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Ahhh. 1969. What a year. Ohio State wins the rosebowl, he first man walks on the moon, and Ma MoPar is just hitting her stride in the muscle car world.
A thanks to PinkyChallenger on DodgeCharger.com for this one. It is her car, and as she tells it, she found it on eBay of all places.
"Hello,
I'm the owner of the blue Topless 1969 Dodge Charger (that is pictured above with the 1969 Green Charger). A Mopar/myspace friend of mine has informed me of the pics showing up on here on various occasions (I guess someone got them off of my myspace profile and posted them on here), so thought I'd pop in to say hello!
The story of the topless Charger is:
I was on ebay back in 2000, with the flu and a fever...(Dodge Fever?) so I was just playing around by putting in "1969 Dodge Charger Convertible" Just to see WHAT would pop up, knowing that Chargers were never made as such. I guess you could say the fever had to do with this. Anyway, it was a surprise when that car pulled up on my search results. I was thinking perhaps someone was thinking of Charger instead of Coronet, since I have seen that happen. Nope, it was that car. It was listed for $500 with extra/bonus parts. Again, the price was a STEAL, no matter the shape of the car, because of all the parts it came with (my dad and I own two other 1969 Chargers, so parts were very needed). Well, I put my bid in at around $700, and ended up with the car and parts.
Now, I have to explain to Mopar/Charger Purists that we did NOT cut the top off. The previous owner did, because the roof was in bad condition. Plus, he wanted to experiment. He did put subframes and "toughed it out" after cutting the roof off. It's a clean cut, and he replaced the back area with black vinyl. I was about 19 at the time I bought it, so it was a fun car. We drove it around for a while, locally, and it was a smooth driving car. Lots of people try to buy it off of us for $5,000 at the time. We didn't want to use it as a parts car, because it was such a smooth AND fun ride. So, it's on our list of projects. I've had it for years now, but I had to put it on the back burner because of health issues that arose, and then I had another project my dad and I were working on (Panther Pink 1970 Challenger). We do plan to start working on it, perhaps at the beginning of next year. So, it will be another father/daughter project. It still cranks up and moves around, we don't let it sit. It's got a tough sounding 318 in it, with a strong cam, not sure the details on the kind of cam it has. The quarter panels are shot (it was already like that when we bought it). Those will need to be replaced. We plan to make it look like the concept that came out back then. Those are the plans.
I named the car Moody Blue.
Regards,
Priscilla"
The not-so-famous SuperCharger concept show car. It was a 1969 Charger with a chopped off top, shortened windshield, and Daytona nose seamlessly attached. It also has the rear seat area filled in, and two gas filler caps.
