How did you guys find your car?

[Norwoodville Speed Shop]

I like coronet kid's story best. He found my dream car. I only wish he would have called me and let me know it was there.LOL. Good score coronet kid

 

[Chris-Turbo]

Not a car on there I could afford except fopr the two bumper cars...LOL

Too small engine. ;)

 

[OG max wedge]

I like coronet kid's story best. He found my dream car. I only wish he would have called me and let me know it was there.LOL. Good score coronet kid

thanks man!

 

[Donny]

I was driving to Houston on a back road back in 1999 and spotted a Satellite out of the corner of my eye in a mom n pop car dealership for sale, I stopped, turned around, he wanted $1650.00, I wrote him a check for $500.00 and said I'd be back tomorrow or the next day with my trailer; which the rest is history!

My GTX I found on Autotraderonline.com, yeah, hard to believe I found that one, and scored on it! I was in TX, the car was in RI, he said he'd wait for me to come get it, it took me about 1 week to get my act together to get up there...car still there waiting for me, I scored that car for 900.00 bucks! He said it needed a total restoration; he was not kidding!

 

[DavidElmore]

Found mine on EBay, Googling one day. got it on last day of auction out of South Carolina.

 

[bkleenfltx]

MY 1966 HEMI CAR PURCHASE

I purchased this car at the Pamona California swap meet in 2002. It was a
Sunday afternoon around 2:30 and things were starting to wind down. I saw
my soon to be 1966 Dodge 2 door sedan pull in on a trailer. I went over to the
trailer as I was leaving to see the car. There was an engine strapped to the front
of the trailer under the tarp.

The couple pulling the trailer jumped out and you could see that they were
stressed out. I asked a few questions about the car and introduced myself. I said
"your getting here kind of late, things are about over." The related that it had
been a bad day. They had borrowed the trailer, got a late start, flat tire on the
trailer, and had planned on being there in the morning. This was a guy helping
his girlfriend get rid of a car her ex-husband had bought and never finished.

There were no emblems on the car, but there were holes where the engine call
outs should be. There was a big block in the car, a 4 speed hump and a clutch
pedal in it, but it had an aftermarket auto shifter on the floor. I asked what the
engine was under the tarp and she replied "it is the car's original engine." I
asked if I could look at it and was shocked when I pulled the tarp back and saw
a 426 Hemi! I quickly put the tarp back in place. I then looked at the V.I.N. and
consulted my Galen Govier white books, confirming that this WAS a factory
Hemi car. I asked if she had the title and she said no. I said "it is going to be
hard to sell a car without a title." She said that it never had one. She then
proceeded to tell me that her ex-husband had bought this car from the widow
of the man that bought it new and that the car had never had a title and it had
been bought new to be a race car. She said that her ex-husband really had no
business buying the car in the first place because he had no mechanical
ability or extra money to do anything with the car. She said it had been sitting
in the backyard for over 10 years. She was obviously NOT happy.

I gave her $100.00 for a deposit for a first right of refusal on a sale if I
determined I could buy the car, wrote down the V.I.N. and said I will be back
in 10 minutes. As I was walking away another couple of guys were walking
towards the car and asked me what the story was. I said "I am not really sure
but they don't have a title for it, and I am not going to buy a car without a title,
it might be stolen." They stopped right there, turned and walked away. I called
the California State Police, gave them the V.I.N. and asked if it had ever been
reported stolen, as the seller had no title and I was interested in buying it. They
said no, there was no report of it being stolen and in fact there was not even a
record of it ever being registered. This jived with what the seller said so I went
back and began negotiating the price of the car. After I had made the deal I
asked if she had the name and contact information of the previous owner. She
said "no, her ex-husband just drug it home one day and all she knew was what
he had told her. I can only assume that the original owner bought the car on a
manufacturers statement of origin (MSO) and it had never been titled since he
never intended to license it for the street.

GREAT STORY.... mine is a bit more lame. I've been a classic car guy for a short time "I'm reliving my childhood" as most people will reference in conversation. Well that reliving process started when I was 16.... and has managed to continue for 42 years.

