OldBMXGuy
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My dad got me into Mopars at a very young age.. heck, his mom drove a ‘64 Polara
Me in the back seat
Me in the back seat
Your Dad was Cooler than You
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Pop inadvertently got me into Mopars as a kid as well - he just didn't know it at the time.
When he brought home a '68 Monaco wagon, replete with woodgrain siding and that baseball
field-sized space behind the seats, it came with a 383 - which I loved listening to when I was
allowed to sit in the backwards-facing third seat, preferably with the window down.
That distinctive staccato the Mopar big blocks have lives in my heart and I even loved the smell
of the exhaust (which might explain a few things later on in life
).
If you've got "the ear", you can still tell a Mopar from a block away from the sound, regardless of
whatever cam or what have you has been done to one.
I can.
When he brought home a '68 Monaco wagon, replete with woodgrain siding and that baseball
field-sized space behind the seats, it came with a 383 - which I loved listening to when I was
allowed to sit in the backwards-facing third seat, preferably with the window down.
That distinctive staccato the Mopar big blocks have lives in my heart and I even loved the smell
of the exhaust (which might explain a few things later on in life
).If you've got "the ear", you can still tell a Mopar from a block away from the sound, regardless of
whatever cam or what have you has been done to one.
I can.
Ironbuilt
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My Dad was a prick, 24 hours a day!! He taught me from a very young age, nothing is free. I started working in his truck repair shop as a young teenager, and we fought constantly. I lost him to lung cancer in 2001 and realize now how much I learned from him. He was hard, but he was fair. I miss him!!! There wasn't ANYTHING that he couldn't fix, and he taught me more than I can ever explain.
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My father in-law took the place of my father because my father was a piece of ****, left my mom with 5 kids to raise. But my father in-law was so cool, he was a Chrysler mechanic buy trade and if he needed a tool he didn’t have he would make it. Check out some that I still have that my brother in-law’s let me have when he passed.
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Oops didn’t mean to post three times, thinking about him I guess I got excited. Lol
Johnpat
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My Dad fought in wwIi,was a tail gunner in a Torpedo
Bomber flying off of carrier's.
He always had cool cars around and loved to go with my brother & I to the drags.
He owned his own service station ,& was a great mechanic.
Miss him a lot! He was definitely Cool
Bomber flying off of carrier's.
He always had cool cars around and loved to go with my brother & I to the drags.
He owned his own service station ,& was a great mechanic.
Miss him a lot! He was definitely Cool
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