XP29H9C273905 - 69 Body on a 08 Frame - General Lee Converstion

[Ponch ®]

Hey John...do you plan to have the car at any upcoming local car events soon?

Hey German, I will be at the Toys for Tots meet in Huntington Beach on Dec 3rd. Is there any thing else going on that I don't know about? I do still need to come and measure your 3rd gen to get a conversion plan for those cars. Lets try to get together before Christmas.

Yeah, the huge Motor4Toys show in Woodland Hills is coming up on Dec. 5 (and right after that, CPW is participating in the Granada Hills Christmas parade - you'd be more than welcome to join us!).

The car is back home in the Valley after a year-long stay in Camarillo, so it should be less of a drive whenever you wanna come take a look at it.

[SRT-68]

I should be able to make those. After the show on the 5th we could measure the charger.

[Ponch ®]

I should be able to make those. After the show on the 5th we could measure the charger.

[bull]

The wheelbase on a third gen. (115") is two inches shorter than a second gen. so you'll have to stretch one of those even more to fit the 120" LX platform.

Ponch has an LX and a donor third gen. that he can't get running so all the bases are covered.

[Black Charger]

I always thought that the LX Magnum was slightly longer than an LX Charger. Would it make a difference if a Charger or 300 chassis were used instead of the Magnum if someone wants to do a 3rd gen conversion?

[Black Charger]

Speaking of the 300, thiis has got me to thinking about a cool project. Since the 300 is a luxury car, I think that a 1974 Charger SE Brougham body dropped onto a 300 Chassis would  be the ultimate Charger luxury car, with that HEMI power to boot! The 300 is available as an SRT8 as well, and those are usually optioned out with all of the bells and whistles, so that would up the ante even more. What do you guys think?

[HITMAN 149]

my uncle had a 300 SRT8!!! omg that car was sweeet!!! that would be another good platform to use!!!

[SRT-68]

All three LX cars share the same 120" wheelbase. You have to shorten the LX pan and move the front wheel openings forward to fit them together. On a third gen charger you would need to take 4.5" out of the LX pan instead of 2". Same amount of work. The nice part about the third gen is the wider body.

[Ponch ®]

Ponch has an LX and a donor third gen. that he can't get running so all the bases are covered.

see how you are?

All three LX cars share the same 120" wheelbase. You have to shorten the LX pan and move the front wheel openings forward to fit them together. On a third gen charger you would need to take 4.5" out of the LX pan instead of 2". Same amount of work. The nice part about the third gen is the wider body.

So you see bull, sometimes it's not so much the length but the width that matters.

[bull]

Ponch has an LX and a donor third gen. that he can't get running so all the bases are covered.

see how you are?

All three LX cars share the same 120" wheelbase. You have to shorten the LX pan and move the front wheel openings forward to fit them together. On a third gen charger you would need to take 4.5" out of the LX pan instead of 2". Same amount of work. The nice part about the third gen is the wider body.

So you see bull, sometimes it's not so much the length but the width that matters.

Jus tryin' to help.

[mauve66]

So you see bull, sometimes it's not so much the length but the width that matters.

yeah, but you have to have at least one of them........................

[SRT-68]

Hey Guys,
We are thinking of putting the SRT-68 up for sale. The price will be $45k OBO. I will have it at Spring Fling this year and I can email photos to prospective buyers. If you are local, pm me and come take a test drive.
Let me know what you think. I am open to partial trades.

[bull]

Perhaps you mentioned this previously but I haven't seen it; is this car registered as a 68 or an 07?

[SRT-68]

Perhaps you mentioned this previously but I haven't seen it; is this car registered as a 68 or an 07?

It is registered as a '68 and has all three '68 vin#s in place. It is registered as a salvage vehicle here in CA, but I didn't care because I have to use agreed value insurance anyway due to the cost to replace it. It is insured for $65k.

[revshag]

Don't know if this was mentioned, but I think it would be cool to be able to do the B-body "swap" onto an all-wheel drive equipped LX.

Chris

[SRT-68]

Don't know if this was mentioned, but I think it would be cool to be able to do the B-body "swap" onto an all-wheel drive equipped LX.

Chris

The swap would be no harder with the AWD LX than the RWD ones. Wheel selection might be a problem.

[bull]

You know, thinking about this thread reminded me of some past arguments regarding Chrysler doing a retro Charger and how some people argued that the LX platform could not feasibly support a retro style body with the two-door design. Well I'm officially calling BS on that crap. Obviously it can be done, and has been by men who probably have little to no engineering experience, let alone college degrees.

[Ghoste]

Kind of like when Chrysler told Mr. Norm that it was impossible to put a 383 in a Dart?

[bull]

Kind of like when Chrysler told Mr. Norm that it was impossible to put a 383 in a Dart?

Or a 426 Hemi in a Dart.

[Black Charger]

Hey Guys,
We are thinking of putting the SRT-68 up for sale. The price will be $45k OBO. I will have it at Spring Fling this year and I can email photos to prospective buyers. If you are local, pm me and come take a test drive.
Let me know what you think. I am open to partial trades.

If I may ask, why are you selling? Unless you plan to do another one that is more to your liking, a car like that would be hard to replace.

[68X426]

why are you selling?

He's the world's most interesting man. But he can't adjust the quarter windows.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,75940.0.html

(Joking! I love the car. It's so impressive what you accomplished )

[Blakcharger440]

Hey SRT-68, how much does your charger weight at this time? Just wondering how much weight the conversion added over all.

[jasonfromIKILLYA]

I can't even read this whole thread.  It just pisses me off.  THIS is why I don't come here that often.  All of you are bitching about John making the car he wants yet half the people here made theirs into a General Lee clone.  Get off your high horses.  It's his car, he can make it however the hell he wants. 

If you have time to make a 12 page thread bitching about it, you might need a life.

[mauve66]

i only count 8 pages and i think 95% of us think its pretty cool what he did.............

[bull]

I can't even read this whole thread.  It just pisses me off.  THIS is why I don't come here that often.  All of you are bitching about John making the car he wants yet half the people here made theirs into a General Lee clone.  Get off your high horses.  It's his car, he can make it however the hell he wants. 

If you have time to make a 12 page thread bitching about it, you might need a life.

You didn't read the whole thread and yet ALL of us are bitching?