What makes Mopar stand out ?

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buldge hoods,body lines, bumble-bee stripes,big blocks,pistol-grips,exhaust tips(67 GTX favorite) = BADASS

I'm just sayin......

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Hemi Dart.......Feeling lucky buddy ? :evil2:
 

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No pictures but something that makes Mopar stand out for me is all those little cars you guys like and drive where built by my grand father or at least assembled them but still
 
More on the BEST transmissions ever built :

- TorqueFlite :
Best-designed , best-engineered auto trans to hit the market . Full , 3-forward speeds ; an actual torque converter ( no fluid couplers ! ) ; easy to service ( e.g , fluid & filtre changes ) ; and , iirc , the only auto trans with push-start capabilities ( '56 - '65 ) !
Also , first auto trans to propel its race cars to victory at the 1961 WinterNationals !

- New Process A-833 Four Speed :
Late to the party , but was the life of the party !
While others were still wrestling with the comparatively-weak Borg-Warner T-10 , Chrysler nailed the competition with its own 4 gear trans in 1964 .
Smooth-action ; not bulky and awkward .
Even non-MoPar racers used 'em !

Then there's those dirt-cheap street brawlers known as the 383 Road Runner & Super Bee , and the '69 & later 340 Darts & Dusters :evil2:
 
And let's not forget how daring Ma mopar was with it's full size cars: The 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst and the super rare 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury GT 440-6 barrel. This just astonish me.
 
Quick car show story.

I sandwiched my unrestored slant-6, 3 on the tree 71 swinger next to a high dollar Corvette and a overly chromed camaro at a car show and watched from a distance.

My Swinger got more attention than both chebbies and tons of people were making comments, asking questions, explaining things to their cute girlfriends who liked the car.............boy oh boy you should have seen the faces on the chevy guys. It looked like they were sucking on lemons.
I even heard the Camaro guy say "WTF is so special about that car?"
One of the cute girls that was looking at the car overheard and said to her boyfriend loudly "It says right here on this emblem, "Special" so it MUST be special."
The Camaro guy's eyes rolled in his head and he turned around and walked off. ha, ha.
 
Spaz,
Had the same thing happen to me with my 65 Conv /6 Dart, except I was next to a Hemi Cuda. The look on his face when there were people around my car and not his was priceless. :thumblef:

Back to regularly scheduled programing....

How about this air-cleaner ? Another bad *** over the top Chrysler piece ?
 

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Great thread. The posts folks have made make the argument. I too believe the "lore" around quality engines from slant six to 383, 340 and hemi in particular as well as the wild engineering Chrysler did set them apart. Who else had a vacuum operated Air Grabber door that popped out your hood, put a wing on a Charger/ road runner, slapped truck strength axles (dana) under four speed big blocks, created electronic ignition and the famed 727 transmission. That's all on top of kicking butt on the drag strip (Big daddy, Ronnie sox, dick landy, etc), kicking butt again in NASCAR ...the King among others and the slant six was so indestructible they put that engine in large farm machinery! Pretty good story to me!

Oh...and generally cheaper too...
 
a bunch of wacked out crazy insane engineers over designing everything on every part! (seriously those guys must have been on something)
 
few things

pistol grip
340 six pack
440 six pack
HEMI

you could buy the same car s6 or either a 383
an even with HEMI

all of the crazy color

interior color

body line

and the biggest thing its a MOPAR
compare to the rest only few people love them
and I dont like doing like all other
Im maybe working at ferd dealer but Id alwais been a mopar guy
and alwais will be

no stang in my parking lot
 
70DartMike said:
How about the inward curved rear window? I've seen a lot of puzzled faces looking at that one.

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or people saying Damn i never seen a back glass that clear...it doesnt even look like there is a glass in there.

true story...lol

love the black gts
 
To Me it's the classic grills. Besides are wives and girlfriends what has a prettier face than the 70-71 Dart,Demon 71-72 Duster, Cudas to name a few?
 
