What car got you into Mopars?
When I was a kid, My dad and grandpa always used to buy me mopar die cast models that were 1:18 scale. The first one was my favorite and I had it forever til the vinyl top started to peel off then my mom chunked it in the trash sadly. It was a 1970 Dodge Dart with a 340 as it had the blacked out hood, the scoops, the black tail stripe, and black vinyl top and interior. It would always fly down hallways and smack into things:-D. The second one I got was a '66 Plymouth Fury, identical to the one below, wheels and all. My mom ran it over less than a week after I had it and I took the wheels off it and screwed 'em on my Dart.
Well, after the Dart got chucked, I'd always pester my dad to tell me stories about his cars before he got married to my nutjob mom. Well, my favorite to hear were about his first car that my grandpa gave him. An ivy green '71 Plymouth Satellite with a 383 4 barrel, column shift 904, rally rims, and a suregrip 3.91 gear and bucket seats inside of the same ivy green. He used to tell me all the trouble he got into in that car and how he used to race people around Paramus, NJ all the time and won his share and lost his share. He used to switch license plates to get gas for it everyday during the gas shortage. I still wanna find this car and drag it home to restore for my grandpa and dad to enjoy, they both miss that car quite alot.
Recently, for my 20th birthday, I traded my 2006 Dodge Stratus for my first real Mopar (cuz I don't count some Mitsubishi-Mercedes made "Dodge" as a Mopar at all) A 1972 Dodge Dart (aka Zombie Dart) which I thought I would end up swapping a '70-'71 grille into up until I saw that '72 grille and that decision became null and void:toothy10:. I am working on getting it road worthy to use as my daily driver which shouldn't take alot but just a bunch of small things. The day my dad saw it he looked at me and smiled and said that he was really proud of me and then he asked me "So what's it got in it?". When I told him it had a 318 in it he chuckled and said, smiling ear to ear, "So, are you gonna put one of those beastly 383s in it?"
here's a pic of my car in its current state, its pretty damn solid, just looks like hell. lol. I'll fix that when I get the money to paint it nice, but I am still damn proud as hell of it.8)
When I was a kid, My dad and grandpa always used to buy me mopar die cast models that were 1:18 scale. The first one was my favorite and I had it forever til the vinyl top started to peel off then my mom chunked it in the trash sadly. It was a 1970 Dodge Dart with a 340 as it had the blacked out hood, the scoops, the black tail stripe, and black vinyl top and interior. It would always fly down hallways and smack into things:-D. The second one I got was a '66 Plymouth Fury, identical to the one below, wheels and all. My mom ran it over less than a week after I had it and I took the wheels off it and screwed 'em on my Dart.
Well, after the Dart got chucked, I'd always pester my dad to tell me stories about his cars before he got married to my nutjob mom. Well, my favorite to hear were about his first car that my grandpa gave him. An ivy green '71 Plymouth Satellite with a 383 4 barrel, column shift 904, rally rims, and a suregrip 3.91 gear and bucket seats inside of the same ivy green. He used to tell me all the trouble he got into in that car and how he used to race people around Paramus, NJ all the time and won his share and lost his share. He used to switch license plates to get gas for it everyday during the gas shortage. I still wanna find this car and drag it home to restore for my grandpa and dad to enjoy, they both miss that car quite alot.
Recently, for my 20th birthday, I traded my 2006 Dodge Stratus for my first real Mopar (cuz I don't count some Mitsubishi-Mercedes made "Dodge" as a Mopar at all) A 1972 Dodge Dart (aka Zombie Dart) which I thought I would end up swapping a '70-'71 grille into up until I saw that '72 grille and that decision became null and void:toothy10:. I am working on getting it road worthy to use as my daily driver which shouldn't take alot but just a bunch of small things. The day my dad saw it he looked at me and smiled and said that he was really proud of me and then he asked me "So what's it got in it?". When I told him it had a 318 in it he chuckled and said, smiling ear to ear, "So, are you gonna put one of those beastly 383s in it?"
here's a pic of my car in its current state, its pretty damn solid, just looks like hell. lol. I'll fix that when I get the money to paint it nice, but I am still damn proud as hell of it.8)
