Mopar Cars & Trucks

[2012RAM1500RT]

My version of The Little Red Express!

 

[GTyankee]

I bought a White 1971 Dodge Polara from one of the mechanics at work.
He had owned that car for about a year & he didn't have room for it.

When i picked it up, it turned out to be an old California Highway Patrol car, of course the mechanic knew that.
That thing ran like ***** ape, but it sucked up fuel faster than you could buy it.

I kept that car for about 6 months as a 2nd car & one day the mechanic walked up to me & told me that he would pay me the same price that i had paid him. He just had to have that car back,

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

Back in 1980 I bought a 1969 Plymouth Fury 1. It was a 2 door post car with a 440 4 BBL and had a rubber mat instead of carpet in it. It was an ex police car, it had a speedometer that registered 140 MPH and had the word "certified" right in the middle of the speedometer. It was black and I have a picture of it somewhere and I'll try to find it and post it

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

View attachment 248022 This was my 68 Road Runner I owned from 1981 till about 1991. The picture does it no justice, the color was called Kandy Brandy Wine, beautiful color. It was the family car, it was my weekend racer, it was my drive to work car. I'll tell my most memorable story on it a little later.

When I got this car I bought it from the original owner who bought it brand new, he and his wife got married and went on their honeymoon in it and then he and his brother tore the engine down and set it up loose to put it on the dragstrip. He used it only on the strip till I bought it in 81. The mileage showed 12,000 ish miles when I got it. I bought it for $1200. He had a 5.38 gear in it when he ran it. I changed that instantly when I bought it and put it on the road as a daily driver.

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

View attachment 248094 One of the 3 1970 GTX's I had!

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View attachment 248408. This is when I painted the brown 70 GTX Plum Crazy Purple! Believe it or not the stripes was black in the day and white when light reflected on them.

 

[Fatbob Frank]

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One of my favorite trucks right there!

 

[tidefan1967]

If I had to describe my youth with movie's it would be... 50% "Up In Smoke",. 20% "Easy Rider", 20% "Dazed And Confused". 1% "Fast And Furious" because it didn't take us 2 1/2 minutes and 103 gear shifts to do a 1/4 mile, we didn't know what a rice burner was, to us the only foreign car we knew of was a volkswagen bug and one old guy with a Datsun. The other 9%, I don't remember and to be truthful probably a whole lot more than 9 %, "I don't remember" LOL

Yeah its a sad world we live in when kids today(I guess that would be anybody under 40?) think that a beat up Honda Civic or a 90's 240sx are collector cars. I blame all those parents in the late 90's early 2000's that thought if they bought little Johnny a nice fuel efficient and safe four cylinder car that they could avoid what every teenage guy has went through since the car was invented.

I never once thought that the beautiful lope of a 3/4 race cam would be replaced by the annoying sound of a fart-can muffler and a cheap blow off valve.

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

Yeah its a sad world we live in when kids today(I guess that would be anybody under 40?) think that a beat up Honda Civic or a 90's 240sx are collector cars. I blame all those parents in the late 90's early 2000's that thought if they bought little Johnny a nice fuel efficient and safe four cylinder car that they could avoid what every teenage guy has went through since the car was invented.

I never once thought that the beautiful lope of a 3/4 race cam would be replaced by the annoying sound of a fart-can muffler and a cheap blow off valve.

Been a long time since I've heard 3/4 cam. That use to be what everyone called it when we heard a lope in the exhaust. Such great memories!

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

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I built this truck from the ground up. I took a 1977 D150 short bed fleetside and a 1973 D100 short bed step side to make one truck. I always wanted a Lil Red Express so I decided to build this truck, I didn't want to clone one so I just took these 2 and of course painted it Lime Green and called it Lime Express. I kept the 318 and put a 4 speed in it with a pistol grip shifter. Some of you old school guys probably remember the thermoquad carburetor I have pictured. Most people didn't like them, they was hard to get adjusted but I knew how and kept working on them till I got it right and very happy with them when I did. I simply put a street Hemi grind cam in it and had some work done on the heads and headers. Had 3.55 gears in it. It took me about 2 years to build it, done every thing myself. Had it from about 1999 till 2005 and had to sell it. Wasn't a good time to sell toys so I had a hard time getting $5000 out of it. That's what I had in it in parts and supplies. The last time I seen it it had gone between 2 more owners, the one that bought it from me sold it for $12,500 and then the 2nd one turned around and sold it for $19,995. The pictures I seen of it when they was selling it showed me they did nothing to it other than sell it. Terrible timing for me, I had a lot of blood, sweat and tears in it!

 

[HemiLonestar]

Ah the good old Thermoquad

 

[Nystagmus]

2006 Magnum R/T that I bought new. Great car for the time. Fast for a SW !!

 

[regulator54]

My 1975 440 Monaco.....took a few bumps and bruises during its life, but it was the quickest car around in its day. I had a silver 1977 440 Gran Fury police special as my personal car for a few years too. Miss that car!

 

[Roncad]

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

Just another picture I found of my 70 GTX.

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

I forgot about those wheels I had on the car in that picture. They were chrome reverse wheels with beauty rings, you probably have to be old school to know what I'm talking about!

 

[Marshall]

If you look at the one in my sig. 67 New Yorker ,I bought about 70 or so, duster 340 4 sp. for the kids, than a Aspin with a big block. That handled the big block way better than the 340 did in the Duster, but that was not stock, Than there was a 65 2 dr Cry , 71 truck 72 truck, lime green big block, buckets, First one would have been a "49 I don't know how many of hand.

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

If you look at the one in my sig. 67 New Yorker ,I bought about 70 or so, duster 340 4 sp. for the kids, than a Aspin with a big block. That handled the big block way better than the 340 did in the Duster, but that was not stock, Than there was a 65 2 dr Cry , 71 truck 72 truck, lime green big block, buckets, First one would have been a "49 I don't know how many of hand.

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Those Dusters bring back memories. I'd like to have had either one of them. I had 2 Dusters, a 72 with a 318 and a 73 340. I don't have a picture of either, probably couldn't afford a camera at the time. The 72 with the 318 all I did to it was put a 4 BBL carburetor and dual exhaust and what a difference that made, never understood why they didn't produce the 318 factory 4 BBL in a car. The 73 340 automatic was a quick little car. Embarrassed a few big block cars with it!

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

If you look at the one in my sig. 67 New Yorker ,I bought about 70 or so, duster 340 4 sp. for the kids, than a Aspin with a big block. That handled the big block way better than the 340 did in the Duster, but that was not stock, Than there was a 65 2 dr Cry , 71 truck 72 truck, lime green big block, buckets, First one would have been a "49 I don't know how many of hand.

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That white Duster, does it have what they called the Shark Tooth grille in it? It looks like a very straight car in the picture. I sure miss the stance we use to do, the wide rims and tires on the rear and the narrower ones on the front. Cragar wheels also! If I read right I think you said your first car was a '49? I have some pictures of a '49 Plymouth 3 window business coupe I had that I'll put on here as soon as I find them.

 

[2012RAM1500RT]

. 1949 Plymouth 3 Window Business Coupe

 

[aepowell]

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