What disasterous story do you have to tell about the car you own.

[Marck]

To make things worse after it happened I had a panic attack puked everywhere and almost passed out.

Sorry man, but that made me laugh... What did the other guy say..?


I've only gotten one ride in my charger so far, because the engine blew on the first trip...
That sucks..

It tore a piston, and just came to a stop... I paid almost 1000$ to get i hauled home.. 

Now I'm building a 511 stroker for it... If that blows, I'm gonna have a meltdown...

[1969chargerrtse]

Sorry, I didn't mean to get personal.  I knew there was another side of the story....I just couldn't remember what it was.

No harm done

How do you get upset with a guy that starts off with " I love ya man" anyway."

[1969chargerrtse]

I've only gotten one ride in my charger so far, because the engine blew on the first trip...
That sucks..

It tore a piston, and just came to a stop... I paid almost 1000$ to get i hauled home.. 

Now I'm building a 511 stroker for it... If that blows, I'm gonna have a meltdown...

That sucks on your one ride to lose the motor, then to have to pay a 1,000.00 to get it home is just as bad.  That must of been one long first ride?

[TiMopar]

Long ago, in a land far away (England), I started to restore my 70 GTX. The rear quarters were toast, so decided (unfortunately) to replace them with repro skins. The car then spent 3 years in paintshop prison. When I got it back however it looked fabulous, with a 'Best Paint' type paint job. Spent about two weeks just looking at it. Started to fit it up and noticed small bubbles starting to appear randomly on the rear quarters. To cut a long story short, in the three years spent in the paintshop the quarters had started to rust. I later discovered that a batch had been pressed in poor quality steel containing too much carbon. The same happened to some Buick quarters, and I heard that the Buick club sued the manufacturer.
      Anyways, pissed but undettered, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place and find some factory quarters. Found a pair of cut offs in California, paid the guy, and that was the last I heard of that. Eventually found another  pair and somewhat cautiously paid for them. Heard nothing until sometime later I received the first of many letters from Agent somebody from the FBI. My bank cheque had been seized uncashed in $100,000 fraud investigation regarding auto parts and aero engines. Big thanks to the FBI, got my cheque back on those ones. Next found a pair at a Yard in Arizona which actually arrived. They were as promised, rustfree, and the passenger side was indeed very nice. Unfortunately, the drivers side, which was covered in suspiciously fresh primer, was covered in an inch of filler covering a very bad collision repair and some bizarre welding over about 2 thirds of the whole panel. It was twice as bad as the panel I had originally cut off!
       Sometime later, my friend in Wyoming tells me a friend of his has a mint drivers side quarter for $800, which of course I jump at buying. Unfortunately, before my money arrives, the panel gets sold as part of a job lot to another guy. It is still for sale but is now $2000. Well I end up getting it, and finally I have a decent pair of quarters. Next job is to cut off the rusty repros and install them.
Then I had to get it painted again ( Different guys, 6 months this time ). Still love it tho'

[Marck]

I've only gotten one ride in my charger so far, because the engine blew on the first trip...
That sucks..

It tore a piston, and just came to a stop... I paid almost 1000$ to get i hauled home.. 

Now I'm building a 511 stroker for it... If that blows, I'm gonna have a meltdown...

That sucks on your one ride to lose the motor, then to have to pay a 1,000.00 to get it home is just as bad.  That must of been one long first ride?

It was..

I was roughly 150 miles from home when it happened..
It was on a sunday night, and I was not a paying member of the towing company that had a truck big enough to put the charger on.. I'm from Denmark, and most cars here are no where near as big as the charger.. Try telling the wife, that you're gonna be 4 hours late, and that you're out a 1000 bucks.. Luckily it was 3 weeks before our wedding, so her mind was somewhere else.. 

[NYCMille]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

[moparstuart]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

wow that would make me     angry too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TruckDriver]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

We know Mike, We know

[Hemidoug]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

It may have cost you 200K, but it cost the "brothers" any respect and dignity they may have had left.....What a couple of morons.

[TUFCAT]

Oh yeah, the brothers  - - thanks for bringing that up!  I forgot about those Goons. 

[Charger-Bodie]

While my gold charger was on a tow truck once it, fell off and rolled into one of those big flashing arrow signs. It needed a fender ft bumper and it also scratched one of the brand new center caps

Another time , a long time ago I was drinking and driving my gold Charger (this only happened like 3 times the entire 20 yrs I had that car) , I met a cop while doing about 100 mph. I thought to myself, self this is bad either way so I floored it, out ran him , got about 5 miles from home , and managed to wipe out the rt side of the car by smoking a deer, it even broke the antenae off. my luck ran out for that night!!

Ive got plenty more .....But all Ive got to say is don't stress Charger stuff ( or any car stuff) as long as you have you're health and the health of you're family and friend you really dont have anything to really complain about. Trudge through it and it will just be a memory!

