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The mid to late 80s was a magic time in Chicagoland thanks to the Bears. The '85 Bears were incredible not just based on their talented players, but due to the larger than life personalities of so many of their players then especially McMichael. Talk radio was really going strong here at that...

I was able to dig out the post Ryan did last year of this car. Looks like the bumpers got blacked out between when this post was made and the recent video of it. Also the Direct Connection sticker wasn't on the back window then. Also a picture of the Car Craft cover of their Magnum Force build...

The car in the video snippet is parked in a garage, and Ryan just squeezed around it taking a video of it little bits at a time, so it'd be hard to take a still from it that shows much. It's the same color as my car, but bumpers and fender flares blacked out, with the rear spoiler and Magnum...

The flares on that red Magnum Force are black instead of red like the rest of the car. I have a GT myself, but can’t tell if those flares are the factory flares or different. Another thing on those cars is that there’s no emblems on the trunk or front fenders. Maybe @Mr. Magnum is familiar with...

Traverse City is probably around 8 hours away from Chicagoland. I’ve never been there but hear it’s beautiful. Though Traverse City itself is said to be OK, the area around there is a disaster area now. A terrible ice storm a month ago heavily damaged most of far northern Michigan.

Those are definitely the same decals. And the bumpers are blacked out too. So based on that, I’d say there are at least two Magnum Force Magnums still in existence. I’m not sure on the whole story on the spoilers. I’ve heard they were factory, or maybe they were a Direct Connection bolt on...

I think that was what the Car Craft Magnum build was called also, but this is not that one. Supposedly a limited edition Magnum from back in the day. It looks to be a '78. Anybody ever hear of this before? Possibly a limited edition a dealership did?

I've entered a bunch of car raffles over the years, and sorry to say I have yet to win even one car yet! I swore I'd never enter another one, but a few weeks ago decided I'd like to be generous to the Alzheimers foundation, so I bought a few tickets for the '72 Roadrunner they are giving away...

In 1980 my mom bought a new car and sold me her 72 Pinto for $200 so I’d have a beater to drive to high school senior year instead of trying to drive the Challenger I’d bought when I was 16 in winter. It served me well for a year and then I sold it for $400.

Does it still have the fender tag? If so and it has a "A75" code on it, it is a GT... or should I say "was" a GT. The emblems on the front fenders should tell also, do they read XE or GT? Appears to be witness marks on the fenders from fender flares too, so my hunch is that it was a GT. Looks...

I like the song if nothing else

That event usually happens the same weekend as the Chicagoland Mopar Connection’s big car show and swap meet in nearby Belvidere IL, so that probably will be the case again in 2026. Check out the drag races, then head over to the fairgrounds Sunday for the show!

That’s crazy. I was at my Mopar club meeting last week and another member attending it has a Pantera in his collection along with some Mopars. We talked about that BaT wreck and he said the car isn’t repairable. No way there’s 31K in parts there, so why did it bid that high?

He was/is a commodity trader in Chicago. I believe he lives in the north shore suburbs, but the 'cuda lounge is in the River North near northwest side area in the city. It's a vintage service garage he converted to house his car collection. The area up front is a lounge area with TV and...

Tom’s got at least one B body. A black hemi Daytona.