nothingelsematters
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New to the website and I have spent a few hours over the last two days reading all over the forums so I figured I would join up and introduce myself.
I bought my first car when I was 14, a 67 Coronet 440 with a little 273 in it. Needed quarters and paint but the interior was in amazing shape. Little old lady car, only driven to church on Sunday. I had plans of dropping a big block in it (I wanted a 440, dad thought a 383 was the better and safer choice).
When I was 15 or 16 we were headed home from a motorcycle race and happened to see a Polara on the side of the road for sale so we stopped in. I can't remember much about that car but in the storage shed the guy had a 67 Coronet also that he said we should look at.
It was nothing more than a body sitting on some steel rims but I knew It was going to be mine. No motor, transmission, fuel tank, wiring, and so on. My plans changed that day and I decided I wanted to go drag racing.
Bought the car for $2500 and over the next few years I acquired a junkyard 440 from a crashed 69 Charger, a 727 from something else, and a bunch of parts from Summit and Jeg’s. By the time I graduated high school it ran and moved, just not reliability! The local place that was supposed to specialize in race transmissions caused me a lot of money and heartache.
I joined the Air Force right out of high school and tried to get it finished and race ready but I ended up overseas for almost two years straight. Once I got stationed in Washington state it was game on! I got it track ready and raced it as much as I could for three years.
After my time in the Air Force was done I moved back home and decided it was time to do some upgrades. Unfortunately, life does not always go as planned and it ended up sitting in the trailer at my buddies farm for almost a decade as I moved around for work. I bought a house a few years ago that needed work but since the big projects are done I started thinking about the car again.
Fast forward to about a month ago I am driving home and I see an old Charger in front of me. I catch it at the light and as it takes off I get that wonderful smell of a slightly rich muscle car. That is all it took for me to decide it was about damn time to get my car back with me. I just met my dad halfway across the country last weekend and now it is out of the trailer for the first time in ten years and in my garage…mouse droppings and bugs and everything else.
So here it is, my 1967 Dodge Coronet. It had an R/T grill and bumper when I bought it so I just ran with that. I grew up in the same town as a man named Galen Govier and he decoded the car for me. It was originally a Coronet 500.
440 60 over
forged pistons
10.5-1 comp
.480 purple cam, hydraulic lifters
906 heads ported and polished
Mopar M1 single plane intake
Holley carb (can’t remember size)
727 with manual valve body
4.30 gears
2 “ Hooker super comp headers (never fired car with them on, had 1 ¾” headman’s when it ran last)
Best pass was 11.79 if I remember right with 60 ft. around 1.6. Always had issues tuning as it liked to fall flat on its face if the engine temp wasn’t right at 180. I remember I was messing with the cams for the accelerator pump on the carb but never figured it out.
I bought my first car when I was 14, a 67 Coronet 440 with a little 273 in it. Needed quarters and paint but the interior was in amazing shape. Little old lady car, only driven to church on Sunday. I had plans of dropping a big block in it (I wanted a 440, dad thought a 383 was the better and safer choice).
When I was 15 or 16 we were headed home from a motorcycle race and happened to see a Polara on the side of the road for sale so we stopped in. I can't remember much about that car but in the storage shed the guy had a 67 Coronet also that he said we should look at.
It was nothing more than a body sitting on some steel rims but I knew It was going to be mine. No motor, transmission, fuel tank, wiring, and so on. My plans changed that day and I decided I wanted to go drag racing.
Bought the car for $2500 and over the next few years I acquired a junkyard 440 from a crashed 69 Charger, a 727 from something else, and a bunch of parts from Summit and Jeg’s. By the time I graduated high school it ran and moved, just not reliability! The local place that was supposed to specialize in race transmissions caused me a lot of money and heartache.
I joined the Air Force right out of high school and tried to get it finished and race ready but I ended up overseas for almost two years straight. Once I got stationed in Washington state it was game on! I got it track ready and raced it as much as I could for three years.
After my time in the Air Force was done I moved back home and decided it was time to do some upgrades. Unfortunately, life does not always go as planned and it ended up sitting in the trailer at my buddies farm for almost a decade as I moved around for work. I bought a house a few years ago that needed work but since the big projects are done I started thinking about the car again.
Fast forward to about a month ago I am driving home and I see an old Charger in front of me. I catch it at the light and as it takes off I get that wonderful smell of a slightly rich muscle car. That is all it took for me to decide it was about damn time to get my car back with me. I just met my dad halfway across the country last weekend and now it is out of the trailer for the first time in ten years and in my garage…mouse droppings and bugs and everything else.
So here it is, my 1967 Dodge Coronet. It had an R/T grill and bumper when I bought it so I just ran with that. I grew up in the same town as a man named Galen Govier and he decoded the car for me. It was originally a Coronet 500.
440 60 over
forged pistons
10.5-1 comp
.480 purple cam, hydraulic lifters
906 heads ported and polished
Mopar M1 single plane intake
Holley carb (can’t remember size)
727 with manual valve body
4.30 gears
2 “ Hooker super comp headers (never fired car with them on, had 1 ¾” headman’s when it ran last)
Best pass was 11.79 if I remember right with 60 ft. around 1.6. Always had issues tuning as it liked to fall flat on its face if the engine temp wasn’t right at 180. I remember I was messing with the cams for the accelerator pump on the carb but never figured it out.
aboard!
