your Mopar's story

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I have been around performance cars all my life and was lucky enough to turn driving age when gas soared to a $1.00 a gallon. No body wanted the gas guzzlers so you could buy nice big block cars that were totally decked out for $300 or less all day long. I would buy one, keep it a few weeks, then sell it or trade it and get another one. I had Roadrunners, Chargers, GTOs, Chevelle SSs and even a bubble top 409 Chevy during that era. Got in to Mustangs and pickups after that.

In 1996 the Mopar fever struck again when I fell in love with a 1968 Barracuda convertible with 63K miles on it. It was last inspected in 1986, the original owner that had it had let it set decided to restore it so he removed the interior, took it to the body shop, owner died and family couldn't pay the bill so they gave the body shop the title, a guy that I bought it from the body shop but didn't get the interior and some exterior parts, he had them paint it white, he got correct front seats but had them covered in cloth, couldn't find the correct rear seat so they made one out of wood and covered it to match the fronts (it actually looked really decent if you didn't know what it was supposed to look like) and a new top. Then he put it back in storage. In 1995 I was working on a 1927 Buick. He had Buick parts that I had gone to pick up, I saw the convertible and liked it. A year later I decided I wanted the Barracuda so I called him up and made a deal to buy it.

I started to redo it correct with some OEM upgrades but business was so busy that I never got to work on it, then I ended up sick for about a year so I didn't feel like working on it, got to feeling better and was so far behind that I didn't have the time to work on it, got hit by a car while I was on foot which resulted in surgery and I have never been the same again. Over a year ago I developed a breathing issue so it still sits untouched. The days I feel decent, there is always something I have to do to meet mandates so I never get to work on it which is a shame because I have all the goodies to finish it. I have strongly considered selling it.