Whats the one Mopar you found but could never get your hands on???

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1974 RoadRunner. It's been sitting in my uncle's garage since '83. He bought it in high school and parked it soon after graduation with plans of stripping and painting it. Well he got to some body work and got it primered and that was it. Hasn't moved an inch since. Has a healthy 340 and slapstick auto. I grew up sitting in that car pretending to drive it- making burnout sounds and all. I've been after him to sell it to me since I was 16. "Nooo, that thing would be too much for you. Wouldn't want you to get hurt in it". Fast forward to last fall. Garage roof caves in from heavy snow but the car is parked under an I beam and is untouched! So now it's in his buddy's garage and the guy wants it out. My uncle asks if I'm still interested in the car and I say "Yes sir".
I think I'm getting close to actually owning this car that I've been chasing for 20 years. :drama:
 
Been a few, but one that comes to mind was a 440-6 pack 4-speed Road Runner. This would have been in the early 90's. Original but faded paint. Very solid with just a touch of rust on the lower quarters. Running, driving condition. Knocked on the house and they guy said he didn't know anything about cars, neither did he really even like it. However, it was his deceased wife's car, and therefore he thought he should hang on to it. I went by a while later and it was gone. I don't know what happened with it.
I ended up working with a guy that actually knew the lady that owned it before "an illness (maybe cancer) took her from this world.
 
1970 Plymouth duster

my adoptive grandma had a 70 duster slant six car that I was supposed to have a first car. Family politics got involved when a cousin lost her own car for being a lazy slut who doesn't like to go to work. Then of course she had a fit so they felt sorry and let her use the duster "temporarily". So this cousin, lets her loser boyfriend who looks like a total moron drive it to go get them some pot and cigarettes. On the way there, he runs a red light and the car gets broadsided and completely destroyed.

So some years later I found another one, this one had a 318. Everything seemed like a good deal about it, told the seller I would be there for it when ....the seller calls and says her husband is backing out of the deal because he decided to hold on to it because they are "getting to be rare cars" so up in smoke was that idea.

Even more years later, I find another one, this one an original pink (FM3) but the problem is that it's rusty.....like really rusty. Another problem is that it was located almost completely across the country and it was not a runner so shipping would have been an engineering feat. So painfully, I had to watch it slip away and drift away to become a distant memory.

I have found a few 72 dusters and even a 71, but for some reason a 1970 Duster with any engine just seems to be unicorn car.
 
There was a 68 Road Runner that sat in the "nice" part of town for as long as I could remember. At least 20 years. I'd go by once in a while and would see a new cover on it when the old one rotted off. Rumor was, it was a hemi car. I went to the door a couple times over the years but never got an answer, and notes left got no response. One day, a older lady answered, and told me the car belonged to her son who lived out of state. Fast forward to about a year later. I'm driving by again and I see the garage open and a guy walking around. Spoke to him and he tells me its his car and its been sitting since the late 70's when he cracked something on the K-frame. He never fixed it due to things going on in his life. He shows me the car and its a Hemi, 4 spd car, It wasn't a blob of rust but needed quarters. he offers me the car for $6500, as he needed money to restore a mid 60's Vette his father left him. This was the late 90's and I couldn't raise the money. The car finally disappeared. Later, I ran into a guy at my friends house who knew the guy since high school. he knew all about the car and told me the guy used to run drugs in the car from South Florida to Georgia in the mid 70's. I wonder where it is now.
 
Missed this thread!

I was 18 tryin to get this guys '68 HEMI Roadrunner. The engine was blown up.
The HEMI's block wasn't reintroduce for another 5-7 years.
 
A guy down in the country where I deer hunt has an all original 69 Road Runner (everything is still there) sitting next to his house. I have been hunting in that area for 16 years. The car sat there for about 13 (plus whatever before I showed up) years, under the trees, with the windows rolled down. Two years ago, he "finally" threw a tarp over the car and put a cinder block on the roof to keep people from stopping by to look at it. I have tried several times to get the guy to sell it to me and he just won't let it go. But he apparently has no intentions of working on it either.

Side note: my dad and I stopped by a few years ago and went up in the yard and checked the car out. To our surprise, there was an "as best as I could tell" all original 68 Barracuda sitting behind his shed. That car is out of sight from the road.
 
