Where did you find your first E-Body?

[Cuda Cody]

@Culvers  wouldn't that be so cool if it was the same car!   

1999 I found my first Challenger (FE5, D32, 440) via Hemmings Motor News at Bob West Muscle Cars in Texas.

Was your challenger (JS23U0) and a super trac pack car (4.10 dana rear)?  I had one that Bob sold on consignment for me around that time frame it went to Germany?

[70chall440]

Bought my 1st E Body in 1979; it was a 74 318 AT white interior white vinyl top green car with side pipes. I traded a 74 Roadrunner for it which was an original silver 318 3 spd car that I had built as a 340 4 spd and painted it yellow. Within a year I had the Challenger painted Hemi orange and had installed a 440 6 pack. I never lost a race in that car until I broke the bell housing on the AT and swapped in a 4spd; then it was an issue with gearing which I didn't get sorted until 1 week before I sold it. Still miss that car.. 

[Spikedog08]

Guess I should add to this thread!  My first ebody I still have and was my first car . . . Bought in 1982 which was my last year in high school.  I was working while still living at home and saved enough money to try to find a car.  Growing up in a Ferd family as my dad worked here in Michigan at the ford plant, all I ever knew anything about was ford . . . I really knew little about other brands.  We would drive down the road and a car would pass . . I would say "dad, what was that?"  . . He would reply, "that was brand X son!"  . . Made it challenging a little but . .

So my brother had a friend that one day came to my moms house on the lake looking for my older brother in the black cuda and I was memorized . . That was the coolest car I had ever seen!  I was about 16 at that point . . Then a couple years later, I saved the money and talked to my older brother about getting a car . .  He said he knew where a cuda was for sale. We went and I saw it sitting in the garage covered in dust and it was so beautiful!  It was love at first site!  I bought it for 1800 and not being great at a 4 speed, the battery was no good so if I stalled it, I was done.  It had 4.10 gears which made for a long ride home on the freeway.  My mom was so mad . .  "I thought you were gonna buy a real car?"   Now she loves it of course. 

[Culvers]

1999 I found my first Challenger (FE5, D32, 440) via Hemmings Motor News at Bob West Muscle Cars in Texas.

Was your challenger (JS23U0) and a super trac pack car (4.10 dana rear)?  I had one that Bob sold on consignment for me around that time frame it went to Germany?

Yes. In January '99 I bought this Challenger from Bob, it stood in Denton, TX. I shipped it to Germany. 7 years later I sold it to Finland.

[anlauto]

Well ain't that a small world afterall 

[hemibird]

Yes that was my bodyshop you came to. We met that day. Here are a couple pics one from the day you came to look at it.

[hemibird]

Found my first e-body through a friend that saw it for sale in someone's front yard. It was 1992 nothing special just a wore out 318. I ended up building a 340 and put a sixpack on it, Painted it black, fun car.  1973 Barracuda   

[Culvers]

Yes that was my bodyshop you came to. We met that day. Here are a couple pics one from the day you came to look at it.

Thanks for the pics.   

I remember you had a Lil Red Express in front of the trailer.

[Cudalbs]

I found this 73 Cuda right across the street from my house back in 1998. I hate to say it, but I didn't even know it was there in the garage until it was out in the driveway one day with a for sale sign on it  for $4000.00. They were renting and hadn't been there too long. It had been painted (poorly) a metal flake midnight blue, had a rallye dash, a 340 that had about 5000 miles on a rebuild, and all the parts were there. My son was a junior in high school so the car going to be for him. So I got together 25 hundred dollar bills and sent him over there to make the offer. I watched him from the window as he spoke with the owner (a short conversation) and he walked back to our house with slumped shoulders and a dejected look and told me he said no. I told not to worry about it, that we would do something. It was less then 10 minutes later when we saw the owner and wife heading up to our front door. When we answered the door his wife spoke up and said, "He will take it" and the rest is history.


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[Timbbuc2]

Love that color combo

[chal340]

My Challenger is my first Ebody and my first american car.
I looked for it during 1 year and half on all american websites, Hemmings, cudaworld, Ebay, cars-on-line, autabuy... and finally found it on Moparts.
In France, there were not ebodies to sell, mustang, camaro, .. yes but not Mopar.
I found and bought it in October 2007 and received it in January 2008.

[RUNCHARGER]

This was my second Challenger RT, I think I bought it in 78 or 79. I heard it was for sale and I drove every street in town until I found it. Purchased from the original owner. I owned it 18 years. Bought it on a Friday, got up at 0600k on Saturday to pull the original 383 and swap in a built 440 and was street racing it by 1200k. It morphed through lots of performance changes but I never cut anything on it. 18 years later I found the original 383 and put it all back to original the best I could. It was boring to drive with the 383 though so I sold it.
Then theres the 4 speed, 67 GTX convt I bought for parts, or the 69 Hemi GTX I saved. It's been a fun ride.

[mopar thunder]

I got my first Cuda' from a private owner in northern New Jersey back in 1982 or so.

[jimynick]

About 1983, a buddy named Joe, who's dad owned a wrecking yard, called me one day and said "Have I got the car for you!"so  I went and looked at the recovered, triple black '74 Challenger Rallye 360 4 spd, theft car that'd been whacked really good in the rt frt corner and $300 then and 33 years later drove it to my home town's Old Boys Reunion. It's been a long, winding road, but I'm glad that I can go out to the garage and actually "fire that sucker up!" 

[Cuda Cody]

Triple Black!   

About 1983, a buddy named Joe, who's dad owned a wrecking yard, called me one day and said "Have I got the car for you!"so  I went and looked at the recovered, triple black '74 Challenger Rallye 360 4 spd, theft car that'd been whacked really good in the rt frt corner and $300 then and 33 years later drove it to my home town's Old Boys Reunion. It's been a long, winding road, but I'm glad that I can go out to the garage and actually "fire that sucker up!"