New Cordoba owner

[TRT1954]

I grew up with Mopars and now that I am retired I purchased a 79 Cordoba to preserve and tinker with. I have been following the forum for a few months. Lots of good know how here.

 

[68sprtsat383]

Welcome nice car

 

[TRT1954]

Just took delivery of this today (this is NOT my garage). Looking forward to mostly preserving and enjoying the ride. It has the 360-2bbl. lean burn. Initial plans are to remove the LB and install dual exhaust. I am undecided on staying with a 2 bbl. or going to a 4bbl.

 

[TRT1954]

Thank You. She's really clean. Hard to believe it is 38 years old.

 

[moparnutcase]

Did you buy it from the same dealer who has the Chestnut brown one? It looks like the one I had an interest in prior to buying my '77. When I spoke to the dealer his bottom line and my max were not nearly close enough. Picked up the '77 at a much better deal. Nice looking ride, good luck with it!

 

[TRT1954]

Same dealer. I probably overpaid but they sweetened the deal enough to make me happy. The car supposedly on has 25000 miles on but there is not much in the way of documentation. We put the car on a lift and it is really clean.

 

[moparnutcase]

That's cool. Neither were high on my list of colors but both caught my attention due to condition. I liked the looks of the brown one but preferred the mileage claim of the one you purchased. Did not like the bottom line on the brown one either. I lucked out with my '77, it has less than 11,300 original miles and just happens to be my favorite color, blue, and triple blue at that.

 

[polywideblock]

g'day from Australia

 

[mr. b]

welcome to FBBO nice looking cordoba

 

[Car Nut]

aboard!

 

[TRT1954]

Thanks everyone

 

[79300]

Same dealer. I probably overpaid but they sweetened the deal enough to make me happy. The car supposedly on has 25000 miles on but there is not much in the way of documentation. We put the car on a lift and it is really clean.

Congratulations, beautiful car! I had the same feeling when I bought my 79 300 a couple years ago. You see them for a lot less but when you look at them they have a bunch of issues. I got mine from a private owner with a lot of history so it was worth a little more to me. All I did to mine was delete the lean burn and clean it up. Again, beautiful ride, enjoy it.

 

[Budnicks]

Welcome to FBBO

 

[TRT1954]

Congratulations, beautiful car! I had the same feeling when I bought my 79 300 a couple years ago. You see them for a lot less but when you look at them they have a bunch of issues. I got mine from a private owner with a lot of history so it was worth a little more to me. All I did to mine was delete the lean burn and clean it up. Again, beautiful ride, enjoy it.

I am planning on removing the lean burn. What kit did you use ? Also, did you swap out the carburetor ?
I am also thinking about adding dual exhaust. But a little bit at a time.

Thanks,
TT

 

[79300]

I am planning on removing the lean burn. What kit did you use ? Also, did you swap out the carburetor ?
I am also thinking about adding dual exhaust. But a little bit at a time.

Thanks,
TT

I used a MSD ready to run distributor. Turned out to be a bit more complicated than I thought. Probably should have used the Mopar conversion kit. Mine had the E58 cop motor which was standard with the 300. It had a 850 TQ so I went with a Edelbrock Performer Intake and 600 cfm carb. It runs real well now, can do a burn out although I'm a bit old for that stuff but I had to try. The previous owner replaced the original dual exhaust system and deleted the cats. Mine has 22K miles when I got it.

 

[Dennis H]

Beautiful car. Corinthian Leather? See the nose of that Blue 79 5th Avenue next to it? Had one of those. 360 LB. Loved that big assed car.

 

[TRT1954]

I used a MSD ready to run distributor. Turned out to be a bit more complicated than I thought. Probably should have used the Mopar conversion kit. Mine had the E58 cop motor which was standard with the 300. It had a 850 TQ so I went with a Edelbrock Performer Intake and 600 cfm carb. It runs real well now, can do a burn out although I'm a bit old for that stuff but I had to try. The previous owner replaced the original dual exhaust system and deleted the cats. Mine has 22K miles when I got it. View attachment 393640 View attachment 393641

Real nice looking 300. I may stay with a pre lb 2bbl. at least for now. It's always a tough choice to preserve or modify.

 

[TRT1954]

Beautiful car. Corinthian Leather? See the nose of that Blue 79 5th Avenue next to it? Had one of those. 360 LB. Loved that big assed car.

Cloth. My first new car was 78 Fury Sport with the 360 Lean burn. I was able to squeeze 25mpg out of it. Of course those were the days of the 55mph speed limit.

 

[Rick Carson]

Welcome from Canada, Man does that ever look clean!