Koby Prater's great thread
http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=89547.0 on this board got me thinking about where some of my past Mopar rides may be now. Are they still out there somewhere? Or are they rusted, wrecked, or junked? If they are out there, where are they and what would it take to buy them back now a days (assuming that they were for sale)?
I was lucky enough to have owned a HemiCuda from '83 to '86. In '86 I sold it to Joe Pacheco of Pleasanton CA who held onto it for a number of years before selling it himself. Where it is now I have no idea. It doesn't matter for even if it was for sale I simply couldn't afford to buy it back anyway
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However, the '70 Challenger convertible (318/auto) that I bought after I sold the 'Cuda I did find and it is apparently alive and well in Sweden. What's up with all of these Mopars being shipped overseas anyway?? I found it on the following website
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mopar70.com%2F. If you click in the "Challenger Register" box a drop-down menu appears allowing you to search various years and models of the Challenger and that's how I found it. Here is what it looks like now
http://66.7.215.34/~mopar70/html/register/bilder70/PAU144.jpg. Wonder what it would take to bring this one back from overseas like Koby did??
On the flip side I learned of the somewhat grisly fate of a '68 Super Bee (383/4-spd) I once owned. I heard from a friend of mine that the Super Bee had blown it's engine and was subsequently abandoned by the owner. The city picked it up and had it towed to the fire department training area to be used as a training device. They set it on fire and practiced putting it out
. What an inglorious fate for what was once a pretty nice Super Bee.
Wonder where the rest of them are??