Who did it?

[0DegreeEngineer]

You need to get off I35 and I80. Take a trip down the Mississippi or along the Missouri. There is a lot of pretty country in the state. Corn? We are the #1 producing state in the nation for corn, pork,eggs and #2 in soybeans and top 5 in beef and turkey. Yet we are 2/3 the size of Minnesota.

I Was doing some reading and found that Minnesota does have more public hunting but I know alot of Iowa is tied up in agriculture which is definetly a good thing, also my brother and sister in law also graduated from Iowa State so there was another thing i could add to the list

 

[0DegreeEngineer]

I have driven US 52 and US 169 south to Oklahoma before that was a great drive, unfortunately I am on a work trip, so straight to Lincoln Nebraska and straight home....

 

[Davefinan]

Not me. I can account for my whereabouts

 

[Mopar Hunter]

Exactly like this^^

Sold for $15,100.

 

[0DegreeEngineer]

This is one of the many reason's i love this forum. Is it getting restored to original or modified do we know?

 

[Budnicks]

318 base car, column shift & bench seat, & a 'rust bucket'
I'd hope it is gonna' be a full on Resto-Mod
ain't gonna' be cheap either

let alone $15,100 for that thing, that world is officially freaken' crazy

 

[68BabyBlue]

318 base car, column shift & bench seat, & a 'rust bucket'
I'd hope it is gonna' be a full on Resto-Mod
ain't gonna' be cheap either

let alone $15,100 for that thing, that world is officially freaken' crazy

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I lived in Des Moines for three years while I attended Drake Law School. Ran flat beds to the west coast during summer breaks. I’ll never forget a fellow driver scoring a rust free ‘68 Charger R/T near our LA terminal, and squeezing it on his trailer headed back to Iowa. Price was under $1000, year was 1982. He figured he would double his money, twice his wage for the run.

 

[Budnicks]

I lived in Des Moines for three years while I attended Drake Law School. Ran flat beds to the west coast during summer breaks. I’ll never forget a fellow driver scoring a rust free ‘68 Charger R/T near our LA terminal, and squeezing it on his trailer headed back to Iowa. Price was under $1000, year was 1982. He figured he would double his money, twice his wage for the run.

I bought 12 Chargers 1968-70, 8 were 440 4 speed dana 60s
& all were R/Ts, all were drivable/serviceable
& way better then that car, in 1974-85 all of them combined weren't
$15,100 well maybe a $1,000 more, from $350 to $1,500 each
old gas guzzlers/just used cars to most people
every one of them today would be worth $40k+ to $70k+, 'as they were when bought'

crazy how the market has gone
about time MoPars got due respect
people couldn't hardly give them a way, they found me somehow too
same deal with my 13) RR's
most I paid was back in 2005, from the daughter of the Org. owner
for my current car was $6k, fully running & driving car every part was there,
& was 'mostly rust free car', from Sacramento area, Rio Linda...
I had bought 12 other RRs prior, from like 1977-2000
(got out of it for a time, spent the $$ on my racecars instead mostly, or 4wds)
same deal, all of them where running & driving cars...
Mostly all around Antioch & Concord area, SF east bay area Ca. mostly,
8) 1968s 3) 1969s, most 8) of which were 4 speed cars, all 383s
all of them ran & drove, when purchased, most had great interiors still too
a lil' dinged up bodies, but like normal, not rust buckets or major sheet-metal repairs
had 1) 70 RR 440 4 speed Dana 60 car, beat to crap for $100, like in 1979...
I bet in total purchases,
I had like $20K total, from $100 to $6k most recent

 

[68BabyBlue]

If I had spent my law school money on California Charger R/Ts, and held on to them, I might have been financially ahead.

Reality with that scenario is my wife would have left me, and pocketed the money. I think seven GTXs and 48 years together was a better outcome.

 

[DeltaV]

USS IOWA

 

[Photon440]

How did we get from a thread about a white Charger to a battleship?

 

[0DegreeEngineer]

How did we get from a thread about a white Charger to a battleship?

Car was seen on I-35N in Iowa would be my guess.. It being the Iowa Class

 

[Green72]

You need to get off I35 and I80. Take a trip down the Mississippi or along the Missouri. There is a lot of pretty country in the state. Corn? We are the #1 producing state in the nation for corn, pork,eggs and #2 in soybeans and top 5 in beef and turkey. Yet we are 2/3 the size of Minnesota.

Here's a "flatland photo" of Dubuque during a car cruise. Then, Pikes Peak State Park on the Mississippi, and finally the Loess Hills along the Missouri River on the west side of the state.

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Good job fellow Iowan!!! They have no idea what they are missing

 

[chargervert]

My white Charger R/T was way ahead of its time. Imagine a car from 1970 that was designed for people watching their carbs. They can watch all three of them!

 

[Cranky]

I haven't left the country of Texas for years now!!

 

[chargervert]

I saw the video of Chris Birdsong pulling that 69 Charger out of a junkyard. It was crashed in the right front if I remember correctly. It looks like he straightened the front out and made it a roller to sell it.

 

[Davefinan]

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USS IOWA

That is some real firepower there. I hope those guns swivel to watch the backside. I reckon they do.

 

[Davefinan]

I haven't left the country of Texas for years now!!

You really have no need to….you have everything right there.

 

[Budnicks]

I haven't left the country of Texas for years now!!

I haven't left the county of Tuolumne Co. for years now either...
Since last time I had to go to Modesto, down in the Valley
for my dad's operations...
Let alone leave the state of Californication,
I barely leave the outskirts of Sonora,
I live up the mountain 12 mile east of town...
I still have a Sonora address...
I do go down to small towns of Soulsbyville & Tuolumne City or Jamestown
or up to Twain Harte, like 12 miles more up the mountain, from my place
to visit my cousin Stan, he's into dogs/labs, hunting/shooting, bikes & 4x4s too...

Maybe (?) been up-to Redbluff far up NorCal once or twice maybe,
to visit my sister...

I prefer going upcountry, not down to the valley or horse land...

I absolutely avoid the bigger cites now, if at all possible...

I wouldn't have it any other way either, nice not having to go very far...
I did well over 1,000,000 miles in 4-5 rigs, mostly towing & racing,
or for work & crossed/traversed the US maybe 15 times, mostly towing,
I also had work (dealerships contracts) in 7 western states,
I don't know how many flying (?) miles...
(I hate to fly now)
Even once as a 16 y/o, drove in my 68 Charger R/T, an epic journey for my youth
to visit my sister Candy & newborn nephew Keith in Sands, Michigan,
the Upper Peninsula in 1975, when Candy & her husband Steve were in the USAF,
stationed there...

Now, I like being close to home, even more...

I sowed my 'wild oats', need for adventure when I was younger,
there's no need for it now, 'been there done that' multiple times over & over...
I've seen (or raced in) every state in the USA,
except Maine (no tracks or business I knew of there) &
most of western territories in Canada & Mexico too
(rodeo for Lisa or going to Alaska, BC etc.),
even into Ontario, while when in Detroit...
You could say I'm content...

my $1.25

 

[Cranky]

You really have no need to….you have everything right there.

No more decent Mopar shows around the Houston area anymore. Heck, even the 'big' 1/4 mile track is gone now. Still a nice track close to Dallas and they have a nice show up there but that's 250 miles away. Don't care to drive 100 miles these days lol