A friend of mine lived across the street from a car lot owner. They were pretty good friends.

One Friday night I was at my buddies house and the car lot guy called to see if I wanted to buy the charger. At that time it was a street car with a roll bar and had been run in Heavy Bracket a little.

It was pretty much a rat but had a new 440 "race" motor, new 727, new 10" Continental converter and new Dana 60 456 gears.

Basically lots of new high dollar parts in a used up body.

I said no, I wasn't interested. I already had a 58 Studdy two door wagon I was building for a race car.

The guy was asking $8500.

So a half hour or so goes by and he calls back with a lower price (induced by a few beers).


Well, this goes on for a couple hours and, long story short I finally bought the thing that night for $1500. Twenty four years later I'm still the proud owner of a pretty fast '66 Charger.