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

[RTDaddy]

50 years and counting, starting in 1974 on Old Man's 70 Charger R/T and a 71 Charger 500 father and son project.

 

[6PKRTSE]

50 years and counting, starting in 1974 on Old Man's 70 Charger R/T and a 71 Charger 500 father and son project.

Funny my first two cars were the same. First one a 70 Charger R/T and second a 71 Charger 500.

 

[Belvedere408]

Got my first mopar year 2000 at 19, so 25 years and own 3 still.

 

[chargervert]

that's why you are the King

I think you said something like this "when your crowned king nothing,here's your crown" Lol

 

[j-c-c-62]

Slightly related, it has become recently known to me, if I was inclined to sell off my collection of vehicles legally without a car dealer license in Florida, it would currently take 7 years.
Florida only allows two vehicle private sales every 12-month period, more you must become a dealer, be insured, post a bond, take a class and pass a test, become a business, purchase a license, etc.
Fines and jail are possible for violations.

 

[1STMP]

32 years, but all on one
hotrod. First component
rebuilt was the 440.

 

[chargervert]

The real problem is when we pass we take all our cumulative knowledge with us! It seems to me like once you have all the knowledge necessary to survive here,times up!

 

[moparedtn]

The real problem is when we pass we take all our cumulative knowledge with us! It seems to me like once you have all the knowledge necessary to survive here,times up!

Truer words never written...
But hey, I just scored a new in box made in the USA master cylinder for Fred!

 

[chargervert]

Truer words never written...
But hey, I just scored a new in box made in the USA master cylinder for Fred!

Winning!

 

[Krooser]

Left GM Training School in ‘68 but no GM dealer had a job for me.

I got a job at Dodge City in Milwaukee then moved to a Chrysler Plymouth dealer in ‘70.

 

[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

Add 12 years to my org. post, from page 4 post #67 & #69

 

[Budnicks]

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...

2nd post #69 Dec. of 2013, also some 12-13 years later now
(according to the last one I posted, NOW It'd be appr. 58 years now,
I started at 7 y/o in 1966, helping or slowing him down, my stepdad Bob)

so any of the org. members/active posters in the 1st few pages,
would add that much too, it's easily MAYBE nearly doubled the last accumulated total...

hardly any
maybe (?) 1/2 of the people back in Dec. 2012 & 2013
are even still here or even active posters, even the OP

 

[Budnicks]

 

[Don selleck]

a 1974 dodge polara, my oldest son was made in that car in December of 1984, it had a good heater, a fm convertor, and a big back seat..

 

[monaco66coupe]

Well fast forward from 15 april 2014, and still here! 11 more years, and a few additions to the shed since then!
My Nephew suggested walking thru the group and describe them, good bad and all. and they would record everything as it goes, as they (family)don't know anything about any of them.

I am slowly coming to that realization, as well that the finished cars look the same after 20-35 years, but I don't.

 

[cosgig]

We grew up on a farm. Besides fixing everything under the sun, our parents and family had a long list of Mopars. When my brother and I both came of driving age, we got hand me down Mopars, my bother a 1971 Duster Rallye, 6 cyl 3 speed on the floor, mine was a couple years later, a 1973 Satellite Sebring Plus. Both cars long in the tooth from their 1 hour commute to work. My brother promptly wrecked his in a head on collision, my car was so bad, when I took it to auto class, they deemed it unfixable and my parents forced me to give it up to junk. That was 1978, so, Mopar specific, I will say 46 years.

 

[j-c-c-62]

a 1974 dodge polara, my oldest son was made in that car in December of 1984, it had a good heater, a fm convertor, and a big back seat..

Does he remember or have you reminded him, or is this just between us?

 

[1STMP]

Does he remember or have you reminded him, or is this just between us?

Back seats and drive-ins...
Does it really matter the
make?
Good times.
Appreciate your sense of
humor....

 

[Richard Cranium]

The real problem is when we pass we take all our cumulative knowledge with us! It seems to me like once you have all the knowledge necessary to survive here,times up!

Not only that, but the independent old timers that work on our cars and components is dwindling. Local guys I use to rebuild alternators, starters, clutches, fuel pumps, set up rest ends, make driveshafts and do interiors will soon be aging out and retiring with no one to learn their skills and carry on.

Eventually, the same will happen with all of the companies that we buy our parts from. How many years that our era of cars has to still be desirable is the big question.

 

[Don selleck]

Does he remember or have you reminded him, or is this just between us?

He knows, my friends know and now the world.