I found for him for a "really cool Honda", upon which he put a parabola antenna on the roof so that he could pick up shortwave in the car, or whatever.  Over time, the heavy antenna started to tear the flimsy roof metal where it was bolted, making the car have almost no value.

I don't want to talk about this any more.....

[426HemiCharger]

Went to Walgreens on a Hot Late-April day and looked into the Auto trader, ah 30's 40's 50's ah yes 60's first thing that catches my eye is a long sleek Charger in R6 Red, 440 A/T A/C P/B P/S. No price and no contact.


Heading read: 1969 Challenger T/A  I cracked up, what a dummie!!!

[Foreman72]

HLPAG WANTED $19,999!!! Haggled to $14,540 but it was still a rip-off.

for what?

[devilgear]

Ok here is mine...My favorite car in the world is a 1970 Dodge Superbee..I know I know not a Charger, but I dig'em...Anyway about 15 years ago there was an ad in the local paper for a 1970 Dodge Superbee in great condition-$800...I checked out the car...383...B5 blue...auto bench seat...Nice condition, but there wsa a catch...The engine wich was just rebuilt was not in the car...I had a friend I worked with that was an auto mechanic even offer to tow the car back to his house an spend a day putting the enigine with me....Ok so here is what we got so far

*1970 Dodge Superbee (my favorite car remember)
*$800 dollars only-AND I had the cash in hand
*383 not in car, but mechanic friend will to tow car and put it in for me for free
* all parts there and in good condition very little rust and no major deings or dents

Anyone wanna guess why this car is not in my garage right now?

[69bronzeT5]

Anyone wanna guess why this car is not in my garage right now?

Wife?

[Foreman72]

Ok here is mine...My favorite car in the world is a 1970 Dodge Superbee..I know I know not a Charger, but I dig'em...Anyway about 15 years ago there was an ad in the local paper for a 1970 Dodge Superbee in great condition-$800...I checked out the car...383...B5 blue...auto bench seat...Nice condition, but there wsa a catch...The engine wich was just rebuilt was not in the car...I had a friend I worked with that was an auto mechanic even offer to tow the car back to his house an spend a day putting the enigine with me....Ok so here is what we got so far

*1970 Dodge Superbee (my favorite car remember)
*$800 dollars only-AND I had the cash in hand
*383 not in car, but mechanic friend will to tow car and put it in for me for free
* all parts there and in good condition very little rust and no major deings or dents

Anyone wanna guess why this car is not in my garage right now?

second after wife...
your driver car blew up and so u had to fix/replace that instead?

[426HemiCharger]

Ok here is mine...My favorite car in the world is a 1970 Dodge Superbee..I know I know not a Charger, but I dig'em...Anyway about 15 years ago there was an ad in the local paper for a 1970 Dodge Superbee in great condition-$800...I checked out the car...383...B5 blue...auto bench seat...Nice condition, but there wsa a catch...The engine wich was just rebuilt was not in the car...I had a friend I worked with that was an auto mechanic even offer to tow the car back to his house an spend a day putting the enigine with me....Ok so here is what we got so far

*1970 Dodge Superbee (my favorite car remember)
*$800 dollars only-AND I had the cash in hand
*383 not in car, but mechanic friend will to tow car and put it in for me for free
* all parts there and in good condition very little rust and no major deings or dents

Anyone wanna guess why this car is not in my garage right now?

Well it's cool. Doesn't have to be a Charger.

[devilgear]

I have only been married 7 years and this was 15 years ago...So no it is not my wife,,,She would not care by the way...I'll give you all one more guess..

[Foreman72]

ya blew it all on fireworks

[69bronzeT5]

Blew it all on a guitar!

[426HemiCharger]

 Was it stolen?