What Makes MoPar so Badda$$??

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All of the above!!!! Grew up with 3 brothers who were older so they got to see my dad race. I missed it buy a few years lol. However we have always had some old mopar.my first memory is my moms 71 dart mom told me for the longest time I wouldn't go to sleep for anything. Yet if she drove me around the block in the dart id fall asleep in minutes lol. She finally sold it when I was in second grade. Now though she loves my Duster.she told me it was the only new car she ever wanted and it was way in the backof the dealership so she figured it would be a Good deal. They never told her the price just that it wasn't in her price range. So her eyes lit up pretty big when I pulled up in mine lol
 
it was my dads fault. he gave me a 74 cuda for my graduation 1974. been hooked sense then. i've had three 69 road runners,70 440-6 cuda, two gts darts and a few others. i have a 99 dodge avenger now. it's a RJ race car, ex pro stock of larry morgans. i run top sportsman with it.
 

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TrailBeast said:
In 1974 my Dad offered to buy me a car to get back and forth in.
We stopped at this car lot, and way in the back of the lot I saw this absolutely beautiful car with a nice color and some badass lines.
I was a near factory perfect condition 1969 Roadrunner with a 383 and a 727 with Micky Thompson spokes and white lettered MT tires on it.
I HAD to have this car, and we picked it up for $1,200 bucks.
It had the Roadrunner on the dash, and on the sides behind the tires on the fenders, the original Roadrunner horn and the 383 call outs in the hood vents.

The Roadrunner died a pointless horrible death and I was devistated
A guy that I beat badly in a race the weekend before poured five gallons of gas on it and lit it.
It burned to the ground right there in the parking lot, and the cops didn't give a **** about how or why it happened. (They wouldn't even talk to the guy about it)
Somehow a few years later, the guy got run off the road on his Harley and almost died.
I visited him in the hospital and told him we were even now.

To answer the OP's question, the lines, the fact that not everyone has one.
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Wow! That's real shitty of him
 
10 years ago I wanted to share the experience with my son that me and my dad had back when I was in high school of building a hot rod, Bryce beats to a different drum so his car had to be different than all of his friends . All of them had Chevys and Fords so we chose to go with a Mopar. We looked and looked for a 69 road runner but none were to be found.One day I was driving through a neighbor hood and spotted this beat up 73 Duster ,right then and there I decided that this was the car for Bryce. He fell in love with it at first sight and the price was right. 500 bucks thats what Bryce had in his wallet.
when we brought it home I thought my wife was going to divorce me and disown Bryce.This has been such a positive experience for Bryce and myself but my wife still hate that g@d damn car in the drive way.

Bob / Bryce and the woman that we both love.
 
only Mopar had high impact colors on a really cool cars.

the first one to get my attention was lime green 70 road runner....at the time i didnt know anything about cars but the 70 plymouth B-bodies are devine IMO......i have a 70 Sport Satelliite now that i love to pieces and it bcoz thats the car that strarted it all....

my adoptive family prolly would not have encouraged me to get into any other brand than Mopar but i dont think they knew i was going to get interested in cars this much.

i startred in B and E bodies ....( i had more money then, than i do now LOL)

but now that i know more than i did......nothing beats 67-72 A bodies except duster....duster coolness goes all the way to 76.

i can never look to any other brand now, im too far gone, its mopar or nocar
 
i was born into a mopar family. me and my father built his demon when i was about 10. even took my drive test in it when i was 16. instructor had to climb in over the door bar and i had to belt him in with the 5 pt. harness. passed my test and the instructor even coaxed me into grabbing second once for him. after that i was hooked. I think that mopar muscle cars have a very distinctive look about them as well. I also love the high impact colors of the muscle car days.

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When I met HEMI John, least that is what the locals called him. He worked at the Chrysler dealership on RT 46 in Parsippany NJ years ago. He acquired damn near anything HEMI, parts wise, from the dealership.
 
My father wanted to buy me a 1963 Dart Station Wagon as a 'first car'.

"But Dad, everyone at school will laugh at me."

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All my family and friends were hardcore into ford. I was 15 and looking for a project car and after looking at a few Falcons I found the ad for my 73 dart in the paper. Picked it up and now I will never own a ford muscle car. My old man who has never owned anything besides a ford has even been in the market for a dart and even made a few offers. Once he road in a big block a body he was hooked.
 
