celticwarlock
Active Member
When delivering equipment to a patient's house, I saw a 1973 Charger in his neighbor's driveway. When I approached the car, the owner came out of his house and began talking to me about it. He said he bought it new in '73. It is totally unmolested and even has the original hub caps. It is optioned down, but it does have power steering and brakes (front drums). It's a 318 - 2 barrel /904 car. The rust is significant, but not impossible to overcome. I have seen worse. The subframe is heavily rusted at the biscuits in the rear, but the attaching points on the body appear intact. The torsion bar boxes appear to be in pretty good condition. I do not know the owner of this car, but I owned a '71 SE years ago and have a fondness for B-bodies. I would hate to see this car go to waste. It runs pretty decently (he fired it up for me) and allegedly it drives, but I would definitely trailer it home because of the rust on the subframe. It can likely be had for less than $1000. He said he was offered $300 by somebody for it, and said he wanted more for it. When I asked how much more, he was a bit coy, but I have bought enough cars from enough people to get a feel for what their expectations are. The way he spoke of the initial offer convinced me that it could be snatched up for a pretty low number (though you'll have to do better than $300). I would buy it, but I have too many vehicles as it is, and I do not do body work (yet). It is brown and had a half vinyl roof with white interior (which looked pretty much intact). The half vinyl roof was removed years ago and that area was painted over. It looks decently done, and there is no rust in that area, as far as I can tell. I would have taken more detailed photos, but I did not want to intrude, and I was working at the time.
