Did your Charger help you get a girlfriend?

[Charger_Croatia]

I just got mine last year and I'm married 8 yrs now.
One thing is sure: I don't tell her all things (better to say money things). My 73 doesn't look nice right now and she don't want even to take a closer look of my "rusty can" - her words.
But she said that she want to have a ride after finished. That makes me opportunity for some excuses. 

[Plumcrazy]

In the summer of 73 I was working as a stockboy at a shoe store trying to get a date with one of the salesgirls. Without any success I might add.

My 65 Rustang died so I started telling the girl about the Charger was going to buy. I got her to agree to go out with me if I bought the car.
She told me later she never thought a stockboy making $1.60 an hour was going to be able to buy a $1650 car. That's why she agreed to go out with me. She was wrong.

To make a long story short we just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. And we still like taking the Charger out on "dates".

[HAZZARDJOHN]

I got My Better Half because of my Ranger! Seriously she likes all of my cars but She is a Farm girl and when I met her she had an '84 Ranger 4x4 that was Rode hard and put away wet, and at the time I had an 01 Bright Island blue 4x4. She fell in love with my truck and I just hung out long enough for her to like me a little too. I traded in the 01 and have a Dark shadow grey one now and she loves this one more becasue it is a stick!  That's my girl. She still has the '84 but it needs a total rebuild and we are going to turn it into an off-road rig, but she has a $50 beater to have fun with when she wants. She currently drives an 03 Expedition as a daily driver. She loves my cars but she will never own a car! "if it aint a truck it ain't worth driving!"

~HJ

Here she is infront of the beater truck:


I painted the flames! can you tell!
~HJ

[253862656971]

No, lost 2 because i was spending too much time working on it.
Easy to get another girlfriend not so easy findind a rust free 68 R/T or 69 500.

Doesn't this whole issue come down to; a car is no substitite for personality...?

Who says cars have no personality?  Every time I go to start my charger I have to choke it just so and pump it this many times and when it starts put the choke to here until it warms for a few minutes.  If that ain't personality I don't know what is. 

I never have gotten a girlfriend becuase of my charger but I had a girl go to prom with me because of it.  You see after prom we would head out to the backroads to race and party and *ahem*.  Well I guess for the girls it was a status symbol to be in the fastest car.  At the time my 69 was the 2nd fastest car at school. 

I think a charger will get girls interested in talking to you (it works for me on occasion) but most won't date you because of it.  You do have to have a personality. 

Bottom line, if you can't get a girlfriend without a Charger you won't get one with a Charger.

[dd44068]

I have to agree      Bottom line, if you can't get a girlfriend without a Charger you won't get one Charger         
yeh espesially if it is a new one                                       

[JohnnyBee]

Yes it did. I knew this girl back in 1977 and we talked about cars. I had said that some day I was going to get this Dodge Charger.

About 2 years later I bumped in to the same girl and she asked if I ever got the Dodge Charger? I could not believe that she remembered. I said yes I did, and I have it now. She then asked me to take her for a drive in it.

We have now been married 24 years. For Her 2oth anniversary I gave her a '71 Charger Super Bee, 4-speed in Go Green.

All this because of a car!

[67RedCharger]

I guess you can tell it had some effect  ie:

June 14, 1970  (see if you can identify the other cars in this pic)



June 14, 1970  fixin' to head out to Atlanta on our honeymoon.  Still have the girlfriend
and still have the car.



  ~ Don ~

[Rolling_Thunder]

Charger helped me get ALOT of "friends with benefits" -- didnt help with the GF though   

[rollingthunder]

The real question is:

If it came down to it, which one would you keep?

well back in 98 my wife told me its the charger or her....I still have the charger.
dont miss her, she was and still is a pain in my ***.

[PocketThunder]

I guess you can tell it had some effect  ie:

June 14, 1970  (see if you can identify the other cars in this pic)

  ~ Don ~

1966 Chevelle?

[dd44068]

i say 66-67 chevelle

[Ghoste]

Help me get them and help me lose them.

