Summertime Blues

[426HemiCharger]

I went to the laundromat with my parents to wash bed comforters.  I was sick and still am.  Don't worry not swine flu, but anyway I had the most tremendous headache!!! I'm sitting with the windows down in my Mom's Hyundai, listening to 94.7 FM  and I look up the road.  I see a purple glare over the horizon  then a red one, then a yellow one.  At the stop light I see that is is a group of deuce coupes.  Then I see a classic pickup 10 minutes later.  Look down the road at the intersection again I see a '67 Impala turing left going the other direction.  I sit again this time I see more deuce coupes, then another pick up, then an '09 Challenger and the creme-de-la-creme: a '70 Hemi'Cuda in Hemi Orange.  Then a Camaro go west at the intersection.  I can't help but feel I am slow, not good enough and butterflies.  I want my Charger to be done, and as this thought crosses my mind I imagine myself in it at the parking lot.

[Foreman72]

kno what you mean dude...nice summer days make me want to have this stupid car done right now..but all in good time...but in the meantime i'll appreciate other peoples nice cars...i'm sure they're reciprocate the favor in a few years...

just don't rush and cut corners on stuff dude...you'll heartily regret that

[69bronzeT5]

I'd love to drive the Charger in the summer but it's no where close to being completed....so that's why I have the Duster (besides daily driving) to help me get over it until the Charger is done (then I'll have 2 driveable cars )

[1969chargerrtse]

Yeah it makes me sad when my car is apart in the garage and others are cruising around, but one other feeling I have is the good feeling of having a Muscle car in the garage period.   

[FlatbackFanatic]

Ya, alot of times when I'm driving around I wish my car was painted and done, but then I think I have a nice car just not painted. I'm still having fun in it so what the heck it will get painted someday.

[Brock Samson]

  It's hard when your so young and broke,.. your like dreaming of the future when you can hang out and bench race as an equal with the O.G.s.
  You'll realy appreciate it when you do fire up the Big Block (or /6) the first time,.. and slip the E-brake,.. really arn't too many feeling that good in life,..  if your a true Motorhead. 
  Right up there with getting laid after the senior prom. You'll aways remember your first. 

[426HemiCharger]

Hell, I forgot to mention I'm in love too!

[PocketThunder]

Hell, I forgot to mention I'm in love too!

Ruh roh.  being in love and owning a '69 Charger project car are two huge money pits competing for the same dollar.   

How far is your car from being driveable if you were to put $1000 into it?  Post some pictures of your car or is there a thread here somewhere on it?

[terrible one]

Dude it's the worst. And the closer I get to done the worse it is. But that's why my shit's going to be on the @)#(*$@() ROAD THIS SUMMER!  Spray paint, rot, and all!

[FJ5WING]

Im OK with it since Ive got the R/T to cruise in while Im doing the Superbird.

[426HemiCharger]

Hell, I forgot to mention I'm in love too!

Ruh roh.  being in love and owning a '69 Charger project car are two huge money pits competing for the same dollar.   

How far is your car from being driveable if you were to put $1000 into it?  Post some pictures of your car or is there a thread here somewhere on it?

I'd be $8000 short of a new paint job.

[PocketThunder]

Hell, I forgot to mention I'm in love too!

Ruh roh.  being in love and owning a '69 Charger project car are two huge money pits competing for the same dollar.   

How far is your car from being driveable if you were to put $1000 into it?  Post some pictures of your car or is there a thread here somewhere on it?

I'd be $8000 short of a new paint job.

Ya but how much would it cost to hook everything back up and just drive it in its current skin?

[426HemiCharger]

Let's see $4000... $200... $100... Oh a good $10,000

[PocketThunder]

Let's see $4000... $200... $100... Oh a good $10,000

Oh poppycock... i put my basket case Charger on the road for a little over $300..  been driving it that way for almost 2 years now.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30500.0.html

[moparstuart]

Let's see $4000... $200... $100... Oh a good $10,000

Oh poppycock... i put my basket case Charger on the road for a little over $300..  been driving it that way for almost 2 years now.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30500.0.html

you both have helpig chargers LOL

[PocketThunder]

Here is a running 318 parts car for $800  http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/1159297737.html

[Foreman72]

Let's see $4000... $200... $100... Oh a good $10,000

Oh poppycock... i put my basket case Charger on the road for a little over $300..  been driving it that way for almost 2 years now.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30500.0.html

for real? all that work in pages 1-8 cost u 300 bucks? or am i missing something?

[426HemiCharger]

My engine is seized and I got metal work at a minimal.

About me being in love, nothing out of pocket yet. As for now its only a crush.

[PocketThunder]

Let's see $4000... $200... $100... Oh a good $10,000

Oh poppycock... i put my basket case Charger on the road for a little over $300..  been driving it that way for almost 2 years now.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,30500.0.html

for real? all that work in pages 1-8 cost u 300 bucks? or am i missing something?

For real my brother man... ...        

[Rolling_Thunder]

It doesnt burn my ass at all...     it has been 5 years without my baby so whatever...   another summer won't kill me at all. would it be nice ?  yes - but I'm not going to half ass anything on my build just to drive it and take it apart...   AGAIN to do it right...   

[runningman]

I went to the laundromat with my parents to wash bed comforters.  I was sick and still am.  Don't worry not swine flu, but anyway I had the most tremendous headache!!! I'm sitting with the windows down in my Mom's Hyundai, listening to 94.7 FM  and I look up the road.  I see a purple glare over the horizon  then a red one, then a yellow one.  At the stop light I see that is is a group of deuce coupes.  Then I see a classic pickup 10 minutes later.  Look down the road at the intersection again I see a '67 Impala turing left going the other direction.  I sit again this time I see more deuce coupes, then another pick up, then an '09 Challenger and the creme-de-la-creme: a '70 Hemi'Cuda in Hemi Orange.  Then a Camaro go west at the intersection.  I can't help but feel I am slow, not good enough and butterflies.  I want my Charger to be done, and as this thought crosses my mind I imagine myself in it at the parking lot.

Might have something to do with the Hyundai you were sitting in....

[TheGhost]

Quitcher bitchin.  Just be happy you have a muscle car.

[1969chargerrtse]

Quitcher bitchin.  Just be happy you have a muscle car.

I gotta laugh at that.  My car has been down more than it's been up and I always get told that.  I feel the pain brother.

[Rolling_Thunder]

Quitcher bitchin.  Just be happy you have a muscle car.

I gotta laugh at that.  My car has been down more than it's been up and I always get told that.  I feel the pain brother.

agreed...   I have three muscle cars...    spend tens of thousands on them...   and none of them run    haha     

I have owned my charger for 7 years...    it has been off the road for over 5 of them...