Way cool thread. Starts with the pop art ads, and the Hi impact colors,as a kid. Then I got my license,and a car. Got into Chebbies,for a while. Working at a 76 station,'87. This nasty idling yellow 70 Challenger rolls in for premium leaded.Knew a little about brand "c",asked him about cams.Rattled off info,told me he runs a speed shop. Go down 2 weeks later, he keeps babbling about a Max Wedge setup.Saw the intake ports,ported. About lost my cookies......
 
This was one of the cars that started it all :

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1973 340 Plymouth Duster that my dad bought in 1976 (mind you I wasn't born until the 80's). I have fond memories of that car and just how nasty a built up 340 can be.

The last time it saw the road, I believe I was in 1st grade, maybe. A small tree branch fell on the fender while my dad was driving it, chipped the paint on the fender and it pissed him off. He parked the car in the back of the garage and it sat there untouched for 17 years.

In 2008 my dad threw me what I thought was a spare set of keys to the car. I didn't think anything of it, since I had my '74 Duster. I tinkered on the '73 every now and then, getting it ready to run again (small stuff, like the fuel pump, filter, etc).

Then last year (2012) I was getting anxious to drive a Duster again, since my '74 had been off the road since 2011 (building the Blown 340 for it, and restoring the body). So I fired the car up, drove it into the garage and replaced all the brake lines, fuel lines, hoses, brake pads & shoes, master cylinder, etc. Got the car in running condition again and filled up the gas tank. Took it out and put a few miles on it before dropping it off at my dad's house.

I tried to give him the keys, since I had fixed it up and only wanted to drive it once in a while until I got my car finished. He wouldn't take the keys back, told me to keep them. That's when I found out it was the only set of keys for the car. So I drove it, tried returning it to him a few times but he wouldn't take the car back.

It's sitting in my garage for the winter, guess I'll take it out in the spring and drive it some more.
 
Mopar had cool jackets too :glasses7:
 

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Looking back now, i think the biggest thing that floats my boat, is that not everyone has what i have, my rigs are unique in their own way, and i get compliments on a regular basis. Growing up in a predominantly GM family, it was my Mom who got me into the mopar genre, i guess she was the "traitor" of the bunch. (i say she knows whats good for her) My great grandfather owned a GM dealership/ repair shop in lovelock nevada during the 60's and early 70's. My grandma learned to drive in a 64 impala, 409, 4-speed, she was scared to death of that car. to top it off, it was my grandfathers "loaner" car. My moms first car was a 67 mustang, fastback, 390-4speed, she got it cheap cause it ate the camshaft, then she traded it for a 71 challie, 383 auto. she was hooked. My father during highschool had a 68 chevelle, 307 powerglide, until he dumped a built to the hills 327 muncie setup in it. He used to run high 10's in the quarter, and he said the only rig that could beat him locally (and by beat, he said in his own words "run his @$$ into the ground") was a 71 D100 stepside shortbox with a 340-727 setup. I know who has the truck now, its the same guy. Anyway for my first car i was all about the GM, i looked at a couple biscaynes (63-64) and a 68 4-4-2, but my old man would shoot me down, "because they have V8's!!" So my mom convinced me to buy the dart, in all of its 4-door six cylinder gutless wonder glory. I rocked it for a year, then sold it to get a 76 chrysler cordoba, 400-727. My mom was apalled that id want "such a land yacht" and by that time my father realized i wasnt a maniac so he asked what engine is in it. I told him its a 400, 2 barrel. he was thinking chevy, 400 smallblock, so he assumed this was a smallboock as well. he was pretty po'd when i informed him (after i bought it of course) that its a poked out 383....and even better was when i put a 4barrel on it. i thought i was hot ****. he took my keys for 2 months.....then when i was in college i acquired a 78 D100 400 auto that i traded to get the dart back, i missed it too much, i mean c'mon, it was my first car! Now i have my dart, cordoba, and my 74 powerwagon. I love my Mopars! Anyway, my mom was always there to convince me to get a mopar, because deep down, momma knows best!!!!
 
