New to the site with a 68 barn find

[enarc49]

Found this 1968 SE that had spent the last number of years sleeping in a garage in Northern New Hampshire. Best I can tell, it is a green 383 car. It now has a 440 4bbl. All of the steel is new and whoever did it did a nice job. A little work, and it should be ready for paint.  This is going to be a Dad and me project for me and my 8 year old. Currently have the gas tank out and a new one on order as it ran fine until we filled the tank, and whatever was in there mixed with the new stuff, and that was the end of that! Thanks to all who post photos of your work. It is a huge help to see what goes where!  Any suggestions on a book with good photographs for restoration would be appreciated.  We are not going to turn it into a 100 point car, but the wiring is a nightmare!!

[chargd72]

"Project Charger" is a great book.  Awesome score 

[tan top]

hello & welcome  sounds a good project ! all the metal been replaced  , whats the plan !  color combo wise 

[PocketThunder]

Is there "SE" eblems on the sail panels?

[Chargerrtforme]

You are aware the SE option was 69 and up?

[enarc49]

Sorry, not an SE. Just not an RT. Still working on decyphering the vin and fender tags....  Just ordered the gas tank kit from Dante's and the Charger Restoration book from Amazon.    No idea on colors. It was originally green, so I may stay in that direction, only more of a dark metallic...

[bakerhillpins]

Welcome



Always good to see more folks from NH joining up!

[Dans 68]

Welcome to the site! Good year...   Post up your vin and fender tag (if still around) and we'll be happy to decode it for you. 

Dan

[enarc49]

The VIN is XP29G8B244524

The fender tag has lots of numbers all over it.

64   7    1

1        11      1
50       8   1   C6F     TT1   G

XP29 61 5 43 C28  096425

Any help would be great!

[Dans 68]

It is great you still have the fender tag. If you go to this site http://www.jimshine.com/tag%20info/68tagdecode.htm you can decode it yourself. Or wait and the know-it-alls will eventually chime in (I need to get out of the office now...)  

Dan

Edit - your car was scheduled to be built 2 days (C28), Dec 28, 1967, after mine! Practically cousins!

[Troy]

383 2-bbl
automatic
drip rail, body belt, and wheel lip molding (standard on all 68 Chargers)
2.76 open rear gears
green bucket seat interior
medium green metallic paint

next 4 depends on where the 1s are in the 2nd line from the top)
26" radiator (likely)
power brakes(?)
AM radio(likely)
air conditioning (likely)
tinted glass (likely)

center console
bucket seats
hood mounted turn signals (likely) or passenger side mirror (depends on where the 7 is on the top row)
sold car (ordered this way)

Troy

[68blue]

Welcome to the site, your car sounds very much like mine when I started it a year ago. The YO wiring kits helped me out a lot, replaced all the wiring in the car.

[bull]

Ah the old TT1 paint code. I know it very well...

[Ponch ®]

welcome to the site and good luck with your find but....

[bakerhillpins]

welcome to the site and good luck with your find but....

Well, there is one, his avatar!   

[chargergirl]

Welcome! You'll like it here...keep everyone posted and a pic is worth a thousand words!

[NHCharger]

  Welcome from another New Hampshire member.
I'm in Barrington just north of Portsmouth. Where abouts you located and what little town did you find the Charger in?

[nh_mopar_fan]

Welcome from Raymond, NH.

This isn't the car that was on craigslist a few times now? That had alot on new metalwork as I recall  but it may have been a 69?

[bakerhillpins]

Don't know about it being on CraigsList, I didn't see it listed and I am on there a lot lately.

VIN is XP29G8 <- 8 is for 68 and the format of the tag that he typed up is a 68 tag.

[nh_mopar_fan]

Yeah, I was going off memory on the craigslist ad.

It's still up though.

Found it:

http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1881109394.html

[enarc49]

Thanks everyone.  The car is from Berlin, NH and is now in Concord. Hoping to get the tank in this weekend! Just took the dash out and found that almost all of the guages were not plugged in    Hoping to get to the car show in Derry at Pinkerton this Sat and then NHTI in Concord on 9/11.

[TeeWJay426]

Welcome from Brookline, NH! 

[wayfast1500]

Welcome to the site I'm out of Derry.  If you or any of the oth nh members need a hand with anything just send me a PM.