Neglected '71 Super Bee

https://www.ebay.com/itm/315103227385?

I love a 71 Bee, but thats gonna be one wallet draining restoration.

It looks like it was pulled from a muddy lake.
Didn't 71 bees have grill like indentations in the doors?
Was that an optional or are the doors replaced?

Don't quote me but I don't think 71 Super Bee doors had indentations. 71 Charger R/T doors had two vertical indentations and 72 Charger Rallye doors had five horizontal indentations.

Ad says "very very solid Calif car"; I don't recall any swamps in CA, but I could be wrong.
It IS quite complete, but that's more of a map than an inventory of good parts.
Nevertheless, given what some even worse stuff sells for, it may well bring close to $20K.

a Mopar5150 car IIRC

Carsten

I don't think this car was a long term CA car. Looking at the roof, floors, and underside look more like PA than CA.

Agreed. If it's solid, I'd Roadkill it and get it good enough, like Dulcich's Brocharger pre-bodywork.

I must be looking at a different car (or possibly insane, there is that possibility) but I think it looks pretty solid. Surface rust and dirt galore, but most of the metal looks pretty useable. Have to see in person, but yes, a very expensive restoration regardless.

To answer the door question, the R/T got the door "louvers"but the Super Bees didn't.
R/Ts also got the cooler tail lamp treatment.

Roof photo looks like the car spent some time on the CA coast; maybe near the SF Bay area, where they rust from the top down.
But the undercarriage looks to me more like rust belt.

It doesn't look punched with holes but the underside has some serious scaling IMO and it may lead to pinholes once cleaned. It just doesn't look like a dry car to me but I'm not saying it's not salvageable

I see holes in the dutchman panel and the roof looks very scaly.

So that's where that car went. Good project, will need an entire interior from the water damage in it. Roof and dutchman panels are not hard to replace and the body is in overall good condition. That shade of yellow and brownish interior means it's not a popular color combo. Stright body, mostly complete and a clean title, if he got an offer of $17k, he should grab it and run. If I was going for a 71' B-body in that color, I would splurge for the R/T Peter has in the forums car sale section.

Cool car love the 71 chargers.Looks like alot of metal work for someone.

Love these Chargers as well. I would die a happy camper, if I owned a '71 FJ6 Hemi Super Bee or R/T.

Looks like it needs an entire roof skin replacement to me. But I think floors underside and frame rails are surface rust from what I can see. Car would need to be seen in person.

Going to be a rip in the frame rail hooking like that... I see in the one picture. Bought a lot of West coast cars. They get covered in dirt and rain from setting open doors , windows. Underside could have been moist area sitting on. Like another said. A coastal rots worse or like a back east car.. Salt air kills them

Indeed!

If that's your FJ6 Bee...it's beautiful!
Have you taken it to the Packard Proving grounds Mopar show in the past?
If so, I have seen it in person.... again, beautiful car!

It is beautiful!!!

I believe I did have it at the NOMM Packard show a few years back (2012?) or perhaps you saw it at the CEMA show @ the previous home of the Museum that year.

I saw your car, at the NOMM show in Utica... I think I even chatted with you, about it.
It is a fantastic car!