This evening forty years ago...

[SSing]

Well life has been good to me.
I mean, I got to live the seventies.
No car is long gone, but you cant take it away from me...
Still have the jacket though...

 

[abdywgn]

KOOL! Yes, can't take accomplishments and memories away from us.
Thanks for sharing that with us. Bob

 

[Mr. Sinister]

Only a dream for me but thanks for sharing, that must have been a great time in life.

 

[jeffnmo]

It was.

Jeff

 

[brian6pac]

I lived through the 70's, but I don't remember much of it.

 

[65Val]

I lived through the 70's, but I don't remember much of it.

They say..."if you remember the 70's, you weren't really there"...

 

[mbaird]

I am assuming that is an original S/S Dart ?
Cool

 

[barbee6043]

Heck I have lived to be 71, I lived thru the 50's, the 60's, I skipped the 70;'s and went right on.....

 

[toolmanmike]

Perfect. I am still living out the 70's. LOL Well not all aspects of it. It's not legal in my state yet.

 

[Princess Valiant]

Perfect. I am still living out the 70's. LOL Well not all aspects of it. It's not legal in my state yet.

It's ok to live in the 70s, just don't use the word "groovy", it went from being a cool word to being not cool, and now it just sounds special needs.

 

[toolmanmike]

It's ok to live in the 70s, just don't use the word "groovy", it went from being a cool word to being not cool, and now it just sounds special needs.

I'm not that far back. That was during the hippy days of the 60's. But that's Groovy Rainy.

 

[GEO]

I drove a 70 Coronet R/T 440 six pack to high school back in 1978-79. Had my current dart since 1981 and this is a picture of it in 1982

 

[RAT ROD AL]

It's ok to live in the 70s, just don't use the word "groovy", it went from being a cool word to being not cool, and now it just sounds special needs.

GROOVY I think was more 60s. 70s was FAROUt MAN.!

 

[69conv]

Strate outta Cheech and Chong!

 

[Mopar-Mitch]

I got my first Mopar in the 70's. 68 dodge charger in 1978, I was just 14 when I got it, had big plans for it but ended up getting a 70 coronet in 1979 and that was my high school car.

 

[66fyssh]

Great picture @SSing !! Tell us more about it and the car, please.

You have the jacket, but do you still have the shoes?????

 

['73red-duster]

Made it through the 70's. Graduated in '71. Bought a '72 Duster, and traded it for a '73 Satellite Sebring Plus. That's what I brought my son home from the hospital in, in '77. Yeah, the 70's were good!!

 

[69_340_GTS]

Bought my first Mopar, a like-new '70 Road Runner in 1976. That was where it all began...43 years ago. Wow.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Super cool picture man. Was there an occasion?

 

[SSing]

I am assuming that is an original S/S Dart ?
Cool

No, but it was a nice try though, considering what I knew about those cars you could find in the Mopar Racing Manuals witch was very little.

 

[SSing]

Great picture @SSing !! Tell us more about it and the car, please.

You have the jacket, but do you still have the shoes?????

Thanks. No, no shoes either A lokal newspaper wanted to do a story. They had heard the expression "muscle car" and wanted me to show off my biceps which of course I refused. Just slipped in to something and took the car outside…
Well like I said, considering Sweden and nothing very special about these cars at the time, it turned out ok.
I knew about Bill Bagshaw being a west coast guy so had to do some lettering...
And thank you for the foto session to Mats Juhlin now running a speed shop (Pro Parts) At the time co-owner of the only Direct Connection connected Shop in Sweden.

 

[66fyssh]

Sweet car! I know it was a lot of fun back in the day. Looks good, but it probably ran even better with that engine!!

 

[barbee6043]

AHhhhh the 70;'s. I remember the Viet Nam war finally winding down, interests rate of 18%, high inflation, idiot disco, real performance cars a thing of the past, except used ones, high gas prices, oil embargo, the gonv't price freeze... my calves went fro $1 a lb to ten cents....... '79, I left Ga. for Missouri!!!!! Never looked back.

 

[SSing]

AHhhhh the 70;'s. I remember the Viet Nam war finally winding down, interests rate of 18%, high inflation, idiot disco, real performance cars a thing of the past, except used ones, high gas prices, oil embargo, the gonv't price freeze... my calves went fro $1 a lb to ten cents....... '79, I left Ga. for Missouri!!!!! Never looked back.

Well I´m in Sweden you know, and can only relate to one thing you said… used performance cars. In 1975 I payed 25-hundred for a absolutely super clean B5 ´71 340 4-speed Duster. Shark tooth and rally gauges... I hope you are doing fine now. Especially if you are a farmer like I...

 

[barbee6043]

Well I´m in Sweden you know, and can only relate to one thing you said… used performance cars. In 1975 I payed 25-hundred for a absolutely super clean B5 ´71 340 4-speed Duster. Shark tooth and rally gauges... I hope you are doing fine now. Especially if you are a farmer like I...

Wife and I are bout retired and have a small herd of Boer goats, sell to FFA kids for projects. Down to 2 quarter horses, that are just pasture ornaments and they need a job BAD!!!! My hobby has always been the old Mopars, anything else is work even if I do enjoy it!
In ag here, the little guy has pretty much been squeezed out. Go big or go home!! lol