I wonder who has owned my 69 charger 500 before me?

[jeffs440]

Hi,


   I recently when to the DMV to register my 69 charger 500 and asked who has owned my car before me and they couldn't tell me anything because I've owned it sense 1984 (back in the paper days). Well my title says I'm the third owner. It would be so cool to find the first owner and hear his story. Does auybody have any ideas for me?.

Jeff

[hemi68charger]

 


Heya Jeff...
See you found us................   Nice C500 by the way.......

Troy

[tan top]

hello & welcome Jeff     nice C500    would love to see more pictures some time Dude 

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Welcome to the forum Jeff!    Lets see how long it takes Danny to chime in...

Allen

[jeffs440]

Thanks everybody,

I do have alot more pictures but they are to big for this forum. I have wrote a email to Jim Radke to see if he knew anybody that has owned this car before. It has been in Idaho sense the late 70's and has a hard life.

Jeff

[jeffs440]

Well here is another picture of my car after I raced it one weekend. Most of the time it sits in the dark in my little garage, sure keeps the paint lasting longer. I think my car was only about ten years old before it ended up in a junk yard,must of had a tough life untill now.

[nascarxx29]

Is this that 69 charger 500.Welcome to the board
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,64116.0.html
You could try submitting the vin to both aero car clubs for past member that may have owned it and been in the club

[jeffs440]

Ha Ha, yeah one of those ads was mine. Thats funny that ad hit this forum. Yep still single, no chicks what to ride in this bad charger 500.

[nascarxx29]

Any info on your car from what year you bought it and who from what state.Might be a good lead of tracking its past.As said earlier check with both aero car clubs to see what they know about the car

[jeffs440]

Yep, I'm having a guy from wing warrior looking into it for me but hasn't written back yet. I guess I'll try another tomorrow and see what happens.

Thank guys

[69bronzeT5]

Very sweet C500! Love it

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Welcome to the site

[billssuperbird]

 

[69_500]

Sorry I got nothing on that car. I looked in my little stash of papers and didn't come up with anything. Sorry took me so long to chime in on the thread but I have been down with a bad back the last 2 weeks hard to even get up off the floor. Slipped on ice at work, tore a muscle in my back and the opposite side of my spine the muscle has locked up pulling my spine into a curve and making it nearly impossible to sit in a chair.

[xs29j8Bullitt]

Sorry I got nothing on that car. I looked in my little stash of papers and didn't come up with anything. Sorry took me so long to chime in on the thread but I have been down with a bad back the last 2 weeks hard to even get up off the floor. Slipped on ice at work, tore a muscle in my back and the opposite side of my spine the muscle has locked up pulling my spine into a curve and making it nearly impossible to sit in a chair.

Sorry to hear about your injury Danny... I hope the doctors get you fixed up soon!

Allen

[hemi68charger]

Sorry I got nothing on that car. I looked in my little stash of papers and didn't come up with anything. Sorry took me so long to chime in on the thread but I have been down with a bad back the last 2 weeks hard to even get up off the floor. Slipped on ice at work, tore a muscle in my back and the opposite side of my spine the muscle has locked up pulling my spine into a curve and making it nearly impossible to sit in a chair.

Wow,,, I went through the same thing this weekend.. Just now getting back in my full motion with my lower back.. Hope it's not a disk at 45......   

Hope you feel better Danny.......
Troy

[jeffs440]

Thanks 69_500,

   Sorry to hear about your injury, thanks for looking in your records for me. I must have a mysterious charger 500,lol. I think first owner bought it new and then drove it ten years and put 96,000 miles on it and then wreck it blowing the motor. I wish I would of got more info on my car when I was younger and first bought the car.

[stripedelete]

Nice Car & Welcome

Why not start with the second owner?  He's your best lead on the first owner.   I bought my Charger in '84 too.   A couple of years ago I had a question about the car so I flipped open the phone book and there he (previous owner) was - same address.  If owner 2 was over 30 chances are, geographically,  he's pretty close to where he was in '84.


Owner 2 might tell you where the first owner was from or where the car spent it's time.  If you were to start asking around my county about a silver 69 charger in the 80's, you would find me.

