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Unicorns do exist! 1970 Charger R/T !

If you're talking about the vin number, All '70 charger vins started with an X. For '70 it was either XH, XP, or XS depending on the model of charger.
I am not sure as it was about 35 years ago or so. I do not believe the engine was the original, it was reportedly transplanted from a totaled police car before my brother bought it. I think the X I refer to was on the engine!
 
Great find !
My brother and I restored a 70 V code Challenger. Hamtramak MI, built
Build sheet for the car was in the back seat springs.
2nd. Sheet for a different 70 R/T 383 car was under the passenger bucket seat back cover.
 
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This R/T has 3 sheets from two different chargers. One 383 2 barrel car the other a 318 car. These were sheets that the original owner dug out. I’m going to help have a look in the places I know to look and see if a correct one may hopefully be in there somewhere

Where are known common spots to look for build sheets on a 70 charger?

Please post the VINs of the extra build sheets in the lost and found section here. Also send the info to Charger Don at the 1970 Charger Registry https://www.1970chargerregistry.com/. He tries to reunite the sheets with owners if possible. You can give him the #'s and hang onto the sheets until a match is found. Your buddy will love his 70 R/T. Just finished restoring mine this summer.
 
Lots of things happened in the St. Louis (Fenton) plant (and likely others) back then. My brother worked there right about then.
 
Makes you wonder what the hell was going on in that plant.
I suggest that the BS would just accumulate at the point of Inspection, and instead of binning them, the guys just stuffed them into the next car that came down the chain.

It could be as simple as that. Just like the stories of newspapers and coke cans found inside panels ...supposedly from the assembly lines.
 
I suggest that the BS would just accumulate at the point of Inspection, and instead of binning them, the guys just stuffed them into the next car that came down the chain.

It could be as simple as that. Just like the stories of newspapers and coke cans found inside panels ...supposedly from the assembly lines.
I don't agree completely that the end of the assembly line was the dumping ground because the 3 I found were in the back or bottom of the seats. I was thinking that after the seats were manufactured, that's where the confusion took place. Has anyone ever gotten no build sheet in their car. If I got 2 other peoples BS, than they got none?
 
Lynch Road sheets are pretty sparse for '69, none in my Bee but '70 Bird had 2 in it. That said, a lot of it was a "no garbage" policy that had them being thrown in cars under carpets and the likes..
 
I don't agree completely that the end of the assembly line was the dumping ground because the 3 I found were in the back or bottom of the seats. I was thinking that after the seats were manufactured, that's where the confusion took place. Has anyone ever gotten no build sheet in their car. If I got 2 other peoples BS, than they got none?

Richard Carpenter is the original owner of a 1970 black V code ‘Cuda. None was found in it. An LA built car. Most of the LA cars did not get them, and why it shouldn’t be expected to be part of a car’s documentation. As you said, many cars came with one from another car on the line.
 
There were 2 frisbees hidden in the left quarter panel of THIS car:

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One was a "Wham-O" ring that was like the ring around the planet Saturn. Both had 1972 molded in the plastic they were made with. I suspect that either they were stuffed in there during assembly OR someone had thrown them in from the trunk and got lucky that they landed where they did. They were below the pop out window near the door jamb striker post. WE found them when I pulled the trim panel off.
If I were an assembly line worker, I'd do the same stuff.....adding in some grease pen graffiti as well.

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This R/T has 3 sheets from two different chargers. One 383 2 barrel car the other a 318 car. These were sheets that the original owner dug out. I’m going to help have a look in the places I know to look and see if a correct one may hopefully be in there somewhere

Where are known common spots to look for build sheets on a 70 charger?

My XP29N0G had 2 sheets in the rear seat springs. One was for my Charger and the other one was for a different Charger. Also, I found a sheet fragment for my car in the bucket seat springs.

None under the carpet.

None under the trunk mat.

None on top of the gas tank.

None on the upper side of glove box insert. I ran my hand across the top of the glovebox from underneath the dash and I didn't feel anything.

The factory headliner has not been replaced, but I'll be on the lookout for a bs when I remove the headliner.
 
My XP29N0G had 2 sheets in the rear seat springs. One was for my Charger and the other one was for a different Charger. Also, I found a sheet fragment for my car in the bucket seat springs.

None under the carpet.

None under the trunk mat.

None on top of the gas tank.

None on the upper side of glove box insert. I ran my hand across the top of the glovebox from underneath the dash and I didn't feel anything.

The factory headliner has not been replaced, but I'll be on the lookout for a bs when I remove the headliner.
Mine is also a XP29NOG built about 2/23.
 
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