Saw a new Mopar in the area yesterday evening

I live near a town that's all of 2 blocks long. Had taken one of my motorcycles out for a quick spin about 6:00PM. Stop at the one stop sign in town and a tired looking 68 Coronet R/T came rumbling by (and I do mean rumbling) and made a left turn as I sat there. I was delayed a little bit by other traffic but even from a distance could tell he'd put his foot in it at the edge of town.

The car sounded good! I had to chase him down. As I caught up to him I could make out a chrome Dana cover and some fairly wide rear tires. Followed for a bit and about another mile down the road passed him, giving a thumbs up as I went by, and I then stopped at another stop sign and pulled over.

He pulled up beside me and stopped. It was then I noticed the Hemi badge on the front fender, and a brown 4 speed knob was visible through the open windows. We visited for a bit and it turns out he lives just a few miles away. He's had the car about 4 years he said. It is a J code car. Right out of the 70's. Tired blue paint with highlites and cobweb paint along the sides. Old 5 spoke mags. The car was great!

He knew some history on the car and told me it had been ordered new in Minnesota and had been drag raced pretty regularly in the early 70's at Minnesota drag ways. Apparently the hemi had been removed to put in another race car and this one sat for years. He's got a hemi back in it. I can't recall now if it was the original one or not, I was trying to take everything in; mind on information overload. I couldn't believe I'd not seen or heard of it before.

As an aside, when I turned around to head home, 4 guys on Harley's who'd just a few moments before had gone by us as we visited, had lined up across the road in both lanes to have a little drag race of their own. The road there is straight, level, wide open and very little traffic. I use it regularly to try things out.

Any way, I slowed down, stopped behind them as they took off, and then blew by them all. Not much of a race with me on a Suzuki TL1000R.

Nice guy, great end to the day, but now somehow everything I own seems inadequate.

The TL will never inadequate. Now that we have some vintage Mopar of our own ,I'm surprised at just how many there are around us . We live quite a ways from any major city

Those are the type of cars I enjoy seeing the most these days. My old 750 is faster than a stock Hemi Cuda!

I live in a small town too. Just found out my neighbor has a 70 Charger and a 69 Coronet R/T i never knew about. Then just yesterday i saw an old car parked behind some others cars at an auto repair/sales place. Flipped around and it was a 68 Satellite. Too bad it was a 4 door. Registration tag was from the 80's on the license plate. Been sitting in someone's field all this time. Wasn't there a week ago.

cool story

I haven't seen too many cool MoPars of late here
we used to have a couple

not many muscle car era cars for that matter
they are hidden away

we have a car show in Twain Harte a few come out for that
there's another show 50 or so miles down at
Ironstone Winery/Murphy's area
that has some cool local cars, I rarely ever see either

we used to have a cars & burgers deal at a local Burger Joint
every Friday evening when the weather permited
in the town next over to Sonora, in Jamestown right on Hwy 108
I have NOT seen or heard about it for a while now
(Chinese Wuhan Flu crap I'm sure)
Great shakes & burgers too boot,
mostly rods, Jeeps & lifted truck, last few
more than muscle cars attended

one of my local neighbors has a Blown SBM
in a 30's era unfinished primer'd Plymouth business coupe (36 IIRC)
he has a 65 Barracuda too, piss yellow/bright not finished yet
haven't seen the guy around or heard the cars
for quite a while now
he has a really loud exhaust on a 70's era Dodge Van too
he drives regularly, strange I haven't seen or heard it either
maybe time to go over & see 'whats up'

our whole huge county is only like 54,000
our biggest town is Sonora & it's only like 4,800+
so not a lot of population up here

lots of tourists

I was so pumped up about this sighting I forgot completely about the previous Sunday. I drove my 67 Fury to church and after the service, went to another small town not far away, to get non-oxy gas. While parked there a guy in a pickup stops and says "Nice Fury! Is that a 67 or 68?"

I was surprised that he knew that much, since most people don't have any idea. As it turns out, I under estimated this guy.

He then tells me he has a 67 GTX convertible he's owned since 1969, and offers to show it to me! 3 blocks away, there it sits in a very nice, spotless garage tucked behind the house in a nicely kept area.

Turbine bronze, 4 speed, Dana, factory tach, emergency brake warning light, white interior, ps, pb. Gorgeous car! I visited with him a good half hour. To think this had been his every day driver the first couple years of his ownership. He was very proud of the GTX and rightly so. I thanked him repeatedly for letting me see it.

Writing this I'm starting to wonder what might surface next Sunday. Can always hope to make it a trifecta!

I was parked at a Walmart parking lot returning some emails. In pulls a 71 Charger, real nice looking car. I got out of the van and asked a few questions. Turns out it is his wife's car and he drives it while she is working. I asked what engine it had, here is where it gets funny. It has a special engine, its a flat head and takes special oil
Im thinking he meant a flat tappet needing zinc. I just listened and got in my van thinking how hard would it be owning a classic car and not knowing anything about cars. It was a beautiful Charger.

That's funny. A week or so ago my buddy and i stopped at a walmart parking lot with my 67 Coronet R/T project on the back of a trailer. Before i got out of the pickup an older lady was waving her arms and saying excuse me, excuse me, is that a Dodge? I said yep and she said she though so. Told me her and her ex used to have a 69 Coronet with a 440 six pack! Bet she wishes she still had that car.