Late '80's; I spotted the carcass of a 1969 Charger at a friends shop. I noticed that it still had the Bendix 4 piston disc brake set-up on it. I was looking for a set to put on my 1967 R/T that I was working on at the time. When I inquired about them, my friend said that the car was another friend's that only wanted to harvest the rear quarters off it for another project. He said he would ask about the brakes and let me know. About 2 weeks later, I came home from work, and this wreck was laying in my laneway. My wife was going to kill me! This thing had no doors, fenders, or rear quarters, or rear end. It was a skeleton with a roof. But it still had the brakes that I coveted. The cabin itself was filled full of cardboard, pieces of panelling and chunks of drywall. I decided to sort and dispose of this junk to make my new acquisition less objectionable to my wife.
Imagine my surprise to find under all of this crap, some NOS Mopar packaging. Ultimately, I discovered all 4 fender side markers, 4 wheel opening moldings, front windshield and rear glass moldings, grill surround and centre divider moldings. These were all in Mopar wrappers and were undamaged. I called a friend who was restoring a 1969 Hemi Charger R/T to come and look at my find. He gave me $500.00 cash on the spot. Sounds cheap now, but this was more than 30 years ago.
You people really are a bunch of old farts, i was born in 1976 and you were old back then.
nice tread though.