I've had 65 Mustang, (4) 67 Mustangs..... still own 1 of them, 56 Chebbie, 60 Chebbie, 67 Firebird, 70 Xr7, 65 Malibu SS (very fine indeed), 71 Mach I, any way....as you can tell I love classics and not married to any brand. I've been searching .....nearly 10 years for a DECENT B body...only to find 8,000 junks....some which I was almost willing to pay that for them. 66-7 Dodge Coronets/RT's, 66-7 Plymouth GTX!! (my favorite) ,Satellite,68-70 Super Bee,Roadrunner, GTX's. Any way I've done well over the years with buying restoring and made okay to good money on each upgrade.

So I sell the above mentioned 71 Mach I ... I sold it. First thing my wife says "oh God that means you'll be hunting cars and saying "hey honey see this right here" LMAO!! she was right. SO a month ago...I've playing around on Craigslist on a Sunday night. I'm tired and about to give up.... so I had 68 in the search bar....I click on Dallas.....BAM!!!!!!!!!!!

There it is my 68 Sport! We chatted...I drove up on Tuesday test drove it...paid him... went back on Saturday and loaded her up!

 

[mikeyfrano]

73 dart I found in the local paper. Test drove it went back to negotiate in the guys house and I could hear the car out in the garage reving so I looked out there n my buddy was roasting the tires in the guys garage. I smiled n
shut the door and gave the man $650 for it

 

[Daly]

I had been looking all summer for a classic car, I wasn't being picky either. I looked at a 51 Chevy, 66 Chevy c10, Dart, Mustang, Lemans, Laguna, Cougar, everything… Then the day I was going to look at another Dart and guy I work with came up to me and said he had heard I was looking for an old car and that he had one. So I went to look at it after work and by the time I had driven the 30 min drive home I had decided to buy it. This car honestly dropped into my lap…

 

[Bb70charger500]

Pure dumb luck . I look often but never seem to find anything. People call me the charger man around here and somehow they all come out of the wood work and are brought to me fairly cheap . I needed a rearwindow once and they wanted 1200 for a new one . I so happen to get lost one day and in finding my way out drove up on a 73 project/parts car for sale (ran and drove) got out looked it over told my wife if it has a nice back glass and is under 1200 i would buy it guy came out said he wanted 1500 i said no thanks he said wait wait I need it gone make an offer so $800 later I drove it home .
Another one was a 72 rallye came up on c.l. I emailed the guy about 30 times no reply About 1 year later I get a call are you still interested in my charger I said hell yes I'm on my way . I'll get the urge to look around for a car one day and there is another they just won't leave me alone. There like lost dogs.
Went to a friend's house one day was leaving and noticed a set of hideaways in the garage I ? Him on what's in there "ah it's a old 68 t bird" I'm fixing to send it to the scrap yard .
"Can I look at it?" "Knock your self out"
68 t bird 2 door 429 thunderjetmint black interior and only 46xxx miles on it no rust or dents. I tell him don't bother calling the scrap yard I'll haul it out of there for him and I even have him his $300 bucks... 4 days later sold the car for $5000.00 I love when cars fall in my lap like that

 

[Car Nut]

Google map.

 

[jimt1971rr]

My 1st mopar was a 68 Barracuda fastback. The car belonged to a freind of a friend, her name was Jill. My friend George and I went by her house a couple of times and while they talked, I drooled over her cuda. The next year, Jill and I had a class together at city college. I had told her to let me know if she ever wanted to sell it to let me know. A few months later she did & I bought it for $850. That was in 1984 and have had mopars ever since.

 

[RT K_line]

My first mopar was a 66 4 door coronet 440 that my mom passed down to me when she got a newer car. I only got it because they only offered her $200.00 trade in for it. It had a 318 polly motor. I got a summer job at Sears and started saving up to get a big block. I was originally going to buy my cousins 383 out of his 71 superbee that he wrapped around a pole at the North star mall in San Antonio. But he ended up selling it before I could send him the money. No paypal back then lol. So I talked to his brother who worked at the Dodge dealership in San Antonio about building me an engine. I sent him money every week to buy what he needed to build a 383. He ended up calling m and telling me that he could buy a 400 police interceptor from a 72 model that was new with less than 100 miles on it. SCORE!! So he bought it and then went to a local transmission shop and bought a big block case since I had a small block 727. I drove up to San Antonio from Corpus Christi, we pull out my 318 and transmission tor down and reassembled the transmission in the new case. I had to be back in corpus to work on Monday so I took the bus home. Next weekend I took the bus back and we put the engine and transmission back into the car got it running and drove it around the block with open manifolds at 11 or 12 Sunday night. Needless to say I missed work monday. Unfortunately I was out of money so I had to wait 3 weeks until I could send the money for the duel exhaust system. My cousins were planning on coming to the coast to do some fishing so they brought my car down with them. I was out with my friends when I got the car that my car was back. We all went to my house so they could check it out. I've been a mopar driver all my driving life. Since then I've owned a 70 hemi GTX which I found and bought when I was at TSTI in Harlingen. It didn't have the engine in it but I knew what it was. I scored it from a Mustang guy for $150.00 SCORE a second time. Then my current SCORE was a 67 R/T that I was after for a while. The guy lived 2 blocks down from me and every time I walked down to the corner store if I saw the owner outside I would stop and chat. Always leaving with if you ever want to get rid of the R/T come see me first. A year or two pasted and he came knocking at my door said he wanted to sell the car and the rest is history. I sold the GTX and built the R/T with the money, I knew that I would never have the money to put a Hemi back in it so I made a hard decision. I really liked the body style of the X but my first love was the Coronet. I still own it Today.

