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    Offline hjeades

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    Newbie From Central ILL.
    « on: December 06, 2015 - 03:57:46 PM »
    Hi everyone. Heres a photo of my 70 Challenger R/T I bought in March of 1978. When I got it it was wrecked with 25323 miles on it.

    « Last Edit: December 06, 2015 - 04:37:35 PM by hjeades »
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    Offline TelisSE440

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #1 on: December 06, 2015 - 04:24:31 PM »
    Welcome  :wave: Sad that you wrecked a really nice Challenger, so few miles... :walkaway: How did it happen?
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    Offline hjeades

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #2 on: December 06, 2015 - 04:36:52 PM »
    Quote from: TelisSE440 on December 06, 2015 - 04:24:31 PM
    Welcome  :wave: Sad that you wrecked a really nice Challenger, so few miles... :walkaway: How did it happen?

    Sorry guess I need to phrase that better. I bought it wrecked. A guy in a town south of me had it and let his sons drive it they put fat tires to big for the wheel wells on it and drove like idiots until they drove into something smashing the right front up pretty good. The air shocks failed after that and smashed up the quarters. The dad got madder and madder about it till he finally got to the point he put the car up forsale. A friend of mine knew I wanted one told me about it and I ran over there and bought the car before the dad calmed down. At the time my kids were very small and we was some broke ass people so I put it aside until I could fix the car the way you see it in the photo. I took up auto mechanics, learned auto body repair and painting so I could do the car myself. I am currently redoing the car again as I drive it as often as possible during the warm months. If we go to car shows out of the area it pulls the trailer with our stuff. I even learned powder coating of which turned into a biz so I could do my own parts. Pretty much everything I have done throughout my life except havin kids and liftin weights I did for that car.
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    Offline roadman5312

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #3 on: December 06, 2015 - 05:31:51 PM »
          Wow dude welcome aboard .   :wave:  Nice work, great story of wanting something so bad you educated yourself and built it. I can relate to being broke ass and scratching up the inside of that barrell. Cudo's to you.   :2thumbs:   Ok now, more info on the car, and many more  :picture:    :picture:   Stick around, you just found the best folks to E Body with.   :cheers:         :rebel:
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    Offline jimynick

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #4 on: December 06, 2015 - 10:41:33 PM »
    Welcome to the site and if you weren't broke when you start with one of these cars, you sure as hell will be by the time you're done! LOL  :wave:
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    Offline 69ChargerRT

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #5 on: December 07, 2015 - 10:27:02 AM »
    welcome!  be sure to post pictures of your progress!
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    Offline Oldschool

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #6 on: December 07, 2015 - 10:31:34 AM »
    Welcome aboard...   :wave:   Very cool story....    :2thumbs:
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    Offline js29no

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #7 on: December 07, 2015 - 11:37:30 AM »
    there loss, your gain! :2thumbs:
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    Offline TelisSE440

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    Re: Newbie From Central ILL.
    « Reply #8 on: December 07, 2015 - 02:20:29 PM »
    That was a nice story...  :2thumbs:  We await your pics!!
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