What have you done with your Charger lately?

[XS29LA47V21]

  Well.

Two wks ago, another periodic donut in the pasture with the 7yr boy (car guy promotional bate number 1387),    and he still likes the slow blue car best.

[mauve66]

pushed it to the side so i could get to the sprinkler control

[Baldwinvette77]

pushed it to the side so i could get to the sprinkler control

may i ask what the hold up is? 

[mauve66]

8 months ago i had $9K to get it on the road to recovery,

now,

in the past 8 months:

my parents ac/heater, my ac/heater, my water heater, $1200 month pay cut for me, my son lost his job (can't pay rent), etc, etc, etc,

but i still have a job and i know others don't, i just wanted to post in this thread so i can say i added SOMETHING.......................

[Baldwinvette77]

8 months ago i had $9K to get it on the road to recovery,

now,

in the past 8 months:

my parents ac/heater, my ac/heater, my water heater, $1200 month pay cut for me, my son lost his job (can't pay rent), etc, etc, etc,

but i still have a job and i know others don't, i just wanted to post in this thread so i can say i added SOMETHING.......................

weak  i hope things get better for you soon would like to see a 66 wing car 

[1974dodgecharger]

bought hotchkis leaf springs and shackles, wired up lights to aftermarket guages so when i flip the switch the lights go n, among other things slowly cleaning up and slowly preparing to install wires for a sound system.

[myk]

Used the Charger to haul two bicycles to the lake for myself and the "flavor of the month."  I love how that trunk and backseat swallow just about anything...

[Ghoste]

You think have room to haul stuff in yours?  Get a 1st gen my friend.

[1974dodgecharger]

You think have room to haul stuff in yours?  Get a 1st gen my friend.

lol, those 1st gens are like hatchbacks.


bought the hotchkis shocks to match the leaf springs......cant wait.

[Ghoste]

Its the truth haha.  One of the reasons a buddy of mine has been trying to discourage me from unloading the 67 is because its been so great on long road trips.  There is room for anything you need and any parts you buy along the way.

[DixieRestoParts]

Sadly, I had to replace the cam in my engine that has around 1000 miles on it. It had a terrible ticking sound from the lifters, and I finally pulled the intake to see what the problem was. I found the cam and lifters pitted. I was running a cam from Mr. Sixpack, Bob Karakashian. I like the performance, but not the ticking. My engine builder says it looks like a problem with the hardness of the cam and that it ate into the bottom of the lifters. Bob gets his cam and lifters from Engle. Neither he nor Engle were interested in doing anything about it. A friend of mine that knows a guy Bob races with,  said he was told Bob had a lot of problems with Engle lifters. I guess that's hearsay, but I just don't understand why people don't stand behind their products anymore. I sent a ton of pics to Bob, and he doesn't see a problem with the cam, he feels it lies elsewhere in the engine. The new cam from Comp was installed yesterday and everything seems to run like it should. I hope to take it out and beat on it a little in the next week or so and see how it performs. I guess if I get that ticking sound back in the next 1000 miles or so, maybe it wasn't the cam, but Comp sent a warranty card with their cam. My engine builder said he quit using Engle's years ago for this same reason and uses Comp because they stand behind their products. I hope I don't have to find out if that's true.  What a pain in the butt this has all been. Pic of one of the lobes attached for your amusement.

I'll be at the NATs in spaces R11-12 and S11-12, if anyone wants to stop by and see how she's running. I'll be driving it to and from the hotel each day also.

[chargerboy69]

Last weekend we installed a 12" drilled and slotted disc brake kit and rebuilt the front end.

She stops on a dime now, still not used to them.

[Dino]

Last weekend we installed a 12" drilled and slotted disc brake kit and rebuilt the front end.

She stops on a dime now, still not used to them.

What system did you end up getting?  I assume the 12" rotors and calipers still fit 15" wheels?

[WHITE AND RED 69]

Last weekend we installed a 12" drilled and slotted disc brake kit and rebuilt the front end.

She stops on a dime now, still not used to them.

And no pictures? 

[Darkman]

Walked into the garage looked at it, sighed, then walked out

[Fred]

Walked into the garage looked at it, sighed, then walked out

Well that won't get you to the finish line! 

[JB400]

Walked into the garage looked at it, sighed, then walked out

Well that won't get you to the finish line!  

Sounds like he just needs a little motivation, and maybe a little spare change as well.  Hard to get when the weather is crappy

[Fred]

Walked into the garage looked at it, sighed, then walked out

Well that won't get you to the finish line!  

Sounds like he just needs a little motivation, and maybe a little spare change as well.  Hard to get when the weather is crappy

Spare change is hard to get any time even when the weather's good   

[myk]

Pre-emptive post: I'm taking the brute out tomorrow and the day after on my days off.  One thing I hate about taking this thing out: every time I do I want to start throwing money at it...

[ChargerD100]

whole lot of nothing, most recent thing ive done was buy the re released American racing vectors for it but other than that its been sitting collecting surface rust on bare metal  and since there is no room in garage (dads hot rods) and I have nowhere to store it there it sits, in the elements... I get depressed every time I look at it, hopefully next spring I can find a way to buy or rent a house with a garage so it will be safe and have a spot to actually work on it

[Dino]

You have a bare metal car sitting outside? 

Go get yourself a family size tub of vaseline and rub it all over the poor thing.

[ChargerD100]

Yeah messed up aint it? I know i should be beat down and stripped of the car, but when yer broke yer broke but even though its my dream car i have my days i wish i woulda never bought it, or at least not as big of project due to it being a crime to have it sit like it is

[Dino]

Yeah messed up aint it? I know i should be beat down and stripped of the car, but when yer broke yer broke but even though its my dream car i have my days i wish i woulda never bought it, or at least not as big of project

There are many people in the hobby who end up in that boat, we've all been there.  You have your dream car but it's not going anywhere but hindsight is always 20/20.  Don't dwell on the could haves and the should haves.  The past is the past, you have the car now so focus on the present. 

I'm sure you thought about selling the car and that's always an option as you can get a better one later when the time is right.  Still, you likely won't be making that decision today so I say protect it as best you can so time no longer matters.  You'll lose the car if it sits like this.  Rust does not progress in a linear fashion.  Once it starts to pit it'll go fast.  The vaseling trick works and it's cheap.  Just pretend your waxing the car with that stuff and be generous.

Make it your weekend project, take lots of pics, make lists of what needs to be done to it.  You can now make a for sale ad whith all the info needed or have the list for yourself for future reference.  Maybe you can get your money back or at least most of it.  If you know you won't be able to store the car properly then its future is bbleak and you may want to consider cutting your losses.

The major fear most prospective owners have is that the world is running out of Chargers.  That's simply not true, there are plenty and many are in the hands of the boomer generation.  The ones that will be selling them in droves before long.

[Ghoste]

I put a car cover on it so I wont have to clean it again when I get back home on a few weeks and need to get it to Columbus.

[cdr]

i rebuilt my ac/heater box