What made you drive a MoPar?
My Dad was a Ford guy and tried hard to get me going in that direction. My first car was a '63 Fairlane with a 289 swapped in. When I had some motor problems with it, we found a nice '69 Fairlane 2 door coupe with a 302.
But it was my brother's 71 340 Duster that got me going. I used to go to every show I could with him, and just loved how the motor looked under the hood. Seemed like the Ford engine compartments always made the motor look like it was in a box and hidden, but the Mopar engine compartment put the motor on display. Never did get over that car. He sold it several years ago and it went to Canada, then to Barret Jackson (I think), then some famous baseball player owned it and last I heard it was in CA and would show up at SpringFling.
He even put a functional Airbrabber hood on it. Mopar missed a golden opportunity when they didn't built that hood from the factory, I'm sure they would have sold a 1/4 million more Dusters if they had.
So while in the Navy and looking for a car, I settled on a '79 Volare with a 318 and that was that. Been almost all Mopars since then and anything that wasn't a Mopar kind of fell into my lap rather than something I was looking for or was of the 2 wheel variety.
This is the car that got me into Mopars
My Dad was a Ford guy and tried hard to get me going in that direction. My first car was a '63 Fairlane with a 289 swapped in. When I had some motor problems with it, we found a nice '69 Fairlane 2 door coupe with a 302.
But it was my brother's 71 340 Duster that got me going. I used to go to every show I could with him, and just loved how the motor looked under the hood. Seemed like the Ford engine compartments always made the motor look like it was in a box and hidden, but the Mopar engine compartment put the motor on display. Never did get over that car. He sold it several years ago and it went to Canada, then to Barret Jackson (I think), then some famous baseball player owned it and last I heard it was in CA and would show up at SpringFling.
He even put a functional Airbrabber hood on it. Mopar missed a golden opportunity when they didn't built that hood from the factory, I'm sure they would have sold a 1/4 million more Dusters if they had.
So while in the Navy and looking for a car, I settled on a '79 Volare with a 318 and that was that. Been almost all Mopars since then and anything that wasn't a Mopar kind of fell into my lap rather than something I was looking for or was of the 2 wheel variety.
This is the car that got me into Mopars
