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Is the buyer interested in a bridge I have for sale ?
Somebody needs to save this 68 charger from becoming a restomod (for sale, not mine)
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That's the second gen Charger market these days!
Mopar Hunter
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Someone’s on crack, sounds like the seller was bidding on his own posting, we’ll see it relisted pretty soon.
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We all have opinions.
To me, a 318 car isn't necessarily worthy of a "numbers matching" OEM correct restoration unless one really wants to go that route. Dave Walden did it with a 4 door Valiant (Maybe it was a slant six car? Not sure)
The Chargers are highly valued right now but that may change. Awhile back, it was the 70-71 Barracuda/Cuda that was the top dog.
People took 318 cars and made HEMI clones, 440-6 clones, etc.
I'll admit, I'm not a rabid fan of the ultra high dollar restomods like these:
While I like to see these cars in shiny paint, I prefer to see stock-ish interiors and absolutely NO radical body modifications. A few years back there was a green '69 Charger that was done by the Ring Brothers. It had some weird custom work where the area between the rear wheel openings and taillight panel was shortened...
They cut almost 3 inches out where the bumblebee stripe is. Notice how short it is at the base of the C pillar to the end of the quarter.
The front wheel openings were moved forward several inches.....
...and they did some weird rocker panel work forward of the doors.
Most Mopar guys would sense something out of place but one familiar with the Chargers knew what was wrong with it.
I hate to echo the words of the purists BUT the 68-70 Charger is and was almost perfect in design. Just about every attempt at improving it fails miserably.
Just one man's opinion, of course.
To me, a 318 car isn't necessarily worthy of a "numbers matching" OEM correct restoration unless one really wants to go that route. Dave Walden did it with a 4 door Valiant (Maybe it was a slant six car? Not sure)
The Chargers are highly valued right now but that may change. Awhile back, it was the 70-71 Barracuda/Cuda that was the top dog.
People took 318 cars and made HEMI clones, 440-6 clones, etc.
I'll admit, I'm not a rabid fan of the ultra high dollar restomods like these:
While I like to see these cars in shiny paint, I prefer to see stock-ish interiors and absolutely NO radical body modifications. A few years back there was a green '69 Charger that was done by the Ring Brothers. It had some weird custom work where the area between the rear wheel openings and taillight panel was shortened...
They cut almost 3 inches out where the bumblebee stripe is. Notice how short it is at the base of the C pillar to the end of the quarter.
The front wheel openings were moved forward several inches.....
...and they did some weird rocker panel work forward of the doors.
Most Mopar guys would sense something out of place but one familiar with the Chargers knew what was wrong with it.
I hate to echo the words of the purists BUT the 68-70 Charger is and was almost perfect in design. Just about every attempt at improving it fails miserably.
Just one man's opinion, of course.
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70ChargerRT
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Everyone around me “I wouldn’t turn that real RT car in to a Restomod” me…
That's the way I see it. My car is worth more now because of the fact, that it is what it is. Sometimes daring to be different is the spice of life. If everyone's going to wear black shoes, you can bet, I'm showing up in brown.......... How you train for daring. You get out of your box and jump into the triangle. JMO
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hdwrench
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resto or restored , it needs fixed up . we all can agree on that . in what direction the finished car goes is all up to the guy who writes the check . it does look like a good chunk of change to get it back in shape .
They ruined that green Charger,by modifying the proportions.and the wheels make me want to vomit violently!
beanhead
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BAN this man!!!! He obviously doesn't have the Mopar soul...
...and have a hell of a lot more fun with it! Unless of course you aren't interested in actually driving it....
318-powered-anything isn't worth going the "OEM" route as far as I'm concerned unless it's in nice condition already and you just want to keep things original.
Otherwise, it's a blank slate fer hotrodd'n........
I like cars to look fairly stock, at least exterior wise... Wheels, tires and stance can make or break a car.... I mostly run 15's but don't mind 17's or if there's still sidewall on the tires some 18's can look good....... Engine/trans/suspension & brakes modify it to drive well... Interior? Mostly stock, better seats if they have a proper "Look" If they look to modern I'm not a fan.. The more stock looking Dakota Digital stuff is cool, but I prefer OE...
beanhead
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Me too.
One day I hope to get around to replacing my '03 Stratus buckets with some more period-correct ones, then the interior will have the complete old-school look I'm after. Won't be near as comfortable to drive but oh well....they'll look better sitting still!
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Ooof. Those guys….
I bought my gauges from them and they do look and work well BUT…
They later came out with a cluster using a more factory appearing design and implemented other changes that preclude people from just buying the instrument panel. To use the new design, everything has to be switched… wiring, sensors and the hard drive.
Put the older digital dash in your other Charger,and upgrade the red cars dash! That's the beauty of having more than one Charger!
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