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

[skip68]

I was just wondering how long the average buyer looks for the average Charger..    Not really the guys looking for a specific car but just your average Charger buyer...  I was posting in another thread and noticed the OP has been looking for a car for about 7 years.      He's not looking for a rare hard to find car either.  For me I looked half assed for about a year.  Came close to a all original 1 owner 68, had the cash in my pocket only to find out it was already sold.       When I was 100% ready I found my car within a couple months.  My car was a rolling solid shell and I was happy to pay $5,500 for it back in 05'.  

                Anyway, just had me thinking with the market the last few years that the search for most is not long.    

[Dans 68]

About 6 months, once I had the cash in hand.

Dan

[moparguy01]

mine sort of fell into my lap, and I found the money to buy it. so I did.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

I'll combine both of your answers: I was searching for about 6 months; this one fell into my lap & I had the cash. 

[JB400]

I didn't look for my car, my dad did.  I think Skip spent more time looking for my pix then my dad did finding the car

[Ghoste]

I had thought by the wording there that you had found the car but your dad had no interest in helping you fix it up?

[charger_fan_4ever]

About 2-3 months back in 2007-08.

These wanted ads on the board make me laugh. Craigslist,cars online,ebay there are a fair number of cars out there everyday of the week that can accomodate all budgets from basket case to trailer queen.


Major problem is people want a deal and a lot of sellers think their car is the best barn find there is$$.

If both parties were more realistic and buyers really had $$ there would be no need for all the wanted ads.

I find most people are looking for that "unknown" barn find time capsule thats for sale for 1/2 of what its worth.

[JB400]

I had thought by the wording there that you had found the car but your dad had no interest in helping you fix it up?

My dad found the car.  Life happens and he lost interest in it, I didn't.  At least my dad wanted me to have my dream car.

[Cooter]

Wasn't looking until I saw what a Buddy that I ended up 'Buying' my car from, did to a GL. THEN, I asked about "That old red Charger in the woods"..

A day later, one fall off trailer into the creek, one 440 Engine block later, It was "mine"....2 1/2 years later, it was a GL with "Correct" decals.

[Chargen69]

i waited about a year to see what dodge was going to put out for a charger, and then when that was crap, it took another year of looking, but i scored an big block arizona car with factory disk brakes

[Dino]

Lemme think...sold the other 69 in May 2011 and didn't look for another for quite a while.  I looked at a ton of ads but never found what I was looking for so eventually let it rest and just put a wanted ad on CL and on this site.  Got lots of cars that were the opposite of what I was looking for on both sites until one day before my CL ad would expire again someone did contact me and had the car I was looking for.  It was several months of looking and several months of just renewing the ad but not looking.

Car was half an hour from me as well, sometimes it pays off to wait.

[Back N Black]

I was looking for 2 years, spent many hours driving all over Ontario and Quebec.  Finally, found a good solid California car and five years to restore. 

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Sold my 1968 Charger in the fall of 1991. Bought the next one, a 1969, in 2010... then another...

The 1968, I think I looked a month or two... 

[tan top]

  about 6 months  , 

[GOTWING]

my first car was my 73 charger S/E, my dad and i started looking a few months before i got my drivers license in 1984, i drove it all through high school then i sold it in 1988, i regreted it, i tried for years to get it back eventually lost track of it, i gave up until summer before last so 23 years later i found it and got it back, it's no longer in like new survivor condition, but i have it and it's my actual car.

[skip68]

Now that's a cool story.   

[Marck]

I searched for about a year in Denmark, and looked a 2 chargers here, a '70 and a '68.. Both were way overpriced for the work they needed, so started looking in the US.. It seemed a bit overwhelming, and I was scared to death about being scammed or buying a pile of junk covered in fresh paint.. Ended up hirering a guy i California to find me a car.. It took him a month or two, where he showed me 2 other Chargers, that I didn't like, and then he found the Charger I have now.. It took some 8 months or so from there before I could pick it up in Denmark..

[67_Dodge_Charger]

I didn't know I wanted a charger until my brother drove a 74 Charger home, I decided right then I had to have this car.  So less than a minute, is this a record?   Robert

[kikgas01]

I have had to many to remember...

[rt green]

fell into my lap. told a buddy, if he didnt buy it, i would. now its mine

[F8-4life]

I didnt spend much time activily "looking" because that would mean I had the $$ to potentailly buy.
(which I did not)
I did however spend alot of time dreaming about a charger. I made friends with guys who had project chargers and eventually drugg my 69 project out of a barn. Paid $2,500 which I was happy with. Amazing what happens when you treat others right. Its better then having loads of cash.

[cdr]

i started looking in nov 2010, but not thinking i could get one,just lookin at prices,saw one in feb 2011 in north texas on fleebag & it did not meet reserve, asked him if he would trade for my harley & he said  no,so i almost bought a 69 bee in San Antonio but the guy wormed out on the deal,saw the same charger for sale again on craigs list & fleebag in july 15 2011,he had gotten it running ,new fuel tank ect,ect,he sent me a bunch of pics ,sold my harley that week & bought the charger,paid 7000.00,complete big block ac car,i drove it on the trailer & it was mine,this is what it looked like the day it came home

[HeavyFuel]

Just like at the strip joint.....I looked for a while, then one fell on my lap.

Back in the late '80s, my brother got a basket case red '70 Super Bee, 4 speed, white guts car from a local guy that bought and sold alot of Mopars (but the guy's personal collection is mostly Chargers; he has a purple '70 R/T SE 4 speed 6 pak car, a HEMI car, and some others).

I watched my bro restore his car and that got me kicking around for a couple years buying some kind of Mopar, and I finally settled on a 2nd gen Charger, but didn't really have the year nailed down.

The guy my bro got his car from knew I was in the market, so when a car that he thought was pretty good came along, he called me up.   Solid, low miles survivor type '68 R/T, Oklahoma car (surface rust only)....price $6,000 in November 1992.  A little pricey considering how many parts I ended up redoing and replacing because I have some kind of mental illness,

 

[67RedCharger]

It was back in 1966 that I started looking for my car as I was on my way back to the US of A from Vietnam on board USS COONTZ DLG9, when I realized that I would be getting out of the NAVY January 13 1967, and I needed a car when I got out, so I sent my brother $500.00 for a down payment on "Ole Red".  The car was in the show room window of Bick Long Motors when I got home.  The total wait time was 3 months from the time I decided to buy the car, to the time when I first saw the car.

  ~ Don ~

[hatersaurusrex]

Once I had the money, I probably looked for a year.  My challenge was trying to find something that needed restoration but wasn't a rolling shell within a decent towing distance of where it was going to be restored, which is 3 states away.   I found a (mostly) complete big-block car 30 mins from the shop and had it checked over then bought it.

Once he got into it, some of the body panels weren't as solid as they'd appeared at first (sound familiar?) and I realized I'd overpaid.   In the grand scheme of things, overpaying a few grand on the project car doesn't bug me that much.   It's just money being spent on a luxury anyway and it could have been far worse.    Next time around I'll know what to look for more closely on a b-body - lesson learned