69 Charger 500's

[barnfindcuda]

i would like to get back to the A4 silver 500 ,hemi car with red guts, some one said there is one in detroit and another guy said there was one in Indy, does any one have Vin's on these?, i am still trying to track down that stolen one from wisconsin from the early 80's. detroit and Indy arent to far!  keeps yur eys out guys, the vin to the stolen car is in a different thread

[nascarxx29]

Wasnt that A4 car the old Dave Dixon 500
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,24387.0.html

[barnfindcuda]

yes that was the car dave dixon sold to a former student of his, then it was stolen

[69bronzeT5]

I know of a B5 blue with a blue leather interior 440 auto SE 500 with a black stripe.

Sounds like the 500 I saw at a show last weeked...minus the black stripe.

[barnfindcuda]

can not remember is this  car had a tail stripe or not, i dont believe it did, where was it?

[69_500]

Back to original topic.

List is now up to 251 VIN's for 500's as of July 23rd 2008.

That includes

HEMI         84
440 cars      165
         
                  
4speed      39 (total know for HEMI's and 440's)



9 SE Charger 500's
18 cars with A/C
4 cars with both A/C and the SE option

Color breakdown

A4 silver cars 4
B3 blue cars 0
B5 blue cars 16
B7 blue cars 2 (I haven't seen either personally just been informed of their colors)
F3 green cars 6
F5 green cars 17
F8 green cars 33
Q5 aqua cars 2
R4 red cars 37
R6 red cars 4
T3 bronze cars 5
T5 bronze cars 14
T7 bronze cars 6
W1 white cars 7
X9 black cars 7
Y2 yellow cars 10
Y4 gold cars 5
99 speical cars 1

[hemi68charger]

Back to original topic.

List is now up to 251 VIN's for 500's as of July 23rd 2008.

That includes

HEMI         84
440 cars      165
         
                  
4speed      39 (total know for HEMI's and 440's)

9 SE Charger 500's
18 cars with A/C
4 cars with both A/C and the SE option

Hey Danny...
Besides Paul's C500 and Dana, how many more T7's do you know of..........

Troy

[69_500]

4

[WINGMAN]

  Thank you Danny for new numbers   You are the man.   Jay.

[PocketThunder]

Do you also count the 3 cars that i know of in my area but dont have the vin numbers yet?  Do you go by only known vin numbers so far?

There are three in my area other than mine,

Blue (not sure on details, its been 10 years since i've seen it)
Black (originally T5, hemi 4-speed)
and a Y2 car (440, 4-speed i think)

Paul
in Minnetonka

[69_500]

Paul I don't think I've included any of the cars you mentioned due to not knowing which VIN those colors go to. The break down of colors is only on cars that I either have seen and saw the fender tag to, or broadcast sheets that I've seen, or fender tags/broadcast sheets I've been sent.

I do have some pictures you were nice enough to send me of the black HEMI 500 though. Although I didn't know what color it was originally, just that it wasn't a factory X9 car.

[69_500]

Slight update here.

figured i'd do a little update before the end of the year since the other thread wondered how many were actually built, at least here we know of at least 256 that were at least built. I've got a list of 256 known VIN's for 500's. Of those a majority of them are still around.

[C500]

Slight update here.

figured i'd do a little update before the end of the year since the other thread wondered how many were actually built, at least here we know of at least 256 that were at least built. I've got a list of 256 known VIN's for 500's. Of those a majority of them are still around.

Hey Danny,

What total are you up to now? Any further thoughts on the 392 figure being dispelled. I emailed Galen over 6 months ago. Still waiting for a reply. 

[Ghoste]

Any further thoughts on the 392 figure being dispelled. I emailed Galen over 6 months ago. Still waiting for a reply. 

I hope that is one big mutha tub of popcorn.

[69_500]

Okay here is a personal update. To date as of May 19th 2010, I have VIN information on 261 of the Charger 500's. Talked to a guy the other day about another one that did not sound familiar so could possibly increase by 1 more in the next few days.

[RAC95054]

This is good stuff! 

[C500]

Okay here is a personal update. To date as of May 19th 2010, I have VIN information on 261 of the Charger 500's. Talked to a guy the other day about another one that did not sound familiar so could possibly increase by 1 more in the next few days.

