69 Charger R/T abandoned and left for dead

[coronet68mx]

Before you do anything do yourself a favor and get a Tetanus shot, good luck.

 

[moparedtn]

Paging Chris Birdsong.... @smb03

 

[Liberty MW]

A craigslist ad netted some parts in short order for just a few hundred dollars!

Paging Chris Birdsong.... @smb03

Thank you but I have done 4 other b bodies and currently doing a 70RR that was not as bad but close. I have been restoring cars for 35yrs, I got this.

 

[Liberty MW]

A few calls and we got some parts for the cause for a few hundred dollars. Seems the local mopar crowd is daring me to do this. We'll see

 

[moparedtn]

A few calls and we got some parts for the cause for a few hundred dollars. Seems the local mopar crowd is daring me to do this. We'll seeView attachment 1256645

I LIKE this! Get 'em!
OF course, we wanna watch too...

 

[F4R/T]

Go for it! I commend you for the challenge! I live the thrill of the hunt so to speak and the challenge of it.. Keep us posted!!

 

[Liberty MW]

I LIKE this! Get 'em!
OF course, we wanna watch too...

I will start a build thread in a few months. I have a full chassis car on my jig at the moment and another non mopar restoration wrapping up first.

 

[F4R/T]

Keeping it unibody? Whats the end game plan, near stock?

 

[Nxcoupe]

A craigslist ad netted some parts in short order for just a few hundred dollars!

Thank you but I have done 4 other b bodies and currently doing a 70RR that was not as bad but close. I have been restoring cars for 35yrs, I got this.

Exactly! This car and even one's that are worse are still worth restoring if they can be had cheap enough. I've restored cars for a living at one point and am now getting into it for the hobby and pleasure it gives me to save just one more of these beautiful cars Mopar turned out. I want to watch this progress, you got this and I, for one, am cheering you on.
I'd keep it original, just because it is an RT, if it was a base, I'd rock it with a late model hemi and T56, but this car would be stunning with B5 and a 440. Jmho.

 

[chargervert]

There is almost no such thing as a second generation Charger parts car anymore. I cut up many that were better than this one in the late 80s because there was no sheet metal to fix rusty New England cars. Now I save all of them I can.

 

[4speed68rt]

Cool yard art!! Shine it up and put it up on a pole!! Cool story though.

 

[xs-ivv]

Its amazing how many different opinions there are on this car. This isnt a slant six duster that we are talking about. 69 charger rt, se? Get out the AMD catalog and a credit card and get er dun!

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Its amazing how many different opinions there are on this car. This isnt a slant six duster that we are talking about. 69 charger rt, se? Get out the AMD catalog and a credit card and get er dun!

While I agree I'd put it back together it's an R/T but not an SE, he posted the fender tag, theres no A47 so no SE pkg...

 

[QOTHL]

I'd keep it original, just because it is an RT,

If I read it correctly, it's not only an R/T but an SE as well. There were less than 4500 R/T SE's made that year. And he's got paperwork which is worth a lot to begin with.

 

[QOTHL]

While I agree I'd put it back together it's an R/T

How many R/T's did they make?

 

[1 Wild R/T]

If I read it correctly, it's not only an R/T but an SE as well. There were less than 4500 R/T SE's made that year. And he's got paperwork which is worth a lot to begin with.

You didn't read it correctly... It's an R/T.... As originally pointed out by CHARGERSTEVEN in post 18 there is no A47 on the fender tag...

 

[Liberty MW]

There's some argument on the SE part but the original owner says he has the sales contract so I am trying to get it and the holes in the sail panel look like SE badges. This car has a lot of options not listed on the fender tag also. I am just starting the research. I found a 70 body that can help this project immensely and the owner of that car says I can have it if I clean out his carport to get it out.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

How many R/T's did they make?

Little over 20,000

 

[QOTHL]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

From reading your posts, you've got experience and if you were daunted by the challenge, you wouldn't be posting photos of this project. I've talked to people who run restoration shops and they say some of their customers do one Mopar and then say they'll never do another one because it was too difficult. That's a Chevy person or worse, a Ford person. My friend with a really nice 69 GTO brags about how he paid $23K for a fully restored car. I paid nearly that much for my 69 R/T SE as a good project car.
Thanks for posting this project. I'm looking forward to when it hits the road.
In my humble opinion, this is one of the most beautiful body styles ever created. It will be iconic a hundred years from now, it is etherial, looks out of place among other cars. I've driven to car shows (I'm almost always the only 69 Charger there) and people see it, are drawn to it and are literally stunned in to silence, it's so beautiful. The GTO gets attention but not like that. This is the epitome of industrial art.

 

[QOTHL]

You didn't read it correctly...

Yes I did, just didn't decode the fender tag.

The original owner says it is an SE