What's the 1st thing you did when you got your Charger home? Do you remember?

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[Ghoste]

The first one I had I remember clearly because it was a rainy day when I brought it home so I moved my mothers car to the driveway and brought the Charger into the garage where I began to detail it.  It sticks out because no one, ever, undy any circumstances was allowed to drive my mothers car (no one of course meaning only me, my brother and sister were allowed to use it whenever they wanted )

[Mr.Woolery]

Went inside, ate dinner, and went to bed.  It was a long two days' roadtrip driving there, picking it up, and trailering it home.

[jb666]

Sat and stared at it in disbelief... That trend continued for 15 months 

[paulgrr63]

Battery in mine was dead....so I just sat in it

[A383Wing]

Battery in mine was dead....so I just sat in it

.....and went "Vrooom, Vrooom!"

Can't remember what I did, was waaaaayyyy back in March of '74 when I got my '66

[Jon Smith]

Took pictures I think...its not really nearly as wide as the street

[triple_green]

changed to oil and antifreeze, tuned it up and the went for a ride.

After an 80+ mph blast, I looked at the old radials that were on it and realized I neve should have driven so fast....the sidewall had some dry rot.

[69bronzeT5]

I was 6 so I don't remember....probally stared at it  When I got the Duster home I took pictures and then cleaned it.

[rt green]

cracked a beer and just stared at it and said 'sob, i finally got one again'. i had'nt had one since the 68 in high school. i was pretty pleased with myself.

[Rolling_Thunder]

Well I was 15...    So I only had my learner's permit - but my father let me drive it home (about a 45 minute drive) on the freeway and then I just parked it in the back yard and then went to my friends house later and bragged i had bought one.   

[Supercharged Riot]

I stared at it and sat inside it pretending to drive it   

[Foreman72]

well...unfortunately my charger isn't home yet...but the first day i got it (while it was still in the barn) i stared...and sat in it...and stared...the first day i got it out of the barn i washed it...with natures help since it was raining...pushed it into the garage and then i vacuumed it...and stared and sat in it  

[ChgrSteve67]

After 12 years of storage I unloaded it from the truck, pushed it in the garage and called it a day.

[Sublime/Sixpack]

Man, that was a long time ago. But I do remember once I got it home I just took it all in visually, the interior, the body, and under the hood. Then started checking things, and cleaning it. Then set in it for a while, then took it out for a drive.

[Back N Black]

When i bought my car it went from the previous owners house to the bodyshop and 2 years later i finally got her home. It was an empty shell.  Another two year of putting her back together in my garage, then i finally got to test drive this pass October.  

[69 OUR/TEA]

After getting home with my B5 69 R/T in 98 I threw it in the garage and went to sleep,long day of traveling and trailoring.

Getting home with my 3x9 69 R/T SE,Jan 08,cleaned it up and searched for the BS.(did'nt find).It was quite the adventure getting that one too,crossing the LI sound!!!!

[G-man]

Staired at it... opened door... got a nice smell of 'old car' sat in it.... gently placed hands over the steering wheel, slid hands around it to get a feel, turned head to the right slightly, looked down at the white ball of the hurst 4 speed, took right hand off wheel and placed it over the hurst 4 speed.... reminiscining some more.... pressed the clutch pedal with my left foot, touched the buttons on the dashboard, smiled... took a deep breath, got out of the car and said 'wow'.

[RECHRGD]

1968----Went to pick up a fun loving girlfriend and uh----broke the car in.

1997----Parked it in my shop----had a scotch while admiring it and thought about 1968.

[41husk]

I cleaned it up parked in the garage, then went out about 4 times during the night to look at it I wonder how many times I will go out to the garage to look at the Daytona the first night

[tan top]

was 17 at the time  21 plus years back,  could not believe i actually owned  the car & model & color i always wanted      ,  just sat behind the wheel  &   cranked the motor & just listened    

then wipped the rear seat  back out , to get the broadcast sheet  

[last426]

I took it off the truck. Kim

[jar1292]

i um tried to jump the bridge and then spun a donut out in the field then pulled it into its home!

[NHCharger]

What's the 1st thing you did when you got your Charger home?  Hide from my wife.

Actually kinda funny. I told the wife I was going to buy a Hemi Orange 71 Charger SE for only $1,200.00 that ran (October 95). The car was filthy, looked dark orange with brown spots, half the lights worked, was sporting Pontiac hub caps . I was stopped at a red light on the was home, it was now dark, the wife passed thru the intersection bringing our neighbor to work. The neighbor said "OMG, look at the hideous looking car", my wife replied, Brian said he was going to buy an old car tonight, it better not be that thing. You can imagine her dismay when she pulled into our yard.

[High Impact]

Froze my butt off washing it during a snow storm.

[General_01]

I parked the car in the driveway and went to sleep. Got home late after flying into Great Falls, Montana and leaving at 10 at night to drive back to Minneapolis, MN. Had electrical trouble on the way in. We drove the last 60 miles in the dark behind vehicles so we could shut the lights off. We would turn them on when we were left out in front by traffic exiting the freeway, then glide back behind another vehicle and turn them off until they exited the freeway and so on. 

