fanucme
Well-Known Member
I have a 73 Charger that I just got past fall and it needs a bunch of help to make it cool. I saw recurring ad on Craigslist Bloomington Indiana for lots of Charger and Roadrunner parts, a front bumper from a 71 and rear brackets from the same , and I drove 2 hours to get the stuff and though the chrome is not as super nice and the rear brackets are a different set , not the blasted and painted as listed , I bought the stuff for a few bucks less, decent deal.
I talk to him again and he's got a running 400 engine to replace my mouse infested junk , and he says he's got an 8 3/4 , Cool , Im on my way cash in hand. The 8 3/4 is a C body unit that's a little wider with a 741 pegleg 2 series gear , not the 3.23 B unit it was supposed to be , no thanks i'll pass :angry9: , but I buy the engine and a set of headers, trading a few parts to get the price down to 400$ , get it home and pull the pan , sludge city , pulled a few rod caps and the bearings look good , but still I'm a little miffed at that.
YESTERDAY , I go back up there , partly because I had a set of passenger seat tracks for a set he needed that I offered to be cool , and for the new 8 3/4 ISO suspension type he pulled from a 73 satellite, (a perfect bolt in deal) 300$. I leave work early , drive 2 hours up there and he's got the rearend on the hoist ready to load into my truck , I check it out and the spring perches have oval shaped jagged torched center holes (not the correct rearend!) to accept the ISO stuff and he's playing "Aw man i didn't even notice that" I was cool and we got out the tape measure and he's saying he had it next to his 71 'runner laying on the ground over here and it's the same , we measure and I have to teach him about using a square , the rear he's trying to sell is 1.5 shorter than the 63" drum to drum I need. :angryfire: I'LL PASS AGAIN
So I start looking around to not waste my trip and he's got 8 3/4 centers's and sure grips but wont part with them and a bulge hood that was used for a bobsled he's real proud of and so I grab a driver side exterior louver for mt 73SE and tell him Im taking it for delivering his seat tracks and he's shocked and says ok. He was waiting for me to go so he can go pick up some other parts he's trying to gather for the swap in Indy this weekend. I was so pissed but I was cool about it and drove home. :angel7:
The more I thought about it the angrier I got , I already bought stuff from the guy and he's going to break it off in me after I drive all that way ? I'm done with Casey
from Bloomington Indiana , I hope he's got to drag everything he brings to Indy back to his home in the sticks.
Why would someone be such an *** ? I know buyer beware and all but I talked to this guy about it being a 73 ISO rear and how I NEED it to fit perfect. He's got other Mopars and no excuse to be so DUH ? what a jagoff !
I talk to him again and he's got a running 400 engine to replace my mouse infested junk , and he says he's got an 8 3/4 , Cool , Im on my way cash in hand. The 8 3/4 is a C body unit that's a little wider with a 741 pegleg 2 series gear , not the 3.23 B unit it was supposed to be , no thanks i'll pass :angry9: , but I buy the engine and a set of headers, trading a few parts to get the price down to 400$ , get it home and pull the pan , sludge city , pulled a few rod caps and the bearings look good , but still I'm a little miffed at that.
YESTERDAY , I go back up there , partly because I had a set of passenger seat tracks for a set he needed that I offered to be cool , and for the new 8 3/4 ISO suspension type he pulled from a 73 satellite, (a perfect bolt in deal) 300$. I leave work early , drive 2 hours up there and he's got the rearend on the hoist ready to load into my truck , I check it out and the spring perches have oval shaped jagged torched center holes (not the correct rearend!) to accept the ISO stuff and he's playing "Aw man i didn't even notice that" I was cool and we got out the tape measure and he's saying he had it next to his 71 'runner laying on the ground over here and it's the same , we measure and I have to teach him about using a square , the rear he's trying to sell is 1.5 shorter than the 63" drum to drum I need. :angryfire: I'LL PASS AGAIN
So I start looking around to not waste my trip and he's got 8 3/4 centers's and sure grips but wont part with them and a bulge hood that was used for a bobsled he's real proud of and so I grab a driver side exterior louver for mt 73SE and tell him Im taking it for delivering his seat tracks and he's shocked and says ok. He was waiting for me to go so he can go pick up some other parts he's trying to gather for the swap in Indy this weekend. I was so pissed but I was cool about it and drove home. :angel7:
The more I thought about it the angrier I got , I already bought stuff from the guy and he's going to break it off in me after I drive all that way ? I'm done with Casey
from Bloomington Indiana , I hope he's got to drag everything he brings to Indy back to his home in the sticks.Why would someone be such an *** ? I know buyer beware and all but I talked to this guy about it being a 73 ISO rear and how I NEED it to fit perfect. He's got other Mopars and no excuse to be so DUH ? what a jagoff !
