I Bought A Rusty 1969 Dodge Charger! (But It's Worse Than I Thought)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Isn't that how it goes, though? You see a couple pictures that look like they were taken on a potato. They're shot from above the car at a downward angle, so you can't see any of the gigantic holes in the bottom of the quarters. There's crap piled inside, obscuring your view of the lack of floor panel. The trunk hasn't been opened in decades, but at first glance it looks like there's still some metal back there. Then you see it in person, and it's already much worse. Then you start poking at it... and before you know it, you've got a 1969 Dodge Charger, Swiss Cheese Edition (TM). The good news is, it's only going to take an incredible amount of time and financial outlay to make it as good as you first thought it was. But hey... it's still a Charger.
I agree; one of the best looking cars ever made, especially in B5 blue. I vote for street cruiser because I want to see more of these on the road.
Burnt orange,plum crazy best two colors
I want it ready for street duty, and for a real good time!
Honestly i can't tell if that car was originally blue or red ! lol. does it have a fender tag
@@zcam1969 It was definitely B5 blue, and appears to have had black interior originally. The fender tag is gone, so I have to rely on the available clues.
@@DeadDodgeGarage see if it has a Dana 60 rearend .that will you clues as to the original engine
Thought you might like this. I was born in 1962, and in the early 70’s my uncle who was a mechanic loved mopar. He also had a chopper with very long front forks. (Easy rider style) anyway my best friend and I use to get in and play like we were driving in the 2 R/T chargers that were sitting in his yard . Neither one ran - I guess they were waiting in line. They were there for quite a while. I loved sitting in them and dreaming. One was that blue on this car with white interior. The other was copper with black interior. They were set side by side so imaginary racing with be and my buddy was inevitable!
I like the fact that you buy these project cars for personal reasons and not with a flipper mentality.
I completely agree! The Love of Chargers should be a personal thing not a financial thing!
Yeah. This is what I love. And when I do sell things… I don’t really make money. So if I am a flipper, I’m a really bad one 🤣 thank you.
@@DeadDodgeGarage paint it blue , please .B-5
Any day you can trailer a Charger home is a good day!
For sure !!!
Very True!
Very cool! ‘68 is 👑 in my book as well!
Well you have a lot of work and a whole bunch of money to spend on panels. I still think that those are the coolest cars ever built.
Jamie, please turn the lovley old Mopar beer can into a street machine!
one of my first cars 1975 i got a red 1969 dodge charger, oil burning 383, loved it, drove it around mountain curves Estes Park Colorado, thanks for the video
You found poor mans gold. Sandpaper, primer, something alittle rowdy under the hood. And enjoy it.
Hahaha "I need to stop with the shop vac while there's still some car left." Good stuff.
Stop with the shop vac before the DDG Charger becomes a UTG 55 Chevy sedan.
Nice find and now the fun begins......... 😆 Cant wait to see many more videos on this project.......
After my 2nd viewing I wish to add to my previous comment; please build the street machine you can daily drive and be afraid every day knowing how much fun (trouble) you can have in her. The fun part is missing out of daily transportation with round aerodynamic no style modern vehicles.
I don't need any special thanks. I'm glad the car's been saved and I'm glad I was able to help out. Btw That's one sweet looking d100
It sure is. People keep trying to buy it. Haha.
Awesome find! I never could make up my mind weather I liked the 68 or 69 the best, so I got one of each! Then like a idiot I sold them both together at the same time! I had a 70 too! If I had to choose 1 it would be a 68 for sure though. A project charger like that is nonexistent around here nowadays and if one popped up it would be a bidding war and fight for it! I've finally came to terms that I'll never own one again but at least I got to enjoy them in my younger days!👍
You might be able to find a 73-74 for a decent price, maybe not the best Chargers but far better than anything 75 up, and Firm Feel makes parts for the front end that helps immensely with the isolated K frame on those cars
Yeah, this is definitely the ideal "fun machine", a car you can just do whatever you want with and not worry about originality and all that other "buzz-kill" kind of stuff. The 440 is the way to go, and then flat black on EVERYTHING for a "murdered out" look. Actually, anything you do with it will look cool, because....CHARGER!
