How You Found Your Car

[426HEMI]

I found My M46 Barracuda by doing an internet search. I had someone in Detroit to send me the info on the car and I was really wanting to get a Barracuda or Challenger at the time.  I called the guy that had it in Memphis TN and found a trailer and went to look at it.  I offered at the time to get it without the engine or trans.  I got it that day and after what the guys wife said i think I could have gotten it for free or even paid to take it away from there back yard but I still got it for a song.  I did not even know what a M46 Barracuda was when I got it because I had never heard of or seen one.  I am glad I got it.

[chevyconvert]

M46?

        


                                                         

OK I give up !

[Super Blue 72]

I held off the car craze long enough, just focusing on a house we had just bough a few years earlier and three little kids.  I had just dropped off my youngest at nursery school when out of the blue I just felt like buying The Want Ad, a local classified ad magazine with all sorts of stuff in it.

I saw the ad for 1972 Dodge Challenger, good condition, runs good up in NH.  It was just by chance that I was going up to NH to visit my brother that weekend.  My wife usually is very anti-car stuff but I gave her a call froom work and told her about this car on the phone.  I was expecting, "Are you crazy?  Why do you waste time with those cars?" but instead I got, "If it's something you really love then just get it."

I was like  .

So I went to see it, in a barn in NH with 3 racing Mustangs.  The owner was a Ford guy, actually looking for a Cuda but saw the condition of this car and bought it 2 years earlier form the original owner but just parked it in the barn as the Mustangs kept him busy.  There was lots of water in the rugs, smell of mouse urine in the car.  (My brother-in-law didn't even want to get in the car.)

I trailered it home but on the way I drove it by the original owners house since he was in NH also.  The car was a NH car all it's life.  He was almost in tears to see his car again.

When I got about a mile from my house, I wanted to wash the car to make it look nice for my wife.  I had brought 2-5 gallon buckets, one with soap water, one with clean water for rinsing.  I slopped on the foamy soap water and wouldn't you know it, it froze to the car since it was November and the car's sheet metal got so cold from being on the highway. 

So, when my wife saw it for the first time it looked like crap.   

[dutch]

about 9 years ago a friend called me on behalve of his friend. This guy had an old plymouth that stood in his fathers driveway for 2 years and there was no life in it whatso ever. couple of guys with a lot of "knowledge of us. cars" tried to get it running again,but no luck, and the owner was getting pretty sick,because almost everyone broke someting on the car, and still no result. He called me because I had some mopars before and didn`t know who else to call.
When I got there I saw this fat Cuda butt sitting in the driveway! and since I had been an e-body addict for years, but didn`t have the money to buy one, my heart stopped beating for a few seconds...
I quickly found out the problem had to be in the bulkhead connector,I got up side down under the dash, turned the turning signal switch on ,and started pulling wires. Then suddenly;tik tak tik tak...power... still with my feet up the driverseat I turned the ignitionswitch and with a mosterous roar the 440 came back to life!  all this happened in about 5 minutes...the owner happy ,the friend happy,  :woohoo:and me walking around with a big smile...

six years later I got to a point in my life where the time had come to get me one of these!  After surching the web and finding nothing suitable in europe ,I suddenly thought about the guy and his cuda 3 miles from my home . I called him and asked if he still owned the car and how it looked. He said ; I still have it and the last time someone touched it was when you got it running...so I made an appointment , went to see it and purchased the car for 500$ more than what he payed for it years before. He was happy and I had a great deal on a car I dreamed about for years...

[Bearcuda]

M46?

        


                                                         

OK I give up !

Rare quarter panel scoops. Look down by the rocker in the photo.

[69bronzeT5]

Dont have any pictures of it sitting but we got my '69 Charger from a farmers field for $400 back in '98.

