Stories or Heritage of your mopar.

My '74 Duster first owner was the Washington State Police. It was a "undercover" car that I am told was used in the Tacoma area for many years as a "bar car" back when it was new. The police would use it as a radio car and sit at bars and wait for the people to leave then the police would call in drunk drivers. The car was all that deep metallic avacado green and had almost no options on it at all.... except on the build sheet it shows "special order" for disc brakes. I dont know why that was special to it... anyways... its told that all the ding and dents that were in the car were from bar patrons getting used to seeing the car and started figuring out it belonged to the po-po. So when the cops were not in it they bar patrons threw bottles and rocks and small fury creatures at it. So... they sold the car off to the public which went to my best friend grandpa who owned it many years until 1986 when he gave the car to my best friend. My buddy drove the car for almost two years when some old bat bashed into the driver side front fender while she was backing out. It only bent the fender up and well... insurance was going to take the car. I told my buddys dad to buy the car back and I would give them the money for it. (me needing a good high school car) So I was able to get the car for $475 bucks and at the time I was making monthly payments of $100 on it to him. Well..... Christmas came around and I got a present from them and in it was the keys and title to the car. I had only paid $275 bucks for it. Sooo I drove that car for years with the little slant six in it... 290K miles on the clock and the slant gave up a rod. So it was time to start building the car. Oooodles of dollars and years later it still sits in my garage. It has survived my high school career, a divorce, me just having a love hate relationship with it and lots of other things... but thats all to say 24 years later its still mine...... police radio holes under the dash and all....

-RPM