[Charger RT]

When I bought my charger I didn't have a house I was renting so it continued to sit behind my Grand mothers house where my brother parked it. It sat there for 3 more years (he had it there for 3 years before selling it to me) When I bought my house we pulled it there with a rope and pushed it into the garage and I let it sit there for 12 more years before pushing it out.
Tim

[200MPH]

sat in it and took it all in !

[Smokey Bear]

Same thing I always do with every old car..... pull out the back seat see what treasures lie beneath. I really do look forward to this - it's sick, I know.

[Road Dog]

I hosed about 6 inches of mud and corn shucks out from under it. The guy who sold it to me took it into the fields to go deer hunting. He wanted to buy a truck. 

[TylerCharger69]

Vacuumed out 3 shop vac fulls of sand out of it...then I pulled the engine and tranny.....then the interior.....and then went to bed as to assess the rest of the car the next day.

[70charginglizard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtXtWeATw4Y

pretty much so sums it up.

[Bob T]

had a 2 hour drive back in the rain at night , got it home and into the garage , called my wife to come and have a look and cracked a cold beer and spent the next hour or so climbing all over it and congratulating myself/ourselves  . wife was pretty impressed tho, and neighbours the next day were also 

[Cooter]

Began to beat the huge dent out of the right rear quarter panel where it fell over into the creek off the trailer we were using...

[LeadfootBob]

Rolled it off the trailer, put my hand on the steering wheel through the window, and with the aid of family and friends pushed it into a temporary resting place outside of the garage.
After this it's just a blur of economic angst, doubting my own sanity and    "I own a CHARGER! WOHOO! Is it badass or what?!"   

The thing that I vividly remember though, is sitting by the trailer parked outside a burger joint about 10 minutes after picking it up. Even like that, a bucket strapped to a trailer with decidedly untrick 14" hubcapped steelies, a brushed-on blue paintjob (right front panel in primer) and rust up to the rear turn signal lights, people driving by slowed down to gawk and point. Gotta love stuff like that!

[1BAD68]

I parked it in my garage went inside and made a big pot of coffee and then spent hours going through it top to bottom. After that, I sat in it and made a list of the stuff I wanted to do to it.

[mauve66]

i just sat in it looking as the EL dash lights, the coolest thing i've ever seen
but before that on the trip from Denver to COlorado Springs i left the wife in the dust and topped her out at 120 on a long straight between Denver and Castle Rock, the wife was pissed when she met me at the taco bell .......................

[lexxman]

I took picture's and inventory. It was all in boxes.

[chargergirl]

Mark brought her home...since it was a short trip he carried her on the open bed trailer. He had all kinds of thumbs up getting home...left her sit on the trailer until the next day then pulled forward dropped the car and pushed her to the side of the garage...still had the race car in the bay. MAN is that one heavy car! Thank God the next time we moved the car two of the boys were up here. Then we took pics!

[92454ss]

brought her home washed it named it laci and went to the store bought a six pac and drove out in the country and cruised it....

[John_Kunkel]

First thing I did on my '70 was to undo the "improvements" to cooling that the PO had performed that made it overheat, put all stock components on and cured that.

[mjwebb]

took it right back to the guy I bought it from after filling it up and noticing gas leaking from the tank

[SG1022]

unloaded it off the trailer. Put a cover on it, and  went to sleep.

[monkele]

First thing...?

A biiiig smile in my face.....and problems to get it out from my face 

[bill440rt]

'68 - I was 16. All I did was stare at it for a week in awe.     Couldn't believe I finally had the car of my dreams, even though it was a pile. Many good times spent after that with my dad & younger brother fixing it up.

'70 - It was unloaded off the truck, I drove it around my block once, and pulled it into the garage. Then, I promptly proceeded to remove the 4 mudflaps the previous owner had on it. 

'69 - 3 trips with the truck & trailer, it was finally home. I asked myself, "Where the 'F' do I BEGIN???" My wife said, "Eh, it doesn't look that bad." Yeah, sure honey. 

[royt440]

Took it to my grandfather's house to get a picture with him in it.  He had co-signed the note for a poor ol' college kid.
First part bought was a strip of black "fake" fur to lay on the faded package shelf.
My brother in law got to see it later that day and asked if a pimp had owned it before me

[hemi68charger]

When I got my Daytona, I drove it....... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWzRs-xeiw&feature=channel

[W4ATL]

My wife and I went to the Varsity in downtown Atlanta, pulled up to the drive-up area and ate some hot dogs in the car.

Pix of the delivery.


http://shermanbanks.net/04_2008Charger/Pages/ChargerDelivery2.htm

[elacruze]

Car #1-spun out in front of house nearly going in the ditch on the way to show my friends.
Car #2-hid from car for 2 days due to 700 mile drive with very bad 3 pump master cylinder.