Great, thanks for the update 

[hemi68charger]

Okay here is a personal update. To date as of May 19th 2010, I have VIN information on 261 of the Charger 500's. Talked to a guy the other day about another one that did not sound familiar so could possibly increase by 1 more in the next few days.

Danny, I'm taking it you already knew about my Y2?

T

[69_500]

Yeah knew of it Troy, but as I mentioned when we talked on the phone I only had partial fender tag information on it until you got it. Thanks for filling in the blanks for me. Still trying to get all the info on the one that is on ebay at the moment as well.

[69_500]

Here is a slight bump on this old thread.

As of today September 15th 2011 I am now up to a total of 267 known VIN's for Charger 500's.

[hemi68charger]

Here is a slight bump on this old thread.

As of today September 15th 2011 I am now up to a total of 267 known VIN's for Charger 500's.

[XS29LA47V21]

Here is a slight bump on this old thread.

As of today September 15th 2011 I am now up to a total of 267 known VIN's for Charger 500's.

So when is your book coming out?  It's gotta be better that that old "red book", make sure it has lots of good color photos.   I always felt the number of AC cars had to be incorrect or to low, first heard 19 then 32, lots of Chargers have AC, either that or I was lucky, both mine are (incl. the F8 leaving) and know of another.  So why don't you post more photos on your site of photos you or been given, even if they are rough old cars, we all love to scope Chargers.  This whole topic, a great read for me... it reminds me why I am not crazy about fully restored cars and prefer the old pre 90s restos or original.... it is just refreshing to see a presented to be rare car and not wonder what is real or "cloned", just what I am into I suppose.

Priority of owning a Daytona has not taken place, might someday, I have liked the obscurity of the 500s from the time I learned about them as a kid.  But I think they have always been a little under the radar, still now.  They do not have that in your face wing thing when laying around or shown and therefore easier to be lost into neglect or maybe less restored for sure.  As noted in another thread on similar topic.  I still think plenty exist in collectors hands, but fewer have been restored and more in storage.  The aero collectors most have several aero cars, many restore Daytona first or buy the Daytona first maybe, am I profiling maybe.

[69_500]

Sorry but no plans for making a book as of yet. Maybe in the future. I do not post many photo's of cars that I've seen because they are not my cars and unless the owner of the car has given me permission to post a picture of their cars I just don't. Now as far as the A/C question goes. I can only attest for the cars that I have seen so that is where I come up with my count. Not sure on exactly how others come up with their numbers though.

Personally I'd still rather have a Daytona than a C500 but I find the 500's very interesting and very unresearched as a whole. When I first started tracking them pretty seriously I could hardly find one anywhere. Now I could just simply pick up the phone and call about 50 owners and ask them about their cars. There is not as many unrestored C500's that are 440 cars that I know of. Well not ones that are still looking pretty sharp anyways. I have looked at over a handful of HEMI 500's that are unrestored cars that are still very nice and/or low mileage cars. 440 cars on the other hand I  have no ran into very many that are still good looking unrestored cars.

[69_500]

Update on this one. As of today I am up to 275 known Charger 500's.

Beaks down like this now.
90 Hemi cars. With 20 of them being confirmed as 4 speed cars. Only have a confirmation on about 65% of the transmissions on these. Some more I think are 4 speeds but no tag, or trans or sheet to confirm.

185 known 440 powered cars.
28 of these are known to be 4 speed cars. There are 110 of them that I have either fender tag info on or broadcast sheets for. So that still leaves 75 more to figure out.
25 cars are known to be A/C cars.
9 cars are known to be SE cars. Of these 4 are SE cars with A/C.
9 cars are known to be power window cars.
19 cars have the M25 mouldings.
3 cars are known to have cruise control.

That's about it for changes to list. No big changes in amounts for each color.

[69_500]

Color breakdown

A4 silver cars 6
B3 blue cars 0
B5 blue cars 16
B7 blue cars 2 (I haven't seen either personally just been informed of their colors)
F3 green cars 6
F5 green cars 18
F8 green cars 33
Q5 aqua cars 2
R4 red cars 37
R6 red cars 5
T3 bronze cars 5
T5 bronze cars 15
T7 bronze cars 6
W1 white cars 7
X9 black cars 7
Y2 yellow cars 10
Y4 gold cars 5
99 speical cars 2

This is updated to today's known totals. Also only 11 cars so far the I have seen with right side mirror.