50 Years ago today

I think there are many of us on this site that wish we still had that old, first Mopar.

My first Mopar ('71 Duster) lasted me almost 13 years, an eternity for a daily driver car here in northern New England. Had ~280k on it when I parked it for the last time. While there wasn't a lot of visible rust, the floor pans & frame rails were pretty well gone.

Funny though, I remember in the '73/74 "energy crisis" when a lot of people I knew were going to Japanese cars. I wasn't one of them. A friend of mine told me to tell me how great I thought my Duster was once it had 150k on it. So I did. He'd been thru 2 toyotas & a Datsun by that point.
Not that I would remind him of his statement or rub it in... :lol: