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[tan top]

Original (and still) owner.

wow ! original owner !  thanks for sharing the picture   

,  would love to see & hear more about your charger sometime

[BJ8Healeys]

NOTE:  I tried to send this a couple days ago, with attached photos, but it never has showed up.  This is without photos, so I hope it sends.

MyCharger story:
In September 1968, I had just started my first job out of college in another state.  My wife and I were afraid the previously-owned '62 Ford Fairlane we were driving was going to quit on us at any time, so the first order of business was to buy a new car.  We both very much liked the '68 Charger, but couldn't buy a new '68 late in the year so we "settled" (as we thought then) for a new '69.  Went down to the dealer, Tait's Huntsville Dodge, Huntsville, Alabama, and collected their brochures.  She only cared about the color and chose F3 Light Green Metallic.  Being thoroughly tired of driving 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder cars with three on the tree or automatic, I went for the 383 high-performance engine, 4-speed, and black vinyl bucket seats.  We had saved up a good down payment and I thought I had made arrangements with our credit union to finance it.
I checked the dealer's lot every day for two weeks.  According to the  salesman, a strike at the transmission assembly plant might hold up delivery.  Sometime during this two weeks, the salesman called and invited me down to look at another Charger that he said was pretty much like the one I ordered.  Right.  It was dark blue, had a vinyl top (which I specifically did NOT order, imagining how it would look a few years down the road after baking in the sun).  He also pointed out that it had a console and a neat dogleg shifter.  "I ordered those, too!"  "No, you didn't."  I discovered that it was true, I had not ordered those although I had intended to.  Finally, I spotted "our Charger" on the lot on a Sunday when the dealership was closed.  On Monday, I found out that the credit union had done NOTHING about the loan and were asking for a co-signer (no credit history at that point).  That wasn't gonna happen, so I went crying to the salesman at the dealer.  He said, "No problem.  We'll finance it through Chrysler Credit Corp." and they did.  First payment came due, and we made FIVE.  Even so, we made the final payment three years later when it was due.  We took delivery on 5 February 1969.  The odometer read 00018.
In May 1971, it was used by an old geezer as a convenient way to stop when his old Chevy's gas pedal stuck, then repaired by the dealer where we bought it.  It looked fine for 25 years, but then the Bondo started to crack.  When I dug into it, I found the dealer repair had been done very crudely and amateurishly.  I took it off the road in 1996 to do the  necessary body work myself, but ran into some issues and got diverted by restoration of a 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III, and then a 1973 MG Midget so the Charger languished in the garage.  Recently, my wife pointed out that since both of us will turn 76 next month, if we didn't do something soon with the Charger we'd never see it on the road again.  She's right, of course, so I pulled the engine (178,283 miles) and sent it for rebuild.  Meanwhile, i arranged for a professional classic restoration shop to pick up the car for doing the bodywork right and painting.
The Charger has taken us to the top of Pikes Peak, in 1973, and to Mexico City, in 1975.  It moved with us to eastern North Carolina in 1979 and remains here today.  I have maintained a detailed maintenance and trip logbook for the car from Day One, illustrated with photographs.   It currently runs to 134 pages of a Word document.

[Bob T]

NOTE:  I tried to send this a couple days ago, with attached photos, but it never has showed up.  This is without photos, so I hope it sends.

