Chargers in the junkyard 11/14/09

[58pwrwgn]

Here are some picture from the yard I was at yesterday.

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[Charger440RDN]

Sad, very sad  Where is this junkyard? Most of those Chargers can be saved with the parts available from AMD now and somebody with deep pockets

[58pwrwgn]

more. Windy Hill auto

[58pwrwgn]

Willmar,MN.   I didn't look at the 3rd gen chargers very close, but the 2nd gen stuff would need every part AMD made to put each back together again.

[Charger440RDN]

That green 2nd gen up in the air looks pretty solid to me  

[tan top]

 good day out junk yarding 58 pw    good but sad pictures  , see that blue  69 had a rare 3 speaker dash ,
did you ge to look at that green 68 wit the white bumble bee stripes   wonder if its an R/T

thanks fo sharing these pictures  , 

[PocketThunder]

Hey member coolmite (Timm) stores his Charger in Wilmar, i wonder if he knows of this place..   

[dukeboy320]

Whats the name of the yard?

[troy.70R/T]

Wow I Have a buddy that lives in Wilmar MN. I might just have to go visit him this summer. Are you willing to share the name of this place? (directions).

[NHCharger]

The grille on that 72 looks perfect, those were one year only.

[GN]

Sad

[69bronzeT5]

 

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

If anything thanks for the VIN#

[58pwrwgn]

The yard is Rohners auto (rohnersautoparts.com). The four pictures of the 3rd gen chargers was at windy hill auto in New London,MN. The more popular muscle car stuff is picked through. They have  maybe 6 long rows of double stack mopar's from 1960-1980 with lots of parts. Plan on spending a day, the have alot (They have a nice row of Pacer if you want to restore one). Windy Hills use to be great, they let you drive your car in there, which was required. Rumour is they had problems and had to unleash the crusher. Not much there, I was gone in a half hour. Go pull parts at Rohner's, the cars have been there forever, but one day the crusher will get them to.

[71_Charger_R/T]

I don,t know if this link will work but.....
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?wip=2&v=2&rtp=~&FORM=MSNNAV#JnE9eXAuMTgwMCtDb3VudHkrUm9hZCsyNytOb3J0aHdlc3QlMmMrV2lsbG1hciUyYytNTislN2Vzc3QuMCU3ZXBnLjEmYmI9NDUuMTI3ODk0NjgzNTYxNSU3ZS05NS4wODI5NjM0MTE0OTUzJTdlNDUuMTI1MzY5ODIwMjI4NSU3ZS05NS4wODU4NTIyMDMxMzQy

[troy.70R/T]

thanks for the info I might make it up there this summer around the 4th of July.

[58pwrwgn]

I don't remember seeing this charger or these e-body's, I think they are gone.

[Blown70]

Thought that looked familar.  I have been there.  The Cudas or some used to be by the building site.

A lot was picked through, but, depending on your needs you could find a part here and there.  At that time they were great to work with but, that was years ago.

Tom

[scatpack69]

I need to stop in next trip through MN. I see some Charger parts I could grab. I wonder what they're prices are like.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

Time for another Expedition!

[TruckDriver]

I see a lot of good usable 3rd gen stuff there yet. 

[aussiemuscle]

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Is that a charger next to green (white one)? looks like a flush rear window.

[69bronzeT5]

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Is that a charger next to green (white one)? looks like a flush rear window.

My god you are right...I see a flush window!

[Charger440RDN]

Time for another Expedition!

[GT]

 

[71_Charger_R/T]

I thought that too, at first but if you look closely at the far side of the glass you can make out the tunnel through the weeds.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

I thought that too, at first but if you look closely at the far side of the glass you can make out the tunnel through the weeds.

and look how long the trunk lid is compared to the shorty use on the c500's n d-tonas

[METROID]

  I can't see how anyone could ever dump a Charger, Cuda or Challenger and leave it to rot. These cars have always been the best looking cars on the road what compelled someone to stop loving them. 

I'm really fortunate with my car I think the previous owner of my Charger said he found it in the yard or saved it from going to the yard (think he told me he got it for $300 in 1983). He had three 1969 Chargers he really loved but I think he saw the 1968 and couldn't let it get destroyed or parted out.

I'd like to think if I had been born 10 to 20 years earlier I would have saved a lot of these cars. I have not liked a single car since the early 1970's (OK, Only exceptions are the Delorean and new Challenger).

[bill440rt]

I am shocked that in this day & age, these cars are simply sitting in a junkyard somewhere rotting away with each passing day.
Even IF they're "too far gone to restore", I see PLENTY of usable parts on those cars.
Very, VERY sad indeed. 

[HemiTom]

A local Mopar Club should get together and  try to save a few of those cars before they end up new Hondas. I totaly Agree to what Bill440RT said...Its a total shame!!!

[68RT440]

A local Mopar Club should get together and  try to save a few of those cars before they end up new Hondas. I totaly Agree to what Bill440RT said...Its a total shame!!!

+1, that would be awesome...it would be cool if a handful of mopar clubs got together and purchased the cars, then all had a contest on who could build the best/coolest one...then have them all debut at the Nationals or Carlisle...kind of like biker buildoff but with chargers..lol

[jerry]

a bunch of grown men crying over rusted junk. whats this world coming to? sad sad day.

[RD]

i want to go there and buy up some shiznit... ROAD TRIP!!! but alas... not sure what i need... RUSS you mineesoTON.. where are ya?

[Ghoste]

Crying over "rusted junk" is a helluva lot more interesting to me than why Tiger Woods crashed his SUV. 

[MoparManJim]

And the next time some one says the Dukes killed alot of chargers, they can look at this thread and then see that alot of charger that someone could have fix up before and saved left it set in the junkyard to go to waste  . Just think at how many yards over the country side has/had chargers like this that went to the crasher. And yet they talk about one show killing what 200 and something  . I bet if you count all the juckyards that has 2nd gen chargers in them that no one cares about, the number will probably past the Dukes number of cars easy.

[Charger440RDN]

a bunch of grown men crying over rusted junk. whats this world coming to? sad sad day.

I think it will be a sad day when people DON'T mourn the loss of these old mopars when they see them in a junkyard rusting away. That will mean that nobody cares about old cars anymore. 
I hope that future generations do cry over this rusted junk, for the survival of the hobby. I hope that there will always be passion in people to restore these old mopars.

[RCKSTR]

a bunch of grown men crying over rusted junk. whats this world coming to? sad sad day.

[TruckDriver]

My 10 & 15yo don't think there rusted junk. Even at their ages, they wish someone could restore all the old muscle cars in the junk yards.