[bull]

I looked mine over and took pictures while carefully ignoring the problem areas. I was riding high and didn't want any bad news at the moment.

[Leonidas Rex]

Pushed it up into the garage, pulled out a lawn chair, opened a few beers, turned the radio on loud and just began to stare at it with a shit eating grin on my face, according to my wife. My kids asked my wife if I was ok because I was not answering them. She told them that I would be ok, gave them $5 for ice cream from my wallet and told them if I wanted to know who told them they could have the money, tell me that I said it was ok when they gave me beer.

[Jonas_N]

I listened to it idling..until it ran out of gas..

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[Dans 68]

Lots of photos....

Dan

[jasonfromIKILLYA]

Parked it in the driveway, rolled up the windows, and locked both doors.............It wasn't until the next day I realized that they keys I had been given didn't unlock the doors.  D'OH!

[tricky lugnuts]

First thing I did was fix my mom's garage!

Car was towed to my mom's house by the seller on a trailer. He backed up into the driveway and the car got loose when we were unloading it. It rolled down the trailer, up the driveway, and smashed through the space separating the two garage doors. Didn't even scratch the Charger. The seller, feeling guilty, helped me out.

I guess it was eager to stake out a claim in my mom's garage. It was then a matter of making the car run...

[Musicman]

Can't remember what I did, was waaaaayyyy back in March of '74 when I got my '66

Bryan doesn't remember much of anything from that time period ... he was still pretty wild back then

I know...

[1969chargerrtse]

Wow, great stories here.  My story is not ground breaking by any means.  As I was coming home with it from the shipper location, my wife came outside with the 2 big kids to see dads all time dream car.  The kids could care less and acted that way.  That 's it.   keep in mind I had a wake up call of problems ahead.  After buying it site unseen, well just go here and read it yourself.  Grab a beer, it'll be a long read.   http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,34954.0.html     The end of the story is awesome, as that's how the car turns out after nothing more than lot's of money and sweat ( and stress ).

The poor quality picture is right when I picked it up at the carrier lot.  The odd look on my face ( is me saying HELP ) is because the driver guy just told me the brakes went to the floor, the battery was dead, and I had a 1/2 hour drive on a main highway to get home.  Then I learned when I closed the door and the upper door pad flew off, and the car over heated and vibrated all the home ( 4:11's  ), that I was in for some serious work.  Aahh no big deal.  Honestly, no regrets, I'm a proud owner of a 69 Charger R/T SE.

[Musicman]

As you should be... it's a great car and you put a lot of work into it to get it there.... so you can be proud of both the car and it's owner

[Tilar]

First thing I did with my 68 was try to get it running. It was originally a 318 car and the guy I bought it off of pulled the 318 and dropped in a 400 from a Cordoba but could never get it running. Turns out the timing chain slipped so I moved the distributor enough to make it run long enough to hear that it also had a rod knocking. So since I never really cared for the 400 I shut it off, went inside and opened a cold Michalob.

I left the 73 on the trailer for a couple days... Just to be sure everyone that came over saw it.  

[THE STIG]

I was in a bit of a hurry. The Wife went with me to get it and then followed me home, we only had a small window of time to get the car, get it home and get down town for a wedding she was dragging... I mean I could'nt wait to attend. The tires were pretty well dry rotted and the timing was off so I was nursing it through the "hoods" of Indianapolis. When I got back down to my end of town I noticed some old dude staring at me, not being used to this I was about to tell him he's number one in sigh language when I remembered that I was in a cool car and he was just checkin it out so I waved and he just kept staring. When I finally got home I tried to back it in to the garage when I heard (and felt) a thud, I tried again successfully and quickly went to check the back of the car where I had bumped the side of the garage, there was no damage and I breathed a sigh of relief then I want to check the siding and noticed a dent, oh well. 

[jesterCT]

After parking in the driveway, having a beer with the seller.

[teddy1500]

I was looking for a 70 or 71 Torino, I already had a 429 to drop in, I happened to stop by a junkyard in Concord NC, they didn't have a Torino, but they had an old Charger. I had walked right by the car, hadn't noticed it. It was overgrown with cudzu. Went back and found it, It was a 73 SE, The roof had been stood on, it was pushed down a little. She was a triple green car, and complete, sitting on flat ralley wheels. Talked about the price, agreed $500.00, plus $75 to deliver, They made no promise that the motor was good, and told me that it most likely was bad.  I gave a $250.00 deposit, bought a set of weld wheels for $100.00. I sold the welds later that afternoon for $300.00.
I went back a week later, Paid the balance, put a set of rollers on it. The charge was deliverd the next day. I washed it, pulled the carpet, the floors are okay, needs work. and then I sat in it for a while. spent a week changing fluids, wires, and stuff like that, added a fresh battery, and with a gas can on the fender, tried to start it. The 318 started on the 2nd try, runs good. A few days later, went for a drive around the block, the trans is a little weak. The car has been in paint jail ever since.