Our 78 Magnum GT Found
I know it’s not an A-Body but....Our triple black 1978 Magnum GT that I (foolishly) sold back in 2002 has come up for sale! I bought this car back in 93, lived outside of Chicago at the time, always wanted one, and found it in the old Mopar Collector Car Guide periodical (iirc) and rode a Greyhound bus with my toolbox down to Gray, Georgia to buy it and drive her home. (Car was sold new in Jonesboro, Georgia) Brought two newborns home from the hospital in it over the coming years, made lots of trips on vacation and even went to the Indy Mopar Nats in it in 1994. Moved to South Carolina in 95, wrenched and tidied up various things on it all the while it was our main car up till about 99, we needed a more fuel efficient daily car for the wife to haul the young ones around. We bought a 89 Daytona Shelby and the Magnum spent more time “retired” as life took prescience. Decided to sell it in 2002 and never looked back, until our oldest reached driving age. Bought him a 79 Cordoba which he loved, and he somehow grew to really liking Magnums also for some reason! He ended up buying a 78 Magnum a few years ago and now we are building him a nice 360 for it. But all this time our old GT has gotten talked about, pictures of it looked at quite often and obviously regrets popped up at times. Started wondering where it could be. And then it popped up on Facebook just recently. Located at some dealer in Atlanta, in faded worn out condition, but still intact and not all beat up. Biggest thing is the insane price they are asking. $10500!! Damn!! Still, my son wants to take a drive out there to look at it......didn’t think 20 something year olds could be so sentimental! Can’t say he’s wrong, I may just have to go with him myself!:) Damn, if we’re only about $7000 less :eek: Here’s pictures of it after we bought and detailed it, one from just before being sold, and here’s the link to it now:
Pretty wild how it’s traveled and made it back to the Atlanta area after all these years. https://www.empireautomotiveofatl.com/details/used-1978-dodge-magnum/70739479
I know it’s not an A-Body but....Our triple black 1978 Magnum GT that I (foolishly) sold back in 2002 has come up for sale! I bought this car back in 93, lived outside of Chicago at the time, always wanted one, and found it in the old Mopar Collector Car Guide periodical (iirc) and rode a Greyhound bus with my toolbox down to Gray, Georgia to buy it and drive her home. (Car was sold new in Jonesboro, Georgia) Brought two newborns home from the hospital in it over the coming years, made lots of trips on vacation and even went to the Indy Mopar Nats in it in 1994. Moved to South Carolina in 95, wrenched and tidied up various things on it all the while it was our main car up till about 99, we needed a more fuel efficient daily car for the wife to haul the young ones around. We bought a 89 Daytona Shelby and the Magnum spent more time “retired” as life took prescience. Decided to sell it in 2002 and never looked back, until our oldest reached driving age. Bought him a 79 Cordoba which he loved, and he somehow grew to really liking Magnums also for some reason! He ended up buying a 78 Magnum a few years ago and now we are building him a nice 360 for it. But all this time our old GT has gotten talked about, pictures of it looked at quite often and obviously regrets popped up at times. Started wondering where it could be. And then it popped up on Facebook just recently. Located at some dealer in Atlanta, in faded worn out condition, but still intact and not all beat up. Biggest thing is the insane price they are asking. $10500!! Damn!! Still, my son wants to take a drive out there to look at it......didn’t think 20 something year olds could be so sentimental! Can’t say he’s wrong, I may just have to go with him myself!:) Damn, if we’re only about $7000 less :eek: Here’s pictures of it after we bought and detailed it, one from just before being sold, and here’s the link to it now:
