Average age of Mopar Maniacs.

How old / young are you?


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21 in May. I grew up around cars and my dad has always been into the classics. :) My grandpa was a Mopar guy and my dad worked on cars ever since he was really young.
 
43. Beed a Mopar nut for a long time, had to get through the cheap ford vans and chevy trucks before I could finally get into a 69 Ply Sat. I was looking for Road Runner or Sat, but could only afford torn up 318's, so I figured, down size to the A body. That is when I found Root Beer.
 
I'm fifty. My first car I bought from a friend was a 1972 Lemans with a six cylinder then sold within a year and bought a 1970 Roadrunner that was a three time class winner in Englishtown, NJ since owning that bad *** Roadrunner, I have owned five different Barracudas (1964, 1966,(2) 1967's, and a 1970), another 1970 Roadrunner, a 1967 Fury, a 1968 Dart GTS convertible with a 383/4 speed (yes, you read right) and a 1975 Dart Sport. I currently still own my 1966 Barracuda that me and my wife found together.
 
Yea wish I was raised in the 50's and 60's. seemed like a simpler time and people seemed happier and with less dumb *** ailments like Bi-Polar disorder, ADHD, and dumb clinical **** like that, that younger people now a days seem to suffer from. Craftsman and truly talented people are falling by the wayside more and more. Good ol technology helps but in a way hurts. And I'm only 34!!!!!!!
 
well I did not get to vote but i will be 46 this year my first was a 68 roadrunner 3 newyorker's 69 dart many jeeps and 2 dodge rams along with a few fords in there. now one jeep one ford and one buick. looking at grand cherokee and 70 dart gt
 
At 16 my first car was a 74 dart 4dr with a slant 6 automatic. 5th car 67 cuda
6th 68 coronet 7th 70 roadrunner 8th 74 duster and now. #12 a 68 dart basket case.
 
I was a pontiac man, also had a 56 Chevy sedan delivery with a Pontiac in it. made alot of cash street racing,and tickets in the 60's. So I settled down to a 65 Dodge panel slant 6, it was bought new by the guy I got it from, and used to deliver papers to the racks till he traded me with 226,000 miles. it ran perfect, I went every where in it.
So Mopars caught my heart. I love all cars, but I prefer Mopars.I also had a 65 A100 Dodge van, which I fixed up, that got me into the Van Conversion business, which I had for 18 years.Had a 62 Echonline with a 440 Chrysler in the back through a V drive, which I drove every where, and was in 20 mags, including Hot Rod twice.Have owned no less then 30 Dodge vans, 3 4X4 Dodge Vans.So Mopars been good to me.
I now have a 73 Cuda 340 6pk 4 spd.for 27 years.69 Valiant Drag car, my wife has a 71 Dart drag car (putting back on the street), and she also has 69 Camaro, real nice car BB hugger orange etc.
I am 65 years young.
 

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Wow, a lot of old farts! :D

Kidding! We wouldn't know our coils from our camshafts if it weren't for the seasoned veterans! :)


- CK
 
i figure i know i'm gettin old when i love drivin my /6 dusters jsut like i did the 440-6 cudas, challegers, 69 1/2 rr, aar, ta's etc. probably what was so fun back in the 80's and 90's was bein able to find a cool care that was affordable and could afford gas and oil!? resto parts were not that available but then again carpet was $89, dome lens repoped were $5 and ya could find parts cars in the bone yards! LOL! yas i'm 65.
i didn't have a mopar when i startd drivin, but was buddy bought a new 69 sport sat 3838 4 spd ( he thought rr was childish!?)) good luck to the young guns!
 
barbee
My cuda has VW material for the front seat inserts, because they didn't have re-pop covers in the olden days, or could you get the correct stuff.That was the closes thing, which is still on the car today.
 
