Author Topic: How You Found Your Car (Read 102340 times)

74 challenge · « **Reply #195 on:** August 06, 2013 - 07:48:16 AM »

I was looking for a mopar as my Gift to myself for graduating college and getting a real job and i was searching high and low deciding if I was going to buy locally or find one in the states etc...

I was looking at challengers in my area and someone sent me a link via Kijiji and a week later I was there looking at it and I couldn't keep that smile off my face and knew I had to have it.

It was my first ever classic car purchase and I learnt alot. it wasn't worth what I paid considering it's overall condition.

anlauto · « **Reply #196 on:** August 06, 2013 - 09:28:19 AM »

I find it everyday, right where I left it...

joelson6 · « **Reply #197 on:** August 16, 2013 - 11:05:06 PM »

this is kind of ironic,

my car found me, seriously.

one day back in october of 89, i pulled up to my apartment and there's a green '72 340 4 speed challenger parked there.
it belonged to my buddy's friend from college. he was selling it cause he was getting ripped every time he took the car
to a repair shop. so, he wound up buying a new car. long story short, when someone wrecked my 66 belvedere convertible
on new years eve 1989, i got the insurance money and bought the challenger. had to lose one to gain one.

mopar steve · « **Reply #198 on:** August 16, 2013 - 11:42:46 PM »

i found mine in a field floor board deep in the ground so i dug her out and started a ground up restore the only part that will not be new it the vin

moparman82 · « **Reply #199 on:** August 17, 2013 - 09:21:58 AM »

I was truck shipping in Longmont, CO, pulled out of the dodge dealer and saw a little shop with a bunch of A and B bodies sitting around so I stopped to poke around. Went around the back and was looking and a 68 road runner (which is still there) and the shop owner came out. He asked me if I was shopping and that everything was for sale. I told him I was a mopar guy buy really would only be interested in a E body. He laughed, and pointed and a weeping willow tree that was about 10 feet away. Pulled the branches to the side and there was my go-mango chally. He went and got keys and a battery, popped em in, and she started right up. He gave me the rundown of everything about the car. So at this point I was prepared for a asking price between 10-15k. So I asked how much and he said 5k.........so I called the wife and the rest is history.

70 MT Chally · « **Reply #200 on:** November 15, 2013 - 07:11:54 AM »

I answered a CL ad for a Challenger in Montana.
17 People saw the ad in the first 10 minutes after guy posted. 16 people wanted to lowball him. I offered his asking price and I now have my 70 Challenger.

It was a barn find. Farm find. Field find.

First pic is what was advertised. Second and third shows what I found when I got there. I couldn't load it fast enough. Even if it takes me 10 years to restore, I am glad to have it.

All the parts are there except headliner and carpet.

steven · « **Reply #201 on:** December 16, 2013 - 09:36:41 AM »

Went into a gas station to pay for my gas and there was a dude sitting on the hood of my '73 Barracuda when I came back out. He wanted to make sure he didn't miss the owner because he had a '71 Barracuda he needed parts for and figured since I had one maybe I could help him. I convinced him that '71 were the hardest of all to get stuff for and told him he should trade me. It worked. When we went to his place about forty miles away it ended up being a convertible. He failed to bring that up. Traded him the '73 and $1,000.00 to boot. I paid $450.00 for the '73. That was in Nov. of '91 and I'm finally about to see it all come together. Patience, Patience, Patience !!!!!!!

Jesus H Chrysler · « **Reply #202 on:** December 17, 2013 - 11:55:29 AM »

When I was 17 I worked at a gas station/garage after school. The garage owner was friends with the garage owner across the street. One day the guy across the street pulls in with a 73 Challenger 340 pistol grip car. He picked it up in Maine for cheap money. He started working on it until he got a deal on a 72 convertible... He sold me the 73 for $1500 (in 1990 dollars) and an agreement for me to help him restore the 'vert. I knew next to nothing about working on cars at the time, I just read A LOT. He taught me how to do brakes from scratch on the 73, how to do a clutch, tune up, basic rust repair etc. I drove that car for a couple years, but it was always a hooptie. Barely running and nowhere near a show car. But a matching numbers 340 Rallye.

Fast forward 2 years. With his help I got a working knowledge of cars. Had a rental garage with a lift and was getting more experience by the day. He and his wife had an argument over the convertible. She wanted a Ford retractable hardtop, not "that piece of junk". He got so upset he told his wife to screw, bought a Harley and sold me the 'vert because I was the only one who helped him with it. I had a baby in the meanwhile, so I had to hide the "second kid" from my GF for over a year before I told her I wasn't building it for my friend it was actually mine. Out of spite she made me sell the 73

I'm not even going to get into the saga the Mass RMV put me through just to get a title for it...

dodj · « **Reply #203 on:** December 20, 2013 - 05:42:32 PM »

I was having a few beers over at my brother in laws house and told him about this car i saw as a kid. A white 'cuda with a black tail panel. Chrome letters "'cuda" stuck in my mind from when I was 13 yrs old. He said "look in the back yard". So I did and there was a white '73 Challenger. Looking a little rough and he had sold the seats, but it was a white e body. We struck a deal that night. My 6mm Remington 700ADL for the car. The only gun I ever got rid of, (I like to collect guns - somewhere around 100 rifles, shotguns, and handguns now) but I don't regret it. Replaced everything but the roof skin now....

