FBBO cumulative years of Mopar knowledge, experience, passion - Post up your time

[Ironbuilt]

45 years and getting an ill feeling thinking of how much I have spent
Must be a gizzillion dollars by now..........gets faster every year

What gets faster? The car or the dwindling of you bank account?

 

[MoparLeo]

Loved them since 6 yrs old. Worked on them since 1964. Owned many of them since 1970 , so what was the question ?? 54 yrs and counting. Professionally 44 years.

 

[kiwigtx]

Let's keep this rolling now....

 

[Geri]

Hey guys I thought it would be interesting to tally up how many years of Mopar knowledge, experience , loving, driving, and working on our favorite breed of cars there is in our combined membership ranks. I'll post up an occasional tally along the way and don't worry about the number ... Just post it up . If I should mod the idea PM me and I'll change it up if it's dumb idea I'll let is die.

I'll start .. 33, like our new young gun member Bobby, I started chasing a Mopar of my own when I was 15, but it took me a little longer. I was 16 when I got my first and have loved them ever since. I've worked on them off and on over the past 30 plus years but even when i was overseas and couldn't take the cars with me I read and kept up on the hobby and dreamed about them.

How about you?

great addition to the site. I'll be posting my mopars.here,alas not many pictures- it didn't seen necessary at the time I was driving them.

 

[Geri]

Hey guys I thought it would be interesting to tally up how many years of Mopar knowledge, experience , loving, driving, and working on our favorite breed of cars there is in our combined membership ranks. I'll post up an occasional tally along the way and don't worry about the number ... Just post it up . If I should mod the idea PM me and I'll change it up if it's dumb idea I'll let is die.

I'll start .. 33, like our new young gun member Bobby, I started chasing a Mopar of my own when I was 15, but it took me a little longer. I was 16 when I got my first and have loved them ever since. I've worked on them off and on over the past 30 plus years but even when i was overseas and couldn't take the cars with me I read and kept up on the hobby and dreamed about them.

How about you?

 

[tak419]

51. Bought first Mopar at 14.
So 37 Years of owning Mopars, ALL 71-2 Roadrunners.

 

[Geri]

I'll try to remember in somewhat Chronological order.
starting in 1962
1.1957 Plymouth 2 door sedan V-8 3 on the tree.
2. 1963 Plymouth SS426 (new) March '63.
3.1957 Chrysler New Yorker 2 door hardtop.
4. 1957 Chrysler New Yorker station wagon.
5.1957 Plymouth Fury *White/gold trim)
6.got my '63 SS car back minus engine put a 383 -4 bble in it.
7. 1968 Charger R/T
8. 1969 Cuda fastback 440 (factory)
9.1967 dodgeA-100 pickup- slant 6
10. 1963 Plymouth sport fury put 440 in it.
11. 1964 Plymouth fury 4 door hardtop- 361.(I think it was a fury)
12.1969 charger 500 426 hemi 4 speed.
13. 1970 Hemi Cuda (race car)
14. 1964 Plymouth Savoy post factory 361, 4 speed
15. 1971 Charger
16, 1970 Challenger 318
17.1970 barracuda 318
18, 1970 duster slant 6
19. 1962 Dodge Dart hardtop SS clone
20.1962 Dodge dart station wagon, 2 door hardtop-426 Hemi SS engine.
21. 1976? Dodge Ramcharger 2 wheel drive.
22. 1957 Chrysler Windsor station wagon
23. 1998 Dodge 2500 V-10
24. 2005 dodge3500 4 door duelly (now own)
25.1964 Dodge 330 post sedan 383. (now own)
mopar powered
1952 Ford F-1 pickup 392 hemi.
1941 willys- 440 auto then 426 hemi race car.
1941 willys pickup 426 hemi duel plug,then 426 hemi blown injected duel plug street? car.
1937 Topolino with '55 Dodge 270 Hemi /auto.
1965 Jim Davis chassis AA/FD 392 hemi on 85%.
(now own)
thats all I can remember .

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

What gets faster? The car or the dwindling of you bank account?

YES! And the stream gets slower.........
Just last night I peed like a 50 year old!!!

 

[bearman]

40 plus years but the last year has been the best as I'm building my dream car. 1964 440 and with all the ideas and help from all the members on this forum I plan to a have a nice ride and do the mopar nation proud. I started at 16 with a 64 polar 500 with a 383 and 4 speed the car would run 13 at the track well that wasn't fast enough so I built it faster and 11's was as fast as it would go. Well life got in the way and sold it. As time went on 69 440 4 speed came into my life then 65 fury then a 72 a body a 69 charger. I have other street cars but no matter what I did they just couldn't make the sound of a bb mopar so here I am collecting parts for the new dream.

 

[bearman]

What gets faster? The car or the dwindling of you bank account?

Iron man in my case the bank account. Hoping later it's the car

 

[oldbee]

53 yrs & still counting. 50 with the avatar! Dad had a ‘63 Fury, but I was a pure amateur then!

 

[BDF6]

Since about 1967-8. Sox & Martin were my favorites at the SoCal drag strips.
The only time I got in trouble for a temper tantrum as a child was back then when my aunt & uncle gave me a model of some early 60s Ford instead of a MOPAR. I was only mildly placated when they assured me it was the kind my uncle raced...
I wasn't a spoiled brat, I just REALLY knew at that young age it was MOPAR or no car!

 

[Geri]

40 plus years but the last year has been the best as I'm building my dream car. 1964 440 and with all the ideas and help from all the members on this forum I plan to a have a nice ride and do the mopar nation proud. I started at 16 with a 64 polar 500 with a 383 and 4 speed the car would run 13 at the track well that wasn't fast enough so I built it faster and 11's was as fast as it would go. Well life got in the way and sold it. As time went on 69 440 4 speed came into my life then 65 fury then a 72 a body a 69 charger. I have other street cars but no matter what I did they just couldn't make the sound of a bb mopar so here I am collecting parts for the new dream.

I have been a Mopar only fan/racer since 1962- when I became aware of the SS 413's, I ordered a '63 SS 426 Plymouth,March '63, got it April 26 and thats been it for me ever since. I should point out having never driven a car with that mush power before- and it was my only street/racecar , as it was an auto trans car the salesman who had sold a prior '63 stick shift asked if he could go for a ride and see what the auto trans was like- sure.-as I left the dealer and touched the throttle I spun a 360 in front of the show room he said "thats far enough" got out ,walked some 60 feet back to the dealership. (55 years Mopar fanatic), the '64 Dodge 330 post sedan I bought arrived last night. 383/auto. duel pipes, sure grip,clean,straight.

 

[roadrunnerh]

28 years here - In 1990 I purchased a rough but very drivable 1968 GTX and it was my daily ride year round in Pittsburgh. Over the years I've owned the following Mopars:
1968 GTX
1967 Coronet 440
1968 Belvedere 4dr.
1968 Satellite 4dr.
1968 Road Runner (bought in '93 and still have)
1969 300
1972 Swinger
1976 Aspen
1998 Neon
1975 Scamp (still have)
2016 Challenger

 

[David Stillie]

First Mopar in 1975. Working at Chrysler Dealer since 1977

 

[multimopes]

(49 years for me.) Never owned anything except Mopars with the exception of a few Jap bikes. Father had 2 Plymouths, a Desoto and a Dodge. Older brother several Darts including a 69 340 4spd. My first was in 1969 and was a 65 Dart Coupe 6 Column auto listed below with the others: (note) not in order and many overlap each other:

63 Dart coupe - /6 auto pushbutton
64 Dodge A-100 Van - /6 with 3 on the tree
65 Dart coupe - /6 auto column (first car and went over 300,000 miles)
65 Dart GT hardtop - /6 auto on the floor
65 Plymouth Barracuda with a 66 Dart GT nose /6 - 4spd
65 Plymouth Belvidere - 383 4spd
66 Dodge Charger - 318 auto
70 Dodge Challenger RT -383 4spd
70 Dodge Challenger - /6 auto on floor
73 Plymouth Satellite RR clone - 440 Auto (former race car) * still have
76 Plymouth Volare wagon - /6 4spd
76 Plymouth Trailduster - 318 4spd 4x4
77 Dodge B-200 Van - 360 3spd floor conversion
79 Dodge Aspen wagon - 318 Auto
80 Chrysler Cordoba - /6 auto (I put a Mirada front clip on it)
82 Dodge Ramcharger - 318 4spd 4x4 (owned and drove over 25 years)
83 Dodge Mirada - /6 auto
84 Dodge Charger - 2.2 5spd
86 Dodge Daytona turbo Z - 2.2 5spd (went over 300,000 miles)
87 Dodge Shadow 2dr coupe - 2.2 5spd
88 Chrysler Lebaron Convertible - 2.2 turbo - auto
89 Dodge Daytona - 2.5 auto
92 Dodge Daytona - 2.5 5spd
99 Dodge Intrepid - 2.7 auto
99 Dodge Ram 1500 Sport - 318 auto 4x4 * (still have)
05 Neon(s) SXT - 2.0 auto * (2 cars still have)