You are correct about needing 30 Chargers. It works out nicely for DD Speed shop. So it appears that you have purchased a similar project to his first Nomad. About halfway through he said “really I just bought a roof and a title”. Best part is, you are one of the most “gitrdone” people on UA-cam. You got this.
Yeah someone else commented that’s what I bought here too. Haha. I’m on it! But first I need to save up some bucks and call AMD…
@@DeadDodgeGarage If the guys at AMD see this video they will be more than happy to talk to you.
You're a very lucky man to even find one of these even in poor condition. Make it Cool and fun and we want to watch it happen! Regardless of what you do, it is a solid investment. These cars are going nuts as far as value! Of course, you already know that. LOL
You really have no shame, do you? I do hope you get rich, really!, I mean it. Then maybe one day, you will do something nice for the poor and disabled Chrysler fans out here in the world. I'm sure you are already planning it all out. Kinda like Bill Gates, maybe. I prayed about it this evening, go buy a lottery ticket and see! Thanks for all you do on this channel, we love you. You know, in a good and wholesome way. lol
Thanks for the extra heart, I needed it. The one I already have has a pacemaker keeping me alive, so thanks brother!
Wowza! That is one rough Charger! But at the same time, like you said, you can make it your own. It would look pretty bad ass painted primer black with a white stripe on the back. Can't wait to see what happens with this one!
That's going to need a collossal amount of work...Your a brave Guy...Can't wait to see the videos. ..Will make great viewing 👍
I stopped Fixing Cars that were that rusted, You have to fabricate to many Panels, Or break your bank account buying them, Its a nice car when finished, But unless you have a full love of the car, Your patience run thin quick. I just missed out on a 69 super bee, I'm glad I did I seen the car , It was Real bad, The car Parted it out. Well Good luck Happy welding.
Good thing AMD makes all the parts to fix it 😂
Now all it takes is time and money.
Gotta go with the drag car plan. It's already got the post-factory light weight body and floor delete option. 😁
Black with flames...baby moon rims...7" front, 10" rear...dual high rise with funnels...chrome roll bar...new chrome slappers. That would a badass! Name it "CRITICAL MASS"
OMG! It's story time! In 1983 I was 24, and living in the rust belt of Western NY. I was in the market for a Superbird. I found an orange Daytona with black guts and a white wing. The original owner was selling it for $2000. It was a 440, 4 speed with 54,000 miles. It ran and drove great, and everything worked. It was completely an untouched, all factory equipped original. I had the cash in my pocket, but I passed on it because it had 2 dime sized rust holes in the quarters behind the wheels. My friend bought it... parked it his yard for ten years and sold it for $8000. Yep. Wing cars were two grand back in '83! It sounds like a bonehead move, and missed opportunity today, but had I bought the car, I would have drove it for a year and sold it to buy something else. I had three more chances to buy a wing car... a Hemi Daytona that was missing its engine, and 2 Superbirds. The best one was a pristine Superbird for $4500, but after I drove it, my desire for a wing car died, because ironically, people in those days called you stupid for driving such an ugly car!
Back to 1983, just finished Basic Training for the Army Infantry and had a bonus check burning a hole i my wallet. See a 1970 Charger at a local used car dealer for I think around $2000. It was Root Beer Brown with a white vinyl top an brown interior. The engine was a 2 barrel 318 with an auto transmission behind it. I kept it for about four months and found it boring with the 318 so I sold it to another soldier. He never transferred the title and sold it to another soldier that I had to go to the title transfer place to get the car into his name. He got drunk one night and creamed the rear end into a telephone pole.
