What car got you into Mopars?
When I first turned 16, my dad had a used car lot. I asked him to look for a car for me to buy. One day he called me and said he got a car in that I might like, it's a convertible. My hopes were very low, as in 1967 convertibles weren't cool. I went down to the lot anyways. My dad showed it to me, it was a 63 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible. Right away I was turned off, until I saw the hood ornament and popped the hood. Sure enough, 426 Wedge. I casually closed the hood and told my dad that I would take it.
The car that really got me hooked on Mopars was my third car (my second was a 66 Ford Fairlane GTA). In August of 1970, I decided to buy a brand new car. I looked at Torino's and Nova's (I was into small, light weight high horsepower cars) but settled on a 340 Duster that the local Plymouth Dealer had on the showroom floor. It was a 70 Duster 340, 4-speed, no power steering or brakes, bench seat. B-5 blue with B-5 blue interior. I didn't care for the whitewall tires that were on the ralley rims, but figured that would change soon enough. The car was a late production car, built in July 1970. The dealer quoted me a price of $2600 out the door, but said he would make me a deal on the orange Road Runner out back for the same price. I figured I'd take a look before sealing the deal on the Duster. It was a Hemi Orange Superbird with black vinyl top, 440, 4-speed. At that time I thought, why would I want THAT monstrosity, it won't even fit in the garage. I was into drag racing, not Nascar.
Well, the Duster that I bought was a freak. With the only mods to the car being recurving the distributor and changing jet sizes in the carb. the Duster ran high 13's in the quarter all day long, yes, even on the whitewall polyglass tires. A year later we pulled the 340 and installed a 440. We tore down the 340 to see why it was so quick. That's when we found out they had installed a 340-6 AAR motor with a 4 barrel intake and carb. at the factory. I've been a Mopar fan ever since.
This pic was taken in 1975...
When I first turned 16, my dad had a used car lot. I asked him to look for a car for me to buy. One day he called me and said he got a car in that I might like, it's a convertible. My hopes were very low, as in 1967 convertibles weren't cool. I went down to the lot anyways. My dad showed it to me, it was a 63 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible. Right away I was turned off, until I saw the hood ornament and popped the hood. Sure enough, 426 Wedge. I casually closed the hood and told my dad that I would take it.
The car that really got me hooked on Mopars was my third car (my second was a 66 Ford Fairlane GTA). In August of 1970, I decided to buy a brand new car. I looked at Torino's and Nova's (I was into small, light weight high horsepower cars) but settled on a 340 Duster that the local Plymouth Dealer had on the showroom floor. It was a 70 Duster 340, 4-speed, no power steering or brakes, bench seat. B-5 blue with B-5 blue interior. I didn't care for the whitewall tires that were on the ralley rims, but figured that would change soon enough. The car was a late production car, built in July 1970. The dealer quoted me a price of $2600 out the door, but said he would make me a deal on the orange Road Runner out back for the same price. I figured I'd take a look before sealing the deal on the Duster. It was a Hemi Orange Superbird with black vinyl top, 440, 4-speed. At that time I thought, why would I want THAT monstrosity, it won't even fit in the garage. I was into drag racing, not Nascar.
Well, the Duster that I bought was a freak. With the only mods to the car being recurving the distributor and changing jet sizes in the carb. the Duster ran high 13's in the quarter all day long, yes, even on the whitewall polyglass tires. A year later we pulled the 340 and installed a 440. We tore down the 340 to see why it was so quick. That's when we found out they had installed a 340-6 AAR motor with a 4 barrel intake and carb. at the factory. I've been a Mopar fan ever since.
This pic was taken in 1975...
