Well a bit of side track, I didn't post on here but mentioned in mopar4don's thread about a 69 RT that was literally 5 mins from my house been sitting since the late 70s in the bushes. The guy who told me about it couldn't rememeber where it was so it was like dead end for me. A few weeks later I'm at a family get together (wifes side) and talking to her uncle about my 69 charger and he says "one of our cousins (wifes second cousin?) had a 69 charger rt back in the 70s, nice car dark green 440 column shift white interior with a bench seat. That car he smashed up the one side and pulled the 440 and drug it up the hill behind the garage, far as I know it's still there". So I am gleaming, go to father in laws that night where he tell
me no that was jut an old dodge magnum....dreams shattered. Few more weeks pass brings us to this Tuesday evening. One of our regular customers rolls in with his work truck and a flat, normally the apprentices get those but they were busy on jobs, I was done and waiting for 5pm to go home so i took it. Fate....kinda, this customer is a mopar guy and has owned various mopars over that past 25 years and currently looking for the next. He and I always talk old cars and this time we got talking about my charger and he says " you know one of your wife's relatives, Gary had a 69 charger rt, hell of a nice car, 440 bench seat column shift, green I belive it was. That car should still be up behind the old building, he smashed the one side and pulled the 440 and put it in a dodge magnum". The puzzle completes itself more! The following night wife and I went for a drive through the woods trying to get that back way to where the car was, it had been years since she'd traveled these trails so we didn't fair out well. The reason we decided the back way first was the relative that owned the car passed away in the mid 80s, house fire wife and kids survived, sad story. The charger was behind his parents garage as he was still living home at 19-20 when he had it. His father passed in 06 and mother early 2014 so home had recent new owners. Before bothering them I wanted to verify it was there but it didn't work anyway. Tonight after work I decide just to go to the house, I knock on the door say the house was in wifes family's and there is an old car on back part of property I'd like to see if he didn't mind. He says sure I don't know much about cars but there is one up there that seems pretty much a wreck to me. I got up and find it, very very rough but many usable parts, engine and trans are gone, white interior is there but tattered since no glass or doors, rear end still there and k frame entire front clip gone and left 1/4. I check the vin and verify it's a rt snap a few pic and go back to the house. The guy says what kinda car is it, so i tell him it's a 69 charger, he said cool, I don't know cars so that really doesn't mean anything to me lol. I say dukes of hazzard, the general lee, he says oh that's cool do you think you can use parts? I said yeah he said then its yours! I nnow it's really rough and it burns me to the core to strip parts from a rt that is really not much worse if not a little better then my xp29 but unsure of the title. Anyway sorry for the long winded post I just still find it funny how the car was under my nose and in wifes family and I had been to the house never knew there was a charger just behind the trees.
pics are dark I will get better ones Saturday when I go back.
