The seller of this 1969 Dodge Charger claims not to be a Mopar man, but that isn’t stopping bidders from driving up the action on this project-grade example they just took in on trade. Curiously, the listing says they would consider swapping the Charger for a set of “Magnum wheels,” which seems like a bad deal with bidding currently over $8K here on eBay. I’m guessing it’s a slip of the tongue, or perhaps the seller thought interest would be limited due to the extensive floor and trunk rot on display.
The Charger does have rust issues to contend with, as daylight pours through the floorboards and the seller also specifies the trunk floor as another area of concern. The rear lower quarter panels are also needy and a replacement rear valence should be sourced. The seller says that they’ve known the previous owner for years, and that it was a running/driving car for much of that time. He seems confident the Charger will just need a battery to fire up once again.
The car was originally medium blue metallic with a black interior, which had to have made it a looker back in the day. The Charger now sports some very tired red paint, with an engine bay that’s coated in overspray. Here you can see the rotten floors and a dash that has seen better days, along with the missing instrument cluster. On a positive note, the seller claims the doors, fenders, and rockers are all in decent shape.
Here’s that spray-bombing I referenced earlier – they didn’t even try to keep it off the hoses. However, on a positive note, the Charger comes with a clean Mississippi title, and the air cleaner is sitting on the front seat. The title and original colors may make this one appealing for restoration, but you’ll want to also determine if the missing fender trim tag is a potential problem. Bidders seem hungry for this Charger, which is offered at no reserve.
I need a big building like that!
Its commonly called a barn – hey, yeah, a Barn Find!
VIN Code F stands for 318 2-bbl, so that is what this had originally.
My mom and dad bought a charger in 69 unfortunately my mother was run off the road by a double semi and that was the end of the car. I was strange that they bought a mopar because at the time my dad worked at the chevy plant in van nuys california.
Before I went back to college I worked for Toro on the assembly line. Not only did that job encourage me to go back to college after doping out it made me never own a Toro product. No mowers, no weed wackers, nuttin. To
not buy GM when there was a substantial employee discount, now that says something. Or maybe Mom just wanted that Charger, men who love their wives will do most anything for them. What engine and tranny did the 69 have? Most were 318s, actually a very nice balanced standard.
My brother was a GM mechanic for several years, said he’d never buy one. I hope your mom was ok.
Several of my family members work for Ford and some have retired from Ford and several of them buy GM cars and one even owns a Kia…..it creates some hard feelings at gatherings.
Let’s turn it into a General Lee!
Lets not. I really hated that show, though I did see value in Daisy’s attire.
Yes definitely Turn it into the general lee
Let’s not and be one of the very few that didn’t!!!!
right. everyone does that
Original thought is such a challenge for some…
Take a cheaper car and turn it into a General Lee – like a 2019 Audi RS3.
Good idea
Resale Red strikes again.
Calling all Mopar freaks, break out your wallets, another rusty clapped out Mopar for sale! Spend Spend Spend!……LOL!
Keith, you’re douchebag. LOL!!!
But seriously.
Seventeen more thumbs up to make it an even 20.
That picture of the barn with the car’s nose visible is golden. Pretty much exactly what I think of when I think “barn find”. My guess is that some of the people bidding feel the same way.
Nothing wrong with a General Lee replica, if that is the new owner’s
goals.
Exactly!
Except that there are way too many of them!!
The comments above regarding turning it into a General Lee clone remind me of a personal story. When I was an apprentice electrician, my journeyman had a fried who had (and still has) a very nice “street rod” 69 Charger that had been featured in Mopar Muscle magazine years ago. It still has the original 383 and four speed, but he added a factory cast iron dual four barrel intake manifold from an earlier model Chrysler and two carter AFB four barrels, headers, hotter cam, etc. We were working in the area where the charger owner lived, and knowing I was into cars, my journeyman asked me if I wanted to stop by and see a cool car. I said “sure!” and he proceeded to fill me in on details on the way over. He mentioned how the owner hated it when he went to car shows in the 80’s and 90’s and little kids (mostly- sometimes adults) would comment on how he should make it a General Lee. After we arrived I looked it over and made comments, questions, etc. Then, being the joker I am, told him “Man, it sure is a nice car, but would be awesome painted orange with a big ol rebel flag on the roof!” The guy’s face turned bright red, and he asked my boss “Where did you find this guy at?!?!” I busted out laughing and we have been friends ever since.
On the subject of Chargers, there was a 66 or 67 in a local salvage yard a few years ago. It was a shell, pretty solid , that appeared to be an abandoned paint project. Paint stripped, in primer, some repair done but not finished. No engine or trans. I took photo of the trim tag and when I got home, decoded it to be a 318 2 barrel/ auto car originally. On the same website, I looked up what the number for a hemi 4 speed car would be. I texted an exterior photo to the same guy and asked what the numbers meant, except I substituted the hemi and 4 speed codes. About 30 seconds later the phoe rang, and they guy was so excited he almost couldnt speak. I told them I was watching them feed it into the crusher. He came unglued! I had a hard time explaining tht I was just yanking his chain. He didn’t talk to me for a month or two…
You were so EVIL, LOL!! :-)
Or how ’bout a clone of the bad guys
Charger from Bullitt? Always thought
the Charger sounded better than Steve
McQueen’s Mustang. The Charger had
more of a throaty rumble to it. Whichever
what big block was in it, the sound of that
car stayed with me for over 50 years now.
Of course the Charger sounded better. It’s a Dodge.
Pretty sure it had a 440. I recall reading that the Mustang’s 390 had to be hopped up a bit so it would run with the Charger on the more open sections of the chase.
Somewhere I saw a photo of the primary camera car used in the chase filming. Now THAT was hotrod ingenuity!
DO NOT make this into a General Lee clone. Be original.
Make it into KITT, or a time machine.
Moparman, you are right Steve is evil! I passed on a ’67 Sattalite 2 door hard top with virtually no rust the other day for $1,500. I should not have hesitated. As a week later I went back and it was gone ( it was not even advertised and it was in the middle of about 20 other cars so actually “seeing it” was almost impossible.
Live and learn.
Hell, i have a set of original hemi magnums i would trade. This thing will fetch ” mopar money” would live to have this@
Mopars rule,but I think this guy parked it in the barn to get it on this site! BR549.
ill trade you two alfa romeros and a porsche for the car they need work and the porsche has a running engine but will not have any rims or tires.