Sad day

[dakotaboy]

I found these pics in an old photo album Christmas day at the folks house   

[dakotaboy]

another

[dakotaboy]

another

[tan top]

                        good find  dakotaboy         but a sad sight to see                           looks pretty damn good 69  from the picture

[Chris G.]

Yikes! Someone posted similar pics not too long ago, but it was a '70 getting mushed. 

Hey, it was back in the day when nobody cared, so I can't be mad at them.

[JimShine]

Yeah, the 70 was on a poster.

[leeandgrant]

boy, those are some cool pics, but it also brings a tear to my eye.   

[JimShine]

That is the best picture I have seen in a long time.

[Shakey]

Oh the horror

[69bronzeT5]

It looks red or copper from that pic. Poor '69

[dakotaboy]

I have another photo from the same event before it is crushed , has a motorcycle jumping over them but I cant get it to load.

[dakotaboy]

photos were taken back in 85.

[69bronzeT5]

Looks like an R/T to boot . I see ALOT of parts that I could of used for my car

[Shakey]

Looks like an R/T to boot . I see ALOT of parts that I could of used for my car

What do you see in those photos that makes you think it might be an R/T?   

[69bronzeT5]

Looks like an R/T to boot . I see ALOT of parts that I could of used for my car

What do you see in those photos that makes you think it might be an R/T?   

Nevermind, I thought I saw a small emblem on the tailight panel but I zoomed it in and cleared it up and its not.

[Mike DC]

People who bash "Dukes of Hazzard" for tearing up all those Chargers in the early '80s are conveniently forgetting what those times were like.

At that time, even a Mopar-specific magazine could probably have done an article on that truck event and not bothered to make any mention of the '69 being squashed.   The used bodies were lying around everywhere.  Scrapping them just didn't evoke the frustration that it does now.

 

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[Ghoste]

People who bash "Dukes of Hazzard" for tearing up all those Chargers in the early '80s are conveniently forgetting what those times were like.

At that time, even a Mopar-specific magazine could probably have done an article on that truck event and not bothered to make any mention of the '69 being squashed.   The used bodies were lying around everywhere.  Scrapping them just didn't evoke the frustration that it does now.

I'm gonna stick up my hand here and say that I may be the exception to that.  I very much didn't like the DOH back then and for that very reason.  I will agree that the times were like that for sure though because I also recall how much my friends used to laugh at me for being upset about the show wrecking all of those cars.  Do you remember an issue of TV Guide with a photo showing the remains being cut up so no one could profit of WB?  That almost made me puke.  Maybe it's from being in the rust belt but the fact that they were destroying the cars and then ensuring no other Charger could use the part just left me with a distaste for all things DOH that carries on to this day.
I may be the minority but I hated Charger wrecking just as much then as I do today.

[bull]

Holy s&%t, that thing almost looks new! If I had been there I'd have chained myself to it like those freaky tree huggers do out in the woods.

Looks like an R/T to boot . I see ALOT of parts that I could of used for my car

What do you see in those photos that makes you think it might be an R/T?

If you look closely in the second picture there's a reflection off that guys watch that apparently bounces off a piece of chrome on the ground and reveals an extra leaf spring on one side.

[69bronzeT5]

Holy s&%t, that thing almost looks new!

Yep, thats what sucks the most. If it was a rolled or smashed beyond belief '69 than it would be fine but still sad. But the fact that it looks mint....

[WM23N1]

Whew! Im glad it wasnt a third gen. We really dodged a bullet there.

[Mike DC]

Ghoste,

Maybe it's just a rust-belt thing.  But in the southwest like LA they just didn't seem to react like that. 

Seeing any decent 2dr rwd car get whacked causes a certain amount of annoyance.  If that car had been a 1987 Firebird in a truck show today, there would be people complaining if it really looked good.  But that doesn't mean that 1987 Firebirds are prized these days.  Even if people don't particularly like seeing something like that being destroyed, they're still mullet-mobiles that are seen as basically disposable in most cases.

 

[Ghoste]

It must be regional Mike cuz we just don't even see 1987 models of anything around here, let alone good condition mulletmobiles to crush.

[1969chargerrtse]

Well, at least it didn't have a flush rear window plug.   That is sad, but they did make 100,00 or so, thank God.

[PocketThunder]

Notice how people are sitting along the wall on the floor, waiting to get crushed .  that doesnt happen anymore!.