PS.. now this is just MY opinion, so take it as that. A broken down Charger Kickin you a$$ in the garage Is still way better than ANY turn key Corvette!

[mally69]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

It may have cost you 200K, but it cost the "brothers" any respect and dignity they may have had left.....What a couple of morons.

Did i miss somting here.    Fill me in

[Joshua]

This is the worst......wrecked it at 17 in AK......after moving to WA and repainting it, was broken into and stereo system stolen....broke out vent window, trunk lock, and messed up the seat back...
Also, deck lid was dented during another "altercation" one night by some hoodlums......guns were later involed when returning to the scene. Yeah, been involved with some crazy stuff in my younger years.....poor old car has been through alot since I've owned it.

[twenty mike mike]

Long ago, in a land far away (England), I started to restore my 70 GTX. The rear quarters were toast, so decided (unfortunately) to replace them with repro skins. The car then spent 3 years in paintshop prison. When I got it back however it looked fabulous, with a 'Best Paint' type paint job. Spent about two weeks just looking at it. Started to fit it up and noticed small bubbles starting to appear randomly on the rear quarters. To cut a long story short, in the three years spent in the paintshop the quarters had started to rust. I later discovered that a batch had been pressed in poor quality steel containing too much carbon. The same happened to some Buick quarters, and I heard that the Buick club sued the manufacturer.
      Anyways, pissed but undettered, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place and find some factory quarters. Found a pair of cut offs in California, paid the guy, and that was the last I heard of that. Eventually found another  pair and somewhat cautiously paid for them. Heard nothing until sometime later I received the first of many letters from Agent somebody from the FBI. My bank cheque had been seized uncashed in $100,000 fraud investigation regarding auto parts and aero engines. Big thanks to the FBI, got my cheque back on those ones. Next found a pair at a Yard in Arizona which actually arrived. They were as promised, rustfree, and the passenger side was indeed very nice. Unfortunately, the drivers side, which was covered in suspiciously fresh primer, was covered in an inch of filler covering a very bad collision repair and some bizarre welding over about 2 thirds of the whole panel. It was twice as bad as the panel I had originally cut off!
       Sometime later, my friend in Wyoming tells me a friend of his has a mint drivers side quarter for $800, which of course I jump at buying. Unfortunately, before my money arrives, the panel gets sold as part of a job lot to another guy. It is still for sale but is now $2000. Well I end up getting it, and finally I have a decent pair of quarters. Next job is to cut off the rusty repros and install them.
Then I had to get it painted again ( Different guys, 6 months this time ). Still love it tho'

Sounds like the Brit equivalent of Custer's Last Stand...the bad luck just kept coming. So far, you're the hard luck story winner!

[Manfred318]

The first week I had mine on the road I plowed in to a '95 Cadillac Fleetwood. I was on my way to get something to eat after school and someone pulled out in front of him I locked the brakes down and slid right in to the ass end of his car. It put a hole in my radiator, busted up my grille and put a nice bend in my front bumper. To make things worse after it happened I had a panic attack puked everywhere  and almost passed out.

Lord God Almighty...sounds like a fun-filled afternoon.

Yea that was the most fun afternoon Ive had so far.

To make things worse after it happened I had a panic attack puked everywhere and almost passed out.

Sorry man, but that made me laugh... What did the other guy say..?

Looking back on it now it was kinda funny. I overreacted abit. The other guy didn't say much actually. He said something to the effect of "well shit happens" Luckily I didnt blow chunks all over his car and piss him off even more.

[joflaig]

I had a roommate who let me borrow his Mercury Cougar for a week long road trip. This was years ago. I knew zero about cars. In fact, I had just got my license after practicing on forest roads. I even blew through a stop sign on the driver's test, but because it was in a tiny town in northern AZ where you couldn't even parralel park if you want they shrugged it off.

Anyway, my roommate warned me to keep an eye on the oil since there was a leak. Well I sure did. I put motor oil in the tranmission each day for a about a week.   Amazingly though after a thousand miles around the southwest and the Rockies I was on my way home on the interstate and suddenly the car could only do 40 and was making bad noises. Here's the ironic part. The very next exit was in fact the exit I had to take and right at the bottom of the ramp across the road was a gas station with a huge junk yard in the back. I was just able to pull in and the car died on the spot. It was like taking an elderly grandparent to visit a grave yard and conviently enough they fell over and died.

I had to hitchhike 90 miles in the night and break the news to my friend.

[Hemidoug]

I stalled out during a challenge on a reality show... it cost me $200,000.

It may have cost you 200K, but it cost the "brothers" any respect and dignity they may have had left.....What a couple of morons.

Did i miss somting here.    Fill me in

Bull Run on speed channel.......

[68charger383]

the day i finished my car, after only 10 minutes on the road a chick inna miata wiped out my front clip. that bad enuff for ya'? 

That's God's way of saying you never finish a Charger.....the resto keeps going and going....

I bet the Miata didn't fare to well after getting in your way!

