Went JunkYardin' and Found This

[ODZKing]

Went to a semi-local pick n pull yesterday to find a door handle for our Chrysler Sebring and was surprised to see this poor thing.
OMG, what a mess. Almost nothing worth taking. Grabbed a couple pieces. Everything was either broken, rusted, dented or rotted away.

 

[Basket case]

holey crap!

 

[kiwigtx]

The ballast resistor looks in fair condition

 

[Habib]

Dash pad good? rally gauge cluster looks promising

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

That cluster looks savable, dash vents look good, wiper motor - can be used on anything from 68 up good for large air cleaners, those wheels look like oem mag 500's I would grab those or get a rag and clean them up a bit to see if they are still good. That's a big block so, that 4 bbl manifold looks savable.

 

[Chargerjase]

I'm actually in need of a few OEM bolts. It looks like some of them might have been there, but not too much else.

 

[ODZKing]

The dash pad had a crack, the cluster gauges all had water in them including the turn signal being frozen in its position. Cluster bezel was cut up, no radio. Even the heater switches were frozen. This had been sitting outside for some time.
There was ONE Mag 500 road wheel on the car and it was chewed up pretty good along with the wheel open moulding on one side that looks like they had road rash ... not sure how THAT happens. The wiper motor no doubt was savable at least for the date code but I didn't have a 1/2 inch deep socket with me. I did get the heater motor and much of the under hood wiring even thought it was cut up in places. I also got the passenger side tail lamp assembly with wiring. The other side was so stuck on there I would have had to break it to get it off. I even tried to get a couple seat buttons and they fell apart in my hands. I managed to grab the driver kick panel and was going for the A pillars but couldn't get the passenger door open so I gave up on going any further with that. Horn on the driver side was there but the bolt that holds it was so rounded off, even the vice grips wouldn't budge it.
On the heater motor it's a good thing Martha was with me because the frame is so screwed up I couldn't get a socket or even pliers on the lower nut to get the heater motor off. Took her 30 minutes and she twisted with a vise grips millimeter by millimeter and finally got the last one off, or I'd have given up on that too. Hood was the only piece of sheet metal that didn't have holes in it or bent to heck and even that had a good amount of surface rust.
I started to try to pull the cables through the firewall and all 3 broke including the accelerator cable.
The only piece of trim that wasn't badly bent or dented was the lower windshield/cowl long moulding and I barely managed to get that as the fenders are so bent back to the window I couldn't get the screw on the one side for the corner piece.
At first glance I said, wow let's see what we can get from it. But after spending nearly four hours most of what I started I gave up on because of nuts or bolts that wouldn't come off.
REALLY sad.

 

[gtx1of1]

why did you take the fender tag ?
its been on the car for 40 years !!!!

 

[Xp29h]

What was the motor?

 

[Seax440Dodge]

400 if it's the orig if my vinfu is correct

 

[ODZKing]

Souvenir I guess.
According to the guys at the counter it will go to the on site crusher soon, as that row was a couple from the rotation.
I wouldn't be surprised if the front clip falls off when they pick it up with the fork lift.
It was a "P" code which is 400 4bbl HP. Intake looked like a 74 with the plate blocked off on the driver side. I should have grabbed the valve covers ... damn!

 

[moparsteve636]

That's not the original engine1 Notice the pad in front of the intake? RB engines are the only ones with it! 400s are a low block! yeah you should have grabbed the v-covers, probably the whole engine and trans. good rebuilders!