cbunt1
Well-Known Member
Hello all! New to the forum, and pretty new to Mopars, at least cars. I've had a cummins/duallie rig since it was new in '03 with nearly 300K on the clock, and my family had a couple of motorhomes on Dodge chassis when I was a kid -- so not a total stranger to them, but this is a different world for me.
I finally found the "right" '72 Satellite to bring home. It's a long story exactly how we got into the "old car" thing, but suffice it to say that last time it was time to get the wife a new car, she decided she wasn't interested in anything from current production lines. I asked her what she wanted, and she said she'd had a '76 Buick she'd love to have back....I said "If you're talking classics, I've always wanted old school muscle."
Long and short...she said "Why not" and we ended up buying a '67 Skylark and started fixing it up. I love the 'lark, but it still doesn't satisfy my "need for speed," especially since the wife prefers to put it in gear and go, not worry about high-stall converters and two-foot automatics, and other "trickery" . . . so the Lark stays more or less stock -- besides, the numbers match
I've always been in love with Satellites and Chargers. Some of my earliest memories of cars come from my dad's then-new '70 Charger R/T, and some of my earliest fascinations with "different" looking cars were from his (later) Satellite....so those cars made the top of the list of the "next car."
Well, we found a '72 Roadrunner Tribute from a Satellite Sebring locally, and at the right price, and in the kind of shape I wanted to work with, and brought her home. We're now a "Two old car" family, and loving it.
For me, the Tribute car is the best of both worlds--it's the satellite body I was fascinated with as a youngster, the RoadRunner side of it looks sweet, and seems to be a crowd pleaser, and the fact that it'll never be a "numbers matching" car means I don't have to sweat cruising in a car worth $40k, nor worrying about doing engine/tranny work that would detract from the value, or be "not correct"!
OH -- and the wife gave me the go-ahead to build it up however I want...cuz she's got hers and I've got mine!:blob1:
I finally found the "right" '72 Satellite to bring home. It's a long story exactly how we got into the "old car" thing, but suffice it to say that last time it was time to get the wife a new car, she decided she wasn't interested in anything from current production lines. I asked her what she wanted, and she said she'd had a '76 Buick she'd love to have back....I said "If you're talking classics, I've always wanted old school muscle."
Long and short...she said "Why not" and we ended up buying a '67 Skylark and started fixing it up. I love the 'lark, but it still doesn't satisfy my "need for speed," especially since the wife prefers to put it in gear and go, not worry about high-stall converters and two-foot automatics, and other "trickery" . . . so the Lark stays more or less stock -- besides, the numbers match
I've always been in love with Satellites and Chargers. Some of my earliest memories of cars come from my dad's then-new '70 Charger R/T, and some of my earliest fascinations with "different" looking cars were from his (later) Satellite....so those cars made the top of the list of the "next car."
Well, we found a '72 Roadrunner Tribute from a Satellite Sebring locally, and at the right price, and in the kind of shape I wanted to work with, and brought her home. We're now a "Two old car" family, and loving it.
For me, the Tribute car is the best of both worlds--it's the satellite body I was fascinated with as a youngster, the RoadRunner side of it looks sweet, and seems to be a crowd pleaser, and the fact that it'll never be a "numbers matching" car means I don't have to sweat cruising in a car worth $40k, nor worrying about doing engine/tranny work that would detract from the value, or be "not correct"!
OH -- and the wife gave me the go-ahead to build it up however I want...cuz she's got hers and I've got mine!:blob1:
