Guy gets pissed off and crushes 1970 Charger
 

Anyone else see this? The story I heard is he wanted 5k (story says 10k) for the car and kept getting lowballed. Got pissed off and said screw-it.....

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2019/10/28...es-lowballers/

I would have paid 5k for that- looks like a relatively rust free car which is rare on 68-70 Chargers. Hell, the grill and bumper (not reproduced) are worth almost 5k!

Man, that's painful to watch. The 68-70 Charger is one of my all time favorite cars.

Not a expert, but may be some mental issues?

See the same thing with people that leave cars sit outside for years but won't sell them. If they own it I guess they can do what ever. I am thinking he's not a car guy, but he feels a lot better.

I agree the guy has "anger issues" at the least and certainly needs to work on his coping skills, but the car was probably a 318 "nothing" car. How many were made? How many were lost filming Dukes of Hazard? Isn't every single part on this particular car available new/repro?

If nothing else, the remaining Chargers just went up in value.

Google said almost 50.000.

I think the earlier nose design (General Lee) would be in a different category of desirable?

Being a MOPAR, I am sure even the plastic stuff has rust.

I can see exactly where this guy was coming from, having a semi rare, low mileage car (20,000 miles) that is a project car. No one thinks it's worth anything because it needs work. They ain't making anymore 73 T/As, and the aftermarket isn't producing them either. 4802 made in 1973.

It all comes down to how badly you want an early (70-73) T/A. I will not sell it for less than I want (roughly 20% of what a restored 73 goes for). So it sits on a trailer in my backyard.

I had it sold on a promise from someone that thought he wanted it. I took the 71 HO 197 heads off of it because the prospective person wanted to put a set of the aluminum RA V heads, that he sells, on it. I hauled it 180 miles one way to deliver it (south of Akron) only to find out, he heard that there was a local car for less money (which he had never seen) and wanted me to adjust my price to align with the local car that he had never laid eyes on (from the story it was a 72 car). This is after we had already agreed on a price, made a verbal deal, and I wasted 2-3 days removing the heads and headers, loading it on a car dolly, and transporting it 360 miles for free. He never offered to pay me for fuel to transport it to his shop...….:mad:

He called me, he wanted to buy the car, pursued it for more than a year, I had never transferred the title to my name so I went ahead and took it to the local DMV to get the serial number and mileage verified and got it all legally in my name with an Ohio title. I did all the extra work on good faith of his word that he definitely wanted to buy the car, you can see what his word was worth in the end.

I turned the rig around and drove 180 miles home, fuming all the way. Yeah, I can see where the charger owner temporarily lost his temper. Dickheads like this can get the better of your common sense.

If he called me today, and wanted to give me the price we had agreed on, I'd tell him to go to hell. Likely that will never happen.

When I bought my old 72 Formula many years ago in Oregon, I was sitting at guys kitchen table counting money out. Wall phone rings. Guy answers. Instantly in a loud voice tells caller: "I wouldn't sell you that car if you were the last FFFnnn person on earth", and slams phone down (just realized you can't slam a cell phone down for same effect to caller). It was a funny moment that stuck with me. I get it.

In my mind there is a big difference between a buyer backing out of a verbal/handshake deal vice dealing with lowballers. You have to EXPECT the low-ball types when selling. Why? Because the low ball offer is effective quite often. It's a buying technique, not an affront to your manhood. It's just business.

While I like the looks of that gen Charger, I don't blame him. I had many sour experiences with those cheap slapped together piles to forever make me hate that brand. My '71 Road Runner left me stranded several times.

his car
 

do what you want its your car

If the car was worth what he was asking, someone would have paid it.

I’m sure that guy is a reasonable, thoughtful, trustworthy, easy to deal with seller, too.

Just plain "Stupid"

It’s worth what someone will give you for it no more. If all he got was low ball offers that’s all it’s worth he is a dumb a$$. Oh and rare and valuable are not always the same thing.

I always love a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Idiot.

After the car had been destroyed and is being carried by the fork lift you can hear someone say something about flipping car and that he paid $3,700 for it. If he only paid that much why should he think people would think that it’s worth $5,000. If it is worth $5,000 then he low-balled it with $3,700.

He has his house on the market and received some low offers https://youtu.be/3LfKexq6a4o

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! Now it's worth virtually nothing. I understand his frustration, but he only hurt himself by crushing it.

We were just talking about how stupid humanity is becoming and I open up to this... He could of gave that car to some poor teenage kid and changed his world but it's all about babys feelings today, selfish a$$hole...

Some people.. it just seems to me he could have parted it out and then he would had (some) money while still being able to destroy the car..

He could have given it to a charity who could get have made good use of whatever they sold it for, regardless of amount. He could have given it to a kid, as said. Instead, he pumped his ego / hate, and taught a lesson to nobody, except how to not be.