[Ghoste]

I can't top any story so far but I do have one (or so) that I can add.
The first summer I had the 67, I was determined to take it the 500 miles (each way) to the Mopar Nationals.  Now let me start off by saying that the car was in no way at all ready for the trip but I was and a close friend of mine was as well.  So, off we went.
The story begins with it getting to the last week before the Nats and my tickets hadn't arrived yet.  Days befoer we were to leave, I got a phone call from Sharon Bielenda telling me that there had been a screw up with the tickets sent to Canada that year and my registration was good, all I had to do was go to the back gate (by where the vendors are set up) and look for the Mopar Nats booth and someone there would help me out.  The next step was to call in sick to work because I couldn't get the day off and set out.  We weren't very far across the border when the rain started... hard!  The electrical system in the car was a mess with no guages and the water was pouring into the car from the wiper pivots and running across all the already shoddy wiring.  Somewhere between Detroit and Toldeo a center cap came flying off the car and we think it hit the semi behind us.  The reason we think that is because it was rattling like mad from being loose (it was kind of old and ratty and couldn't be tightened anymore) and all of a sudden it stopped the rattle sound at about the same moment we heard a funny little bang.  This was followed by the truck driver behind us suddenly flashing his high beams and getting right up on our bumper with his air horns blaring so I know he was pissed about something.
We survived that and guessed with luck on the fuel stops and rain stopped, only to be replacing by the kind of humid heat that can only come after a rainstorm in August in the Midwest.  When we reached the traffic of Columbus and being stuck in the heat without a heat guage, we didn't take any chances and kept putting the car in neutral to get the revs up and let the fan pull in a little air.  Once we were on the loop around Columbus, a look in the rearview mirror greeted us with clouds of white smoke billowing out.  Not knowing what had blown, we pulled into a service station and after some examination, figured out that it was trans fluid coming from the front of the tranny and blowing on the exhaust.  Putting it in neutral and revving it up was blowing it out the front seal.  Dump some seal swell in there and off we go.  We got our tickets okay and enjoyed the weekend albeit with constant purchases of trans fluid to keep up with the worsening leak.
On the way home there was one more seal meltdown in Toledo on the interstate forcing us to pull off and let the car cool and top it up again.  This would have been fine except that the shoulder where we forced to park was very narrow since it was right beside one of those huge noise barrier walls.
We got back to Ontario and were twenty miles from home when there was a large bang from the left rear tire.  Got the car pulled over safely but the dry rotted bias plies had seen their last.  Unload the trunk, install the spare, limp home and what was awaiting me?  There was a huge power failure and my wife was sitting out front with a crying one year old on her lap, both miserable and tired and hot from no a/c.
But that's what makes road adventures isn't it?  I'd do it again in a split second! 

[TUFCAT]

my wife was sitting out front with a crying one year old on her lap, both miserable and tired and hot from no a/c.

That's really all you had to say bro  - - that speaks says volumes right there -  oye, the pain!

[Ghoste]

Yeah, umm, that be the one part I wouldn't want to risk over again.

[Mefirst]

The day I bought my Charger I almost crashed two times on the way home... I learnt early on that drum brakes in al 4 corners DO NOT stop a 3900Lbs car that fast. I came close to parking the front end of the Charger under the rear end of a Truck trailer... About 10 miles from Stockholm it started to rain.. This caused some "fun" moments when there was about an inch of water on the road at some places and the Charger had rather wide tires, well I turned of the highway exit and a couple of seconds after that, the front end of the car was turned towards where I just seconds before came from.. I don't know how the Charger didint get any dents or get wrecked, there was no more than a couple of inches of space between the front/rear bumper and the guard rail on both sides of the road when it spun around....

Had several electrical gremlins that caused head aches...

I have managed to mess up the 727 trans 2 times...

Bought a 440 engine, dynoed it to 550Hp..etc... It got hurt badly during my third run at the 1/4mile track, I put it out of its misery during a 4th run. The autopsy revealed the cause of its early demise to be 7 stuck piston pins, 8 messed up cylinder walls and a lobe wiped clean off the camshaft... Im still cause I did not open up the engine to check it out, so it was a hard and expencive lesson lernt...

My bet is that there will be more stories to tell with time...

/Tom

[Rolling_Thunder]

hmmm...    I have had my car impounded, ran it into a curb, and dented the hook with a guy's forehead...   had a gun pulled on me in the car...       and...     ya.

[Mefirst]

-Oh I forgot, I messed up my Chargers right side front fender backing it out from the garage The dent is not huge, but the dent is there to remind me that being in a hurry will most of the times cause a ....

/Tom

[Joshua]

-Oh I forgot, I messed up my Chargers right side front fender backing it out from the garage The dent is not huge, but the dent is there to remind me that being in a hurry will most of the times cause a ....

/Tom

Ouch.....I dented my front fender moving my pool table in the garage.....real small, but like you say, a reminder to pay attention.....