FBBO cumulative years of Mopar knowledge, experience, passion - Post up your time

[drobertson]

Well... I'm a young buck. 17 years young :icon_biggrin:. I started 2 years ago when I was maybe 15. I was preparing to get my driver's license, and was looking for a car. I didn't want any plastic modern garbage that's styled after a bar of soap, and my Grandpa had an old 1973 Charger sitting outside of his home. I asked him if he'd sell it, but he refused. We made this deal instead: He'd give my 5k to fix it and get it running, and I'd inherit the car one day . Sounded like a good deal to me, and that experience of fixing that Charger really sparked my interest in Mopar. I still didn't have a vehicle, so I went around knocking on people's doors to ask if they had any old dodge's or plymouth's for sale. Sure enough, one guy had a 1982 Ram D350 that he gave to me for free! :hello2: Talk about luck! (all it needed was an ignition coil, and he never figured out what was wrong with it)

Now that I had a truck, I had transportation. However, I still had the desire to own an older Mopar. Skip forward 1 year,,, and I found myself driving around the small town of Burlington Wyoming (500 people population!). I about had a heart attack when I saw a yellow 1973 Charger Hardtop sitting in a field next to a few old farm trucks. I knocked on the guy's door who owns it..... and he told me this: " I've had quite a few folks ask if that car was for sale, and I've always told them no and that I'd fix it up one day. However, I like to see young kids like you interested in ressurecting the past - so let me think about it for a month."

Sure enough about a month later I call my new friend up, and he said he'd sell the car to me- on one condition - , that I give him a ride in the car when I get it running. :3gears: I was prepared to pay $1500 for it but all he wanted was $500. It was a great deal, and I was willing to pay more for it - but he refused to sell it for higher because he's rather see the money going into fixing the car. He's really an awesome guy and I'm glad to see that those kind of people do exist.

 

[Dieselholic]

FBBO cumulative years of Mopar knowledge, experience, passion - Post up your ...

I guess I bought my roadrunner when I was 14. It's been a learning experience ever since. So that makes 10 years for me.

 

[Photon440]

Bought my first MOPAR in 1971 - still have it. That makes 46 years. 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T.

Nice shot. Every time I see something like that I regret that I didn't take more pictures of my car when I first got it.
(I pushed the saturation a bit to pull out some fading).

 

[Auggie56]

I started wrenching at a Chrysler Plymouth dealer in 1970. Didn't buy one until 1974. I have owned a Dodge 1978 van, a 1968 Fury one, a 1965 Belevedere 2, a 1977 Dodge Warlock pickup, a 69 Cornet 500 Convertible, a 91 D150 pickup, Which I drove for nineteen years. I sold the pickup, after buying a real clean 2001 2500 extended cab pickup. So I have a lot of experience on MOPAR's. The wife had a 94 T-Bird for a few years. In 2010 I wanted a newer car for her. She wanted another Ford, I wanted a 300. So we compromised, on an Impala. Nice car, we really like it, but the corporation refused to fix the noise in the engine, on cold starts. I spent out of pocket a couple of hundred bucks for lease cars, while these dealers kept the car, knowing that these engines have a built in noise. But refused to fix it. Since then I have heard the same noise out of the neighbors Impala, and several others. Never again will I buy another GM car.

 

[GetX'd]

I started dreaming about Mopars when I was 17. I was really intrigued by my older brothers 68 Charger that he bought new. I was really in love with Coronet R/Ts and GTXs. Ended up finding a 68 GTX when I was 19 in 1972. I made some upgrades to it and boy did she roar. A lot of street and strip racing. I lived in Minnesota back then and always stored the car in the Winter. Drove it every summer - went to college and then moved away for a corporate job.

Well all that was 44 years ago - still own that same car today. In fact I just finished a several year restoration and am poised to ship my GTX out to CA where I now live and begin to enjoy it again. A lot has gone on in between but the bottom line is I've been a lover for 46 years and an owner for 44. Can't wait to do some cruise nights and maybe a few shows. Still a lover after all these years.

 

[kiwigtx]

Time to drag this one back from the pile - all you new guys can add your cumulative MoPar experience in years here also....

 

[pwDave]

Got my first mopar when I was 14, I am 67 yrs old now. 1951 chrysler new yorker, hemi !!

 

[chargervert]

My parents bought a brand new 70 Charger R/T SE,and that got me hooked. Then my brother in law bought a 440 Sixpack Challenger R/T. I bought my first Charger in 1980. I have owned over 200 Mopars since. I got twenty of them right now.

