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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 02:08 PM
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Default Weirdest eBay listing ever...
If you think that you have seen the weirdest of all eBay listings, look at this...
Now apart from the chassis mods, this car appears to be an original 71 challenger.


See the listing...

Now read the questions/answers section...

My favourite is...
Q: r u nuts? dont build this again. ....PLEASE
A: Buy it, or I just might do something Stupid with it! White Water Raft???
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 02:22 PM
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Lots of bids...and it took a bit of work to get it all right. At least they used a Ramcharger chassis.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 02:25 PM
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4x4 car's used to be all the rage when I was kid a local guy had a gremlin on a Jeep chassis and he called it a Greep.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 02:52 PM
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Lot's of El Camino's got trashed in TN because of this.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 03:28 PM
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Hey, remember the time Cooter turned the General Lee into a 4x4? That was cool.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 03:48 PM
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A guy I worked with had an old IH Scout and an early 70's vega and married the two. It was called a Scega.

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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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Well at least it comes with a CB radio....breaker breaker good buddy.
$21777.00 ............I'm in the wrong business....jeeez
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 03:55 PM
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That's horrible.
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Gotta love the historical license plate Should be histerical plate!
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 04:43 PM
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I'm about 10 minutes away from this thing. I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 05:07 PM
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Just because you get an idea doesn't mean you should do it!!!
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at first i thought it was on a 4 wheel trailer. then realized there is only one set of wheels in the picture. waste of a good car
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Durango_Boy
Lots of bids...and it took a bit of work to get it all right.
There is NOTHING "right" about this horror show.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by chris75stingray
at first i thought it was on a 4 wheel trailer. then realized there is only one set of wheels in the picture. waste of a good car
That's exactly what I thought; I didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the first pic. Then by the second pic it hit me! OMG!!
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First I laughed
then I said "no way"
then I laughed again

Guy has spent serious time with an expensive donor car. Wonder if the body is as nice as it looks, or is it full of bondo? Great craftsmanship.

Still I say WHY!?!?!?
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 08:57 PM
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Sold for $26k!!!
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as a mopar guy (im a chevy guy too) i must say i want to kill who ever did that to that car....any one who told them it was a good idea and the guy who painted it.
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Dang I thought it would be back on its own wheels soon but looked at the guy that bought
and he has a 4 wheel drive el camino.Thats a lot of money for a swamp buggy.
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Dang I thought it would be back on its own wheels soon but looked at the guy that bought
and he has a 4 wheel drive el camino.Thats a lot of money for a swamp buggy.
Looks like a Mustang on roids
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