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[451Mopar]

My first car was a 1967 Coronet bought from my aunt when I was 14 (in 1978), I have always had at least one or Mopars since then, so I guess 36 years of ownership.

 

[tallhair]

Updated with new posts added to the total

Thanks guys !

95 Posts 3,562 years and counting !

Please remember to tell me the year you started, years, and details like the guys have been posting are great

 

[1966satellite]

First mopar I ever drove was a 55 Dodge. That was in 1960 so if my math is correct that would be about 55 years. I think I've owned 11 different mopars since then.

 

[GITEX]

1st was a 67 gtx in 1969 then a 67 fury, now 65 coronet. but been working on cars since I was 9yrs old, It all started back in 1965. yikes

 

[tallhair]

Boom 4K is coming up fast

 

[aldal]

First Mopar was a 1969 Roadrunner 383 4spd. I bought in 1982 at age 19. I have also had a 1971 Charger, 1972 Satellite Sebring Plus, 1973 Plymouth Fury and now my 1965 Dodge Coronet 500, (future 2010 yellow SRT Challenger). 33 years for me....:headbang: :headbang:

 

[patrick66]

My first "B"-body was a 1966 Belvedere I four door ex-Mississippi State Patrol car that the PO painted bright green! 383 auto. This was 1977. Paid $40.00 for the running, driving, titled car in Colorado. Sold the car for $200.00, so I made five times the money. Pretty happy.

I've owned my '66 Coronet 500 since April 1980, so it's been with me nearly 35 years. I'm the second owner. I've had over 450 Mopars since 1972, but the Coronet has been with me the longest. Along with that, I've owned over 30 '66 - '67 "B"s, along with five '68 - '70s, two '71s, and a '76.

 

[tallhair]

My first "B"-body was a 1966 Belvedere I four door ex-Mississippi State Patrol car that the PO painted bright green! 383 auto. This was 1977. Paid $40.00 for the running, driving, titled car in Colorado. Sold the car for $200.00, so I made five times the money. Pretty happy.

I've owned my '66 Coronet 500 since April 1980, so it's been with me nearly 35 years. I'm the second owner. I've had over 450 Mopars since 1972, but the Coronet has been with me the longest. Along with that, I've owned over 30 '66 - '67 "B"s, along with five '68 - '70s, two '71s, and a '76.

Mind = blown

I already had you down on the list from your first post Patrick but thanks for the expanded background. Very impressive and I wish I had know you when I was stationed in W.F. TX in the 80's.

 

[patrick66]

OK, I didn't remember if I had previously posted in the thread.

 

[Coyoteduster]

I bought my first Mopar in September of 1975 for $300.00. She was a '69 Coronet 500 convertible, white over bronze, white gut, 383, automatic, hard loaded and always full of girls! That was just the beginning of the love affair as I have been driving, racing, wrenching on, (even totaled one) and enjoying Mopars ever since. Every event finds us outnumbered by the brand X cars today, but I always catch their owners looking at our Mopars with a lustful eye ...

MOPAR OR NOCAR!

 

[tallhair]

Tally updated

96 Posts 3,602 years and counting !

 

[71airgrabberRR]

You can add in a few more years ........ Our family has been pretty much all Mopars as long as I can remember. I was brought home from the hospital as a new born in a 1959 Desoto 2 door Hard Top. ( but I won't count back that far)
I started "legally" driving in 1980 when I turned 16. My car then was a 1968 Chrysler New Yorker 4 door hard top with a 440 in it. I was working on our other Mopar cars in the family at a much earlier age doing little stuff like oil changes, tune ups (yes with points ignition systems), brake jobs etc.

I've owned at least 40 more Mopar muscle cars since then. Most of them were all 440 cars. Wish I still had some of them. Years ago I drag raced a 440 Challenger with a 4 speed. Was pretty good at it too.

For the sake of simple addition purposes, tack on another 35 years to the tally.

 

[mmissile]

3 gens in our family...but I started driving and messing with a 64 Dodge 330, wagon[factory 383-4-speed]in 1974. So add another 41 years. I've literally owned hundreds of old mopars over the years....... from junk to magazine feature cars.

 

[dieseldazzle]

Im gonna be 39 this year and started wrenching on mopars with my father at age 6.

To be fair I didnt start workin on them unsupervised until age 16 when I had my clutch go out entirely on my 65 big block 4 speed satellite 100 miles from home. So lets just say 23 years here?

Owned about 10 mopars in my life but literally hundreds of other makes and models since age 12 when I got my first car that was a 67 ambassador sst 2 door car. Never got to drive it cuz by age 16 I had already fixed and sold it and got into my first mopar a 1973 plymouth duster.

 

[mopar 3 B]

Switched from a Chev to my first Plymouth in 1972 was a 66 Belvedere II 318 poly, upgraded to 383,s in 73 put 300000 of hard miles on and knew about every inch of it. That would make 43 years and still going.

 

[trishhritz]

when I was growing up, we had a gold 1957 Plymouth Belvedere. I think the attached pic was taken in 198 or 69. My twin and I are on the right in the photo. When we gave up the Belvedere, we got a dodge van. We were always a Mopar family. When I was old enough to drive, in 1982, I bought a 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus in dark gold two tone. My dad was so proud. He showed me all kinds of things that needed to maintain the car like setting the points and timing, changing the brake pads and flushing the brake fluid. I put an RV cam in the 318 and anti-sway bar in the front end. I loved everything about it, but went away to college in the 90's and lost interest. Now I regret giving it up and would like to get another. anyone know of an unmolested one for sale on the west coast?

 

[Photon440]

trishhritz, that's a great old photo - thanks for sharing it. I hope you find yourself another '72, I know you've been looking for a couple of years already...

 

[mmissile]

45 years of this sickness.

 

[trishhritz]

Thank you, Photon440!

 

[tallhair]

I'm getting ready to do some updates folks ... sorry for the delay. So if anyone else out there hasn't posted yet please post up your history .. whatever you want to share and I'll include in the update today.

I need a year you started working on mopar ideally ;)