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[Big Bad Dad]

I have not been without at least one B Body Mopar since I was 14... That's 41 years now........

 

[BeastlyBirdie]

73 charger I got age 15 in 1987. Since then a string of cars and trucks, all mopars except 1959 el Camino, 1948 ford F6, 92 vette (that needs a new home)....

 

[wedge69]

39 years into anything with a motor and MOPARS ! Started working on my dads stock car at 12 and never looked back. He would put a Hemi in anything ! Remember his buddys 48 ford truck with a Hemi and push button trans. Thay bilt Pipe orgon stack for it ( 4 pipes per side)
Man you could hear that thing sing in the next hollow when he was on his way to our shop !!!
AH Those was the days !!

 

[tallhair]

Thanks for stepping up and sharing guys. We're just a you now what hair away from 1.5K

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[Photon440]

A friend bought a '69 and I liked it so I found my 1970 road runner, back in 1977. Still have it, so there's another 36 years for you.

 

[tallhair]

BOOM! Thanks for pushing over Photon .. on to Mar's 3K now

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[Budnicks]

@ 15 y/o on my own since 1974 {39}, helping on my step dads cars, he married my mother in 1966, I was by his side & I learned at a pretty young age

 

[snakeyes]

you guys make me feel old now 52 going on 53 years and RC you need not make a comment

 

[Budnicks]

you guys make me feel old now 52 going on 53 years and RC you need not make a comment

LOL... well if I count my time helping my step dad Bob, since 1966 when I was 7 y/o or so, handing wrench's & cleaning parts etc. watching so maybe 47 going on 48... I'm getting a little closer to ya...

 

[68GTX440]

My love for Mopars has been there since I was born. Mopar has been in the family for well over 90 years. Mom used to say I was born with dexron as my blood. I received my first speeding ticket in a 1962 Dodge PU at 13 yrs old. I grew up repairing Mopars from about 9 yrs old in my dad's tranny shop. I had to be part of all mopars when they came in the shop period. I fell in love with the 69 RR about 1972 when dad had one in the shop for a clutch job and made it my mission to buy one.(at that time I was only 11 yrs old) My first ever that I paid for myself was a 68 Coronet 440 4dr with a 383 (still have the motor from it)at age 15 and owned mopars ever since. Finally in 1978 ran across what i thought at first was a RR and ended up being a 68 GTX and refused to leave with out it and I still have it today. So if you add up the whole family 90 yrs + But my self 46 yrs + and proud of it.

I just turned 52 this month so don't feel bad snakeyes it is a great age to be.<LOL>

Great thread Tallhair

 

[satman72]

Got my first in 1980, and I'll be 53 next month, so 33yrs for me.

 

[tallhair]

Thanks for pitching in guys

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[HYRDGOON]

Well I'm here to learn and ask more questions than I'm able to contribute but if we can go with Passion the first car I brought home to work on with my old man when I was 15 was a 70 Plymouth Fury very solid car I picked up for $150 and have been a Mopar man ever since... I'm 35 now so make that 20 years

 

[tallhair]

Duly noted and dutifully inscribed in the ledger

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[Dennis H]

Just remembered, I was brought home from the hospital in a 48 Chrysler Windsor. How's that for an early memory? ; ) That was in 1953. Suicide doors. No car seat or seatbelts.

 

[mowpar]

Great Idea I'm 49 now and was introduced to Mopars at the grand old age of 8 by my Dad who was a Ford guy go figure! I no what flipped him It was the Hemi he fitted to his 39 Ford and from then on you can only but guess!! My first buy was a 73 Charger 265 Hemi when I was 18 then a 78 Chrysler Valiant 318, These 2 cars may confuse as they were built for the New Zealand and Australian market's, Then there are the American Mopars, the 78 Ram with a hotter 318, 68 Dodge Dart convertible with the indestructible 225 Slant 6, 70 Chrysler 300 Hurst 440 and the 65 Plymouth Belvedere convertible 426 wedge. I do like to mix it up some what but anyways I guess I have 41 years of Mopar ingrained in me.

 

[68GTX440]

Yep I was brought home in 1961 in a 1958 Imperial with a 392 hemi Dad say's it was the best rock solid car he EVER owned and boy it would fly.

Just remembered, I was brought home from the hospital in a 48 Chrysler Windsor. How's that for an early memory? ; ) That was in 1953. Suicide doors. No car seat or seatbelts.

 

[Richard Cranium]

you guys make me feel old now 52 going on 53 years and RC you need not make a comment

You know I must.....

 

[67 coronet]

you can stack on my 38 years or so.like many hear i got the bug from my dad.he was forever hooked with the release of the 68 body styles.still my fav to this day.

 

[Budnicks]

You know I must.....

yeah at 54 y/o I'm staring to resemble that remark...LOL....