Where did you guys find your 8 3/4's?

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Back when I lived in Auburn and was hanging out every day with the Mopar crowd, we would go on like a safari.

Mopar Safari

They taught me how to spot a 8 3/4 and check if it was posi, I could spot a rally wheel at 100 yards.

Here is where we found them.

Cop cars, ambulances, ex-phone company vehicles, ice cream trucks, ex-Weyerhauser trucks and cars, servis trucks.

What we were on the hunt for was "third members" not so much the whole diff, a good find was a low gear posi.

I found the one in the ice cream truck, low gears.


I didn't find it but I was there,...................

One of those little motorized carts, bench seat, flat bed,... like they use at Boeing or Lockheed,(or Disneyland),

I walked right by it, Kelly Thomas, (Mopar Guru), saw it and recognized it from behind.

Now this thing was short!

But I swear, it had a 8 3/4 third member in it, I also remember it got pulled and used in a local Dart.

I really wanted to get that housing!
it looked just right to me for an econline front engine dragster project.

Empty housing, and in my mind I had already built an entire dragster around it..... LOL

This was around 1981-1982, 1 hr South of Seattle, the Auburn / Kent area.

Major Mopar Area... and with S.I.R. , (Seattle International Raceway), right up on the hill,
life could not be better.

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Hit all the out in the sticks wrecking yards, pay attention when you are in rural areas, keep eye out for abandoned vehicles.

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That Seattle area.... I remember we tried to tow, (with a strap), an early Dart GT that was so rusted out it started coming apart,we pulled to the side to think things over.


I was elected to stay with the car, with no license plates and no windshield, in the rain.

Kelly and Richard went back and got tools, floor jack, jack stands, work light........ yeah, it was dark when they got back.

We took everything of any use off that Dart and left it there on the side of the road.

Kelly paid $100 for that pile just to get the rear end out of it, almost everything else was hammered, even the ash tray was rusty.


When you are driving where you have never been before, keep your eyes open, that is how Kelly found that Dart.
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