'68 Charger at home in Hungary at last!

[cavemanno1]

After 4 months and 6000 miles we have finally got our charger!Picked her up last Friday.Took us 16 hours there and 20 hours to bring her home on a trailer.Was a painfull trip but was worth every minute of it for me  

You woudn't believe the amount of thumbs up,honks and stares we had!People were hanging outside there car windows to take pictures at 60 mph 
At gas stations pictures were taken and questins asked,everybody just admired her!

[cavemanno1]

Wife wasn't too impressed at first but came around.However, my son loves it more then anything  

[cavemanno1]

Wife managed to open the trunk as well as helping to take all 22 boxes out of the car.It doesn't have a lock so she wanted to figure it out how to open it up.

[cavemanno1]

These cars are huge and can fit half of a car inside piece by piece.Front windshield,full exhaust system,front suspension,frame rails,frame connectors,floors,trunk floors,22 boxes,wheel whells,rear valance,cross member etc.

[1974dodgecharger]

DUDE!!! that car looks pretty darn good!!!!  the pics you took make it look better.....congrats man 

[cavemanno1]

Thanks John!
She needs a lot of work but she is not too bad,fixable  Where there is a will there is a way 

[1974dodgecharger]

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY 

[cavemanno1]

Of course it wouldn't be possible without the help i got from here(especially Tan Top) and my good friend in Philadephia(1nasty69z)who stored and stuffed the car with parts!He is a magician to fit all these parts inside.

[Lennard]

Congratulations on finally having the Charger in your possession. Now the fun begins!  

[keepat]

Congrats charger looks great! Good idea screwing the quarter panels on for shipping.
Good luck with your project, enjoy!
Pat

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Congrats!

[b5blue]

I knew you would find YOUR car Peter!  Let me know when you are ready for chassis tools?

[CRW-FK5]

Good for you on getting your car.  Looks like a fun project for you (and family, perhaps).  Looking forward to seeing the progress.  The car does look huge next to the other cars in the parking lot in that overhead view. 

[cavemanno1]

Thanks guys!It is already so much fun.Just watching my son shifting gears,trying to reach the pedals and playing with tools makes my heart melt  
Proud of my wife as well because every time someone asks if this is the same as the dukes of hazzard charger she "educates" them about the side marker differences,the grill and tail lights.Of course everybody looks at her like she is mad. Nobody here hasn't seen a '69 charger let alnoe would know the difference between years.But it's good listening at her talking cars and explaining things to people!

Got some funny stories already,old guy talking about his old pontiac in '63 that looked like this  
Or got out of my wife's car and a guy looking at the charger says to me,unknowing that this is our car,"dream alive".Looked at him and said,yeah lucky someone,then opened the door of the charger.His jaw dropped and couldn't say a word.Then after he started coming with the money questions which i didn't like,so i shook him off.

[mightywing7]

Congrats!!  

Be sure to take lots of pics during the build, especially with your son in the photos.  As he gets older, he'll understand how important it was to have helped his dad in the restoration process of his Charger.  My son appreciated every moment we worked together in the resto process of our 68 R/T.

[cavemanno1]

Thank you!

My wife wants to make a blog about the build and the whole buying,shipping process so there will be lots of pictures!
She comes up with so much plans with the charger and it's great.Guess lot's better then fighting with me over every penny i will have to spend on it
She picked the color for the exterior and interior so i got her involved big time.Now she wants to learn how to veld 

My next favorite car is a '70-74 'cuda.Showed her a '71 ' and she said that's beautiful.Told her that's your next car,so if you want after this charger is done,we can start looking for a 'cuda 
All she said,as long as that doesn't cost this much like the charger okey!

[Dino]

Yay you got our dream ride!   

Congrats Peter, enjoy the build. It's all about the journey of the restoration now, not just about the finished product.   

[Mopar Nut]

Looks good Peter, congrats!

[Troy]

Awesome!

Troy

[cbrestorations]

congrats, looks like american cars come off the boat everyday there

[tsmithae]

I'll be watching this one for updates! Congrats! 

[RallyeMike]

This sure makes me appreciate being able to scour Craigslist and trailering something home the same day.

Have fun with your new project.

[1970Moparmann]

Congrats!

[cavemanno1]

Thanks guys!

congrats, looks like american cars come off the boat everyday there

Yeah,they have hundreds of american cars in their wareouse.If you think about they have been in business for 20+ years and there are more companies like them importing American cars everyday,it makes you wonder how many cars left in the States.Luckily they made millions of cars.

[bill440rt]

Excellent, congrats! 

NOW THE FUN BEGINS!!!