The first Mopar you ever drove!

[trishhritz]

If Jeeps still count, my boss at the time taught me to drive a stick shift in a Jeep Wagoneer on the hills of Folsom, Ca. Otherwise, my first would be my dads dodge MaxiVan. But the most memorable was my first 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus with a 318 drive train. I really wanted a stick shift, but even in the early 80's those were far and few, so I had the automatic transmission with the shift on the coulumn. I really should have kept her.

 

[Budnicks]

I'm not 100% sure, I think my uncle Tink's
58 DeSoto, Adventurer Firedome Hemi, couldn't reach the peddles
I was like (?) 11 y/o
then maybe his old 62 (?) Power Wagon, Poly 318, 4 speed on his farm/ranch,
in granny low
or one of his old CJs (a 58) Jeep around Bethel Island
pulling a hay trailer IIRC, about 11-ish
or helping him do postholes with the PTO drill off the back

my Mom's new 68 Sport Satellite 383 4bbl 4 speed
moving it in the driveway, for my dad like 10 - 11-ish
it was around Christmas time

my stepdad Bob's 60 Pheonix 2dr HT, Pinkish/Mauve cloth interior
with the long-ram, auto at like 12 y/o, up in Fiddletown in the summer
I had a big growth spurt between 10-11 & 12

I drove a rear engine/swing arm rear 61 Peugeot
(French POS, since they own MoPar now)
with hacked fenders & paddle tires on it
we/I got free & made it into a dune buggy rig, it only had 1st, 3rd & Reverse
all 37 HP
drove around Pismo Beach, in the summer I had just turned 10, in July
Bob told me/warned me if he ever caught me driving it on the street
*he'd cut it into pieces & haul it off to the junkyard
I did once down the Cobblestone court & Cobblestone drive
he found out
& he did *what he said he would, made me help load it & dump it too...

My first real road vehicle I drove any real distance,
was my stepdad Bob's hotrod 53 F100
hopped up 352/428 heads, T-10 4 speed, Dana 4.10:1,
around Park & Shop parking lot in Concord,
I was 10, IIRC it was around my birthday,
I went thru the gears to 3rd once, maybe 30-35mph
drove it in 1st & 2nd a lot...
Didn't do well when he had me do a panic stop
he had to reach over & shut the key off, no harm no foul,
had my foot on the brake & gas didn't step on the clutch...

 

[gtx6970]

First I ever drove was my parents 1974 Dodge Colt,,,,,,STATION WAGON. It was fun, and I'll leave it a that
This was the summer of I think 1976 ,??????

First one I bought on my own was a 1969 Roadrunner , 383 auto, bought it the summer of 1977 for the princely sum of $150 , and drove it home. Drove it all thru my senior year

Kept - Drove the colt on date night with the then girl friend

 

[Mackman]

1st Mopar I drove was an ex state police car my dad bought at a Trooper auction. Unmarked ‘67 Fury I, 440. Not great out of the hole but you couldn’t run it out of top end.

 

[Runcharger]

I learned to drive in Dad's 71 Newport Custom and my brother 1972 Fargo D100. Brought home from the hospital in Dad's 53 New Yorker Deluxe. Lifer until Fiat/Peugot whatever they are.

 

[WileE]

Like it was yesterday ! Was out at the range with my brother-in-law (R.I.P.) who was a police officer in California at the time. After a good afternoon with an assortment of .22's to .45's, he let me drive his 68 B5 383 Dodge Charger.

 

[71newp]

It was my grandfather's late 60's dodge dart 4-dr 225. But that was only in a cemetery (got some dirty looks from the workers.) The first one I drove legally on the road was probably my parent's 1973 Satellite Sebring Plus 2-dr. It was a 318 auto with no vinyl top. I really wanted to buy that car when they sold it in the late 70s but my dad refused to sell it to me. He was afraid I would go crazy with it - probably because he went a little crazy with the car he bought as a late teenager (1940 Ford.) I had hoped to get Magnum 500s and a RR hood! The first mopar I bought was a 1971 Chrysler Newport 4-dr hardtop. Very practical to get me back and forth to college - 'bout a 500 mile drive....