[airfueleddie]

I retired from Federal Service in 95. At that time, I asked a former co-worker who was into MoPars if he knew where any could be had. He said he had an old E-Body under the tarps in his shop but wasnt interested in selling it. He then called me back a week later and said his wife was sick and he had to get rid of some projects. His wife was a blatant alcoholic and made him do things he really didnt want to do. I arrived to look at the Challenger and saw the "big hole' in the hood. He said he didnt know how many they made but was sure it was '847'! I asked him what he wanted for it, he told me,(you guys would get very mad or jealous), I bought it on the spot and trailered it home the next day. At the time the most important thing to me was the car had to be a 4-speed.(All My Dodges are manuals). The only automatic car I own is my familys original unrestored 1962 Chevrolet,(Sorry), BisCayne 235 six, 1-barrel, 2 speed auto, 2 door post, 62,898 original miles and runs like a top. So I bought the Challenger for a song, and invested everything I own into it!LOL

[Topcat]

My car found me when I was 12.

[Moparal]

The car I have now, a crane operator in a plant had it in his garage out in the desert torn down to nothing. I sold him a 68 dart with a 499 cube for 14k and bought his barracuda for 12k

[NoMope Greg]

I bought my first Challenger, a base model '70 Go Mango out of the local AutoTrader magazine in '92.  It didn't have an engine, but to my untrained eye, it looked to be in pretty good shape and I had a 318 '74 Satellite that I knew I was going to junk the next year.  I spent the next year rebuilding the front suspension and stripping the car down to a shell, doing some bodywork and spray bomb primer.  In retrospect, it was a pretty crummy job. 

Labor Day weekend, 1993, my roomie comes home from visiting his kids and tells me "I don't know if I should tell you this, but there's another '70 Challenger around the corner from my ex's house.  It's been sitting there for a year, but today I noticed it had a For Sale sign on it. The guy wants $750 for it."  I groaned but figured it couldn't hurt to look.  It turned out to be a rust-free R/T 440 with a four-speed that some previous owner had hacked into the floor to install.  The car was last registered in 1982.  The guy had a '68 Charger with a 440 that he bracket raced and said he intended to acid-dip the body of this Challenger and then take the engine out of the Charger.  But he hadn't done anything and his wife wanted him to buy a boat, so it was up for sale.  I offered him $700 cash and he took it and then towed it across town to a friend's house where I could store it while I sold my other car.  Family commitments have kept me from being able to spend much money on it for years, but that changes this spring.  Either that or I offer it for sale to you guys.   

[jmanscharger]

Ways I have found cars
1. Checking the local trader classified paper when it come out each week (call and go fast)
2. Word of mouth when someone saw my car
3. Trick or Treating with my kids
4. DodgeCharger.com

['Cuda Hunter]

M46-  Ebay
71 barracuda- here on cc.com, great guy to do business with! 
73 Cuda-  Weird local listing here in Colorado
70 barracuda-  friend told me about it sitting in a field out in the middle of nowhere.  Took a while to get with the owner.
67 GTO-thrifty nickle
66 Pontiac 2+2-  Guy was selling a console and said he was parting a car.  Talked him into selling it to me whole.
69 pontiac Grand Prix 428. Drove past it for a year.  purchased it to take the engine out, Couldn't take the engine out as the car drives sweeter than any old car I have ever sat in.  Absolutely incredible car! 
 1970  AAR- guy on a dart page was selling the rally dash, talked him into the whole car
 1972 challenger, 96th in production, guy that sold me the aar found the chally out in a field and told me about it. 
  I don't have all of these still though.

[72bluNblu]

I got tired of my '04 SRT4, or rather, tired of dealing with the dealerships to get things fixed when the little black boxes had issues. So I started looking online and in the classifieds. Found my '72 Challenger just about 10 miles away on Craigslist  . Somehow a Utah car made it to Florida, then out to CA!

Hey Cuda 'Hunter, how did you find out your '72 Challenger was 96th in production? What's its build date if you don't mind me asking? Mine was built 8/17/71...

['Cuda Hunter]

Don't know the build date but the vin number was 000096.
 Look through my posts and you might find the picture.  I listed a few.  If you can't find it, just pm me your email and I can send a pic through to you. 

[71chally416]

Found mine on some Internet ad, but don't remember where. I knew the minute I saw it I was gonna buy it after looking at a bunch of rust buckets.  The seats were pretty ripped up but it just looked right with the pie pan hubcaps and the spoiler. Wish I would have took a picture of it that way.