I have a special affinity for Dodge Chargers, the 69 is probably the best body style but I like them all (as long as they are 74 and down) my first car was a 72 Charger that I bought for 50 bucks back in 85
You’re killing me…
Bummer that muscle cars of this era are pretty a rich guys world now and the rest of us get the rust bucket scraps. Im a Ford guy but I do love mopars as well, just have never owned one. As far as chargers go I do think the 68/69 chargers are the best looking but I prefer the 68. My favorite mopars are the 64/65 coronets and belvederes, two doors of course. That numbers matching 68 you have with the 383 is a real nice charger.
It is, and I worked hard and made a handful of good decisions to get it. I’m sure not a rich guy. But it can be done.
-I never saw this coming- I totally saw this happening, and soon too. Great find, totally restorable, with the usual blah blah blah boring caveats. I see 2.5 reels of MIG wire in your future, and a water cooled VISA card. AMD is gonna love you.
Yeah, all those things you just said 😅
I bet i have rust free doors and that dented grill part in my semi trailer. You have to stop picking the scabs or it may bleed out. How to put this nicely. Its got potential. It will buff rright out. Who am i kidding it needs a lot of love. But its a 69 charger so love it and make it a dick landy hotrod. I said it had potential and that was said about me too and look how i turned out. Ok dont look. 😢
The doors might be the best parts on it. Haha. The grille center would be nice. Back bumper is goobered. The front right fender with the horrible cancer in the top surface probably needs replacement.
There are actually a lot of ppl they don’t like chargers because they like the fords/chevys 🤮. I’d like to see about five or 10 chargers in front of your house, waiting to be worked on.
I’m working on it 😅
Nice find. My 69 R/T was in similar shape. Look forward to this build. 440/ Flat black sounds a like a good option. All the panels for my 69 Came from AMD, However, a lot of parts can be re-purposed from a 4 door. IE Cowl, A posts, frame rails....etc.
You sir, are a glutton for punishment. On the plus side, you can't mess it up and if you did, noone could tell.
😅 yeah, that.
Operator...will you help me make this call. Isn`t that the way it always goes?
“Well let’s forget all that - and give me the number, if you can find it, so I can call just to tell her I’m fine…”
I’ve always wanted a 69 charger general lee
So just curious Jamie... what exactly would you weld subframe connectors to? :) And yes, I did catch your paraphrase of "Whip It"... "When a Charger comes along, you must buy it"
Hopefully there’s still some metal in there somewhere 😅
@@DeadDodgeGarage I dunno... may have to do floors first. At least sheetmetal is available for that... I'm not that lucky other than a few Charger/Coronet shared items.
You say that it is a rust bucket, come out here to the North East where they pave the roads with salt when some moron mentions snow.
Oh, I know... it's PNW bad, but it's an east coast 11/10
I kinda like the "house paint white, with triple color fade!" look!
It’s actually primer gray. It does look pretty crappy white on camera. Haha.
I dunno... back in the 80's we drove 'em around looking like that.
Spend some time together and see what else she tells you... remember Christine... lol.
Always fun, thanks again.
I fully intended to, until I realized the full extent of it. For what I have in mind… I’m concerned the back half of the car may not survive the experience as-is.
Uncle Tony on the big screen 👍🏻😎
My first car was a '68 that I bought off the little old lady next door. Body and interior were perfect but she let her son work on the engine (383) and the top end was off and full of mouse nests. But it was rusty and that's a good sign, right? Anyways, I had it towed over to my family's shop and within a few hours one of our customers offered stupid good money for the car. I sold it and bought a 1970 Nova and had plenty of cash left over.
Good times!
Even as a lifetime Chevy guy, the 68-70 Charger is one of the most beautiful and perfect cars ever built! Street/Strip Jamie! Then you have 1 Charger to baby and one to beat on and have fun! As far as engines, you have enough to choose from and you can just swap back and forth between LA&RB engines. Enjoy your new old Charger Jamie!
And reemembeer, STOP POKING! I'm welding 68 RT which started as replacing trunk floor. I did not remember and poked it. Now it is stripped down, roof is good (I hope!)