MyCharger story:
In September 1968, I had just started my first job out of college in another state.  My wife and I were afraid the previously-owned '62 Ford Fairlane we were driving was going to quit on us at any time, so the first order of business was to buy a new car.  We both very much liked the '68 Charger, but couldn't buy a new '68 late in the year so we "settled" (as we thought then) for a new '69.  Went down to the dealer, Tait's Huntsville Dodge, Huntsville, Alabama, and collected their brochures.  She only cared about the color and chose F3 Light Green Metallic.  Being thoroughly tired of driving 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder cars with three on the tree or automatic, I went for the 383 high-performance engine, 4-speed, and black vinyl bucket seats.  We had saved up a good down payment and I thought I had made arrangements with our credit union to finance it.
I checked the dealer's lot every day for two weeks.  According to the  salesman, a strike at the transmission assembly plant might hold up delivery.  Sometime during this two weeks, the salesman called and invited me down to look at another Charger that he said was pretty much like the one I ordered.  Right.  It was dark blue, had a vinyl top (which I specifically did NOT order, imagining how it would look a few years down the road after baking in the sun).  He also pointed out that it had a console and a neat dogleg shifter.  "I ordered those, too!"  "No, you didn't."  I discovered that it was true, I had not ordered those although I had intended to.  Finally, I spotted "our Charger" on the lot on a Sunday when the dealership was closed.  On Monday, I found out that the credit union had done NOTHING about the loan and were asking for a co-signer (no credit history at that point).  That wasn't gonna happen, so I went crying to the salesman at the dealer.  He said, "No problem.  We'll finance it through Chrysler Credit Corp." and they did.  First payment came due, and we made FIVE.  Even so, we made the final payment three years later when it was due.  We took delivery on 5 February 1969.  The odometer read 00018.
In May 1971, it was used by an old geezer as a convenient way to stop when his old Chevy's gas pedal stuck, then repaired by the dealer where we bought it.  It looked fine for 25 years, but then the Bondo started to crack.  When I dug into it, I found the dealer repair had been done very crudely and amateurishly.  I took it off the road in 1996 to do the  necessary body work myself, but ran into some issues and got diverted by restoration of a 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III, and then a 1973 MG Midget so the Charger languished in the garage.  Recently, my wife pointed out that since both of us will turn 76 next month, if we didn't do something soon with the Charger we'd never see it on the road again.  She's right, of course, so I pulled the engine (178,283 miles) and sent it for rebuild.  Meanwhile, i arranged for a professional classic restoration shop to pick up the car for doing the bodywork right and painting.
The Charger has taken us to the top of Pikes Peak, in 1973, and to Mexico City, in 1975.  It moved with us to eastern North Carolina in 1979 and remains here today.  I have maintained a detailed maintenance and trip logbook for the car from Day One, illustrated with photographs.   It currently runs to 134 pages of a Word document.

Great backstory BJ8, quite some history and great roadtrips  - Thanks for sharing   

[BJ8Healeys]

What is the super-duper secret password that will make attached photos show up?  I attach 'em, hit the PREVIEW button or type Alt+P, but nothing happens.  I'm told that "Tan Top" can attach them, but then I have to send all photos to him first?  That can't be the way this works....

[70 sublime]

What is the super-duper secret password that will make attached photos show up?  I attach 'em, hit the PREVIEW button or type Alt+P, but nothing happens.  I'm told that "Tan Top" can attach them, but then I have to send all photos to him first?  That can't be the way this works....

You have to make photos smaller than 400KB and you have to rename them a name that no one else has posted with before or it will think it is already posted someplace and not post it again
I always just name them tire or car or what ever the picture is then add the current date to the name and it usually works as a new combination that has not been used before

[BJ8Healeys]

Thanks for  the info, 70 Sublime.

The photos  I was trying to post were all  less than 400 kb.  That second restriction seems silly.   With all the people who post here, there is bound to be someone else who has posted a photo labeled with a reasonably descriptive title, and not a name made up of gibberish.  That rule is a time-waster.
I will just forget about photos.

[b5blue]

  You have to understand the name is used to locate each pic. inside this program. If you want you can just add ABC or 123 after or before to numerate multiple similar named pics. Camera resolution set at 1MEG post fine. I bought a 15.00 1MEG camera at Big Lots a few years ago and use it here.   

[70 sublime]

Stopped for an evening walk the other night in town and looked back at where my car was parked and thought it was a neat picture with the lights

[tan top]

NOTE:  I tried to send this a couple days ago, with attached photos, but it never has showed up.  This is without photos, so I hope it sends.