It will really come down to how much time you want to spend on it.

Good Luck.

[jeffs440]

hi,
Well the second owner I'm not sure of because he was a young kid that had it 4 years and never register it and the guy that pulled it out of the junk yard before him I never got his name. The young kid I bought the car from is not in town anymore and who knows where he is. Sounds like I'm kinda at a dead end so far. O-well no biggy!. Its hard to believe people didn't take better care of there cars back then.

Jeff

[charger500440]

Very nice 500 Jeff, glad to see it was saved. My 500 is also an R4, white stripe, west coast car. Wondering how close our cars were back on the assembly line? My serial # is 224394. Good luck tracking down your cars full history...

Mike

[moparstuart]

Very nice 500 Jeff, glad to see it was saved. My 500 is also an R4, white stripe, west coast car. Wondering how close our cars were back on the assembly line? My serial # is 224394. Good luck tracking down your cars full history...

Mike

mine is R4 also and from utah or california originally ??  # 217188

[jeffs440]

Hi everybody,
The serial number on my car is 217138 which was built 11-20-68 so its not a very early one. Can you post your cars picture so we can see?
Thanks

[nascarxx29]

My friend has a 69 500 B5 Blue AC. I found a green 69 Charger 500 in NJ junkyard but found the car a new home.I locate many actual vintage ads for the aero cars some ads do include vins.I be on the look out

[moparstuart]

Hi everybody,
The serial number on my car is 217138 which was built 11-20-68 so its not a very early one. Can you post your cars picture so we can see?
Thanks

wow our cars were mostlikely built the same day      you didnt find my build sheet in your seats did you  ?   

[69charger440]

Hi,


   I recently when to the DMV to register my 69 charger 500 and asked who has owned my car before me and they couldn't tell me anything because I've owned it sense 1984 (back in the paper days). Well my title says I'm the third owner. It would be so cool to find the first owner and hear his story. Does auybody have any ideas for me?.

Jeff

A picture of you and the 500 at Firebird Raceway outside Boise, Idaho, I grew up watching races there? How long have you owned the car for. I have seen that car and possibly talked to the previous owner. But It might have been you I talked to depends when you got the car!!

[jeffs440]

hi moparstuart,

   Well I've had my c500 sense 1984 and when I bought it was green metal fake with gold wheels. I wreck it a few years later in a trailer park which then I decided to paint it black. After a few more years it went though all the colors of primers. By the late 90's I decided to take it down to bare metal and it had four paint jobs on it by then. Well it did have a build sheet but I lost it when I was a kid and really didn't know how rare this car is but found out later. I had it painted nicely in 2000 for $4300 plus sheet metal and glass. I really love the car and sometime I'll sell it but that will probably be very hard to do I think. I've owned it 26 years so far. New the car was red then orange,green,black.

[Jfbosco]

Hi,


   I recently when to the DMV to register my 69 charger 500 and asked who has owned my car before me and they couldn't tell me anything because I've owned it sense 1984 (back in the paper days). Well my title says I'm the third owner. It would be so cool to find the first owner and hear his story. Does auybody have any ideas for me?.

Thank you for posting this picture, forgot about this one

Jeff

[nascarxx29]

Still looking for other pic Idaho plates on it 2 people in front of it

[Homerr]

Added this one to the registry.

[nascarxx29]

Green metallic paint job did it have it flames on it think I got pics of one

[Jfbosco]

Green metallic paint job did it have it flames on it think I got pics of one

Yeah it was green metallic pain with torque thrust wheels when I got but it didn't have flames on it.

[aerolith]

Wow over TEN years between POSTS!

Loving the story so far Jeff.
I raced it, wrecked it, painted it four times and didn't know how rare she was...

I know America is a BIG place and the chances of C500's crossing paths would have been rare, BUT...
Nascar is a BIG thing over there and surely folks knew about 'factory homologation' cars?
Not extremely valuable 'back in the day' but still a 69 R/T Charger lol...

Even so, a lot of C500's have survived which is amazing and I just love a story about a Mopar coming back from the DEAD!!!