HOW LONG DID YOU SEARCH FOR YOUR CHARGER????????????????????????????????????????

[hawkeye]

never searched very hard, just kept one eye open.  and then after only 40 years one came up that was close and in my price range (cheap).

[UH60L]

From 1979 to 2004.  Couldn't afford much when I was a kid, and noone wanted to sell.  Got busy with the Army from 1989 to well, still busy, but being overseas curtailed my searching for a long time.  Got a decent full time job once I switched from active duty to Guard, had a little cash to spend.  Finally got mine off ebay for $7100.00 in June of 2004.

[Fred]

Now that's a cool story.   

Yes, that's pretty cool alright. 

[Fred]

Just happened upon it quite by accident. When I saw it was an unmolested and complete Arizona car..........I had to have it.

[Dmichels]

Back in 92 my buddy asked me to help him get this old sh!t box running. A Dodge what? Never heard of it but OK sure I will help you. Any how after about a month of working on it I got it going. My buddy was sick of it and I thought it was neat. $750 later it was mine
Dave

[lukedukem]

Three years.
     I bought a junk house with potential while dating this one girl and the relationship fell through. So while fixin It up decided to flip it and use the money on a car. I bought the house and nine Acres of Land for 40 grand and fixed the old farm house up and sold it for 90 grand. Not bad. But after parts and paying my self labor I profited 20 grand. Or a 69 charger.

Luke

[greenpigs]

Guy named Moe told me about it back in my senior year of high school, I went and looked at it then my parents bought it for me as a graduation present. It was $800 so it wasn't exactly mint but it was mostly complete.
So it fell in my lap.

[FC7 V code]

Searched for about 3-4 months for my 70 back in 1983, found it only about 60 miles from my home. Bought my second one from a sale ad on this site last fall, wasn't really looking very long at all...maybe a couple of months. Bought my third one which is a project from about 10 miles away this spring. Heard about it from my Brother in Law and went to check it out in early April, owner told me he was waiting on another buyer that he had promised the car to and if that didn't happen by May 1st he would give me a call. Guess the other buyer didn't close the deal and I ended up with Charger number three by May 10th or so.

[Homerr]

Back in '92 I looked for about 3 months before I bought my '69 (which I restored and later sold), but I was also checking out E-body cars.  (I also bought a junky 72 'Cuda that was a 340/4spd car but had had a 383 in it.)

I've been 'monitoring' Chargers now for most of the year.  Wife and I are looking to buy a house and one of my requirements is a garage space for a Charger.  House down payment (and hence less money for a car) and size of garage are competing interests - and will help determine where I buy on the driver/project/basket case scale.  We'll be buying the house her in the first quarter of 2013.  I'm targeting next summer to actually get a Charger again.

[Ghoste]

For the 67 I didn't look for it at all, it found me.  Any other Chargers I have had in the past or may be currently harboring have been all over the map as far as the amount of time required to find them from a short of a few weeks to a long of a few months.

[projectanimal]

Once my wife and I decided we wanted a muscle car and set a budget we spent 8 months looking.  Figured we'd have to go Chevy for a driver, but found this charger on Craigslist as a project and kept going back to it.  It was 6 hours from us but only 1-1/2 from my folks, so while visiting 2 years ago, we drove up to see how bad it was.... It was definitely more of a project than we were planning, but we kept saying "when we're done it will be the charger we always wanted"... Better than instant driver of a lesser muscle car!     Negotiated over 4 days while on vacation and sent the guy a deposit to hold it.   Was up the next week with a uhaul rental trailer and we've now got over a year of restoring under out belt.  Of course we "thought" it needed more work than we were ready for and now that we're elbow deep... We are 4 times deeper than expected, but 10 times happier each time we walk into the garage!!    driving it Down the street last week was AMAZING!!  We have restored so many parts we cannot wait to get it off to paint and then jump on putting everything back on!   

[RIDGERACER383]

I found my charger when I was in high school in the paper.Guy wanted $1000 for it and I had no money so I traded my 69 coronet 440 which I payed $300 for,for a 82 t-bird and traded the t-bird for the 68 charger.The Charger was in my driveway 3 days later after finding it.

[charger490]

chev broke down on me so i got a friend to go look at cars.we went to the GM store to look at a transam. did not like the rubber bumper. than we went to the mopar store and ordered my 1968 charger in about 20 min. the company transfered me a year later from syrcuse ny  to wayland ny and while looking for a house in wayland we were hit head on and that was the end of my charger.
than my son was in the air force in phonix in 1980   and he called and told me there were 17 chargers for sale there so i told him to buy the best one and drive it home. than i was driveing in the town here in new york and saw a 66 charger and bought that the same day

[1carcrazyguy]

Just about 10 years and it still is not the Charger I started out looking for.....  
Started looking for one of my Dads old 70 Chargers in late 2003.  He always wanted a B5 blue 70 but had a beige one and a white with blue interior.   After a year or so of looking for his old cars, I started looking at every 70 Charger I could find for sale.  My wife and I moved several times across the state and I continued to look for a good 70.   Just never found one that I thought was the right deal.  Either the car was way out of my price range or the car was a basket case, but not much in between.   I probably have looked at 15-20 70 Chargers and still have come up empty handed.  So fast forward to 2010....the Thursday before Christmas.  I looked online at my Dads hometown paper and saw an ad for a 71 Charger.   Dad went to look at it and called me while he was out in the snow looking at it.  He said "If you don't buy this one, I am".   I asked how good of shape it was in and his reply was...."well its not a 70 but it is the right color".  So I bought it.   It is now "almost ready for the road".    But "one of these days" I am going to find a good 70.....even if I have to trade every car I have for one.