j par
Well-hung Member
I kind of like to think my car has some craftsmanship in it. There's so many things that were done for ease of installation and not for Aesthetics.
I'm a mopar doofus and I love it!!Anybody remember Mopar Dufuses in the 80s. You know back when these cars were cheap to buy. I mean there were guys rebuilding and restoring them, but then there were also the typical Mopar Dufus. Since these cars were fairly cheap to buy a lot of em got butchered up by the typical Mopar Dufus.
There was a guy in my neighborhood that had a white 70 duster with a slant six. He ran it around with cragar S/S wheels and super skinny tires front and rear, a cherry bomb muffler, sun super tach, hijackers, and extended shackles. He may have even put a harwood rivet on pro stock scoop too near the end. The car was an embarassment in its own right, but he never missed a chance to get his *** beat in a race either. It was like the 80s version of what ricers do now by making their cars look fast even though they are slow.
Any Mopar Dufus stories from any of you?
You were doing a great job trying to justify it.I'm a mopar doofus and I love it!!
Last time I wrote about dufuses painting their grilles black with cheap **** paint and not even masking anything off, before the paint **** bomb went off......I got so many members telling me that I am the mean one.
Careful, lots of sensitive people here who get offended easy. Make sure you don't hurt anyone's feelings, even with drug dealer back primer cars, with blacked out grilles.
Justify how! I'll prove it!You were doing a great job trying to justify it.
Hey I totally get what you were saying. The totally jacked up poster car. I guess we would call him a poser more than a doofus. I mean someone who has a fast looking car that isn't. And you know how for a bodies only is if this subject doesn't get twisted into five different directions we're on the wrong forum. It wasn't really you actually it was everybody else turning onto all the stuff that I've done to my car. I thought it was a screaming laugh last night when I read everything everybody hated and I had it all on my car. I think it's a riot and for anybody I'm trying to justify what I've done. I've done everything to my car myself and extremely proudly of it. Would I trade it for the stock slant 6 air condition 73 Duster that it started as? F NO! Somebody needs to justify to me spending tens of thousands of dollars to make a car look like the $2, 400 car that came off the showroom floor.I think J par missed the intent of my original post. It was about the posers with slantys in these cars trying to make them appear fast when they werent. The discription of the jacked up duster was just what this guy did, along with the cherry bomb muffler, skinny tired cragars at all 4 corners , yes it had skinnys at the back too. Back then my buddy Rodney was redoing a 72 challenger 340 and had cragar SSTs on it. bigs n littles but everything backspaced so it tucked in nicely in the fenderwells, i had a 68 charger 383 w aluminum anson sprints bigs n littles again tucked into the fenderwells. No stinkbug stance on either of our cars. Duster dude was always trying to race us, i would just roll my eyes and shake my head at him because he wasnt worth getting a ticket. Rod and i used to laugh every time we saw the duster buzz by with his *** end in the air and the cherry bombed six.
Its like today. Theres some seriously fast import cars, then theres the wannabe fakers. Fart can tip, wheels and a **** ton of decals for racing parts they dont even have. All my racing parts decals go on the tool box, not on my car.
My kind of guy, if it can't take a beating then I don't want no part of it. Hopefully he finally got to Mopar and didn't have to rebuild it everytime he floored it.....then there was the kid circa 1980-83 that rebuilt the 289 in his light blue 66 mustang notch every winter.
...and every spring he would take it out for a test drive...
...and like clockwork it wouldn't run just right and he would HAMMER the throttle, flooring it repeatedly many, many times until it finally blew up.
Then he'd push it back in the garage and we'd see him again next spring.
Bringing doofus to the Next Generation LOLProbably going to put traction bars in my kids 69 barracuda but that's only cuz it's got an 8.8 going under it