I'm getting that dangerous itchy feeling for another Charger, ,,,,

[skip68]

Lately I've found myself browsing the for sale section and craigslist for chargers.      I know I shouldn't be looking but can't help it.   My wife will probably read this and rain on my parade but I can deal with that.    I've been chargerless for about 3 or 4 years now and I'm just getting that itch to get another one.   
I've even gone as far as moving money around in my head from the sale of the house.   I've already got plans and obvious things that have to be done but my twisted thinking is if I cut some corners I can buy another one.  Or give up on some other things I'd like to do I can buy one.   Not interested in building another one.  The next one (if I were to buy one) would be a driver.     
Just thinking out loud is all.   I probably shouldn't be even saying anything but I have a feeling that I'm not the only one that's been here before.    Any of you guys been here and had regrets?   

[Dino]

If you can't buy it without feeling it may be a mistake, then it's probably a mistake.  Time to have a chat with the missus, no need to go through this alone buddy.

[Ghoste]

Its a tough hobby to leave.

[Lord Warlock]

Sometimes you have a need that has to be filled, sometimes you have an itch...an itch needs calamine lotion.  Never buy because you get an itch.  If you decide it becomes an obsession where you can't stop thinking about something, then it may be time to break down and find something.  If I like something I usually deny immediate satisfaction, when the itch comes it usually goes away but will come back if nothing is done.  Let it go away...several times.  The more expensive something is, the easier time I have putting the kbosh on buying it.  For something like another charger, it'd probably take me well over 10 years before the obsession made me act on it. 

I wanted a new TV for my garage, so my charger could watch DOH reruns and Barrett Jackson auctions. I put off that itch for 4 years.  Same TV kept me on watch for sales for years. It was a 32 inch SMART TV, which allowed WiFi streaming and ability to surf web on tv in garage in backyard.  Cost was only 399 minus whatever the sale was, and I put it off for 4 years until desire, and a birthday check was burning a hole in my pocket that I caved in and bought it.  Think you should wait and think some more.  Then when you feel you're getting weak willed, then ask your significant other...that should dampen the will for another year, until you can figure out how to buy a car without the wife seeing an outlay of cash...start hoarding emergency fund money ....lol.

By the way, like my dad told me one time, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than get permission, and the whole time she's bitching about the new purchase, you can envision "its mine" in your mind and ignore it, BLAH BLAH, blah blah, bla bla, b b , b, .................

[skip68]

   excellent points guys.   Realistically a charger IS NOT in the budget or plan for a few more years.   But, I keep thinking different scenarios.   I said I don't want a project but what if I got one that's needing very little?   I could get it and be ahead of the game.   I'm just not going to start with a car in pieces and spend $30-$40k and 5 years building it like my last one.   
Basically this all started months ago.  I was looking at a 72 Dart and thought about something like a Dart, duster or a 71-74 charger to play with.   It wouldn't break the bank and I'd still have something to spin around in.   But then I started thinking that I'd really just rather get another Charger.  Like I said, just thinking out loud. 

[Baldwinvette77]

I didn't know you were chargerless 

Better fix that as soon as you can, it ate at me for half my life, Thankfully no permanent mental damage was done...... That can be proven 

I wanted a charger forever, i finally found a piece of one and left for school the morning it arrived, late with a huge smile on my face, i can't say i regret it as a whole, there were a few things in between that i somewhat regretted, but i just don't look back at them, probably because i forgot most of them 

[cavemanno1]

I am like you are now skip,execpt i have an obsession not an itch!Sold my charger 4 years ago and just forgot about chargers what so ever!Didn't even check the site for 2 years.Bought my dream motorbike,my son was born so i was kinda focused on other things.However as my son was growing up he always looked at our wedding photos on the wall with the charger on it!I kept telling him that's a charger.His 4th word were after boobs,mom,dad was Charger.
So he kept saying it over and over and the crave for a charger came back!Didn't want to take out our savings so with the wife's permission i went back to work to England.She told me if i earn the money for it i could buy one.That was two years ago and the money is there but now i can not find anything i want!

My obsession got to the point where i,according to my wife,only talk about that.Of course it's not true but i talk about it a lot.Sometimes i wake up in the middle of the night and check my emails or ebay if i got a reply to my questions from sellers.
Someone said the search is half of the fun but it's no fun for me,it's rather frustrating!

Being in Hungary makes it really difficult to find a car especially a '68 r/t.Plus if there is one for sale that is way overpriced and would need the asking money to make it right.

I'm now in a stage where i'd get a '69-70 roadrunner for a bit to just have something i like instead of waiting for a charger and not having anyting at all.

But since you are in tge States and don't have to have numbers matching car you could find something  to feed your itch.And if your itch was just an itch you always could sell it on.

My point is if it has one that if you want one and you could support it financially with the wife's blessing,get one!

[Mopar Nut]

Don't do it for yourself, do it for your kids!

[twodko]

Don't settle Skip. A Duster or Dart are really fun cars and can go hella fast if thats
the kind of driver you want. However, if a Charger is what you REALLY want then buy
one. You'll regret buying anything else. 

[myk]

Didn't know you were Chargerless either.  But if buying another Charger is what you really want to do then why not do it?  I know I have a reckless way of looking at life but to me money is just that-you'll make some more and as far as I'm concerned life is too short to fret about money; your personal satisfaction doesn't come often enough and it's worth more than gold in my opinion. 

I say buy one before your life passes you by.  You can't take the Charger or the money you save with you when you punch out anyway...

[303 Mopar]

   You never know what life is going to throw at you.  I had been wanting a Mopar for years and with kids, a divorce, etc. I could not afford it.  Then both my parents dying within a year of each other caused me to ask the question, "if not now, then when?"  So now I have a Charger and a Cuda and the boys are loving it!

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

I have been fortunate to not ever need permission to buy a vehicle 

[skip68]

Actually, I don't either.  I've always just gone out and bought something if I wanted it.   Every RV, motorcycle, boat, jet ski, car or music equipment I've ever bought (toys) I've never asked her if I can.  she'll tell you that.       I will make sure all the needs are covered before hand and still have a safe cushion before I do anything.
I can't get that serious about this yet and probably should've kept quiet until after we move.   I'm just starting to miss my car that's all.     

[Daytona R/T SE]

Skip, you should take a look at Leon's '70. 


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,116393.0.html

[skip68]

Really nice survivor.        kinda surprised he hasn't sold it. 

[Daytona R/T SE]

Really nice survivor.        kinda surprised he hasn't sold it.  

Exactly.

If I had any sense,  

I'd buy Leon's '70 and send all of my junk to the crusher.