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Old Mar 4, 2024 | 01:49 PM
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When you think about it a good bit you realize how much sense it truly makes.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 09:57 AM
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I just saw this on Facebook:

Whether you're a fan or not, that does seem like an extreme waste of a classic automobile.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 10:18 AM
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Whether you're a fan or not, that does seem like an extreme waste of a classic automobile.
Wasnt a classic back then...I worked at a chevy only wrecking yard in the 70s & 80s....and when i look back at all the cars we parted out
that would be worth a small fortune right now. Z-28 camaros, SS chevelles, corvettes, 55-57 pass cars. They were just wrecked cars back then
and not worth much.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by avf100
Wasnt a classic back then...I worked at a chevy only wrecking yard in the 70s & 80s....and when i look back at all the cars we parted out
that would be worth a small fortune right now. Z-28 camaros, SS chevelles, corvettes, 55-57 pass cars. They were just wrecked cars back then
and not worth much.
Ain't that the truth.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 11:18 AM
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By 1979 chargers were getting a little more collectable . Although I have friend who drove a 68 super bee in high school ( 79-80 ) and we always bugged him about his old pos . When he got something newer he put the bee in a shed , he still has it . They should have used dusters or novas lol .
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 52 Merc
Whether you're a fan or not, that does seem like an extreme waste of a classic automobile.
it was only 320ish cars. Far more were lost sitting behind grandpa's shed. I'll take a blaze of glory over an ignominious death by rust.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 06:48 PM
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Dukes of Hazzard gave a much younger me lots of entertainment and perhaps a couple of fantasies.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 06:56 PM
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Cutoffs have anything to do with it ?
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 07:28 PM
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Cutoffs have anything to do with it ?
Good ole daisy dukes
 
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Old Mar 5, 2024 | 08:47 PM
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No problem wiping out the 68/69/70 Chargers. I prefer the 66/67 models. Still a shame to wipe out so many of them.
If that went through that many Chargers, just think how many 4 door Polara cop cars they went through. I'll bet they wiped out 2 cop cars for every Charger.

I watched the heck out of the show back then....
 
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Old Mar 6, 2024 | 06:16 PM
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No problem wiping out the 68/69/70 Chargers. I prefer the 66/67 models. Still a shame to wipe out so many of them.
If that went through that many Chargers, just think how many 4 door Polara cop cars they went through. I'll bet they wiped out 2 cop cars for every Charger.

I watched the heck out of the show back then....

I find this very difficult to watch, having had to find C body parts for my wagon.

All those stub frames, wasted!
 
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Old Mar 6, 2024 | 06:27 PM
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^^^Ah yes. probably one of the best car chase scenes every. Total carnage!
 
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Old Mar 6, 2024 | 07:34 PM
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104 cars destroyed. Not a record, but an impressive number.
 
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Cutoffs have anything to do with it ?
Short shorts, tight tops, lots of skin, young mind, well equipped ........
All of the above.
 
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While I was in the rabbit hole looking for info on the Urbanina, I came across this:


I want one. And to live up north.
 
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