The MOPAR power myth?
Wow !! You guys spend more on your engines than I have budgeted for the whole car..Of course you could definitely drag my *** on the street or at the track.:steering::steering:
Not me, I can tell you that.
I started as a 12 year old with a few old broke down cars and trucks that the locals gave me just to get rid of them (had 6 by the time I was 15) and did pretty much all the work myself.
If I even needed a quart of oil I had to decide what to take it out of, because I didn't have any money and was 15 miles from the nearest place to buy it even if I did have the money.
The only time I was really able to get parts was at lunch time from school because I rode the bus to that town 15 miles away.
My Dad had tools but he was at work all the time, so being the oldest kid in the family I had to learn to do things myself.
Sometimes even things like using an old 2x4 to pry behind a tire to move a car or truck where I needed it to be. (pry, steer, pry steer)
Then when I did get one all fixed and drivable I would come home from school and find it gone because the family needed the money.
Never having any cash was a killer, so I had to learn to diagnose and make things work, because there was no "throw parts at it" option.
Sometimes it would take me months to find some small part I needed, and then give up my lunch money for weeks at a time for it.
Just the other day I was thinking back on some of the stupid **** we did on old tires out of each others back yards.
I suppose growing up doing things that way made it where now if I have to move an engine hoist with a motor hanging on it in gravel it's not to big a deal to manage myself.:D
