MADFORMOPAR
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my profile is of me standing in front of my dart. I think thats good enough
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Mark Wainwright
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Morning guys.
Great show last night and the weather was pretty good.
Great turnout though
Great show last night and the weather was pretty good.
Great turnout though
MADFORMOPAR
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a few more from the Milton car show
MADFORMOPAR
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The blue dart is your truly...The jeep is my buddies who couldn't get his sh*t together in time so he was sent to the back and out of the official MAIN street line up. he was pissed. Early bird gets the worm right?
MADFORMOPAR
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The last dart was a real looker. It was too bad he came late to the party. Again, He was put off to a side street that nobody really went down.
MADFORMOPAR
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Always a Ferrari in the mix. The last car is a 74 challenger with a 727 auto 318. It was close to being Perfect. Apparently that was an original color that came out in 74? Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy or girl that owned it. That is what his tag said anyway. This was the first Mopar I ever owned. I should not have kept it. Same year same Engine. It sounded nice. Sold it to someone for 1500.00 and ended up wreaking it a week later. I still should have bought it back from him, but i was young and needed the money. 
Ahoey
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That’s why my dart sat for so many years,39 to be exact. didn’t owe me anything, I didn’t owe anything on it. Life happened. So now I have a few bucks for toys. Whoo Hoo.Always a Ferrari in the mix. The last car is a 74 challenger with a 727 auto 318. It was close to being Perfect. Apparently that was an original color that came out in 74? Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy or girl that owned it. That is what his tag said anyway. This was the first Mopar I ever owned. I should not have kept it. Same year same Engine. It sounded nice. Sold it to someone for 1500.00 and ended up wreaking it a week later. I still should have bought it back from him, but i was young and needed the money.
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MADFORMOPAR
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Not sure what to think, but.....did i screw up here? I drove beauty into the staging area prior the show. The girl told me to park my car as I came in. A few dart owners were already there waiting under their Mopar canopy. They motioned me over but was directed to stay the course and fall in line. So like a good little soilder.. I did. I was next to a 1977 MG and a 2018 Hell cat. Didnt think much of it. Went to the area about 15-20 mins. later and waiting to postion my car on the main strip. After i parked it, chatted with the two guys I was at the staging area, and proceeded to make my way to the same dart guys under the tent which they had set up again on the main strip. The first guy looks at me and says "why didnt you stage with us? Very aggressively. I was taken back, did know what to say. So i smiled, waved and made my exit. This guy was very loud and probably embarrassed his other buddies when he yells out, " I don't want this kid telling me how to park" . I honestly should not have walked over there after i parked my car, but i almost felt obligated to do so. Kinda ruined it for me for about 5 seconds. Shrugged it off and thought, There is always a dick in a bag full of balls in any crowd.
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I had a friend that had a 74 Challenger in the same color, don't remember for sure but I think it was a 318/904. Think the color was called butterscotch. His had a white vinyl top and Cragar SS wheels. He sold it not long after high school and bought a 79 F150 shortbox 4x4 with a lift kit and 33 inch tires.Always a Ferrari in the mix. The last car is a 74 challenger with a 727 auto 318. It was close to being Perfect. Apparently that was an original color that came out in 74? Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy or girl that owned it. That is what his tag said anyway. This was the first Mopar I ever owned. I should not have kept it. Same year same Engine. It sounded nice. Sold it to someone for 1500.00 and ended up wreaking it a week later. I still should have bought it back from him, but i was young and needed the money.
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MADFORMOPAR
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79 short box..nice ride as well
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Yeah, we had a lot of fun in that truck, 400 and a C6, go through damn near anything. I had a chance to trade him for my 66 Galaxie 500, but the front differential was damaged after he hit a large rock one night in a field. Beer may have been involved.
Back in ‘89 or ‘90 when I was managing a NAPA store, one of the P/T evening kids had a convertible version of that car. 318 auto is all I can remember. When one of his grandparents died he got a considerable inheritance (for back then), so he sold the Challenger for damn near next to nothing and bought a fully restored, trailer queen ‘69 El Camino with a 396 and 4 speed. Of course he drove it in the winter, and of course he smashed it all to hell.Always a Ferrari in the mix. The last car is a 74 challenger with a 727 auto 318. It was close to being Perfect. Apparently that was an original color that came out in 74? Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy or girl that owned it. That is what his tag said anyway. This was the first Mopar I ever owned. I should not have kept it. Same year same Engine. It sounded nice. Sold it to someone for 1500.00 and ended up wreaking it a week later. I still should have bought it back from him, but i was young and needed the money.
