I hate to see those cars beaten up but in 1982 no one knew the future value.
Last year I saw the Dukesfest and they wrecked quite a few Chargers. That was just wrong
I wrote a letter to the people who put on that show complaining about wrecking all of those chargers, I think they wrecked 22 or 23. In responce I was told the cars were in too bad of shape to do anything otherwise.
I didn't understand that as they were able to get the 70+ mph to launch them and if they were so bad shape it looks like they would have broken apart when they hit the ramp.