MyCharger story:
In September 1968, I had just started my first job out of college in another state.  My wife and I were afraid the previously-owned '62 Ford Fairlane we were driving was going to quit on us at any time, so the first order of business was to buy a new car.  We both very much liked the '68 Charger, but couldn't buy a new '68 late in the year so we "settled" (as we thought then) for a new '69.  Went down to the dealer, Tait's Huntsville Dodge, Huntsville, Alabama, and collected their brochures.  She only cared about the color and chose F3 Light Green Metallic.  Being thoroughly tired of driving 4-cylinder and 6-cylinder cars with three on the tree or automatic, I went for the 383 high-performance engine, 4-speed, and black vinyl bucket seats.  We had saved up a good down payment and I thought I had made arrangements with our credit union to finance it.
I checked the dealer's lot every day for two weeks.  According to the  salesman, a strike at the transmission assembly plant might hold up delivery.  Sometime during this two weeks, the salesman called and invited me down to look at another Charger that he said was pretty much like the one I ordered.  Right.  It was dark blue, had a vinyl top (which I specifically did NOT order, imagining how it would look a few years down the road after baking in the sun).  He also pointed out that it had a console and a neat dogleg shifter.  "I ordered those, too!"  "No, you didn't."  I discovered that it was true, I had not ordered those although I had intended to.  Finally, I spotted "our Charger" on the lot on a Sunday when the dealership was closed.  On Monday, I found out that the credit union had done NOTHING about the loan and were asking for a co-signer (no credit history at that point).  That wasn't gonna happen, so I went crying to the salesman at the dealer.  He said, "No problem.  We'll finance it through Chrysler Credit Corp." and they did.  First payment came due, and we made FIVE.  Even so, we made the final payment three years later when it was due.  We took delivery on 5 February 1969.  The odometer read 00018.
In May 1971, it was used by an old geezer as a convenient way to stop when his old Chevy's gas pedal stuck, then repaired by the dealer where we bought it.  It looked fine for 25 years, but then the Bondo started to crack.  When I dug into it, I found the dealer repair had been done very crudely and amateurishly.  I took it off the road in 1996 to do the  necessary body work myself, but ran into some issues and got diverted by restoration of a 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk III, and then a 1973 MG Midget so the Charger languished in the garage.  Recently, my wife pointed out that since both of us will turn 76 next month, if we didn't do something soon with the Charger we'd never see it on the road again.  She's right, of course, so I pulled the engine (178,283 miles) and sent it for rebuild.  Meanwhile, i arranged for a professional classic restoration shop to pick up the car for doing the bodywork right and painting.
The Charger has taken us to the top of Pikes Peak, in 1973, and to Mexico City, in 1975.  It moved with us to eastern North Carolina in 1979 and remains here today.  I have maintained a detailed maintenance and trip logbook for the car from Day One, illustrated with photographs.   It currently runs to 134 pages of a Word document.

Great backstory BJ8, quite some history and great roadtrips  - Thanks for sharing   

what BT said    thanks for sharing 

What is the super-duper secret password that will make attached photos show up?  I attach 'em, hit the PREVIEW button or type Alt+P, but nothing happens.  I'm told that "Tan Top" can attach them, but then I have to send all photos to him first?  That can't be the way this works....

feel free to email me your pictures & or anything  else you need posting on here  & i'll post them ! i took me a long time to  work out how to post pictures on here  ,
i use this site to resize  https://picresize.com/  & stuff 

[Texasdoc]

My 1969 Charger R/T SE

[tan top]

My 1969 Charger R/T SE

   

[DD]

My 70 and 22

[RIDELIKEHELL]

My 19 Scat Pack WB M6 & my 68 R/T with over 32,000 miles on since resto

[kmbro73charger]

For years I owned a '73 that I inherited from my grandmother in the early 90's. It need a lot of work so I sold it a few years back with the hope that I would one day replace it with my preferred era, a gen 2.  Well, finally did it. I purchased a 69 Charger RT in September from the second owner outside Kansas City and trailered it back to my home town of Denver.  Needs some work, but couldn't be happier! 

[b5blue]

Congratulations! Good luck to you with it. 

[70 sublime]

A good trade up 

[tan top]

 

[RTSE440]

 

[ACUDANUT]

Did you buy it from Stu ??

[Reezee]

It's been a looooooong time since I posted here. But after roughly 5 years of on/off restoration, my car is registered and on the road. Not completely done, but im driving and having fun!

[tan top]

It's been a looooooong time since I posted here. But after roughly 5 years of on/off restoration, my car is registered and on the road. Not completely done, but im driving and having fun!

awesome looking 68   .... looks a mean mutha   with that size  rubber on the rear    

[Michael R/T]

Here my 68 383 4speed

[Troy]

 

Troy

[6T8440]

Stunning 68 Charger ~ Red & Black with all Black Rims. 

[tan top]

Stunning 68 Charger ~ Red & Black with all Black Rims. 

agreed red with black awesome color combination        nice 68