Christine Movie Charger for sale

[PocketThunder]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/1694263946.html

Well lookie here, its the Charger from the movie Christine.  Right in my own state! 

Paul

[1BAD68]

I dont remember a vinyl top on the Christine Charger.
I wonder if it's the exact car or just his idea of the car?

[200MPH]

it has a vinyl top in the movie

[694spdRT]

Isn't there a guy that is big into restoring '58 Plymouths up in Fertile, MN?  If anyone would have the original Charger I could see it being him.

Something seems off on that color though. The car in the movie did have a vinyl top.

[moparstuart]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/1694263946.html

Well lookie here, its the Charger from the movie Christine.  Right in my own state! 

Paul

go buy it paul

[PocketThunder]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/1694263946.html

Well lookie here, its the Charger from the movie Christine.  Right in my own state! 

Paul

go buy it paul

Not for $51,000.  I'm still saving up for my Camper Special.    I've got $200 on me right now + a 68 Charger back seat for trade.. 

[694spdRT]

Here is the guy in fertile that does the restos on early Plymouths.

http://www.moparmel.com/Home/home.html

There are a ton of Mopars for sale in Fertile including a couple old Furys. I would guess it is the same guy.

The Charger needs the wheelwell mouldings added.  

I noticed his description does say "a" 1968 Charger not "the" 1968 Charger. Interesting to find out though.

[694spdRT]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/1694263946.html

Well lookie here, its the Charger from the movie Christine.  Right in my own state! 

Paul

go buy it paul

Not for $51,000.  I'm still saving up for my Camper Special.    I've got $200 on me right now + a 68 Charger back seat for trade.. 

Camper special + 4BT cummins = perfection. 

[moparstuart]

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/1694263946.html

Well lookie here, its the Charger from the movie Christine.  Right in my own state! 

Paul

go buy it paul

Not for $51,000.  I'm still saving up for my Camper Special.    I've got $200 on me right now + a 68 Charger back seat for trade.. 

no trades but send me the 200.00 deposit   

[tan top]

Here is the guy in fertile that does the restos on early Plymouths.

http://www.moparmel.com/Home/home.html

There are a ton of Mopars for sale in Fertile including a couple old Furys. I would guess it is the same guy.

The Charger needs the wheelwell mouldings added.  

I noticed his description does say "a" 1968 Charger not "the" 1968 Charger. Interesting to find out though.

always loved them 57/58  christine type  furys  

intresting  find Paul that 68 !! dont say it was the original car though !! but looks good  

[kab69440]

On an old VHS version of the movie, when Arnie first spies Christine and Dennis backs the Charger up, you could briefly see a 69 tail. In the DVD I have, that point of view is conspicuously absent from the scene.

[tan top]

On an old VHS version of the movie, when Arnie first spies Christine and Dennis backs the Charger up, you could briefly see a 69 tail. In the DVD I have, that point of view is conspicuously absent from the scene.

oh right really , will have to have a look !! intresting stuff KB69440

[elacruze]

Not for $51,000.  I'm still saving up for my Camper Special.    I've got $200 on me right now + a 68 Charger back seat for trade.. 

Just bought, not home yet;

[dm1327]

always loved them 57/58  christine type  furys  

I've got a '57 more door that I'm slowly bringing back to life. Brought it up from Georgia a couple years ago.  

[greenpigs]

The Charger was a dark blue and had the classic Cragar SS rims on it, hell my Charger looks more like the one from the movie than that one.

[jaak]

I though I read somewhere, that the 68 and one of the main fury's from Christine, was destroyed in a fire, years ago. Could be a rumor....but I remember  reading something like that

Jason

[70charginglizard]

I though I read somewhere, that the 68 and one of the main fury's from Christine, was destroyed in a fire, years ago. Could be a rumor....but I remember  reading something like that

Jason

yeah I remember hearing something like that too.

If the ad were more specific then "this is a" and instead said "this is the" with documentations proving it then I mightbe able to believe it.

There is just not enough information in that add to bring me to a conclusion.

[68 CHARGER R/T]

i think "greenpigs" is right the car was a darker blue

[BBKNARF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WOUaBckzw

[Cooter]

I though I read somewhere, that the 68 and one of the main fury's from Christine, was destroyed in a fire, years ago. Could be a rumor....but I remember  reading something like that

Jason

Quite possibly a rumor indeed, as the Christine Car Club knows the location of the three ramining 58's and have NEVER even seen or heard of ANY location of Dennis' Charger, OR Buddy's Camaro....On a side note though, we have located most of the movie scene houses and the Lichor store...

