Keith926
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I was born in 1985, Smokey and the Bandit was my favourite movie growing up, but I didn't want a Trans Am, rather the Kenworth or the cream coloured Monaco/Fury? cop car that chased the bandit through the water around the time Buford T. Justice lost his door, that Mopar cop car lit the tires right up before going down the river bank after the Bandit, the sound of it blistering the tires off is unmatched. My Dad's first car was a 73 New Yorker 440, he wasn't a hot rodder but told me a couple stories about pushing that car, one he made a 4 hour drive in 2.5 hours. My Gramps had a 74 D200 with a 440, it replaced a 67 D100 with a slant six, the next heavy hauler was an 80 W200 with 318, then a 96 Ram 3500 with a Cummins, then a 2006 Ram 3500 with a Hemi, they all worked hard but the 74 was the king for power. The stuff I grew up around wasn't crazy powerful but the 70s/80s rear wheel drive V8 models were much cooler to me than a front wheel drive 80/90s model even if the FWD was faster. I broke a multi decade family run of nothing but Mopars when I got my 81 Pontiac Parisienne, trade my 89 K car for it, my Dad asked why I didn't get a Dodge and I said I would have if I could have, but a V8 boat of any brand was more desirable than any FWD car. That was 20 years ago, and back then people said that 20 years later I wouldn't be driving or fixing those old boats and today I am still driving, fixing, derbying and parting them out. I think my 12 year old self would be happy, it was more attainable goal than being a pro athlete
