What lies beneath

[Dr.Jass]

Before you click on the link, hear me out:

The red paint has to go. The hood and spoilers need to leave as well, taking the SE door panels with 'em. Adios, wheels--but the dog-dishes stay. Say goodbye to the idiotic Super Bee regalia too. Clearly those are some of the worst tailpipes ever bent, so into the scrap heap with 'em. The bumpers need to be rechromed.

Long & short of it, nearly everything done to this car to try and make it something it isn't, needs to be reversed.

1972 Dodge Charger - STL8367

Red 1972 Dodge Charger powered by a 500 CID V8 engine with a 4 Speed Manual transmission (8367-STL). Gateway Classic Cars has 3062 Classics For Sale in our 18 Indoor Showrooms Nationwide.

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Why, you ask?

Well, according to our man Govier, this car is 1 of only 28 base Charger WL21 coupes--fixed quarter windows, mind you--built with a 400 and a 4-speed. Of those 28, it's probably safe to assume that at least half of them were Rallye package cars, which this one ain't. This car was the cheapest of the cheap, the Road Runner they weren't really building anymore. It had a flat hood, probably dog dish hubcaps--and it was black on black, with no vinyl top or stripes. I'm shocked the original owner sprung for the console and radio; the Rallye dash might not even be original.

Make no mistake: I'm all for spoilers and trap-door hoods, and I love me the '71 SE interior, but this thing was so barrel-bottom cool originally I'd love to have it in that form.

 

[restoman]

For $38,500, I'd be expecting all of the paint to match, at the very least...
I'm with ya, Doc. The go-fast stripper would be worth more to me than some perfumed-up wannabee, especially a black-on-black big block four speed stripper.

I did an estimate years ago on a local '69 Malibou, post car. 350 4 barrel, four speed and a 12 bolt 3.73 posi. In Garnet Red with a black interior. With full wheel discs. No other options to speak of.
I loved it.
I didn't get the job (though he was booked for the work), and the guy who ultimately ended up doing it talked the original owner into power steering and brakes, swapping out a lot of the aggressive top-end work done over the years, Cragars, modern red garnet pearl with SS stripes, and an aftermarket A/C system.
The guy did a nice enough job on the car (except for forking up the body mounts and bowing out the front fenders to get the bumper to fit, and replacing both front fenders and rear quarters instead of repairing the originals, which were very repairable), but the basic-ness of the car was gone forever.
Just another '69 Chevelle at that point.

 

[thrashingcows]

That is a cool car like you say Doc, but the finsh on that car is horrible, the attention to detail...what who does that? The rear tires are dirty and are BFG's and the front are Hancrooks....for that price you don't even get matched tires I guess. Then the felt marker detail work on the dash....looks like a 4 year old did it, and the rest of the car is not much better.

I'd be hard pressed to want to pay more then $15K for that car.

 

[Dr.Jass]

That is a cool car like you say Doc, but the finsh on that car is horrible, the attention to detail...what who does that? The rear tires are dirty and are BFG's and the front are Hancrooks....for that price you don't even get matched tires I guess. Then the felt marker detail work on the dash....looks like a 4 year old did it, and the rest of the car is not much better.

I think you missed the point of my post, Cow. I don't like anything about the car as-is... all the beauty is in the data tag, which is why it's the only picture I posted.

 

[Dr.Jass]

For $38,500, I'd be expecting all of the paint to match, at the very least...

Yeah, I really wondered who the hell thought that was acceptable. It looks like a quilt.

Shame about that Chevelle but all too often, guys try to make something they want out of what they've already got. No big deal were it a 307/3-speed car, but that one sounded like someone wanted to sneak up on folks. In 1969, the 350 was still solely an HP engine.

 

[Stretch]

Good Lord! Who the fuck bent that exhaust system??? It looks like its falling off!!! Whould it be to much to ask you have a little fucking pride in your work??

One of the first things I notice when walking up to a car is the exhaust system. If I can see more than a few inches of the header going into the collectors and ANY of the pipe as it heads to the rear axle I hate the whole car!