[Brock Lee]

I though I read somewhere, that the 68 and one of the main fury's from Christine, was destroyed in a fire, years ago. Could be a rumor....but I remember  reading something like that

Jason

Quite possibly a rumor indeed, as the Christine Car Club knows the location of the three ramining 58's and have NEVER even seen or heard of ANY location of Dennis' Charger, OR Buddy's Camaro....On a side note though, we have located most of the movie scene houses and the Lichor store...

That rumor started here then.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,10569.0.html

Ok, I know what happened to the Charger from "Christine" and I am not making this up.

It was the summer of 2002, and we were In the middle of filming a movie, with a 68 Charger as the main car. We had a mishap. The temp stunt driver lost control of the Charger during a scene on a gravel parking lot and the Charger slammed nose first into a Ford Taurus stunt car that was not being driven at the time. Well, to make a long story short, the Charger's front right fender buckled outwards on impact and looked like black crumpled up tin foil. The movie was delayed for 2 weeks as we set out to find a new front right fender for the Charger.

After half a week of searching I came across an all-Mopar auto and salvage yard 3 hours north of Toronto called "National Moparts". Since we were filming in Rochester, NY - that was only 5 hours away - I was definitly within driving distance. In just so happened that they were working on Jim Caviezel's 68 Barracuda from the movie "Highwaymen". They were all out of Barracuda parts, but they had 2 Charger fenders - all original steel from the South (rust free). I purchased one on the phone and went to pick it up.

As I arrived at National Moparts, I turned in to what was a Mopar Oasis out in the middle of nowhere - not only was there rusted out/part car/waiting for resto mopars as far as you could see, but they also had a line of fantasic Mopars being fully restored in their small but professional complex of garages. You see, they have a sister all-mopar yard down south (Georgia I think) and they get a tractor trailer full of new bodies and parts a few times a year.

Well, as we were walking over to the fenders, the main guy behind the phone (I think his name was "Mike"), pointed out a burned 1958 Plymouth Fury. He told me it was one of the original cars used in the movie "Christine" and it was also one of the cherry show cars they used for the close-ups in the film. In more detail he also explained what happened. He said that after the production was over, a collector with ties to the production company purchased that '58 Fury and the '68 Dodge Charger used in the film. After a few years of owning them, the owner and his wife had a serious falling out - of which the wife left him and demanded a divorce. Later, the man, in a drunken rage, set fire to his house so the estranged wife wouldn't get anything - the entire house burned, along with the show cars in the garage (including the '68 Charger and '58 Fury from the movie). The man ended up dying in the fire as well. So, the burned carcas of the 58 Fury found its way up to National Moparts were it stayed for a number of years until the muscle car boom.

I was all set and the editor of "Mopar Action" was ready to give me a green light to write an article on the burned Fury and the National Moparts, but when I called there last month, I was informed that the burned Fury was sold to a Canadian collector for $2,000 Canadian dollars and then re-sold for bigger money to a resto shop/collector in the US somewhere. Without the Fury in place, the editor scrapped the article.

So, the '68 Charger from the movie is now probably a charred body sitting out in a field somewhere.
oh, and we were able to get the fender back to Rochester, repainted, and installed in 2 weeks - the movie production was fired back up and we finished the chase scene. The title of the film is "And I Lived"

[TruckDriver]

I litterally just watched the movie for the first time ever, on U-Tube. Pretty good movie. And yes, I'd agree the movie Charger is a darker blue, black vinyl top, and Cragar SS wheels. Now I'm going to have to add this movie to my "buy" list.

[jaak]

I litterally just watched the movie for the first time ever, on U-Tube. Pretty good movie. And yes, I'd agree the movie Charger is a darker blue, black vinyl top, and Cragar SS wheels. Now I'm going to have to add this movie to my "buy" list.

I bought the DVD at wal-mart a few years back...it was in the cheep bin, that has all the movies piled in it. It was under 10 bucks. Its a 2-sided DVD, one side is full screen and one side is wide screen.

Jason

[Brock Lee]

The special edition is a must buy. There are TONS of deleted scenes and for some reason, the majority of them involve the Charger.