66340SEDAN
FABO Member #3649
I thought I would share this with the group, its the story about how I got my very first Mopar....actually, it was my very first car.
I started my search for an old Mopar when I was 16 years old, I remember looking at a 1971 Satellite with a 440 that some older kid in my area had, it was painted yellow over blue, and under the hood was black....but it had mag rims and a 440 and I thought it was cool....but it was a bondo buggy...so that one was quickly passed on. My dad and I looked at a few other Mopars, the other that stuck out in my mind I really wanted was a 1970 Duster for sale at a local Mopar show here in Minnesota...it was a 340 4-speed and painted Plumb crazy purple....not really nice but I liked it. I went and found my dad and told him to come look at this car and talk to the guy. We got there and I could see dad didn't like it....after a few minutes he said "no!" The car was a little rusty, had bondo and was a rat mobile but I wanted it cause it had a 340 and I knew they were hot little engines.....didn't matter, I was 16 and dad was the boss and said no..."we'll find a better
Well, after that I was pretty bummed out and bitter, I liked that Duster...went the next 2 months without finding anything else (that dad liked) LOL for me to buy so we kept on looking. Well, one day while working with dad we were driving across town and seen a Satellite sitting at a chiropractors office with a For Sale sing in the window.....dad said "want to stop?"....I said "NO!"....but he turned around anyway to look (I stayed inside the truck and was crabby) and then he went inside to find the seller who was waiting in the waiting room for his appointment. He came out with a phone number and said we should look at it more tonight and take it for a spin. I wasn't very excited....it was a big brown B-Body car and I wanted an A-Body car....but I said "fine, lets go" and we left later that evening.
As we were on the way I was actually getting a little excited but didn't show it.....dad must have liked the car so I thought that this might actually work out. We drove about a half hour out to a small town where the seller lived....looked it over real good (I don't think we ever test drove it) it was a 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus with a 318, all stock. The guy needed money cause he hurt his back...the car had 85K original miles and a newer paint job....he hated to sell it but it had to go. I can't remember the original asking price....but dad offered him $1600 cash for it, the seller said $1700.....dad dug in his wallet and he had another $50 and the deal was
made for $1650 :glasses7:
I can still remember the feeling to this very day how it was to drive home my very first Mopar...the sun was beginning to set and I was cruising home in my own car......so many memories in it, lots of money spent over the years on upgrades, like a 340 the next year....also lots of blood, sweat, and many tears...I really learned a lot about cars working on this car. Over time it really grew on me, it was my high school car too...and I still own it to this very day!!!
I love this car and hope to pass it on to my kids someday.....its not just a car but a member of the family :glasses7:
I bought this car just over 20 years ago, the first picture was taken after I entered it in a Mopar show here in the project class...yes that's me on the fender, skinny punk lmao!!! BTW...I wanted a car so bad that even before I had a car I bought a set of Rallye rims and restored them a few months earlier.....those are the rims pictures on the car with me.
The car had had many changes over the years, it was a driver for awhile but never winter driven by me, I hope to do a full resto someday on it. About 5 years after I bought the car, I was putting gas in it and this other guy was looking at it and said it sounded mean...he asked if I had bought it from a guy named "Larry" I said "yes I did" and the guy then said "man, if he seen this car he would cry, he absolutely hated selling his old car!"
If you are still here reading this, I apologize that it's not an A-Body car but its my first Mopar and I am very proud of it :glasses7: It needs some TLC but still has sex appeal, the ladies really love this car
So here are some pictures, more recent ones are posted later. BTW, my dad is a member here and goes by "FISHYPETE" (he still has his first car, a 1966 Cuda Formula S) I would like to thank him for not listening to me and stopping to look at this sweet sweet B-Body ride, thank's Dad :burnout:
I started my search for an old Mopar when I was 16 years old, I remember looking at a 1971 Satellite with a 440 that some older kid in my area had, it was painted yellow over blue, and under the hood was black....but it had mag rims and a 440 and I thought it was cool....but it was a bondo buggy...so that one was quickly passed on. My dad and I looked at a few other Mopars, the other that stuck out in my mind I really wanted was a 1970 Duster for sale at a local Mopar show here in Minnesota...it was a 340 4-speed and painted Plumb crazy purple....not really nice but I liked it. I went and found my dad and told him to come look at this car and talk to the guy. We got there and I could see dad didn't like it....after a few minutes he said "no!" The car was a little rusty, had bondo and was a rat mobile but I wanted it cause it had a 340 and I knew they were hot little engines.....didn't matter, I was 16 and dad was the boss and said no..."we'll find a better
Well, after that I was pretty bummed out and bitter, I liked that Duster...went the next 2 months without finding anything else (that dad liked) LOL for me to buy so we kept on looking. Well, one day while working with dad we were driving across town and seen a Satellite sitting at a chiropractors office with a For Sale sing in the window.....dad said "want to stop?"....I said "NO!"....but he turned around anyway to look (I stayed inside the truck and was crabby) and then he went inside to find the seller who was waiting in the waiting room for his appointment. He came out with a phone number and said we should look at it more tonight and take it for a spin. I wasn't very excited....it was a big brown B-Body car and I wanted an A-Body car....but I said "fine, lets go" and we left later that evening.
As we were on the way I was actually getting a little excited but didn't show it.....dad must have liked the car so I thought that this might actually work out. We drove about a half hour out to a small town where the seller lived....looked it over real good (I don't think we ever test drove it) it was a 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus with a 318, all stock. The guy needed money cause he hurt his back...the car had 85K original miles and a newer paint job....he hated to sell it but it had to go. I can't remember the original asking price....but dad offered him $1600 cash for it, the seller said $1700.....dad dug in his wallet and he had another $50 and the deal was
made for $1650 :glasses7:
I can still remember the feeling to this very day how it was to drive home my very first Mopar...the sun was beginning to set and I was cruising home in my own car......so many memories in it, lots of money spent over the years on upgrades, like a 340 the next year....also lots of blood, sweat, and many tears...I really learned a lot about cars working on this car. Over time it really grew on me, it was my high school car too...and I still own it to this very day!!!
I love this car and hope to pass it on to my kids someday.....its not just a car but a member of the family :glasses7:
I bought this car just over 20 years ago, the first picture was taken after I entered it in a Mopar show here in the project class...yes that's me on the fender, skinny punk lmao!!! BTW...I wanted a car so bad that even before I had a car I bought a set of Rallye rims and restored them a few months earlier.....those are the rims pictures on the car with me.
The car had had many changes over the years, it was a driver for awhile but never winter driven by me, I hope to do a full resto someday on it. About 5 years after I bought the car, I was putting gas in it and this other guy was looking at it and said it sounded mean...he asked if I had bought it from a guy named "Larry" I said "yes I did" and the guy then said "man, if he seen this car he would cry, he absolutely hated selling his old car!"
If you are still here reading this, I apologize that it's not an A-Body car but its my first Mopar and I am very proud of it :glasses7: It needs some TLC but still has sex appeal, the ladies really love this car
So here are some pictures, more recent ones are posted later. BTW, my dad is a member here and goes by "FISHYPETE" (he still has his first car, a 1966 Cuda Formula S) I would like to thank him for not listening to me and stopping to look at this sweet sweet B-Body ride, thank's Dad :burnout:
