Original E Body owners

[seneca]

On May 9 of this year I celebrated 50 years as owner of my 1972 Cuda 340. How many other original owners are here on the site?

 

[hemi71x]

Does this count?
Would this count?
May of 71, i ordered a Cuda. Got it sometime in June, pretty much at the end of the model year.
Kept it for 45 years before i sold it off.
Changed owners 4 more times, since i sold it.

 

[moparlee]

Would this count?
I bought my '71 Challenger R/T brand new in Nov. '70.
Sold it in '77 and got it back in '89 and still have it today fully restored.

 

[mopar 10]

Yes, July of this year will be 49 years of owning 1973 Dodge Challenger Rallye 61,000 miles,triple white,never restored, survivor.

 

[Hammer75]

Does this count?
Would this count?
May of 71, i ordered a Cuda. Got it sometime in June, pretty much at the end of the model year.
Kept it for 45 years before i sold it off.
Changed owners 4 more times, since i sold it.

Navy Blue Angels flew F4s at one time. They were awesome!!!!

 

[Raycuda]

I am the original owner of my 1970 'cuda 340. I ordered the car through an Army PX while in Vietnam. It is still a number matching car but has undergone a cosmetic restoration in 1996. Her name is Ebony, due to the TX9 paint code. Ebony has won numerous awards over her 53-life span. I still have her, and she gets used almost every weekend.

 

[Raycuda]

Hello. Coming up on 50. My 74 Cuda was delivered Nov 1973. I beat the hell out of it when I was young, then it sat for a number of years. Had it restored. Since it was a 318 car did not feel the need to have it done to spec and did what I wanted to it.

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Navy H 53

Love the stripe. It's different and very unique.

 

[6PKRTSE]

Cool stories. It's great to hear when someone is able to hang on to there car all those years through all of life's up and downs. I have owned my 70' Charger 33 years in Aug since high school. I am not the original owner since it is older than I am, but it is my second 70 Charger as a teenager. My 4th Charger. Yes, I had 4 Chargers by the time I was 18.

 

[Hammer75]

Hello. Coming up on 50. My 74 Cuda was delivered Nov 1973. I beat the hell out of it when I was young, then it sat for a number of years. Had it restored. Since it was a 318 car did not feel the need to have it done to spec and did what I wanted to it.
I may have messed up my original post as I am terrible at this

 

[Hammer75]

Love the stripe. It's different and very unique.

Thanks. I posted another photo with the fish - hard to see on the side shot.

 

[Hammer75]

Cool stories. It's great to hear when someone is able to hang on to there car all those years through all of life's up and downs. I have owned my 70' Charger 33 years in Aug since high school. I am not the original owner since it is older than I am, but it is my second 70 Charger as a teenager. My 4th Charger. Yes, I had 4 Chargers by the time I was 18.

I had a 70 Charger RT too and sold it in 1981. Could kick myself but things were way different back then. Don't ever let that go.

 

[Raycuda]

Love the stripe. It's different and very unique.

 

[Raycuda]

Thank you. It's not original to the car, you could only get black when I ordered it, so no stripe when new.

 

[ZippyZoo]

Bought my 71 Challenger vert in NOV1970. August build original FC7 car. Have had it ever since. Just got it back from a restoration shop (body and paint only) and am now working to put it all back together. She's part of the family now.

 

[6PKRTSE]

Bought my 71 Challenger vert in NOV1970. August build original FC7 car. Have had it ever since. Just got it back from a restoration shop (body and paint only) and am now working to put it all back together. She's part of the family now.

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What do you mean part of the family "now". Sounds like it has been part of the family since new. Very cool story and nice car.