I'm 40 as of last month, wasn't raised on mopars my old man hated them (could tell you a few horror storys for mopars) but I decided at 18 in high school that I wanted more than a chubby chevy...bought a 71 Valiant 4 door from a girlfriends mom, 318 plain jane, put dual exaust with cherry bombs and a 4bbl intake & holley carb...
I didn't mind being the "black sheep" with a fast 'n' loud car, the highschool chicks dug it... now I'm working on a 72 Scamp with a 318 and it feels like old times...
 
I must have missed the poll. I am a young 70 and I have had several MOPARS through the years. My last new purchase was my 2003 RAM Quadcab which has 170,000 plus miles on her. My pride is my 67 Barracuda notchback that I have had almost 20 years.
 
62 next month. Grew up in a mopar family. First mopar was a 64 dart 2dr post. stuffed a 413 dual quad w/727 in it from an early 60's wrecked chrysler. Parents sold it while I was in Nam.:banghead: Been MOPAR ever since. Now building a USA 71 of none 340 swinger. Keep on keeping on brothers!
 
Hell I am in the big 70 around Cars all my life and been married for over 50 I must be crazy
 
I'm a young 61. My first car was a 63 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible with a 426 automatic. My first brand new car was a 70 Duster 340, 4speed, B5 blue in and out.

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I will be 51 August 16 , and born right into Mopars, my father was a Chrysler mechanic in the mid 50,s to the early 70,s when he changed jobs , and i have five older brothers all had Mopar stuff.
 
I'll be 32 at the very end of this month. I've been playing with Chryslers for about half of my life, now.

My first car that I still own, is a KK1 Surf Poly Tirquoise/ black top/ black interior 1968 Dodge Charger. I paid $2,300 in 1998 for the car, at Bandimere Speedway. That car was on the road for about a year until my mom was hit in it. I never got to drive it, with the occasional tune test around the block so it would stay in good order, while I waited for my mom to co-sign my license. I was 17 at the time. It's been collecting dust in my mother's garage for over a decade, awaiting my restoration. No frame or unibody damage. Just crooked sheet metal that they make new, now and bad memories.

The first A body that I had in my name was the '73 Plymouth Scamp that is undergoing some engine work, but is otherwise restored. It's been a driver since I bought it in 2002 for $600.


My girl's alcoholic ex husiband took both cars (one of which he sold), the house and some of her posessions in a divorce and had no way to get around, so I was going to help her get something new-ish.

She asked what I was doing with the car.
I told her that I had planned on restoring it for my ex, who left for LA.
She looked at the F8 green rust bucket, sitting in the rock drive in my back yard...

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Then she said she had wanted a classic car, years ago and was talked out of buying one she was looking at by her parents.

Then, after looking at some pictures of different cars, she said she was swooning a Sassy Grass green hotrod, instead of a Toyota.

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How in the hell does a car enthusiast say no her?

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I don't.

The way I see it is that if you're lucky enough to have a girlfriend who wants a 4 speed, snot green, Mopar to drive, and you wrench, it's your duity to all day dreaming guys out there to make it real.

She helped upholster the seats, shaped foam, turned wrenches and gave the color combo suggestions.

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It's her car, now. Papers say so. Some people think I'm crazy. They're probably right. No regrets, ever. She deserves better than an alcoholic for a husiband and a broadsided Cobalt (hence the alcoholic) for wheels.
We love mopars.

Now, if she goes after the Charger...
 
59. Bought my 69 340 Swinger in February of 1973. Still got it. Bought an Aspen Super Coupe new.....wish I still had it. Also had a 68 340 GTS in about 1975 or 76. Wish I still had that one too. But I sold a 69 383 GTS in 1980 for 950.00. I wasn't fond of a BB car after I bought it. It was dark green with a black painted top and gold interior. It had gold pinstripes along the top of the fenders and the doors. The guy I bought it from was the original owner.
 
Bonds,.....Mr.Bonds. I envy ,you....(lol). Like the Sassy Grass! Peace,..
 
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