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Offline DAYTONA

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the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« on: February 15, 2006 - 06:29:50 PM »
....the 1970 Challenger RT pictured here was bought new by a neighbor of mine in the winter of 1969, he lived just one block away....due to a small problem with the car(driving under the influence) he lost control of the car on a snowy city street spinning the car several times and barely clipping the corner of the local Coca Cola Plant....he drove the car home and more or less buried the car in a deep snow drift, swearing to never drive the car again, he didn't....

....a few days later he tells his co worker Ed about the Challenger and the accident, and he wanted to sell it really bad to buy a pick up truck for the winter....asking price was $1,000, but Ed bargained him down to $800. and picked the Challenger up a few more days later when it could be shoveled out of the snow drift...

....Ed bought the Challenger in 1974 and still owns the car to this day, it is an all original, matching numbers 383 AT with a little over 40K original miles....the repair from the accident was very very minor and was taken care of the spring of 1975...Ed has driven the car a little in the last 30 years and we took it to a local garage a few days ago for a tune up, probably the first one in a decade or so...
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Offline DAYTONA

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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2006 - 06:48:16 PM »
the interior....
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2006 - 06:48:53 PM »
mouth open, FEED ME...FEED ME...FEED ME
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2006 - 06:52:45 PM »
Nice looking car he's got. Not too crazy about the luggage rack, though. Is it still your neighbor's car, or are you fortunate enough to own it now?
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2006 - 07:07:03 PM »
Nice looking car he's got. Not too crazy about the luggage rack, though. Is it still your neighbor's car, or are you fortunate enough to own it now?

I believe the luggage racks were an option....from what I understand/remember the luggage racks were the exact same part used on the Corvettes during the late sixties...


not my car, after 30 years it still belongs to my buddy Ed, and he won't sell it...
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2006 - 07:17:09 PM »
Thats a great story...thanks for sharing it!

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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2006 - 07:19:28 PM »
Are you sure he won't sell it?  Tell him I've got a hot $850 burning a hole my pocket.  lol  He'd make money on the deal!
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2006 - 07:47:55 PM »
Another good story.I think the luggage rake adds a good look to a convt.
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« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2006 - 07:49:44 PM »
Are you sure he won't sell it?  Tell him I've got a hot $850 burning a hole my pocket.  lol  He'd make money on the deal!

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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2006 - 08:43:17 PM »
Nice looking car he's got. Not too crazy about the luggage rack, though. Is it still your neighbor's car, or are you fortunate enough to own it now?

Nice storey and car!!

Love those luggage racks on convertibles. :thumbsup:
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2006 - 09:50:08 PM »
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2006 - 11:42:08 PM »
Ithink the luggage rack looks great on the Challenger. Nice story to go with the car also.


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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2006 - 11:51:26 PM »
Wow, I feel like I just stepped back into time with that car!!!  Amazing!!!!!  The story is almost unreal too, but I can believe it.  Some crazy deals were struck about ten years before I was born. :hyper:  Thanks for sharing the history of that car with us, Daytona. :cheers: :woo:
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Re: the $800. 1970 Challenger RT conv....survivor
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2006 - 06:31:25 PM »
I like the luggage racks on the convertibles too...

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« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2006 - 06:35:04 PM »
I like the luggage racks on the convertibles too...

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