Joe mama · « **Reply #204 on:** March 19, 2014 - 04:09:41 PM »

After I sold the 69 Hemi Bee last year I was going through Mopar withdrawal. I was looking for a 68 ~ 70 Charger. Everything I looked at was overpriced and needed more work than I was willing to do. After all , it took me 26 years to finish the Bee. If I did that again I would be dead before I finished it!
I was looking on e-bay and seen a Challenger that looked interesting. 38,000 miles, 440, tremec 5 speed, Dana 60. Drilled / Slotted rotors, aftermarket sway bars. There was only 20 min left on the auction. I wasn't going to bid on the car with out having it inspected first. Then I seen the car was from Livingston, TN. My brother works in Livingston. I gave him a call to see if he knew the car. He didn't answer the dam phone! So I just let it go and the auction ended and the car sold. (No reserve) The next day my brother called me and I explained the car to him.
He said � I know that car, that�s Jims car� I�ve judged it at car shows and have been in it. Then he *****ed at me because I didn�t bid on it. He called Jim to ask him about the sale. Jim said there was a problem. The guy who won the bid didn�t want to give a deposit until he seen the car. It was over 48 hours and still no deposit. Jim canceled the sale because of no deposit and sold the car to me for the same price as the auction sale price. The next week I flew to TN. Spent the weekend with my brother. Then drove the car back to Michigan. What I great trip I had driving home. The car was better than expected.
This is one of the first cars that my wife loves to go cruising in. Probably because I haven�t finished restoring her car. (68 Firebird convertible) I was planning on going to Carlisle and going on the Power tour this year but my daughter is getting married and that�s putting a bind on a few things.

bobs73challenger · « **Reply #205 on:** March 19, 2014 - 04:43:09 PM »

Well, I was up in Worcester, MA (not far from home and all my friends) for my bachelor party. I live in NC, so it was easier for me to get there than it was for 15 other people to get to me.

My good friend Aaron owns a garage in town and is a hardcore Mopar guy. He's got a Super Bee and a Challenger that I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know enough about.

I was visiting with his wife (a long time friend) at their house who mentioned that Aaron had a Challenger for sale. I was going to see him next anyway, so I figured I'd get to see the car.

Got to his shop and sort of kicked the tires on it. He told me it was for sale. I had always wanted to buy an older Mustang and didn't ever picture myself in a Mopar.

He gave me the keys and told me to take it for a ride. I was hooked. A pretty reasonable price plus a 500 dollar donation to a local organization and it was mine. I didn't buy it that weekend, but called my wife (to be) and talked about it a little bit. Came home from the weekend and talked about it a little more. Ultimately decided to buy it.

I had a bit of a hard time getting it titled down here. Before he owned it, it was a Rhode Island car. RI doesn't issue titles for cars over 10 years old. I bought it from him before he registered it (he had planned to sell it the whole time to fund a cuda build for his wife). So I had a RI registration and bill of sale. Had to get a title bond through NC. Took a little while, but it got sorted out and now its perfectly road legal.

That's how I became the only person in the world to buy a classic car from the north and ship it to the south.

Topcat · « **Reply #206 on:** March 19, 2014 - 11:40:08 PM »

I tried to find the post I had here but it must've been removed from somebody here.

Go Figure!!!

Back in March of 1972, my stepfather and mother went car shopping.
They were car shopping at Normandin's Chrysler Plymouth.

During a work week about March or April, I was in the garage at the age of 12.
They drove up into the garage with what I didn't know later would become my car.

I remember that day clearly since the Snake Cuda Hotwheels car was one of my favorite in my collection.

This is the oldest picture so far found of it back around 1979.

GreenFishie · « **Reply #207 on:** April 25, 2014 - 05:51:28 AM »

I actually drove by it a few dozen times in the early 90s going from CU to Ottumwa IA for the g-d awful job I was working to stay in school.

Never stopped. Just dreamed as poor college kids do.

In December I began negotiations with the wife and we came to a mutual agreement in which I would get my Cuda, in whatever shape ... and she would get her first gen Camaro. Timetables being very fluid mind you. And of course ... not in "her" garage.

So I searched listings for just over a month, looking for my 73 Cuda ... and some of the prices people were asking for non-functional project cars were just ridiculous. If it ran at all the prices were beyond ridiculous. On a whim I hopped into the Yaris and drove the same road to Ottumwa ... not really knowing what year she was or if she was even still there almost 20 years later.

But she was. She sat in a farmer's field (junk yard) amidst snow drifts, overgrown dead grass and about 30 other junked out cars that weren't officially junked. She was a 73, but she wasn't a Cuda ... her other sister wasn't a Cuda either, but still a 73. The third sister was a 73 and a Cuda. The farmer (son of the original farmer) wanted everything cleared out but was sharp enough to know I really wanted a 73 Cuda and wasn't going to let the chance go to clear out some junk and take me to the bank at the same time.

We haggled for another day and the only way I could take the Cuda to the dance was if I took her sisters with her ... and coughed up 10k.

The wife has yet to see what I blew up the savings account for ... and I think she's intentionally avoiding that particular scenario for now. Her and the girls take a "girl's" weekend to Chicago whenever I announce plans to work on the Cuda over the weekend. She does so while shooting me that look that says "I dare you to say something about money."

blown motor · « **Reply #208 on:** April 25, 2014 - 08:26:56 AM »

Quote from: GreenFishie on April 25, 2014 - 05:51:28 AM

She does so while shooting me that look that says "I dare you to say something about money."

I here ya brutha, I hear ya. Good story.

Dr. Feelgood · « **Reply #209 on:** April 28, 2014 - 11:55:48 AM »

Hah! Goes out for one car...comes back with 3!

Brave man!

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