The seller of this 1968 Dodge Charger needs money to fund his business plans. The Charger is listed for sale here on eBay with a Buy It Now Price of $140,000. There is also an option to bid on the car and after 42 bids the price is up to $130,100 with 1 day left in the auction. The car is located in Tampa, Florida. Over 96,100 Chargers were built in 1968 and approximately 17,000 were optioned with the R/T package.
The pictures for the car are not professional but the car appears to be pretty nice. The white interior contrasts well with the dark green exterior. The interior is said to be in original condition and the odometer reflects 60,834 miles. The seller states that the car has not been smoked in and the dash is in perfect condition. All the accessories are said to work including the clock. It would be helpful if there was a Galen Govier report to help buyers decipher the originality of the car. The VIN is XS29J8B361044. The data tag is provided in the pictures.
The car is equipped with its numbers matching 426 cubic inch V8 Hemi engine backed by a 4 speed transmission. The seller states that the car runs well and just invested some money getting in tip top shape. The engine compartment looks clean. The 426 cubic inch V8 engine was rated at 425 bhp and was the top dog on the street. Today, this car is very rare and sought after by investors and Mopar enthusiasts.
This car represents the first year of the second generation of the Charger which spanned from 1968-1970. Many enthusiasts think this is the best looking year of all the Chargers ever produced. The car was featured as the “Bad Guy” car in the Steven McQueen movie, Bullitt, in 1968 which popularized the Charger R/T. It is a lot of money but should be a great car to own and enjoy. I hope it gets driven and shown and not just put away in a garage.
Yes yes and yes
You buy this, and you have yourself a nice slice of heaven, and a great investment. Not much to fault on this `68, nor do I want to go looking for any nits to pick. Where Hemis and Dodge Chargers are concerned, this is the pinnacle. I love it.
Beautiful, yes, no doubt about that. Investment? Questionable, could go either way. The baby Boomers are starting to drop like flies, will younger people put as much value in these? Yes, premium stuff always commands higher prices, but that also requires people with money to pay for them. Right now we have a small percentage of the population with more money than they know what to do with, but will that go on forever? Will the Progressives take power, will there be something worse? I say, buy it if you can afford it, drive it, but do not count on it making money. That is what I did with my house decades ago. It has supposedly rapidly appreciated, and if my estate is richer for it, good for the kids, but I have never counted on it. I just lived here, raised my family, let it make me feel happy. I wish cars were treated the same way.
You make a very point Gary I’ve wondered the same thing. But I think there’s a bigger percentage of people with more money than sense than you may realize.
Gary, tell the younger people to go watch the movie “Bullitt”. And then ask them that question again.
Not only the best looking Charger but IMO the best looking Chrysler product ever.
Smitten again, BF.
Now if I could only scrape up $150k USD.
Bob
Good heavens. I’d park that in my living room.
Beautiful car but no thanks at Barrett Jackson pricing.
Grail car. “Top dog on the street” is right. It will be interesting to see if the market agrees
Amazing what movies and TV shows will do for the price of your car. I remember when you could buy these for under $10k in the same condition fast forward to the fast and furious movies and Duke’s of hazard and now that are bringing this kind of money, I remember when you could buy a Tucker for around $10-$15 k now they are around a million. Hey Hollywood do a movie that features my 28 year old truck
I don’t believe these could ever be purchased for under 10K “in the same condition” as this one. Hence the power of a hemi engine as much as movies affects the price on this one.
This car was flooded in Hurricane Sandy. The title used to reflect it but now it is clean? Do a search on the VIN and you will see.
Salt water exposure!
Just Googled the VIN and several threads about this being a flood car show up. Here’s one:
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?topic=98125.0
Yeah, I read that too…there is a whole thread about it…just google the VIN and there you go…
What difference does it make? A 68 charger isn’t loaded with electronics like the junk built today… Once it is cleaned and dry it would be good as new.
It may not make a difference at all, but if you were shelling out this kind of dough, the seller should be disclosing this fact.
And, salt water does a hell of a lot more damage than just to electronics.
I bought a 1970 Charger new for $4000. The hemi was another $1000, so I settled for the 383. And sold the car cheap in 1975.
This one looks good, but I never did like the vinyl tops.
You were smart, the hemi was only good for one thing, and being an all around useful driver, it was not. I had a similar car new in 1970, a 318 though. Never regretted that choice.
A storied and well proven engine on the race track, whether roundy rounders or in a straight line for a quarter of a mile. Maybe the best from its era. These were rare back then, almost invisible when I was in high school(early eighties), and now I see them more than ever…the Hemi powered Mopars. I think it’s great, I’d personally rather have a 440 powered Charger but that’s just me.
So I’ll ask the woodstock generation out there, was the Hemi really king of the Street? Street, not track. There was a lot of muscle around back then aimed more at street performance.
Nice car by the way, great color.
Two words: they were. At least in all of the magazine road tests of the era. But those tests were conducted with professional drivers who could get the car to hook up with the skinny bias-ply tires of the era. In fact, the 440-6 was concocted to take advantage of that problem… if you could goad the kid with his new Hemi into boiling the hides and you didn’t, you had him. Drag races are won and lost in the first 60 feet.
What other damage? If the car is throughly cleaned what other damage… My car from Ohio is always covered in winter salt which is 100 times more damaging that soaking in saltwater for 2 weeks.
Off the top of my head – every wire that got wet with salt water, engine tear down, strip, and complete rebuild, and any other component that the water could have gotten into. Steering column, the list would go on and on.
I know I’m not feeling safe shelling out these $$ for this car. Maybe a thousand dollar risk-mobile, but not this.
If this car was reasonably priced I wouldn’t hesitate but the price is outrageous.