Going to look at a 73 Charger, not familiar at all!

[swinginmy73]

The people who I purchased my Dart from have a 73 Charger in their yard. Iasked them then what they were going todo with it, they said "Not For Sale"so I left it at that.

I get a text today asking if I am still interested in it they'd take 900.00 for it.

Here's what I do know:
Clean title
AZCar, so body was in better than avg( of course I didn't look it over at the time, but looked clean)
V8 not running
I assume an automatic
Interior is anything like the dart it's shot( at least seats and dash)
Good Glass and all the trim I saw was there and not beat up.


My question is well ok, at 900.00 I assume it's a good price.
Any known areas to look at for costly repairs or extremely hard to find replacement parts. I appreciate the guidance on this one as I am a bit in the weeds on Chargers.

 

[jamesdaytona]

The 73-74 charger bodies were known to have problems with the area around the windshield posts , and down around the cowl area . most all the other rust areas are your normal areas prone to rust-belt cars . If its an Arizona car , you should be in good shape . Send the first 5 digits of the VIN and I can tell you what you have . Been into Chargers for thirty years now . Good luck with it !

 

[MRHWS]

'73s were prone to rust under the vinyl tops, especially the SE. The trunk floor and drivers floor near the gas pedal and of course, the rear quarters. AMD makes the floors but not the quarters, not yet anyways. Hard parts to find.... the rubber bumper fillers, front and back and the pot metal trim on the SE that goes with the fillers. The bumper fillers are not being reproduced, the trim is in Canada and expensive. The steering coupler(rag joint) is not reproduced and costly if you can find nos. All of the lower interior plastic panels and bucket seat backs usually chalk and flake, but are reproduced and costly, especially to ship due to size. The tail light lenses are repo'd but I suggest finding originals. Some repo's, depending on how they were cast, will warp and melt in summer heat. But, as said above, what model is it? WP29 is SE, WH23 is hardtop and rallye and WL21 is coupe and rallye. Does it have a rallye dash, buckets, power windows, uncracked dash pad, bumpers with no dents or rust, a bulge hood, uncracked grill panels, and on and on. At $900, you could easily triple your money in parts alone. Look at some of the posts selling Charger parts and then read the replies asking "do you have".

 

[MustangAndy]

When I was looking at my '71 I was told to make sure that the area where the torsion bars attach to the frame is not rotted - apparently a common thing. Being an AZ car you shouldn't have that problem but you never know.

Frame box on either side of the black bracket in the trans tunnel. you can see where the torsion bars bolt in.

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