BBishere2
Well-Known Member
Hello to all, my name is Bill
New to the forum, but not to the B bodies. In my earlier years I had several MOPAR cars - '68 Dodge Coronet R/T, '69 Plymouth Road Runner, '69 Plymouth GTX, '70 Plymouth Road Runner, and a '70 Plymouth 'Cuda. Two of these were 440's, the rest were 383's. I got away from the cars, but not the industry, spending almost 20 years in parts, working for a Chevrolet dealership, running a Ford parts department, and ultimately owning my own NAPA Auto Parts store - which was a blast. I also ran the service garage for Montgomery Wards at nights, here in town and have worked on various performance cars along the way including a Datsun Pro-Rally car.
For the last 15 years I've been employed in the computer genre, working with mainframes and large data storage facilities, and most recently as a programmer. I haven't turned a wrench on a vehicle in years - until this month.
I found a '67 Dodge Coronet R/T for sale and bought it and now I'm back into the MOPAR fold once again. It has a '72 440 engine with electronic ignition and the alternator/voltage regulator has been changed to the transistorized version. The 727 transmission is stock for now - as is pretty much the rest of the car, save for a flowmaster dual exhaust system. It has been repainted, but not a great job - so that's in the works down the road - and it has a few issues to deal with - which what hot rod doesn't?
I've been reading the posts on the forum and find there's a great bunch of people on here and tons of information to be had and good tips to follow.
Here's a couple pictures of where I'm starting at on this one - I'll post more as it progresses.
New to the forum, but not to the B bodies. In my earlier years I had several MOPAR cars - '68 Dodge Coronet R/T, '69 Plymouth Road Runner, '69 Plymouth GTX, '70 Plymouth Road Runner, and a '70 Plymouth 'Cuda. Two of these were 440's, the rest were 383's. I got away from the cars, but not the industry, spending almost 20 years in parts, working for a Chevrolet dealership, running a Ford parts department, and ultimately owning my own NAPA Auto Parts store - which was a blast. I also ran the service garage for Montgomery Wards at nights, here in town and have worked on various performance cars along the way including a Datsun Pro-Rally car.
For the last 15 years I've been employed in the computer genre, working with mainframes and large data storage facilities, and most recently as a programmer. I haven't turned a wrench on a vehicle in years - until this month.
I found a '67 Dodge Coronet R/T for sale and bought it and now I'm back into the MOPAR fold once again. It has a '72 440 engine with electronic ignition and the alternator/voltage regulator has been changed to the transistorized version. The 727 transmission is stock for now - as is pretty much the rest of the car, save for a flowmaster dual exhaust system. It has been repainted, but not a great job - so that's in the works down the road - and it has a few issues to deal with - which what hot rod doesn't?
I've been reading the posts on the forum and find there's a great bunch of people on here and tons of information to be had and good tips to follow.
Here's a couple pictures of where I'm starting at on this one - I'll post more as it progresses.