 

[Bruzilla]

Daily search of Craigslist for about a year and a half. Had to kiss a lot of frogs to quote the girls. I drove around looking at a lot of "project" cars that were nothing but scrap.

 

[Cranky]

The last 66 Belvedere I bought was advertised on this site and the guy lived less than 10 miles from me. 27 years ago, a co-worker that I went to high school with saw a 66 Belvedere 2dr post for sale and remembering the 66 I drove while in high school told me about it. Went to look at it during lunch and told the guy I'd be back right after work to buy it. Cost 1150 and the AC worked. It needed paint and interior but it ran well. Drove it for 10 years but it's been sitting in my shop for the past 17 Most of my cars have been found in the classified ads in the local papers. In 86, I found a 71 340 Cuda but the guy wanted too much imo and moved on but saved the ad. A year later, I found the ad while cleaning out my desk and called and the number was still good and he still had the car. Went to look at it again and it had a newly rebuilt engine and trans and the price was a 1000 dollars less than the year before and it became mine.

Bought a lot of cars just by riding my murdercycle around the neighborhoods and seeing them sitting in the driveway or beside the garage....

 

[mutt71]

I found my '69 Satellite was for sale on E-bay. I was a bit nervous at first, but, bid on it til I got the reserve in the rear view mirror, so to speak. The car was in Tennessee and I am in Massachusetts. I rented a U-haul trailer, and headed down to pick up the car. The car was located close to Ft. Campbell in Ky/TN, which was great, as My loaded an youngest both live there. After picking up the car, I headed to my Daughter's house for a visit and drove home the nest day. My oldest grandson (5) went nuts when he saw Grandpa's new car! I put him behind the wheel and he did what every 5 yr old does. He pushed every button, tried to turn the steering wheel, etc. I got up on the trailer and started it up. He loved the sound of the engine idling and said, "WOW, I Love this car, Grandpa!". I can't wait til he visits or I visit him with the car, to take him for a ride.

 

[440+6]

Bought my GTX from one of my best friends in 1979, he found the car a year earlier in the sticks where we used to hunt, he stopped by a place to ask permission to hunt the land and saw the GTX sitting in the driveway, made a deal and brought it home.
I cruised in that car and helped work on it tons of times before I owned it, I knew exactly what I was getting with that one.

 

[Mocajava]

In 1973 I was just a 17 year old kid in high school working in a gas station where I had been working since I was 15. Driving my first car, a '56 Chevy that I had built after finding it on blocks in a neighborhood backyard. The mechanic I worked with (Bruce)had a buddy named Steve that visited him after hours and we used to BS for hours and work on our cars in the bays while pumping gas, both of them were Air Force GI's. Steve had a B5 68 SuperBee with a 383 Magnum, 4 speed Hurst and about 75k on the odometer and he liked me since I am an Air Force brat. I fell in love with that car as the mechanic (Bruce) had a 67 Gran Torino and he and Steve used to do burn outs in the station driveway. Steve came in one day and said he wanted me to buy the Super Bee and he was going to work with me however it took to make sure I could afford it. After a price was established and Steve worked out how I could pay him over a 6 month period, he signed the title over to me. I sold the 56 to a friend within a week and proceeded to terrorize the local hot rodders with my new toy. After installing headers, Mallory igniton, better rims and wide Remington tires and a Holley carb, the car ran great and would hook up most of the time. I raced, dated and almost lived in that car for two years until the worn paint and aging interior weren't suitable for the present girlfriend. I almost gave that car away for $750, and have kicked myself constantly over the years for letting a woman talk me into parting with it. Because of a tragic house fire, I don't even have one picture of her. I have been in Alaska for 28 years and looking for the replacement ever since I got here. I finally found a 69 Coronet last spring in Wasilla about 50 miles north and rekindled a passion. My present wife and I went up to look at it, she told me I HAD to buy this car, ........sure love that woman and for obvious reasons. Mocajava