[JimShine]

So far the interest has been in young girls, like pre 21 ( I am getting too old for that age). Outside of that if they are older they tend to be a certain type whose daddy is into Dukes, racing, old cars, etc. These women rarely have the qualifications I require, like teeth.

[Big Lebowski]

Yes, and the headliner over the back seat has a rip in it.  You figure out how it got there.

[Chad L. Magee]

No, never had a girlfriend.  You can judge me as you will, but I just don't sociallize much with people outside of work and the car scene (single women in my age range typically hate cars so that works against me).  I just don't typically have much in common with 99.9% of the way the world thinks socially and that is a curse of my mind (you could say that was beaten into me by my HS crowd).  I am allergic to alcohol, so partying is not something I can do.  Plus, there is a social faux paus about being a nerd if you work in science....  Of the few women in my field that I have met, my project cars typically scare them off faster than anything since they don't understand why people "collect junk".  Oh well, next week when everyone is spending $ on their signifigant other, I get save that $ for a later project......

[JimsSE]

Yep.  It was a black '75 Special Edition with Keystone rims.  Not only did it get me a date we've been married 19 years this June.

Jim

[tttaziz]

1964 Pontiac Star Chief 4-Door Sedan (light blue) and 1968 Plymouth Fury III 4-Door Hardtop (white with black vinyl roof)

[Daytona Guy]

I guess if I was single and would have been around when this happened (And if they/She was hot) You never now what could have been. I was only gone for a minute. OK, back to reality.

[TheGhost]

Current girlfriend doesn't really like the Barracuda.  Although, she doesn't hate it, either.  She is a car girl, just the wrong kinda car (Imports)....  Better than not liking cars at all, I suppose.

[472 R/T SE]

Getting a haircut usually worked for me.     No luck for me with a Charger.
I've never considered any of my cars chick magnets.   My Trans Am in high school was prolly the best
I went to a Shelby club sanctioned day at the track last summer with the Charger and there was a sweet little yougin' there most likely  checkin' the car out instead of me.  She kept lookin' and smiled a few times    during the driver's meeting as I waited in the car.   I think I burst her bubble tho when she seen me putting my wheelchair together. 

This is her.  Notice the nice dental floss.    I accidently missed her helmeted head, where's my manners.

[Duey]

I've had my Charger a few more years than I've been married (15 this year) and I suppose that there was a bit of image there that she liked (it couldn't all be my shining personality, right? )  It wasn't just the Charger...also had my trusty Kawi GPz750, Top Gun red of course...

So yes, I'd say the Charger was a part of it...heck, she even "let me keep" the beast after her shoe caught fire once poking through a rusted floorpan and hitting the header collector...   LOL

Cheers,
Duey

[skip68]

My charger is my girlfriend

[sixpack70]

I was already married, but my wife indulged me and allowed me to buy a 69 mach 1, then I had to buy her a mustang cobra, then she got a job and I said, can I buy a charger? She said ok as long as she gets the next car. Well its back and forth, she got the 02 lightning, I got a 67 coupe (rather have another mopar but it was 900 bucks and no rust and runs) and now she wants an 03-04 cobra. This is getting expensive!

[Ghoste]

It's still cheaper than divorce and a whole lot more fun too!

[chrisII]

when i first saw my hs sweetheart she was getting out of my friends girlfriends charger..i ended up with both, but got the girl first (she liked the ramcharger i had at the time too). the charger came like a month later. that relationship lasted 12 years ..thankfully never got married or had kids. ended 3 years ago this past week    ..
   fast forward a while there was this girl i had met in a chat room who was a mopar nut , saw pics of her whole familys mopars ect...i really wanted her but never thought it would work, she lived 40 miles away. i bought myself my current charger this past spring get it home, and oddly enough she gives me a call out of the blue that night, yes its concidence but weve ben toghether since.