I was about ten years old riding in the back seat of my grandfathers 413 64 new yorker coming home from church a coupel of local boys in there hot rods where blocking the road my grand dad squeezed between them and they started to chase us, I remember that a f b howling as he pushed the buttons on the dash,my grandmother tell him to stop and the kids in the car behind us spinning out trying to keep up that was my first mopar moment and there are so many more!!
 
four little letters ...HEMI.... we didn't really know what it meant but we knew it was the Alpha dog on the street.. just nothing like it back then.. I was 15 in 65' when I was given a 392 ..a few motorhead friends and I rolled it up the street about a block and a half into our driveway on a cart ...I still remember the look on my fathers face ...he thought I was insane.. I didn't have a car or license but I had a Hemi ..took it apart to rebuild it but never got to use it ... oh yeah my father was right ...still
 
I'm an engine guy 340, 340 six pack, 413/426 max wedge, 440, 440 six pack, old school Hemi's, 426 Hemi and Gen 3 Hemi even turbo 2.0/2.2 don't really need any other reason, plus I like their odd sense of style I love early 60's Mopar. Chrysler engineering rules, Chev didn't make a good engine until the LS, Ford has had some Kool powerplants over the years.
 
It was my dad. He started life as a Ferd man but had some pretty damn cool Mopars over the years, like no less than FIVE RRs(still have one), a 70 GTX, a 67 Charger, a totally badass 68 Satellite/RR with a 500 hp 440 in it(suregrip and a 727, we did SO many burnouts with that we reduced brand new Goodyears to nubs), a ton of Dusters/A bodies and a 68 Coronet, but the one I remember most is the one he would always pick me up from my grandma's house in: a gorgeous 68 Charger R/T, which was an old pseudo R/T that was really done right, mechanically anyway. It had a 440/4 speed in it and it pulled harder than any damn car I've been in since (even counting the 450 hp 360 64 Valiant drag car we had).

He has a 62 Belvedere and Fury, a 63 Belvedere with a mild 360, my grandpa has one of his old RRs, and I have my Valiant.

He regrets to this day 4 things: selling a '61 Gibson SG custom, and selling his 68 white RR, his 68 blue Coronet, and his 68 Charger. If a man could really feel love for an object, it was my dad and those 3 cars.
 
Winning the street wars, with a 8 to 1 blueprinted short block,pocket ported 915 castings.The D/C,book, whole lofts love from Engine Specialties!
 
here's a story for ya, when i was in high school, the drummer in my band had a 68 charger that his parents let him drive. it was light brown, w/a white bumble bee stripe, white interior, 383, auto, slapstick, w/a four barrell and dual exhaust from the factory. ronny (drummer mentioned above) just loved to use and abuse that car. he would come pick me up and we would go up to school and he would race anyone he could find. that car would blow off just about everything he'd race with it........and burnouts............oh man.........i still remember him doing a neutral drop in harvey park one day............the car smoked the tires untill he went up over the hill and couldn't see him anymore at least a couple of blocks.......wow!!

there was a hill in his neigbor hood that the road was straight and flat for about 3 blocks, and suddenly it would just drop straight down......it was scary going down at thirty..........he'd use the 3 blocks to get going about 80 and go over that hill and get all four wheels off the ground...........man.......we were crazy i think lol...

then he'd take it back to mom, and she'd go get the grocery's with it........heh...
i've been a mopar dude ever since......
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i love mine also keith, got rid of a 73 charg so i could get the 66........it was exactly the car i was looking for..............nobody else that i knew had one, and i wanted something different.
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hollywood hig said:
here's a story for ya, when i was in high school, the drummer in my band had a 68 charger that his parents let him drive. it was light brown, w/a white bumble bee stripe, white interior, 383, auto, slapstick, w/a four barrell and dual exhaust from the factory. ronny (drummer mentioned above) just loved to use and abuse that car. he would come pick me up and we would go up to school and he would race anyone he could find. that car would blow off just about everything he'd race with it........and burnouts............oh man.........i still remember him doing a neutral drop in harvey park one day............the car smoked the tires untill he went up over the hill and couldn't see him anymore at least a couple of blocks.......wow!!

there was a hill in his neigbor hood that the road was straight and flat for about 3 blocks, and suddenly it would just drop straight down......it was scary going down at thirty..........he'd use the 3 blocks to get going about 80 and go over that hill and get all four wheels off the ground...........man.......we were crazy i think lol...

then he'd take it back to mom, and she'd go get the grocery's with it........heh...
i've been a mopar dude ever since......
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i love mine also keith, got rid of a 73 charg so i could get the 66........it was exactly the car i was looking for..............nobody else that i knew had one, and i wanted something different.
higgs
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Yup, different is Kewl :glasses7:
 
first time to a drag strip
watched a 68 hemi 4 speed dart
Get air, under all four wheels, the first 3 gears
WOW

Also, I grew up during "Dare to Be Different"

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Havin Fun 101

yea, it's a 4 door
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540 inches of fun
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The "Rampage" still under construction
(440, 727/4.56 Moser rear. wilwood brakes)

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