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Anyway, I was saving up for an upcoming wedding, and couldn’t afford the “next to nothing” price for the Challenger at the time. Still kick myself for that one.
MADFORMOPAR
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yeah....if only he knew what he had. I sold the challenger because I thought ( back then) this car is not considered a "true Muscle era challenger" so i sold it.. I always wanted a 70 T/A which was going for about 10-15k @ the time? I have a pic of me in front of my car in the dead of winter. It was so loud and the heater never worked right but hey.... I had my mopar!
MADFORMOPAR
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I had it in 1982 and was 19-20. Couldnt afford sh*t back then. A good way to apricate the things in life as you get older thats for sure
I hear that! In ‘82 I was a Junior in HS, and based on all the shitty cars I had that year, I was definitely driving a POS!
Bought a ‘71 Vega from San Diego that summer and dumped a 350/350 combo in it with a Hooker Headers mount kit. Thought I was pretty cool with that car, but in all honesty it was just another POS.
But a quick POS, that’s for sure!
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In '82 I was slammed in a hit and run by a suspected drunk driver, completely destroyed my 1980 Yamaha XS1100, and did a pretty good number on my left leg and ankle, (still have trouble with it today).I hear that! In ‘82 I was a Junior in HS, and based on all the shitty cars I had that year, I was definitely driving a POS!
Bought a ‘71 Vega from San Diego that summer and dumped a 350/350 combo in it with a Hooker Headers mount kit. Thought I was pretty cool with that car, but in all honesty it was just another POS.
But a quick POS, that’s for sure!
My car was a '74 Gran Torino Brougham, 2 door, 351W, man did I beat the absolute **** out of that poor car! Good times!
Sorry to hear about your leg and ankle, Randy.
As for the ‘74 Gran Torino, that’s right in my wheelhouse, as I must have had about a dozen GTs, Cougars, and T’birds of that vintage over the years. We had a few horses in a small pasture behind the house, and I had a knack for finding beat-up Cougars with sequential taillights that I’d pick up for next to nothing, and I’d drag ‘em home, sell the lights and control box for the same price I paid for the whole car, and then be “free and clear” to play with the Cleveland’s and Windsors. Dad never said a thing either, bless his heart!
MADFORMOPAR
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My mum had a 70 and a 71 vega!...I wanted the 70 but again...money issue..plus the floor boards were completely rotted out and remember my dad and I pop riveting and tarring both front and back. What a great time that was. Dad and I on our hands and knees taking a roller and regular acrylic house paint to paint it in the middle of the street. I wish we had more access to camera back then to capture the simple times back thenI hear that! In ‘82 I was a Junior in HS, and based on all the shitty cars I had that year, I was definitely driving a POS!
Bought a ‘71 Vega from San Diego that summer and dumped a 350/350 combo in it with a Hooker Headers mount kit. Thought I was pretty cool with that car, but in all honesty it was just another POS.
But a quick POS, that’s for sure!
MADFORMOPAR
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that was a boat considering the year it was made for its time. side swiped by a car ? i can feel that pain just tinking about it.
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Yeah, I hit the right front corner of a '68 Ford Galaxie 500, pulled the edge of the bumper 90 degrees around.
The Torino was the first one of at least half a dozen. I had already rebuilt it from a crash in 1980, I was heading home from school when a dumbass in a '69 Mustang decided to make a quick u-turn in front of me. I barely had time to hit the brakes before the front of my Torino caved in the driver's door and 1/4 panel, popped the trunk open, and sent the spare tire sailing into the wall of a nearby house, taking out a China cabinet in the process. I got a bill from the homeowners insurance company for over $10k to repair the damage. The other driver had no license, no insurance and the car was not his. What a shitshow that was. He was held fully responsible for the collision, my car was totaled, I had only had it for 2 months, so I bought it back from the insurance company and repaired it myself, then got the whole thing repainted and still had a few hundred bucks left.
MADFORMOPAR
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did you fight that...The china cabinet thing. I would have said two words...."POUND SALT"
Ahoey
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Seems to me that the at fault driver, insurance or no insurance should pay the whole nut. A punk ran a stop sign t- boned my wife wrote off her car and his lucky for him no one was hurt. But he didn’t have a driver license or insurance or plates on the car. Autopac covered her costs and they went after him for the damages.
MADFORMOPAR
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wow
My 16 year old is learning to drive and always asks me....Why I slow down at an intersection...and thats why! ALWAYS A DUMB *** not paying attention running the stop or red light
Ahoey
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It happened about 3 miles from my place, my wife called me. I &get there rip a strip off the guy then the guy looks at me and says what are you getting so mad at. I Loose it, you tried to kill my wife I screamed then the cops got there. Good thing.
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