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Although I love ALL American muscle cars, watching Garlits, Petty, and Sox & Martin devour the competition in my youth was the impetus.
how did yall get hooked on mopars
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1969 Hemi RTs
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Good Judgement!!
MOPOWER871
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I was a teenager ,friend of mine had a 340 duster. I was more concerned about guitar's and girls at the time. One day my friend kieth called me and said hay i sold the duster and got a roadrunner. I said whats a roadrunner , he replied come over and take a look . So i drove over to his house and knocked on the door, he was not home.
Walking back to the car i hear this thunderous noise from up the street, its my bro kieth he see's me and proceeded to dump the clutch on the 383 powered 68 road runner . The car lunged foward at me . It was at that moment i fell in love with mopars . 6 months later he was selling the roadrunner like the duster before it(he had a shot attention span) . I snatched it up for $600 bucks and a 4x12 marshall guitar speaker cabnet. Than was over thirty years ago . How time fly's when your living your life . So it turns out he and my girlfriend at the time were playing hankie panky so to speak . Turns out they got married and had two kids. Guess it was ment to be i'm cool with it . A few years ago he stopped over with his kids .when he seen the roadrunner sitting in the driveway he had let go for a mear bag of shells .tears where in his eyes .he could not believe it was the same car he asked if i wanted to trade the car for his wife i said no way. But if you let me take her for a test drive ,ill let you take mine
he agreed . We laughed so hard.
Anyway had lots of fun racing the roadrunner up and down the east coast and finally sold it last year . I was overcome with emotion when the deal was done . On to the next chapter of life . I picked up a sweet 67 gtx currently building a 500" pump gas stroker for it . And the beat gos on !!! Here we go again
Walking back to the car i hear this thunderous noise from up the street, its my bro kieth he see's me and proceeded to dump the clutch on the 383 powered 68 road runner . The car lunged foward at me . It was at that moment i fell in love with mopars . 6 months later he was selling the roadrunner like the duster before it(he had a shot attention span) . I snatched it up for $600 bucks and a 4x12 marshall guitar speaker cabnet. Than was over thirty years ago . How time fly's when your living your life . So it turns out he and my girlfriend at the time were playing hankie panky so to speak . Turns out they got married and had two kids. Guess it was ment to be i'm cool with it . A few years ago he stopped over with his kids .when he seen the roadrunner sitting in the driveway he had let go for a mear bag of shells .tears where in his eyes .he could not believe it was the same car he asked if i wanted to trade the car for his wife i said no way. But if you let me take her for a test drive ,ill let you take mine
he agreed . We laughed so hard. Anyway had lots of fun racing the roadrunner up and down the east coast and finally sold it last year . I was overcome with emotion when the deal was done . On to the next chapter of life . I picked up a sweet 67 gtx currently building a 500" pump gas stroker for it . And the beat gos on !!! Here we go again
Bladecutter
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1975...had to buy a car that i could run loads in....went to a car lot and picked up a Yellow w/ black vinyl Charger(318 no sway) for 525.00 was a colo car so had some rust holes in rear rockers from salt, but undercarriage was not bad....had snow treads on back, so after wearing them out. i found a set of Dunlop 50 series racing rains and i quickly discoved the cars ability to get a groove like a slot car, but discovered the neutral break of the car...very forgiving of un-finessed moves...I was wiping up shoreline with 911's & Bummers....all this time gone by but still most people just want them to be straight line cars.....true beauty of the B is how well they will straighten out a road with a small block....hail the 117" wheelbase/59"track....geometry from heaven
upper pic ...in center, flanked by linkin & bummer is my stock 68 Post Coro......i miss just this much less than my Mangusta....this car really could straighten a road.....the right set-up a B can do anything a RUF porsche' can do....i'd bet a nut on it
upper pic ...in center, flanked by linkin & bummer is my stock 68 Post Coro......i miss just this much less than my Mangusta....this car really could straighten a road.....the right set-up a B can do anything a RUF porsche' can do....i'd bet a nut on it
Bb70charger500
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Well when I was about 12 years old we were in the back of my friends father's 77 bandit trans am. And his friend s 72 charger 440 plum purple walked all over the trans am ever since then I thought they were so cool. Then lucky for me at age 15 i was working part time and stumbled across a 74 charger that I could afford to buy so I bought it and drove it threw high school . It was the only old mopar there ,tons of mustangs and f body's . So it was cool to be the only one . And that's still how it is there may be only 3 chargers in my area .
the mississippi madman
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Watching the dukes when I was 2 got me into mopars
My grandpa started the Chrysler dealership in our small town in the early 50's. By the time I got my drivers license in the early 80's, my 2 uncles had taken it over. My cousin and I got first chance at all the trade in's. Sure wish we would have taken better care and kept some of those first rides of ours.
As I've said before it was the crazy colors, graphics, great body lines and brute motors (red headed step child kind of appeal) that got me hooked but now that I finally have one of my own to drive I'm even more in love. These old Mopars really drive nicely and handle great with a little upgrades.
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