The Dodge Charger got off to a modest start in 1966, a cross between a personal luxury car and a performance machine. Demand didn’t take off until Chrysler’s B-body intermediates were redesigned in 1968, and the ’68 Charger ended up outselling the 1967 model by a ratio of nearly 6 to 1. The seller’s ’68 Charger appears to be the hot R/T edition, though he/she doesn’t take advantage of that designation in the listing. Available in Columbia Station, Ohio, and here on eBay, this bright blue Mopar needs loads of work (and it’s not running, either) at the current bid of $15,800 with an unmet reserve and a pass-go price of $29,995.
Unlike its corporate cousin, the Dodge Coronet, the Charger had a tunnel back roof line much like the GM intermediates of 1966-67. After a disappointing sales output of 15,788 units in 1967, the all-new Charger saw deliveries of 92,590 copies in 1968 of which 17,665 were the R/T. That model came with a 383 cubic inch V8 as standard and the VIN on this car says it came with the optional 440, whether or not that’s what’s under the hood today.
This rusty muscle car is offered by a dealer, so little is known or imparted about its 56 years or 74,000 miles. The automobile wears what might have been Cobalt Blue paint and the black stripes across its rear section could be from 1968. The interior needs work, but it’s not as bad as many others we’ve seen. The seller believes that everything except for the 440 V8 and TorqueFlite are numbers matching. The engine is missing its carburetor, so who knows what it will take to revive the motor, if at all.
Second-generation Dodge Chargers (1968 to 1970) are sought after these days, and their popularity probably wasn’t hurt by the media. A ’68 Charger R/T was a major player in the great car chase scene from the movie Bullitt, and hundreds of these Chargers were put through the grinder making the 1979-85 TV series, The Dukes of Hazzard. Would you be in for this project at the Buy It Now price?
Wow, that car needs a lot of work. I’m sure it was cool in the day but a rusty, perhaps non original engine non running that needs literally everything replaced at even $16k seems high. Best of success to the winning bidder
I’ve seen running examples in better overall condition for less.
But but success.
Hmmm, did not know the 383 was the base engine for the 68 Charger R/T.
It wasn’t. 440 or 426 as option on R/T in ’68.
Per Russ Dixon:
” . . . the all-new Charger saw deliveries of 92,590 copies in 1968 of which 17,665 were the R/T. That model came with a 383 cubic inch V8 as standard . . . ” Maybe Russ can clarify?
He’s just wrong. Maybe I shouldn’t say this here, because I’m not trying to be rude to the guy or anything, but at least in his writing about Mopars, he’s said quite a few things that just aren’t at all true. It seems he just looks up stuff quick, doesn’t understand (or doesn’t read it correctly) and makes the errors. I’m sure it’s not intentional. But at any rate, he’s not right, the base Charger R/T engine in 1968 was the 440, with the 426 being optional, regardless of what he wrote in the article.
Another pie in the sky price for a junker that isn’t even numbers matching. Even if it was, there is absolutely nothing special about it this cat that would justify that price. Nearly 30K for something that would need probably 50K minimum to make it a really nice car worth maybe 60K. Doesn’t make any sense.
The highest price you can get out of it is to create a custom resto-mod, and drop either a 440 or 426 hemi and get over 150K and if you don’t believe that, front the costs and I’ll build it!
Throwin’ good money after bad! It would take 150K to make it worth 150K. No thanks.
Just like old Porsches, I am now convinced that not a single ’68 Charger got crushed, even if it deserved it.