 

[XS22J8R]

First Mopar I ever drove was an AAR cuda!
No Mopars in my family, and drivers Ed had Ford Fairmonts and a Datsun with a stick to teach manuals, so I didn’t drive a Mopar until I was car shopping.
I’d been saving up money from odd jobs for several years to buy a car when I got my license. I’d done all my research (consumer reports ha ha) and decided an AAR cuda or Challenger T/A was the perfect car of my dumb teenager wet dreams.
A few months after I got my license an AAR was advertised and me and my dad went to see it, and I test drove it. It was orange and automatic with 36,000 miles, and pretty mint.
It was also $1000 more than I’d saved.
A month later a little more shagged out condition Challenger T/A turned up I could afford, so a T/A was the 3rd Mopar I drove. I checked out a modded up 70 cuda 383 between the 2 trans am cars so that cuda was the 2nd Mopar I drove. Or maybe not, maybe the seller just took me for a ride, my T/A might have been the second I drove.
I got the T/A on the cusp of the worst winter ever here, and from then on it continued to prove itself a impractical car and burden to own, and I had a few brushes with death driving it in my teens combined with booze.
Yet we both survived somehow! It’s sort of like a high maintenance high school sweetheart who became a trophy wife!

 

[Builderguy]

It was like this: 66 Belvedere II with a slant 6 225 with a three on the tree. Dad's second car so he let me drive it like it was my own. I had an HVAC guy bend up some sheet metal in the form of two quarter panels. Didn't know how to weld back then so I pop riveted them on.

 

[Beeorange]

The first Mopar I drove was also the first one I bought, 1971 Barracuda. Slant 6, 3 speed manual, floor shift, black buckets seats non console interior, manual steering and brakes. It was white when I bought it, was originally FC7. Cool car, I think it was a pretty rare. I was 16 years old when I bought it, drove it home on my learner’s permit. It was the 2nd car I ever bought.

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

My dad's '49 Dodge B series pickup truck. I was about 10 when I started driving it on the farm, mostly when planting the crops hauling seed and fertilizer around in the fields. 218 cid flat head straight six with a 4 speed transmission with a stump puller 1st gear. I now have a '53 B series that is nearly identical to that '49. I still enjoy driving that old Dodge.

 

[qkcuda]

My Dad's 64 Chrysler New Yorker 413 like this one. My first introduction to Mopar big block torque. Shortly after I got a ride in a 67 GTX 440 4 speed, and that cemented it.

 

[Car #4]

First I ever drove was my parents 1974 Dodge Colt,,,,,,STATION WAGON. It was fun, and I'll leave it a that
This was the summer of I think 1976 ,??????

Let’s hear it for the Dodge Colt!! The first Mopar I drove was a 71, maybe 72, Colt. Dad bought it as a second car because we were getting more drivers in the family as us kids each got our license. It’s the only four speed car I ever drove.

 

[Outlaw525]

First Mopar for me was an FK5 1970 V code Road Runner with a 4 speed and 4.10 Dana. Bought it in 1979 when I was 16 for $650. Raised a lot of hell in that car, lost my license and had to sell it. Unfortunately, the pictures of it didn't survive my first marriage.

 

[Billccm]

Bought this from the original owner in May 1979. First Mopar and my first car. Paid $425.

 

[jimbosride]

 

[demonram]

My folks 66 Imperial, in 1971, I was 11. Got my license in a 73 New Yorker. Drove my sisters 73 Gold Duster, my dad’s 76 Club Cab, (drove the 2 prior International Travelletes also). Had a 74 GMC I bought, beginning of junior year in 76. My first Dodge, was a new 78 D150, I bought right after graduation.

 

[hemi71x]

Looking back on this, it would have to been the 71 Cuda, that i placed an order for, back in 1971.
Kept that car for 39 years, before i sold it.

 

[polywideblock]

1960 Dodge Phoenix in 1986

 

[33 IMP]

I'm not sure, but I think it might have been this one......

Wait wait wait! A post above reminded me that the first Mopar I had EVER driven was my driver training car. A green 1970 Roadrunner 383 727 column shift bench seat.. (yep, a real rr driver training car)