What made you drive a MoPar?
When I was still a kid on the farm, I used to have a Sunday paper route for the Des Moines Register in Iowa. I had saved up my nickels and dimes for a couple of years, and one day I seen a car in my price range for sale....they were asking $500 for it back in 1975....looked almost identical to this google image......
1970 Plymouth GTX, 440-4bbl, four speed with console and fresh air hood.....knocked on they guy's door, made the sale, and he even delivered it to me on a car trailer two days later.
After that, all those old farmers never had to wonder if there was a paper in their mailbox on Sunday mornings...... :lol:
By the time I graduated mid-term of my senior year, I had that B5 70 GTX, another B5 70 GTX with a 440 and column automatic, a white 68 GTX four speed, a gunmetal gray 68 Coronet 500 383 console auto, and a bronze 69 Coronet R/T 440-4bbl, 4-speed, 4:10 Dana.....
Grandpa and Dad were mostly into Fords, but Dad had a nice 61 Cadillac series 62 convertible...that's the car I took my driver's test in. When the driving instructor told me to parallel park that beast, and I nailed it on the first try, he said "You pass...take us back to the courthouse"....and just like that, my driving test was over.
Been mostly Mopar ever since....had about 20 or so of these cars since then....
When I was still a kid on the farm, I used to have a Sunday paper route for the Des Moines Register in Iowa. I had saved up my nickels and dimes for a couple of years, and one day I seen a car in my price range for sale....they were asking $500 for it back in 1975....looked almost identical to this google image......
1970 Plymouth GTX, 440-4bbl, four speed with console and fresh air hood.....knocked on they guy's door, made the sale, and he even delivered it to me on a car trailer two days later.
After that, all those old farmers never had to wonder if there was a paper in their mailbox on Sunday mornings...... :lol:
By the time I graduated mid-term of my senior year, I had that B5 70 GTX, another B5 70 GTX with a 440 and column automatic, a white 68 GTX four speed, a gunmetal gray 68 Coronet 500 383 console auto, and a bronze 69 Coronet R/T 440-4bbl, 4-speed, 4:10 Dana.....
Grandpa and Dad were mostly into Fords, but Dad had a nice 61 Cadillac series 62 convertible...that's the car I took my driver's test in. When the driving instructor told me to parallel park that beast, and I nailed it on the first try, he said "You pass...take us back to the courthouse"....and just like that, my driving test was over.
Been mostly Mopar ever since....had about 20 or so of these cars since then....