All it needs is 'Everything'
Another awesome video!! It would make an awesome drag car because you already have two beautiful street cruisers. Do what your gut says! Thanks for the content
Edit, I wrote all that below before seeing just how bad it is. You have to give us the back story on how you bought it without knowing what you were getting. Was it that cheap?
Street strip, just a fun car. Full interior, no roll bar, 440. Stock looking except the tires and wheels.
It wasn't quite cheap enough. But it's a Charger. When you can buy a Charger... buy it. I was sent some pictures and could see the back corners, the worse lower quarter, and scale on the floor. But the way they were shot (as usual) really didn't show the actual level of badness.
@@DeadDodgeGarageI forgot to mention, I loved the “And remember”.
You paid 200 bucks for it, I hope.
Funny
i got a 76 Jeep j10 with nearly as much rust as that took me 4-5 months to rebuild it all.. lots of cutting welding etc
It was worth the buy, it has the *hard to find black inside trunk taillight cover. 23:23. When I seen you scraping trunk then wildly poking that caused spark's over gas tank, I thought oh boy he's gonna catch new car on fire lol. Seat's look like late 1970's Van, I recognize Lug nut is for Cragar sst rim's 23:41
No matter what, you always make me laugh...I can actually relate to your particular brand of insanity; it's alot like mine...but with Chevy's! 🤦♂🤷♂
This is so worth it. It's a 69 Charger right? Common man, 😅 labor of love! Wife and I are old, nurse and retired mechanic/truckdriver. If I could, I, uh WE, would go for it😊.
Okej have Chager.I like Challenger 70Se sixpack 440cui more.And Cuda71 then come charger 68-69👍🖐
B body needs a b or rb engine if options are available.
And multiple options are!
Brainstorm...considering the price of rust these days you could bag the scabs that you pick and sell them on ebay for 5 bucks a pop, that way people could own a piece of Charger history and brag about their original iron. Make a video of the process for provenance, bag and tag each piece and number them and soon you'll have enough money for full resto lol. Make sure its the actual rust and not bondo otherwise you may be sued for false advertising.
Put a drivetrain in it, Go through the mechanicals and run it. Who cares what anyone thinks. It's a 69 f**king charger, It's yours and it's paid for !
Mopar Bro !! I Think You Have Your Work Cut Out For Yourself No Matter What Way You Decide To Go !!!!
i,ve seen worse,at least you can by all repo sheetmetal for these now,I bought A 70 challenger in similar condition and made A vanishing point tribute car,when you finish it upload the finished car i,d love to see it:)
What to do with the 69 Charger. Step 1 - put it in one of those dip tanks to remove all paint and rust. Step 2 - rebuild it! Step 3 - PROFIT!
If I wasn't a Plymouth Roadrunner nut, 69 only, I would buy a 68 Charger & put a 69 grille in it.
-no no no sir put the super six in there.. you have one sitting there ,,and spend the money ,,on the body, if you want to sell it to one of your viewers, hay my 1969 charger got stolen..in 1977 ,be for you were born. lol..been hoping to some day get another one ..non up here in canada ,,0 if you see more may be you could pass on ,some deals,,thanks man ,, thanks .
Fomo 273 v8 and glasspacks and headers in the rusted 69 dodge charger for a rat rod Street machine and dirt track play toy!!!
Name her whatever you want, but I'm calling her Daisy.
She's beautiful and I love her
I love chargers but this one may be a heap
You are not wrong… but I still love it
I sold my old 68 charger for £40 back in the early 80s but they were cheap then and went out & brought a 67 mustang for £50
I'm surprised that thing didn't disintegrate while you were driving next to the ocean....all I can say is Oh My God
Show me a clean, well organized shop and I’ll show you a shop where nothing good ever gets done!
I always felt the most beautiful version of the Charger would have the 68 grill and the 69 tailights
I'll bet that sheet metal is 20?% lighter than when it was manufactured.
Still, it IS a Charger.
The very first car I ever rode in, came home from the hospital in was a 1970 Dodge Charger.
I'm sorry, but '68 is the best year for Chargers 👍
But that car deserves restoration!!!!!
Congrats on the new Charger dude. Who cares what condition its in. Its STILL a 69 Charger 💪
Bloody hell Jamie brother shit load of work here a blind man would love to see it as you say I love chargers with that in mind get what you can find 440 will go great in her
440 no question! Love your Mopars and your channel!!☺️👍❤️
Oh, one more thing! Have considered a rebel flag on top of the '69 Charger?!😉☺️👍❤️
You don’t really need to remove the rust. Just put the 440 in with a 3/4 cam and drive it. The rust will auto delete.
I love to have a 68 or 69 charger to upset my daughter's 😂😂😂😂 saying I'm too old for a for this car.
As we used to say back in the 80s...Super choice! Lucky bastard!
As the 600th Thumb-Upper, I say: Good Deed Young Man!!!
A Charger should be ready and able to chaaarrrge!!!! Go with the 440 engine. 👍
😂😂 oh boy, that's just going to be the gift that just keeps "giving".......
70s street machine, flat black with your dark red and blue stripes
That 69 should go back to a B5 blue street cruiser with a 340 or 360 .
Get Birdsong to weld on all the necessary sheet metal, he’s got lots of experience. Congrats Jamie! Owning one charger is great but two is phenomenal.
I have a welder and some experience too 😁
68 is my all time fav. Will never be in the cards for me. Ratty 440 street beast is a great plan.
For me it would be one of those in F8 green with cop wheels. Take my kidneys!
You are so funny Jamie. Compare the Charger to a black 1966 Pontiac Grand Prix and the Charger loses by a lot.
That’s a good looking car. But I disagree 🙂
I would say crazy Larry dirty marry car that slams into train in the end of the movie that's my favorite charger
Yeah another Charger in the garage stall for content....all is good.....thanks
A ratty Charger is a perfect project, perfect numbers matching anything are boring but keepers.
I bought a ratty 70 RR and it’s going to be a blast to drive around once it’s done. It’s my dream car. ❤
Outstanding! Yeah that’s a good one.
If you like flat black, make a death proof charger.
Dude! That’s what I was thinking!!
@@DeadDodgeGarageThat’s what I did with mine. I had the duck for the hood too, but couldn’t bring myself to cut a hole in it. I just finished my 6.4 hemi swap on my channel, I might have parts you could use.
Then I’m not sure what we’re waiting for…. Get on it!
You need to have twin fuel doors. Then u can fill up on either side and it's wicked cool
Hey, no one's going to say you should have got a brand new one instead :-)
Ya know, there are worse things to waste money on. At least this one didn't go to the crusher.
BTW The urge to poke rust is genetic , i have it too , its a tasty affliction but one i cant get rid off
Hey man you wanna sell that charger, ehh i cant give you that much for it. Hey i used to be "dodge garage" i talked to you a while back just before you bought your 68 remember. I told you to sell a bunch of cars off Huh thats alright.
Oh yeah. I did sell a bunch of cars off. Haha.
Going to take a lot of work but you can do it a lot of welding good engine and everything else yeah you got to you got to get on
I think it's obvious the 440 has to go in that Charger. Full on 70s street freak with N50s, tunnel ram, and whatever other stuff you can think of.
Bingo!
It's not as rough as I expected from the livestream... This purchase is approved by the Empire of Rust! Build a bad ass street rod with a big block!
what you have is a template to fabricate a charger from and still be able to title as original
5:54 For me it's the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado.
You might know of Chris Birdsong in Las Vegas. He's like you with Chargers. About your age too.
Yes I’m very familiar with his work. Multiple people have told me to send it to him. Haha.
At this point of Charger history pricing and availability you just don't turn them down NO MATTER WHAT THE CONDITION! LOL. They aren't "Everywhere" now days anymore if they ever were.
Exactly! Exactly. You just buy it.