 

[44070dart]

First Mopar was in 1970 .....68' Charger R/T had it for 9 years, car was quick.... I was 20 and worked at a Buick dealership and got my *** handed to me by the service writers 70 GS Stage 1, that SOB was a monster

 

[Mr. Belvedere II]

Bought the Belve in 2005, been doing it all with a little help from my friends, or myself since then! 12yrs

 

[Bladecutter]

In 75, bought a 69 Charger w/ 318
off a lot for 550.00. Creme Yellow, black vinyl, black hydes.Had it around a year, drove it x-country a lot, autocrossed it, sold it to a lot for 350.00.
In 82, a 69 Coro 500 w/318 for 900.00, white w/ black rockers, black vinyl, green hydes(ugh on the green). Kicked it about for a year, handed a CHP(in 82 Mopar Interceptor) His *** with it on hwy 1 Shoreline north of GG Bridge. Sold it for 500.00.
1986, my Brother(now Late) bought me a 68 post/bench Coro 440 w/ 318, black hydes, no vinyl on top. Had that for a couple years. It was my favorite, it was the lightest(3235 lbs) stiffest, best handling. All 3 cars were outstanding at going sideways...a decent footprint, some nose dive was all it took. None of them even had front sway bars.
Added up, thats only 4 Mopar years. But ive had a lot of cars, & the B bods are prominent memories, in company with my deTomaso Mangusta & Morris Mini Cooper S. Ive made a living on cars my whole life.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I liked the 68 firebirds & Camaros until I attended the 1970 summer Nationals at National Speedway.After that weekend,I knew I'd have a blown hemi someday.
ALL the fastest cars had blown hemi's!!! That when the HEMI-ITIS kicked in.Didn't become fully blown 'till about 2000/2001.

In 1973 i was 14 and bought my 1st car.65 Belvedere,440 23 spline,Cragers all around.I added a 6 pack and n50's out back.Had the fastest car in high school while I was still in Jr High.Had dozens of Darts,picked them up for $50 to $100,got them running and beat 'em up with for sale signs in the windows till they sold and bought another.Musta went through 20 Darts,many were slantys.One 64 was a GT Slanty with a 4 SPEED!!I had a vision of what I wanted but the 440-6 stick plum 71 challenger was too nice to create my vision,the 63 Max wedge Polara was fun but still too nice to phuck up.30 years ago I bought my present car and a gizzion dollars later I have built the vision inplanted in my head since 1971.The money pit still sucks me DRY!!

 

[1967coronet440]

Well bought my first mopar freshmen year in high school so I was 14, was a big block 75 Plymouth duster, have owned a mopar ever since I'm 30 now, so 16 years already!

 

[Bb70charger500]

I got 15 years in so far and atleast another 70 to go

 

[kiwigtx]

Time to give this thread by @tallhair another kick into gear...

 

[Cranky]

Probably replied to this way back but got to thinking that I learned how to put my own chain back on my bike around about 7 or 8 years old and it wasn't long after that that I learned how to tighten it up to stop all that crap. Things went downhill from there. It wasn't long after that the fenders came off, the handle bars got reversed down and the chain guard was removed. All in all, I messed up a decent Schwnn bike....

 

[Don Frelier]

About 39 years.
I've had and worked on a bunch, here are a few I can recall somewhat in order of appearance:
66 Newport
77 Fury * First car
75 Monaco
67 Satellite
74 Monaco
66 Charger * Still have
78 Aspen
77 Diplomat
84 Diplomat
85 Diplomat
86 Dakota
83 Gran Fury
84 Ram Prospector
1992 Voyager
1990 Grand Caravan
1996 Grand Caravan
2000 Grand Caravan
2006 Town and Country
93 Dakota * Still have
2000 Intrepid
2003 Dakota
90 Ram
2000 300M * Still have
97 Dakota
66 Satellite * Still have

 

[Ironbuilt]

I bought my first Mopar, a 1969 Charger, 318 for $1,200.00 in 1987. I was 16 years old. At last count I have owned 27 Mopars over the years, including my current 1963 Polara 440. Definitely will not be my last Mopar either. So 31 years and counting.

 

[mopar 3 B]

46 years and counting.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

45 years and getting an ill feeling thinking of how much I have spent
Must be a gizzillion dollars by now..........gets faster every year