How You Found Your Car

[72rtchallenger]

bought mine from the orignal owner in 85

[ChallengerGary]

:canada:Check this out. here is a TRUE car in a field story.  Check out www.my70barracuda.com and see what you think.  The site needs to be updated, but here it is.

Cool site - great work on the car - oh  yeah and thanks for the Space Invaders trip down memory lane   

[tx9aarcuda]

It was summer of 1981 and my friend was going to look at a 70 Buick GS convertible and told me that the guy also had  a R/T convertible so I went along and ended buying
my first car a 68 Coronet R/T,and I still have it.  In 1994 I was looking for an AAR when I saw a add in Hemmings for a black AAR I called but the car was already sold then the guy told me he had another black one coming in on trade. I bought that and am still in the process of restoring.

[ntstlgl1970]

I opened the garage and there it was.

I still can't figure it out.

[CHL2T]

Found the Challenger under a tarp less than a 1/4 mile from my house, Missing front bumper and headlight bezels. Drove it home
Found the 66 Charger under a tarp less than 1/4 mile from my house, Complete from original owner. Drove it home
Found the 69 Charger SE in the "Little Nickel" in everett under a tarp, Complete, but needing total resto, towed home.
Found the Cuda in a garage. Back glass smashed, drivers window smashed and drivers quarter glass smashed, 413 torn apart with rainwater inside, interior torn to hell and gone. Towed home
Found the 69 Polara in Kettle Falls Wa. under a tarp. Complete, drove it home

[Challenga]

I called about a 68 Roadrunner on Craigslist in Walla Walla, WA, but by the time I could get over to see the car it was sold.  He said "hey man, I may have somethin you want to look at"  That was my 1970 A66 Go-Mango Challenger.  He had no idea what it was.  It looked bad, but there was hardly any rust and it was really straight.  I bought it for $3000. 

[Tonefiend]

I may have mentioned earlier how I got my cars.  I never mentioned how I lost them.  One day. my cuda was stolen from my garage, so I hid my chargers and challenger out in the yard under tarps.  Then they were stolen too. 

[CHL2T]

I may have mentioned earlier how I got my cars.  I never mentioned how I lost them.  One day. my cuda was stolen from my garage, so I hid my chargers and challenger out in the yard under tarps.  Then they were stolen too. 

Bad neighborhood or what

[TROUBLE987]

well in 1991 i was fixing up a 79 camaro and got it all done,and went driving and seen another guy with the same paint,wheels and hood..oh i was mad..i came home and told dad what happen and that i was selling the car..he said what you going to buy i said something differant,something no one has at school and or going up and down the roads around here...he said well i would buy a mopar..i said whats a mopar..he said let me dig you up some books..so he came in the kitchen and set about 10 books down and said look thru them tell what you like..well i liked the e-bodys..so he said we can start looking but its going to be more money than what you would get for the camaro..i said i dont care..ill work to pay you back,so i told all my buddys my car was for sale but they needed to help me find this and gave them all pics...well 1 friend seen my car setting on a car lot 30 mins away..so i went and seen the car and got it...2950 is what i paid for it 1971 grand coupe 318 the place that had it just put it out there that day forsale..the car had been under a car cover since 1983 and had other cars and a lot of new tires stacked in front of it inside a shop..the owner of the car got a loan from the car lot owner but never came back so it just set there..then he decide to dig the car out and wash it up..my car was so clean and ran good..when the old man said he wanted the money amount the guy borrowed plus 50 for paper work...so i took it..i drove it to school and loved it..and still do today..wouldnt take a 100,000 for my car right now..and thank you to the guy that copied my black camaro..

[aris_unlimited]

I just happened to notice a 69 camaro poking out of a garage near my dads house one day bought it for $800. Sold it for $2500 (without doing any work to it)........and then bought the 72 'cuda for $2000  . As for how I found it, I was just coasting a local for sale website, and just for the heck of it searched for a 'cuda because I have always wanted one, and there it was. Guy wanted $3k, obviously I talked him down.

[kansasrebel]

I found mine in Rogers Ark. I was on a field trip with my ROTC unit from Pittsburg State. I was just looking out the window when I saw a flash of Limelight green. When I seen it was a Barracuda and for sale I borrowed a pen and wrote down the address. I went down the next weekend and the car was still there. He wanted 1500 for it but I talked him down to 1000. At the same time a cousin of my dads told me of a short block hemi still in the plastic wrap for 1000. Had to choose between the car or the engine. Seeing as how I had just bought a 426 wedge with the tranny attached from a friend in Texas I went with the car. I still have the wedge also. I'm thinking of taking the small block out and putting the wedge into her.

[06Daytona]

I was looking for something to fix up and went to look at an original 1968 Hugger Orange Z-28 Camaro. It didn't need any work done on it so I wasn't overly interested. Plus the fact that it was a Z and I didn't want to do anything to make it not original. I told my wife that what I really wanted was a 70s Cuda, and a 71 in particular. We went on the local Puerto Rico classified site so I could show her that they were hard to find and there were probably none in PR. There was one and I grabbed it. The 1972 Challenger that I'm thinking of adopting was found through someone at a cruise night that knows I want all the High Impact colors all at once. 

[TreeFrog]

My Wife's 73 Challenger was an easy one .... I think it was Hemmings, or something similar. Then a short 5 hour trip one way to trailer her home.

[cuda1972]

My brother found my car, he had purchased a 70 Mach 1 from our father. A car that he thought was junk and I never knew was for sale. Anyway my brother is a contractor and built a house for a guy and the Cuda was in his back yard but not for sale. After te ouse was complete and a new pole barn was built he decided to sale it so it was mine. He wanted 2500 and if he would hold it for 60 days for me I'd give him 3000. Best money I ever spent, my new pole barn is going up so the Cuda will leave my brother's very soon. I can't wait, and I'm not mad at him any more.

[TreeFrog]

I got my 72 Challenger from a guy that was going to buy my Wife's 67 Fury III.
He was buying a house and asked me to give him a month.

He was going to put his Challenger drive train in the Fury and sell the Challenger body for $1K.
In the end he ran out of room at his house, and could not fit the Fury or Challenger in the yard, so he sold the whole thing to me for a grand.