'68 R/T (what a crying shame!)

[moparstuart]

wow love the air flows  , id throw a 392 hemi in one and drive it   

[71_Charger_R/T]

Thanks Stuart! We hope to put one back on the road. (the '37) probably sacrifice the other.

[bakerhillpins]

Those air flows are beautiful cars... The wife likes the older cars more than the Charger so one is in my future.    

[moparstuart]

Thanks Stuart! We hope to put one back on the road. (the '37) probably sacrifice the other.

if you dont use up the whole thing in parts id be interested in the left overs 

[nvrbdn]

  try it, he may fold.

[tan top]

  wonder what the frame rails are like ?
   

What frame rails?   

  exactly  , all that time on the dirt  ,  i'm bettiing  its not good 

[71_Charger_R/T]

  wonder what the frame rails are like ?
   

What frame rails?   

  exactly  , all that time on the dirt  ,  i'm bettiing  its not good 

The rear rails...... (only part I could see under, being bellied in like it is.) are GONE! They look like lace! The shifter is heaving up the tranny tunnel, so I'm sure the torsion bar crossmember has returned to earth.


Stuart; I will keep you in mind if you are serious. I'm only a couple and a half hours from Farmington, and I know you go there.

[model maker]

I think these jokers who let these cars sit in the dirt and rot have a screw loose somewhere. In the first post the guys mom said he had EVERY CAR HE EVER OWNED AND they are ALL SITTING & rotting away. Oh sure, he is going to fix them up SOMEDAY  That isn't going to happen ! what we have here is described in one word    HORDER, these people , well you have seen the shows with the horder houses ? most of these guys are horders, will never let these cars go and will just let them rot away to nothing but a rust stain in the dirt and overgrown brush. what a shame these people ever owned a car like these.

[Ghoste]

Car hoarding, they should do an episode about that.

[bakerhillpins]

Car hoarding, they should do an episode about that.

Careful what you wish for.  Ever watch that show? They end up cleaning the places out and throwing most of it away.

[Ghoste]

Actually I don't.  I figured they just showed you the places and all the crap they had.  I better take back my comment.

[JB400]

Car hoarding, they should do an episode about that.

Careful what you wish for.  Ever watch that show? They end up cleaning the places out and throwing most of it away.

They bring 3 or4 dumpsters in at a time and usually becomes a community effort to clean those places up.  It is unreal, unfortunately, a reality

[Ghoste]

Yeah, we don't want them doing that to the car hoarders, we just want the pile split up among folks who can use the cars even if only for parts.

[model maker]

Those horders on the tv shows are  sick, if you have ever seen the shows, people going in wear hazmat suits NO JOKE ! there is food that is 10 years old and rotted wear people gag and throw up from the smell. dead cat skeletons are often found under the mess on a floor thet hasn't seen daylight for years. The horder has to be there and review each thing that gets tossed and still fight to keep a molded, rotted whatever it is. these guys who do this to cars are  close to being if not being horders and will never let anything go even if it is to preserve it by someone who will do just that.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

Those horders on the tv shows are  sick, if you have ever seen the shows, people going in wear hazmat suits NO JOKE ! there is food that is 10 years old and rotted wear people gag and throw up from the smell. dead cat skeletons are often found under the mess on a floor thet hasn't seen daylight for years. The horder has to be there and review each thing that gets tossed and still fight to keep a molded, rotted whatever it is. these guys who do this to cars are  close to being if not being horders and will never let anything go even if it is to preserve it by someone who will do just that.

That happened to me recently.  Guy had boarded up a barn in 1994 after someone broke in and stole some stuff.  He hadn't been in until we went in over the summer  We found a mummified cat while uncovering some 426 Hemi's he had lying on the floor.  I will not lie, I screamed for a second finding that cat.  Then he kicked it under a car and we moved on.

[model maker]

Man  oh man,  that por cats owner has been wondering where the cat was. he must have boarded it up pretty tight in order for a cat not finding a way out.

[Lord Warlock]

Don't bust on every person who holds on to old cars and thinks he'll restore or fix it up one day.  While its unlikely anyone will actually restore one that sits in a field where trees have grown up around it, its easy to see how that can happen to someone without a garage to store one in.  I built a two car garage just to store my old charger in, and for six years now the stealth has sat outside  while i worked on the charger slowly, eventually returning it to near streetable condition.  The stealth's paint has deteriorated to where i'll have to strip it and repaint it again, but mechanically, its whole drivetrain is new and ready to go but to the purists stealth community i'm letting it go too far while trees and bushes have grown on both sides. 

I was one of those that refused offers of well intentioned car rescuers who would knock on the door and offer bundles of cash, (usually about 1/3 of its worth) even 5 or 6k wasn't enough to make me blink an eye.  I did have one that offered 12k for it once, but even that wasn't near what they were selling for at the time.  If you truly want to save one, make an offer close to what its really worth, and explain to them what it actually costs to rebuild one.  You really don't have to spend 60k on a total restoration, if you have the time and most of the parts, you can bring one back for only 4 to 5k.  Its only the small details that tend to start draining the bank account as you progress.  I got my charger for 800 cash in 1978, drove it for a few years then stored it. I've put close to 4k into it in the last 5 years, and still have another 3 to 5k to go before i'll be happy with it, but from this stage i can display it in public and not be ashamed of what i've brought.  I've easily spent more than its auction value just storing it for this long.

[Ghoste]

I agree a lot of worthless offers come from cold callers but a lot of those people with cars rotting into the dirt like that also have some insanely inflated ideas of what their junk is worth too.

[stripedelete]

Imo,  it's the only thing of value they have or, and I believe much more likley, it's the only positive attentinion they have ever recieved.  Get rid of it, at any price, and they have nothing.  In any case, it's a shame.

[charger_fan_4ever]

if you have the time and most of the parts, you can bring one back for only 4 to 5k.  Its only the small details that tend to start draining the bank account as you progress. 

That is assuming you have a rust free car and just need to bondo dents ? Paint/materials are well over $1000. Does not leave much meat on the bone.

Case in point I and others have spent well over $5k in just metal.

[Lord Warlock]

indeed, painting can cost anywhere from 500 to 10,000 depending on whether you do it yourself or pay someone else to do it for you.  It cost me at least 1k to paint mine, and mine was almost rust free and needed no new panels.