First Car Stories
First car wasn't a Mopar, but it eventually led to my first '69 Dart.
Summer of '66 and I'd just graduated from HS and was planning to commute to college in the Fall. My parents were looking at buying a new Oldsmobile 98 so worked a combo deal with the dealership and I ended up with a 2-year old '64 Cutlass, 330" V8, 2-speed auto for $1600.
Met my first wife in that car that same summer - oh, the stories that car could tell. Got married the summer of '69 and it was our only car for awhile. A couple of months later my wife got hit in it one day on her way to work and we decided we needed a second car. That second car turned out to be a '69 Dart 340 Swinger that we picked up used in November '69 for $2500 from a guy going into the Navy. The Dart already had a new set of Cragars on it.
Ended up selling the Cutlass in January '71 when I headed off for Basic Training at Ft. Polk, LA. Bought a used '70 Charger 500 when I got back from AIT in May same year. Got the Charger for $2500 from a young couple that were moving to Hawaii.
