How many years b4 u got your car back?

[oldkimmer]

My 68 Dart 270 is coming home after 30 years. Sold it in 95 to a young guy. He drove it for about 5 years then parked in a shed for about 25 years. I’ll spare u guys/gals most of the details. He offered it back to me. I couldn’t say no. I’m a happy camper. I have to go pick it up. It was a slant 6 car that I put the 383 auto and 8.75. Kim

 

[68sprtsat383]

Congrats on getting your car back

 

[6PKRTSE]

Congratulations. Cool story. I still have one of mine since I was a teenager in high school. Still unrestored and over 249,000 miles now.

 

[oldbee]

Congrats, saw your story on fabo. What a convulated mess.

 

[oldkimmer]

Congrats, saw your story on fabo. What a convulated mess.

Yes, from being stolen, registered with a different vin, then sold by the thief then recovered by the popo. Amazing it is all intact.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

Congrats on your old ride coming home...

I brought one of mine home back in September of 22.... Sold it in 95, didn't want to but it allowed me to afford another car that I still own... Happy to get this one back...

 

[turbine68rt]

Congratulations. Cool story. I still have one of mine since I was a teenager in high school. Still unrestored and over 249,000 miles now.

Same here. Got it a year out of high school and plan to have it 'til I'm gone.

 

[moparedtn]

My 68 Dart 270 is coming home after 30 years. Sold it in 95 to a young guy. He drove it for about 5 years then parked in a shed for about 25 years. I’ll spare u guys/gals most of the details. He offered it back to me. I couldn’t say no. I’m a happy camper. I have to go pick it up. It was a slant 6 car that I put the 383 auto and 8.75. Kim

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That's fantastic you got the chance to get it back!

There's only one car like that for me - and there's a chance in a bazillion I'd ever see it again, leave alone the
car actually even exists anymore:

I sold it back in the late 80's to finance buying an all-original '68 Bee (which got sold around '95, too)...
The guy I sold this one to lived in Dale City, VA as I recall - and he wrecked the damn thing a week after
he bought it from me. Last I heard (after I hunted his *** down and read him the riot act about getting
it repaired), he had the car back together and it had a steel hood on it.
So....
If anyone has seen this car in the northern VA area since then, I'd love to hear about it!

 

[68_661charger]

No story to tell yet. Ive been looking for two of my old 70 Chargers, a 500 and and R/T I sold in the late 90s maybe 2000 and they have fallen off of the face of the earth.

 

[68BabyBlue]

I sold Baby Blue in 1991, after eight years of ownership, to buy another GTX, in better condition, and with more options. Even then, it was often cheaper to buy a better car, than to fix one up. I got a call 21 years later from the current owner, the fourth guy to own the car since I sold it. He was the first one to inquire about the history, even though I had left contact information in the paperwork I'd passed on with the car. A year later, I bought the GTX back. The interior had been completely restored.

The GTX ended up costing a bit more than the price of the interior. My friend Bob Miller, who sold me the car in 1983, made the trip with me to Tennessee to drive it home. We never road tested it, just checked the oil and coolant, and hit the road for an 800 mile trip. The car ran just as well as it had in 1991. When we hit heavy rain, we were fortunate the lights and windshield wipers still worked as well. That story got topped a decade later. The '69 Dealer Demonstrator GTX I test drove when it was new became available after I'd spent 50 years chasing it. I finally bought it 52 years after the test drive, the week I retired.

 

[XS22J8R]

Around 16 years for me. In my case I didn't sell it, I sent my HS ride to an out of state shop for a restoration that was estimated would take a couple years before I could bring it home to reassemble it.
This picture is when I got another shop to retrieve the project from restoration shop jail over 13 years later. Though the experience with the second shop left something to be desired also, the painted rolling partially assembled shell was retrieved from that shop, then I had some damage from a mishap unloading it from the trailer at storage, then got that paint damage fixed, and finally after being unsuccessful trying to sell another Challenger I'd bought years after sending this one off that was filling where I needed the space in my garage to use to reassemble the car, I gave up on that happening and stored that car, and brought this one home. At this point 16 years had gone by before it returned to my house!
I am not eager to ever do another ground up restoration, in fact I am not sure I'll still be alive long enough to see another project to completion, if it took as long as this one did!

 

[qkcuda]

Congrats on getting the car back Kim. Looks like it will be a lot of fun.

 

[Dave6T4]

I know where my old 1-of-0 1967 Coronet R/T wagon is, sitting in a huge barn with other cars, about 40 miles from me. If I was independently wealthy (instead of so damned handsome), I would try to buy it back.

 

[oldkimmer]

Congrats on getting the car back Kim. Looks like it will be a lot of fun.

It sure will be Dave. He put the cam, carb intake air cleaner on it as well as the fenderwell Headman’s. I get all the stock stuff with it also. kim

 

[RemCharger]

Good deal Kim, looks pretty nice. I had a 69 Dart custom I sold and got back about 3 or 4 times before it finally went away for good lol. I think it didn't want to leave

 

[Pikser]

+30 years and still looking !

 

[Cranky]

@oldkimmer Congrats on getting your car back! Got one offer on a car that I sold to a friend in the mid 80's but he wanted too much after changing the color of the gut and exterior. It was Plum Crazy with a with white gut and white longitudinal stripe and it ended up all black and no stripe. 100k miles car and nothing was done to the mechanicals. I refused it but probably shouldn't have. 440 RT Challenger ragtop with all the options. Wife at the time hated it and was pregnant too. Oh well.
@1 Wild R/T

 

[#41]

38 so far....

 

[1 Wild R/T]

@oldkimmer Congrats on getting your car back! Got one offer on a car that I sold to a friend in the mid 80's but he wanted too much after changing the color of the gut and exterior. It was Plum Crazy with a with white gut and white longitudinal stripe and it ended up all black and no stripe. 100k miles car and nothing was done to the mechanicals. I refused it but probably shouldn't have. 440 RT Challenger ragtop with all the options. Wife at the time hated it and was pregnant too. Oh well.
@1 Wild R/T

That wife is down the road so you should have kept the car.... U code verts are pretty rare... I've done a fair amount of work on a couple of them... A factory black one & a factory purple one...

Came close to owning a 440-6 4spd vert... Honestly kinda glad I didn't buy it.. I prefer stuff I can drive..

 

[oldkimmer]

Good deal Kim, looks pretty nice. I had a 69 Dart custom I sold and got back about 3 or 4 times before it finally went away for good lol. I think it didn't want to leave

Hey Remi, he told me that it’s time for the dart to come home. He told me he wanted me to have it and that I deserved it. When he told me the price I just about passed out. How could I say no to such a generous offer. Kim