I wish I still had them all!
(some pictures are in my photo garages)

 

[threewood]

My Mopar itch started around 1986 when I was about 13 years old because of a friend and his dad. In 1990 I bought a 1985 Omni GLH-T that I raced all over town. Despite having a bad syncro for 1-2 it was a great car until it was rear ended and totaled. The only picture I had of it was after the wreck. I never did much to it other than add a stereo and some speakers.

With insurance money in hand I finally bought an old Mopar of my own in 1991. It was a 1968 Charger H code 383 auto. It was orange with black interior and top. I worked on it non stop with what little $ I had. This is where I first learned to work on cars which was also before the internet so information came from local enthusiasts and service manuals. It ran pretty good but the cowl and rear window were rusted through so it was a wet mess whenever it rained or snowed. I sold it a year later for $3000 as i didn't have the time or money to put into fixing the body. Living in Ky where it rained all the time was the deciding factor.

During the time when I turned 16, my daily driver was my Dad's 1979 Volare station wagon. He drove this out of the showroom brand new back when Chrysler was hurting. He had his daily driver so this was technically mine as my sister didn't want anything to do with it. It was the perfect high school ride for fishing and camping trips. I rebuilt the head once to reverse the effects of not changing the oil and leaky valve seals. I also rebuilt the BBD a few times to keep it running. It finally got sent to the boneyard when the front frame rails rotted through along with the brake lines. This is the thick, crusty rust known throughout the salt belt. I drove it for 2 years with a broke leaf spring because the bolts were a solid chunk of rust.

My next, and longest running car, was a 1987 Shelby GLHS. This little monster lasted some 250k miles and took me through college and grad school before it finally died from rot and a holed piston (1992 to 2012 RIP). I did everything to this car including an engine swap after I dropped a valve in the original motor, rebuilt the transaxle and finally replaced the A525 with an A523 cable shift. New head, exhaust, BOV, injectors, turbo, etc. I did everything to this car on my own.

While I was still driving the Shelby, my Mom and I bought her cousins 1962 Belvedere for $1000. This was around 2004. This car was good enough to scratch the itch of wanting another Mopar during a time when 2 doors were going for stupid money (still are! lol). Didn't do too much to it until I brought it out to AZ with me, where I took it apart and rebuilt the motor, trans and did some body work and paint to get it looking good again.

Then I finally got back into the two door game in 2016 when i purchased my 1969 GTX, complete rebuild thread in the project forums.

 

[Darter6]

50 years and counting......
Oh, I came home in a 53 Chrysler when I was born. If that counts, 61 then.

 

[lyndondb]

Had my MOPAR since 1972 so lets see that is ....,46 years.

Hauled white liquor, drag raced, ...........,

 

[biomedtechguy]

I can definitively point to the exact experience that made me a MOPAR fan.
1969, at 7 years old. Riding in the back seat of the new 69 383 auto Roadrunner my LEO dad had bought, he was driving and my mom was in the front seat.
A guy passes us on the interstate speeding and my dad catches him about a mile away.
Fast forward to 1978 and the start of my senior year of high school. I'm 16 and I find a bone stock 71 Charger R/T. 440 auto, open 8 3/4 rear. 54,000 miles. $1,700 and a new set of points and plug wires and she was good to go! I changed out the starter motor on my back in the street using the curb to get the front wheels up high enough for me to get under it. By Easter break of 79 I was changing out the head gaskets because I blew one playing with a Porche on the interstate heading to LaPlace for a day of 1320 racing. By the fall of 79 I had set my heart on a 1979 R/T because my Charger was my only car and not as reliable as I needed (or could maintain).
Turns out the lean burn system on the
"E-58 option" police pursuit 360 sucked for "reliability" too.
I love my 70 V-Code 3 pedal Roadrunner I have now. WAY WAY faster than the 71 Charger and I can do what I want with it performance wise (as my budget allows).
My daily driver AND work vehicle? 2017 DODGE Caravan! (The V-6 powered van is probably almost as fast as my stock 79 R/T was)
Here's my old Charger R/T:

This is what my 79 R/T looked like:

And the Roadrunner I have now: