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Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly


Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly

1968-1970 Dodge Chargers are desirable in a way that few other cars have managed to become. They are brutally handsome, they came from the factory in trims ranging from the rare fuel sipper to Hemi-powered demons capable of burning up asphalt, they have Hollywood esteem like none other, and they can be anything from perfect restorations to some of the most brutal dirt bashers around. For many, the Charger is the quintessential muscle Mopar, and we can’t argue against that without some serious hangups in the debate. The Charger is a badass, one of the all-time greats, a hero and villain car, and the machine that makes anyone with a vascular system filled with high-octane stop and pay attention.

Unfortunately for this beastly build, whoever was following behind wasn’t paying anywhere near enough attention and attempted to drive clean through the car. That back end is bashed, and not a little bit. The driver’s side taillight is within a couple of inches of being parallel with the back of the rear tire. The trunk space is all but gone. The sheetmetal is backed in up to the root of the Charger’s window buttresses, the metal is worked between the doors and the A-pillars…this car is done. You could trim away the damaged metal, rig up a new mount for the rear leaf springs and do something for a fuel tank and we’d bet that this battered B-body would drive fine, but the reality of it is that it’s time to start looking for a stripped shell that the good parts of this Charger can live on in. And that’s not an easy order to call up…Chargers don’t exactly grow on trees.

Copart.com link: 1968 Dodge Charger


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13 thoughts on “Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly

  1. Andy

    Wow….and with LOW back buckets…the whiplash could be life threatening with that kind of impact..?
    With the drag radials…it looks like it was a stout unit and with fresh AC components, it sure looks like it was intended to be driven often.
    Thats a shame…hopefully the driver hasn’t hurt and can build a new ride. Although…not sure how well an insurance company would compensate for something like this unless you had a lot of paperwork to prove the value.

  2. Starterguy

    AMD Installation Center and Classic Muscle Metal in Cleveland, Georgia could have this thing fixed in a week.
    I stumbled on their facebook page and then checked their website and they work miracles. You need to check them out at classicmusclemetal.com because you can buy nearly every panel for this car.
    They have body jigs for this and much more, so yeah, pretty much any major musclecar can be saved now.

    1. josh

      Drag Radials on the car I’m betting this car was at the strip and the car lost control. The ass end came around and took a concrete barrier the back end.

    2. Robert Smith

      The show Chop, Cut. Rebuild took a Daytona Charger that had been sitting in a salvage yard and was rusty. And was little more than the Driver’s Rear quarter because where the rust had not eaten the car, all of good parts had been stripped off and sold.

      1. Earl B Putnal

        I hope it was insured? Gotta be able to get something out of that wreck. And then be able to build a replacement car?

  3. tracey

    Rear ended?

    From the looks of the narrowness of that impact zone, unless he was rear ended by Evel Kneivel, the real story is one of them Duke boys lost it and went backwards into a pole of some sort.

  4. 69rrboy

    Yep 69 fenders but the rest appears to be 68 stuff. Seat covers, dash pad, rear clip, etc.

    Musta just been “restored” recently because not a speck of rust or undercoating on the 1/4 extension laying on top of the tire. Had at least the LH 1/4 replaced too. Like usual the Chebby shop didn’t trim the wheelhouse lips down correctly and left them extra wide and ugly just like they come out of the box from China.

    Roadkill should buy it. They like Chargers plus it would look good sitting beside Freiburger’s 68 RR that was wrapped around a pole.

  5. Robert Smith

    The show Chop, Cut. Rebuild took a Daytona Charger that had been sitting in a salvage yard and was rusty. And was little more than the Driver’s Rear quarter because where the rust had not eaten the car, all of good parts had been stripped off and sold.

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