My uncle's 67 Coronet R/T, white, 4 speed, red pinstripe, 440 4bbl. It was all stock and original except a Hurst Shifter and baby moon hubcaps. It was buried to the axles in his backyard sitting since he went into Vietnam. Car was solid with no rust and perfect interior. Last I saw it I was 14 and he sold it before I reached driving age or had money. Also my grandfather's 1970 Mach 1 in grabber blue, same story, sold before I was old enough to drive, in 1976.
 
It is still there. GTX in 90+ old woman's basement. Her niece about 70 says she won't sell it cause she might get her license back. I told her it is wasting away and she should sell it. I have a standing offer to buy it anytime and have asked several times. I've known about it for about 20 years. Both ladies are unmarried and no other family. Somebody is going to get it one day and it probably won't be me! You said one but, my brother-in-law has 73 yellow Cuda, one owner, wasting away in his garage. I was there when he bought it.
 
1966 GTO with a 400 and a 4sp in it, $1200 bucks. Dad said the clutch was way too heavy for my first car. Oh..Mopar? 1970 Challenger T/A $1800 and it still had its 6-pack. I couldnt convince Pop to loan me the grand I was short, so I got a 340 powered 65 Barracuda instead. Heck, it may have been even faster than the T/A.
 
This would be back around 1988 or so I'm just out of high school and my buddy worked at a gas station and came into some money and one of his co-workers (who drove a 66 or so Fargo van with a 340) gave him the number of his friend who had a couple nice cars for sale that were in his price range.
Not knowing what to expect,we get to the guys place and go into the garage and there are two cars there.One was a pretty nice charcoal grey (originally yellow) 70 Javelin SST 360/auto buckets/console car with the go package for $1500,the other was a hemi orange AAR Cuda 4 speed with a black interior in mint condition for $3000.I was in awe of that Cuda but about all could afford at the time was the rusty 69 Coronet /6 post car that I was driving and could only dream about that orange Cuda.

My buddy ended up buying the Javelin and still owns in today although it's been parked for many years in his garage where it awaits a restoration.

I always wonder whatever became of that Cuda,I never saw the car again or heard anything about it.Maybe it's still there.
 
Late 1992 as an over the road trucker, on a return trip from Seattle through city of Billings, MT and spotted a 1970 Dodge D100 Adventurer at an old small gas station converted to dealer lot. Stopped to check it out, was absolutely rust free, straight original blue paint w/white textured cab roof, all the exterior trim you could order in mint shape, mint blue interior. 383, all stock. A time capsule. Was asking $1800!! Time constraints meant I had to roll. Gave the guy my name etc, got home, tried to finagle money, schemed, plotted, but utterly failed!! The best deals are always when you aren't looking, or when money is scarce. :(
 
My mother remarried in 1987 and she and my step-father moved into a new house in the west end of Ottawa... just around the corner in a carport was a Bahama Yellow '69 1/2 A12 Superbee sitting on faded Cragars and old dry-rotted Firestones. The car sat for YEARS and every time someone approached the owner (including me), it wasn't for sale. I have no idea what the full story on the car was but it never moved and the owner never did anything with it.

Until one day when I drove over to visit my parents and it was gone!

I was gutted but it turned out that one of the guys in my Mopar club had caught the guy at the right time, on the right day and was able to actually buy it. He did a quick clean-up on the car, got it running and quickly sold it to a buyer in the 'States so he could buy his dream car... a Corvette. I never spoke to that guy again...

The car was a local legend in that everyone knew about it but no one could buy it, and this clown comes along and scores the car only to flip it! That car should have stayed in town but greed conquers all...

... I need a drink just thinking about it again. :(
 
1985.... 69 Charger R/T SE a/t triple black PW, a/c , rear defrost Magnum 500s , 2 owner, 90k miles.... $800 ! My buddies brother beat me back to the guys house and traded him an old Suzuki!

1997.... 1970 Charger Hemi 4 sp with 30k miles... I assumed it would be in the 70k range and couldnt afford it. The guy that told me about the car bought it the following year for $16k ! I almost got sick when I saw it!

2017.... 2 69 Hemi Road Runners. 1 is 4sp , the other is a matching #s Auto 60k miles... . I know the guy that has them and he asked me about buying one but has been too busy to mess with it right now. I saw him on Friday and he still has them.... Now I have to convince the woman that another car is a great idea.... Lol
 
heres a good one for ya,....At the nats Saturday in sale corral ,yellow 72 swinger very nice car / 6 automatic ......right price,guy was only there less than 1 hour then left no # no nothing(banging my head)...........................................Jeff
 
70 Challenger R/T SE Hemi 4 speed with only 13 k on it...

the guy thought about selling it, but then backed out...
 
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........ I shipped to basic training, came back and learned the guy had crushed it just a week before....
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My buddy came back from Army Boot camp and his mom put his dog down a day before he got home. Thats some tough love right there.

I wanted to trade my 57 Fairlane 500 for a 68 Barracuda 'vert but the guy left me hanging 3 times with title in hand. Car was rough, probably was better off with the Ford in its condition: nice interior and body, no paint, 351C and a built C4. Missed a 70 T/A Challenger for $1800 back in '85. oh, I already posted that...I just met a guy that was fixing "an 'ol duster" that he just bought off his friend. A 71 slant car, straight as an arrow for $800 bucks!
 
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Back when I was just a teenager, a buddy of mine and I got a job at a horse farm! Sitting under a tree there was a 69 1/2 A12 4 speed Superbee! I asked about it....yes, it could be bought, the price was $450, and yes, I could work it off!! Worked hard all week digging outhouse pits, fence posts, baling hay, busting *** for their upcoming horse show! When Friday came, the owner of the farm decided to pay us for the first week in cash...$20!! I knew right then that I would be dead before I ever paid off the car, so Ron and I met at the park that night, both looked at each other, and vowed not to go to work the next day, which was the day of the show!! Never got to buy the car, and it disappeared when the family moved to Missouri to start a commune!!
 
the list is long. decades long... all those cars were the " gona fix it up someday" cars, roadrunner verts, six pack cars, hemi cars, slant cars...... kids running around the owners yard that looked hungry, etc, but car is NOT for sale....... but the world is full of old mopars even today. I am sure most of those not for sale cars rotted into the ground. especially the runner verts siting with no top! sad..
sad but that is life.
 
A farmer in Colorado not far from where I lived in the `80s had two broken down Super Birds you could see from the street, a lime green 440+6 4-speed and a yellow 440+4. I finally grew enough balls to go ask about them and surprising he didn't shoot, yell or anything just said come on over and look. He was very nice even when I ask about being for sale, he said take your pick for $5,000. I told him I had to save up for that, I will be back and he said no hurry.
Both cars got stolen right out of the yard before I had my chance to buy it.
 
tiltsix said:
heres a good one for ya,....At the nats Saturday in sale corral ,yellow 72 swinger very nice car / 6 automatic ......right price,guy was only there less than 1 hour then left no # no nothing(banging my head)...........................................Jeff
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I think this might be the 72 that you saw at the Nat's tiltsix, I wasn't there but a friend sent me this pic, unfortunately the wiper covers the area code.

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yes that is it THANK YOU I will figure it out and contact him............................................................Jeff
 
Only on FABO can a guy 4000 kms away come up with a pic from an event he didn't even attend help out a fellow member, this is a cool place :thumbsup:

Your welcome Jeff, pleased I could help out.

Danny
 
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Like this but white top and interior. Sitting around the corner from my friends house. Solid body flat tires, sat for years, wouldn't sell. My favorite b body and you know how I feel about convertibles!!!!!!!!!!
 
My first year in college, 96. I was driving my 71 360 scamp. Had a new girlfriend who's dad was a farmer. I lived in KS at this time. I went into one of his barns and saw a dual scoop hood from a superbee hanging on the wall. Went snooping a little more and found a 70 Coronet R/T, plum crazy, 440/6 car. He had never even said anything to me about liking mopars even when he saw my scamp. He would not sell that car for anything, even had my dad trying to buy it. I often wonder if its still sitting in that barn..........
 
'71 Hemicuda hardtop. '71 triple black Hemi Challenger. 72 Charger 440/4sp/dana. '71 LS5 4sp Chevelle. '68 Dart 340 GTS convertible. pkg of (2) '70 Barracuda Gran Coupe convertibles.
 
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