'72 Charger SE 400- Cody x2 project

[bill440rt]

I endorse fully that the tags should go back on the car, I just have the suspicion that this guy couldn't care less about them.

Exactly.

If it's someone else's property, yes; we don't have a choice about it.  Better to walk away and forget than to agonize over something we have no control over...

Maybe in this case there's nothing anyone can do. But this is how many projects and restorable cars are discovered and brought back. How many members here have found projects this way?
Just sayin'.

[69bronzeT5]

If you don't really know the guy, how did you end up with the tags to begin with? And then why would you have removed them & kept them if it wasn't your car??

Like I've said, the car sat in the same spot for years and years wasting away. I took them off when we were working on cleaning up the car because the tags were deteriorating badly. I figured I'd take them home, clean them up and scan them before there was nothing left of them. The car didn't seem like it was going anywhere fast so I thought I'd keep them safe until a decision was made with the car itself and then they'd go back on. I didn't expect the kid to randomly come grab the car. I'd love to have the tags back with the car however I'm not comfortable in walking onto his property when I know he's into drugs like he is. Its really something I don't think is worth getting shot over. I'll keep trying to message him about them and see what happens. However I know if I didn't take them off and clean them up etc, there would be nothing but rust particles sitting on the inner fender now 

[Ghoste]

Yeah, I'd agree trying to preserve them was the right thing to do.

[bill440rt]

I could see that, too.

[F8-4life]

Hmm, trying to trade a pound for a 69 charger..
wow. My bet is he's on more then weed talking like that.

[69bronzeT5]

Hmm, trying to trade a pound for a 69 charger..
wow. My bet is he's on more then weed talking like that.

This is also after he asked me if I smoke weed and I told him no never have and never will.....

[F8-4life]

Sounds like someone you don't want to be around.
Send him the tags and run. Lol
It's a shame about the car but better cars have fallen into the wrong hands before.

[69bronzeT5]

Strange how we were just talking about this.....


Just drove past the house and the car along with everything else on the property is gone....

[Ghoste]

Police raid?

[TUFCAT]

Just drove past the house and the car along with everything else on the property is gone....

Well I guess that solves your problem with the tags !   I'm betting it was hauled to the scrapyard for its weed value.  

[bill440rt]

Quick cash for dope? 

[TUFCAT]

Its probably already in the crusher. I hate to be a downer but a 1972 Charger SE in that rough of shape is not a restoration candidate. Its a Parts Car!  Yes, a PARTS CAR!

Its ready to donate anything still nice and usable - for somebody else's project.  They must've been heavily stoned to think of restoring something that far gone.... a Charger SE 400 (M-code) 2bbl automatic is nothing special.

Okay, I can hear people now, "come on dude"...."stop being such a downer man" ...."My Dad can fix that"  

[69bronzeT5]

I got a hold of the guy. Apparently he just towed it to another place that had better storage so he can restore it himself.

Tom, upon taking the car apart, the body itself was in surprisingly good shape. It wasn't too far gone.

[TUFCAT]

I got a hold of the guy. Apparently he just towed it to another place that had better storage so he can restore it himself.

Tom, upon taking the car apart, the body itself was in surprisingly good shape. It wasn't too far gone.

Good....that makes it more valuable for parts. 

[TUFCAT]

Breaking News: The 1972 Charger SE is been sighted! ...but unfortunately, its on its way to: : http://devour.com/video/car-grinder/    






(those smilies mean I'm making a joke)

[VegasCharger]

Breaking News: The 1972 Charger SE is been sighted! ...but unfortunately, its on its way to: : http://devour.com/video/car-grinder/    

(those smilies mean I'm making a joke)

The man sitting in the crane is a lucky dude. That's my all time dream job destroying cars and engine blocks all day long
Look out for the "Red Giant"

[TUFCAT]

The man sitting in the crane is a lucky dude. That's my all time dream job destroying cars and engine blocks all day long
Look out for the "Red Giant"

I'm with you VegasCharger!    Actually, I wonder if we shred cars like that here in the USA?? The video appears to be from Europe I think

The reason being those cars appear to have the large Brittish/European"oversized" license plate openings. I also saw what appears to be British spec'd cars parked there.

Finally, "Red Giant" is spelled in our good old fashioned English language - so it doesn't appear to be an oriental rice crusher operation.  

[69bronzeT5]

I thought I'd update the saga on this Charger one final time. Unfortunately, it's not a good ending. I tried to keep in touch with the owner (the original owner's son) of the car over the years through Facebook. Around two years ago, he messaged me and asked if I wanted to buy it. He said he had taken the car apart down to a bare shell to restore and never did anything after that. It was sitting in his garage as a bare shell with no front suspension but he had all the parts still. I asked how much. He replied "$5,000". I told him no thank you, I wasn't interested. Eventually, he dropped down to $3,500. I still wasn't interested. This past August, he messaged me and said he was being kicked out of the house he was renting and needed the car gone and that I could have it for $500. I didn't really need it but I couldn't pass on it so I bought it.

The car was a real pain to load with no front suspension. I ended up strapping furniture dollies to the front frame rails and winched it onto the trailer. All of the parts were either in his garage in a literal pile or under his deck. It took two truck loads to bring the parts home. Once I got it home, I took a good look at the car and decided it wasn't restorable and nowhere near as good as I remembered. The floor pans were absolutely gone as well as the inner fenders, rear frame rails, quarters, roof skin and even the inner roof structure and package tray. On top of that, he cut the radiator support with the VIN stamped out when he removed the engine and lost it. He had no title for it either.

I made the decision to cut the car up. The rocker panels and numerous parts such as the glass, center console and etc will go to my '71 Charger R/T. I cut the front clip off and sold it to a local young guy who really needed it for his '72 Road Runner project. The tail panel section will be going to Robin (Magnumcharger's) '71 Charger R/T. A chunk of the roof went to another local guy to fix the roof on his '73 Charger SE where someone cut a sunroof in it. I'm saving the 400 and 727 for a stroker build eventually. A ton of the other parts went to a handful of other cars too so everything is going to good use. It was sacrificed to a good cause.


Here is when I first saw it again in the guy's garage as well as a picture he had on the wall of it from the '80s. Sadly he didn't do the car any favors over the years with his storage choices and then the choice to tear it apart (literally) and leave it...

[69bronzeT5]

Loading it up and bringing it to my grandpa's shop.....

[69bronzeT5]

As you can see.... it was really rotten.

[69bronzeT5]

More rust....

[69bronzeT5]

Chop chop.....

[Daytona R/T SE]

I was going to ask about the SE quarter window inserts and trim, but I can see the sawzall took care of them.

[69bronzeT5]

I was going to ask about the SE quarter window inserts and trim, but I can see the sawzall took care of them.

Yeah, that it did. I had someone that wanted the entire roof and asked to cut it there. Then they bailed on the roof... 

[VegasCharger]

I NEVER cut body panels that have special requests where usually other surrounding areas will get violated UNLESS he/she pays in full first. And depending on what surrounding areas will get damaged, I charge more to make up at least some of the money that I would've made to the un-damaged panel.