 

[PP1RT]

:sad::sad11:Bought my first mopar from my brother. He had no money no motor and no tranny. Since then i have found a few driving around,caught wind of a couple,found a couple in ads. I have one that a guy that saw me hauling another car and he flagged me down cause it was like a car he used to have, swapped ph#. A few months later he called and told me about a car he found. Bought that one. Bought one in a checkout line from another customer while christmas shopping. Had one guy call out of the blue and offer his car. Bought it too.


Now if i could just sell one(never have sold a mopar in my life. Traded a couple though)

edit.....i sold one but bought it back. We had separation issues

 

[BeatersRus]

the first mopar,wowsa,wayyy back when.
my dad had a new duster,a slant six car,but it was a good looking car.
i learned to drive in that.

so,when i bought my first car,it was a pale blue 72 duster w slant six,and a broken a arm.
i got it welded up,and then proceeded to drive this car in our town with absolutely no plates,insurance,or anything.
( milford mass )
in Fact,the local cops used to shake their heads when id drive by dunking donuts every weekend with loads of drunken friends hanging out the windows hooting n hollering.
they knew i didnt drink and i was more than likely the Only sober one in that car.
they never bothered me at all,till i got the satellite,which i did insure n register.
then i got pulled over a few times,acceleration/tire smoldering,they learned it was my " new car " lol and they let me be.
none of that would fly anymore,times have changed.
( remember when cops were the coolest?? )

my most recent mopar,i was actually going to look at a 2dr studebaker lark and when i pulled up at the guys place/boonies,the 62 dart was sitting off to the far side of his property,and i was hooked immediately,even tho its a 4 door.
the shape of the body,click!

i got out said hi,and walked Straight to the Dart past the stude and checked it and made the deal on the spot.
after about an hour of scoping everything on the dart,we went and looked at the stude,and im glad i found the dart because the stude was an utter pile.

 

[BL1 70 RR]

I liked imperials for a while, I bought and sold alot of those cars before I got our muscle cars. I bought both of my chargers in 1 month. My base model white one I found on craigslist. The owner had 2 of them for sale a plum crazy rt and a base model white one. The rt one was a couple thousand more then the white one.
I decided to wait and another buyer bought the rt. I got nervous that somebody would buy the white one so i bought it. 3 weeks later I got a lead from a coworker that his friend was trying to sell his yellow 70 charger. I went to look at it and bought it... My wife wasn't the happiest person.

3 years ago my son and I wanted to pick up an atv. My youngest sons favorite color is orange and we found a limited edition orange polaris atv in Ironwood michigan. We drove out there bought it and have been having a blast with it ever since. Last year my oldest son went off to college in Duluth Minnesota so we dropped him off and then we would take a family roadtrip with my wife and youngest son to copper harbor michigan. We brought along that orange atv because we where gonna let my son trail ride up the upper pennisula of michigan. We stopped in Ironwood to spend the night and then continue up to copper harbor. That evening my son was ridding the trail threw town when he spotted 2 roadrunners. A orange/red two tone 69 RR and a Orange 70 RR. He came back to the hotel room and told us about them. We spent about an hour that night driving around town looking for them. We found the 69 but not the 70. We spent the rest of the weekend up there and as we where returning to minnesota, my son wanted to stop and drive around town more to find that 70 because he said it was the best color combo he's ever seen on a B body. Just as we where about to give up the search we turned down a dirt road and found that 70 Roadrunner. My first impression of the car was damn, he wasn't lying, that color combo was extremely nice. We approached the car and it was for sale. We took down the number and drove home. The next 2 weeks that car was constantly on my mind. I bought the car in late september and my son and I took a day trip to pick it up. As we drove home we passed threw a construction site and one of the workers recognized the car. When we drove by we gave a little "meep meep" and he laughed. That was a good day.
















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