I have owned a make of almost every domestic and Japanese car available and even a BMW. What I have learned from my experiences is that nothing I've driven has been as durable or as fun to drive as my Dart. I know this is very idiotic on my part but I have ran the dart out of oil twice accidentally and did not damaged a thing in the stock drivetrain. My MOPAR is a masterful work of art and mechanical genius that my son and expected child(Whatever the sex is) will hopefully cherish even long after I'm gone. I used to buy, build, and flip cars at least once a year never paying more than $500 a car, but I would gladly make thousands in payments on a new car than sell my Swinger.

Thats my 2 cents on a priceless vehicle heritage.
 
An old Mopar will stand out in a crowd of cars. Chrysler was first with many innovations.


Also, back in the day. How many street racers came up against a Mopar and, getting close enough to get a look before running him, just said, "****! Its a Hemi!" They would just give a thumbs up or wave and say "Hey, nice car" and go on their way.
 
zigs said:
Who else would put a 440 in a grocery getter and kick *** to the store and back...... and not break an egg.
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My first experience with a Mopar was the 1967 New Yorker that my parents bought new. My dad was trying to decide between the 383 and 440. I remember him telling me a story of a '48 Chrysler with a big six and a "western rear" that he owned while in ther Navy. He said that it would fly on the flats but die on this hills. So, he figured more torque would be the best of both worlds and he chose the 440.

That car had more power than any other in the neighborhood. Then, I got my '68 GTX in 1973 and he drove with me to Florida for my first semester in college at the end of that summer. He could not get over the amount of power it had. I specifically remember driving on I-95 in Virginia over hilly terrain. He could not believe that he hardly had to add pedal to maintain 70 m.p.h. when climbing the rolling hills there.

Well, back to the New Yorker. It was a great interstate cruiser with plenty of power. I have always thought that the addition of headers, x-pipe, and dual exhaust would have worked wonders for that car.
After my parents had retired to Florida, I told them how much I liked that '67 New Yorker, which he had given to my sister and brother-in-law to tow their boat (ugh!) back in the 1980s. He said that he regretted giving that car to them because they later traded it to the boat yard for slip space and they were using it to tow boats around in the yard. I almost ****! Anyway, he told me that had he known I liked the car, he would much rather have given it to me. Well, he hunted down a '67 New Yorker in Florida; 440, A/C, and power everything, no less. He purchased it for a cheap price and had it shipped to me! I am in the process of updating the suspension and brakes and, yes, putting in headers, x-pipe, and dual exhaust. Unfortunately, he would never live to see the finished car because he passed away in 2008.

That C-barge ALWAYS draws attention wherever I drive it. Which brings me back to why I have always liked Mopars - they are like gazelles in a herd of GM and Ford buffalos.
 
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My first experience with a Mopar was the 1967 New Yorker that my parents bought new. My dad was trying to decide between the 383 and 440. I remember him telling me a story of a '48 Chrysler with a big six and a "western rear" that he owned while in ther Navy. He said that it would fly on the flats but die on this hills. So, he figured more torque would be the best of both worlds and he chose the 440.

That car had more power than any other in the neighborhood. Then, I got my '68 GTX in 1973 and he drove with me to Florida for my first semester in college at the end of that summer. He could not get over the amount of power it had. I specifically remember driving on I-95 in Virginia over hilly terrain. He could not believe that he hardly had to add pedal to maintain 70 m.p.h. when climbing the rolling hills there.

Well, back to the New Yorker. It was a great interstate cruiser with plenty of power. I have always thought that the addition of headers, x-pipe, and dual exhaust would have worked wonders for that car.
After my parents had retired to Florida, I told them how much I liked that '67 New Yorker, which he had given to my sister and brother-in-law to tow their boat (ugh!) back in the 1980s. He said that he regretted giving that car to them because they later traded it to the boat yard for slip space and they were using it to tow boats around in the yard. I almost ****! Anyway, he told me that had he known I liked the car, he would much rather have given it to me. Well, he hunted down a '67 New Yorker in Florida; 440, A/C, and power everything, no less. He purchased it for a cheap price and had it shipped to me! I am in the process of updating the suspension and brakes and, yes, putting in headers, x-pipe, and dual exhaust. Unfortunately, he would never live to see the finished car because he passed away in 2008.

That C-barge ALWAYS draws attention wherever I drive it. Which brings me back to why I have always liked Mopars - they are like gazelles in a herd of GM and Ford buffalos.
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Great story. Sure would like to see pictures.
 
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