Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I just returned from the Dwight car show. Dwight is a very small town but they managed to attract over 100 cars this year. Mopars were well represented. There was a '71 Charger R/T, a '66 383 Charger, a 440 SIX PACK Challenger, a convertible Challenger, a '70 383 Super Bee, 2 - '69 440 SIX PACK Super Bees, a 2010? Yellow Jacket Challenger, a '71 slant 6 Barracuda, a '74 'Cuda, a '50s Dodge pickup, a 4-door Valiant, a newer Dodge 4-wheel drive pickup, and my '67 Barracuda.
Despite the nice percentage of Chrysler products, Mopars didn't fare very well. I believe the only one that the judges gave an award to was the Yellow Jacket Challenger. - And that may have been due to the fact that there were only a couple of entries in that class. This may not be Chevy country here but the majority of car clubs that put on these shows are comprised of bowtie owners. They have nice cars but unless you want to field a GM product you feel like it's the 60s and you're sporting a dark tan in the back of the bus.
The weather was awesome though and with the increased Chrysler showing, it was still a lot of fun. One thing that I couldn't help noticing was that the crowd (excluding the judges) spent a lot of time around the Mopars. - And when we fired them up there was no mistaking the fact that folks were impressed.
Oh well, you know it's like I've said before, "It's better to lose in a Mopar than to win in a Chebbie."
Today's classic trivia :
Wasn't it John Milton that wrote "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven but better to serve in a Mopar than to reign in a Chebby"
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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I just returned from the Dwight car show. Dwight is a very small town but they managed to attract over 100 cars this year. Mopars were well represented. There was a '71 Charger R/T, a '66 383 Charger, a 440 SIX PACK Challenger, a convertible Challenger, a '70 383 Super Bee, 2 - '69 440 SIX PACK Super Bees, a 2010? Yellow Jacket Challenger, a '71 slant 6 Barracuda, a '74 'Cuda, a '50s Dodge pickup, a 4-door Valiant, a newer Dodge 4-wheel drive pickup, and my '67 Barracuda.
Despite the nice percentage of Chrysler products, Mopars didn't fare very well. I believe the only one that the judges gave an award to was the Yellow Jacket Challenger. - And that may have been due to the fact that there were only a couple of entries in that class. This may not be Chevy country here but the majority of car clubs that put on these shows are comprised of bowtie owners. They have nice cars but unless you want to field a GM product you feel like it's the 60s and you're sporting a dark tan in the back of the bus.
The weather was awesome though and with the increased Chrysler showing, it was still a lot of fun. One thing that I couldn't help noticing was that the crowd (excluding the judges) spent a lot of time around the Mopars. - And when we fired them up there was no mistaking the fact that folks were impressed.
Oh well, you know it's like I've said before, "It's better to lose in a Mopar than to win in a Chebbie."
Today's classic trivia :
Wasn't it John Milton that wrote "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven but better to serve in a Mopar than to reign in a Chebby"
― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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