TDC (Charger) meet in Gettysburg Pa July 28-29 2007

[resq302]

Wooo hooo.   A week and a half away.  Time to start cleaning up the Charger.

[moparjohn]

yeah right Brian, like your car is ever dirty!  It alway looks clean to me. Anyway 1 week and 2 days to go, guys if I am correct in my thoughts we might have a good amount of cars there!!!  The last east coast Charger meet I atteneded had about 12 cars (not all in one day) surely we can do better.  I will be very pleased to see 30-40 chargers.  John

[y3chargerrt]

I should be able to make it there John

[71ChallengeHer]

I'll drive the Challenger up and bring some of my friends that own Chargers.

[resq302]

yeah right Brian, like your car is ever dirty!  It alway looks clean to me. Anyway 1 week and 2 days to go, guys if I am correct in my thoughts we might have a good amount of cars there!!!  The last east coast Charger meet I atteneded had about 12 cars (not all in one day) surely we can do better.  I will be very pleased to see 30-40 chargers.  John

Now, now John.  Lately my car has been dirty.  Road dirt and the occasional bug juice on the front end from testing out how the bias ply tires handle high speeds on the highway.   

[resq302]

Does anyone have a really nice pair of wiper arms that are correct for a 68-70 B body that is going to the meet?  Seems like I have the incorrect ones on my car.  If anyone needs any parts, please post on here so I can bring them with me and help another member out.

[moparjohn]

yeah, I'll have a 70 rad shroud new repro for sale! Ron will be nice to see you, didn't get too much time at Carlisle.

[resq302]

C'mon people...... 3 days and counting.  I can hear them motors roaring now.

[moparjohn]

I've taken at leat a dozen calls about it this week, It's gonna be a great time!

[Bob]

How 'bout that! I'm in Hanover
Hopefully I can put my Charger on the road by July..it probably won't be painted, but it'll go and stop and turn 
I'll be there

Littlestown here. 

[resq302]

This weekend is here..... everyone do a sun dance!  Im leaving tomorrow and will be making the voyage with MoparJohn.

[71ChallengeHer]

The Chally is home and ready to go. 

[moparjohn]

See you there!

[resq302]

John,

Please be sure to thank Wayne and everyone else from the TDC club.  My family and I had a blast.  It was really good meeting new friends and even Jackie and Shelby from the board here.  For those who did not attend, there was probably 20-30 Mopars all weekend with the majority of them being first, second, and third gen chargers. 

As luck would have it, my charger was picked as the peoples choice award.  I am very humbled at this and feel it is a great honor.  Unfortunatly, when I was backing the charger out of the trailer, my father was not paying attention to one area and I ended up flattening out the pass. side subtle body line about 5 inches and bent the wheel well trim up pretty good.  The body line should be able to be taken care of by a paintless dent removal person with only some scratches remaining in the paint which might be able to be buffed or wet sanded out.

There was also another casualty at the show.  Tennessee (MoparJohns car) drove the 3 hour plus trip and then went out for gas and "liquid refreshments" returned and then parked his car.  He then wanted to move it to a different spot only to find out he had absolutely no power at all.  No interior lights, no power to the starter, nothing!  We found out that his fuseable link at the firewall went so we found a near by NAPA and spliced that in only to also find out that the wiring for the alternator was fried a good 8" back from where the stud is on the rear of the alternator.  Aparently, the 8 mos old alternator fried and started back feeding through the wiring.  The fuseable link did its job and prevented any other wiring from getting damaged.  A quick trip back to NAPA for some wiring and trying to find another alternator (only to have to order it and get it in on Sat) and the wiring was repaired.  Wes, a member of The Dodge Charger registry drove his 66 Charger all the way up from Texas with his wife and lent John his alternator till John could replace it.  Working in the middle of a rain storm, John and I got his car back up and running and the weekend was not a bust.     Heres to lucky break downs with Tennessee!



Again, to everyone at the TDC, thanks for a great time and a great weekend.

Brian

[71ChallengeHer]

Brian, It was great meeting you and your Dad. Sorry about the Charger but congrats on the award. It was well deserved. It was also great meeting Wayne, MoparJohn ( Shelby says thanks  ) and Bob and all the other great people there.  Brian , Neil was in such a hurry to see all the Chargers. When he looks in his garage I'll let you know about the wiper arms.

[moparjohn]

just got back myself, god trip home- helped Silly Billy (if you don't know him I'll fill u in later) hauled a 69 firewall/from suspension back from a sellers house along the way-good thing I was there it took 4 to move it. We had 21 Chargers at the meet, less than I wanted to see but a good 10 more than last time on the EC.  We did have some cars come & go and a few locals from a car cruise in stopped by (one awsome Charger owned by a Neil) but we had a blast nonetheless. We had a Charger from Texas, 1 from Idiana, 1 from N Carolina, 1 from Ohio, other cars came from shorter distances. I know life is busy and it's hard to do everything but I was hopping for more cars  . We will have aonther meet out here next year so I'll let you know as early as I can. We (the TDC) are an odd group-we don't just have a traditional car show we cruise around and see and do things- it's a blast if you want to try it.  On sat. we meet at the host hotel and cruised to the Gettysburg battlefield. We had 12 cars 9 Chargers in the cruise.  Then we went to the visitors center and spent about n hour there.  The rest of the afternoon we went around the battlefields in our cars - not as a group (hard to do) but a few cars grouped together.  We got back to the hotel around 5:30-6 went out to eat and spent the rest of the night in the parking lot at the motel talking and gawking.  I had a good time, nice to see others from the site, congrats Brian! Sorry Brain, and most of all thanks Brian!  MPJ

[71ChallengeHer]

Sharol with the 68 Charger joined DC. She's MaMopar.  

[BMOTOXSTAR]

Please post some pic's.

[71ChallengeHer]

Please post some pic's.

I did.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

I am tired, I am bad. That is what happens when I get sleepy. Kick me in the nads, 
time to go to bed.
I am a   

[71ChallengeHer]

I am tired, I am bad. That is what happens when I get sleepy. Kick me in the nads, 
time to go to bed.
I am a   

[resq302]

There will be more pics as soon as I get my camera developed.  Shots from Gettysburg as well as the hotel.

[moparknighthawk]

I had a awesome time meeting you guys Friday evening.  I was supposed to get back up there Sunday, but things didn't work out for that and I am truely sorry I missed the rest of the weekend.  I am already looking forward to next year and maybe getting together with you local guys at local events now.  I also talked to Wayne about helping him write up some stuff for the "new" generation charger.  I am excited to be able to help out the registry.  My pic link is below, though these are only from Friday night.   

http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1892806

Greg
2006 GoMango Charger Daytona # 1592 of 4000.

[Bob]

Nice pics Greg. It was nice to meet you.

Bob.

AKA, the green 74 with Charger on the windshield.