What was the first cool MOPAR you ever rode in and how old were you?

[steve from staten island]

I think the old man had a 49 chrysler and he brought me home from the hospital following my birth in 1952. The car i do remember is his 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook and i still like that car,in fact id like to own one

 

[milit73]

1968 Dodge Superbee and it is in my driveway!!!!

 

[Coyoteduster]

The '61 Imperial Le Baron my Dad bought used in '65. What a Land Yacht!

 

[65-440]

My friends dad Bought a '70 340 4spd swinger off a used car lot. Banana yellow with black stripe. I was maybe 15, damn that car was fast ! Was all Mopar from there and I had to have one of those darts. Took a long time but I finally got mine, sublime '70 340 4sp !

 

[Brandy]

Fins are fine in my book!!

The '61 Imperial Le Baron my Dad bought used in '65. What a Land Yacht!

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[44070dart]

my brothers 59 Dodge Coronet..man it was the peak of over the top design giant fins, chrome bumpers, great interior, what a boat .. took my road test at 16 in it ..it was a lot of car to park

 

[tallhair]

65 Sport Fury 4 speed convertible. I was 3 and fell out when Dad went around the corner and the door came open.

Skinned my back up real good but I was otherwise OK

It was replaced by, and I remember it well, a 69 bronze 4 speed A/G RR (totaled - black ice) then a 69 A4 4 speed RR .. I was 4 at the time

 

[Gpuller]

My uncle had a '70 Challenger R/T SE, Burnt Orange Black vinyl top,with burnt orange interior and a 383 auto. Remember riding in it when I was maybe 7 or 8 and him playing Black Sabbath "Iron Man" on the 8-track. That song scared me. LOL
It meet its demise one night by meeting a large cotton wood tree. Challenger is gone but thankfully my uncle made it.

[video=youtube;rT4KpfiFcNc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4KpfiFcNc[/video]

 

[Riverdawg]

Bronze GTX that my dad bought. I believe it was a 68, but don't remember for sure. I was probably 5 or 6. I've really got to get the pictures from my mom and post em.He proabably only had it a couple years. Sure would like to have it now though.

 

[thequickster]

When I was 16 my uncle took me to a friend of his that had a 66 hemi coronet , he took us for a ride then let me drive it... Imagine a 16 year old driving a hemi car ... Any way I was hooked and bought 2 67 coronets when I was 17 ( one is a roller) they are both 318. Torqueflight cars but the fun is still there . Anyway one of them is my daily now and I'm 18

 

[GaryS]

I was 16 and visiting my uncle in another state. He saw me drooling over his year-old 1957 Chrysler 300C, so he threw me the keys and told me to go out and beat up on some Corvettes and Thunderbirds.

There is something about the sound of a Hemi at full throttle with dual four-barrels sucking air through unsilenced air cleaners that will make you a Mopar fan for life. I can still recall what song was playing on the radio as I flew along the river road at about 110.

https://youtu.be/flHkqc6rmfM

 

[Sixpactogo]

My family always had the mundane stove bolt Chivvies back when I was a kid in North Dakota. When I was about 10, a shirt-tail relative gave my brother and me a ride home in her new 57 Dodge Royal Lancer. It was a turquoise & white 2 door hardtop with push button drive. It was the neatest car in the world to me back then and I think about it every once-in-a-while. Guess I've been hooked on Mopar since then. The first Mopar I ever drove was a Co-op #3 tractor. It had a 40 hp Chrysler Industrial six cylinder with a logging truck 5 speed transmission and rear end. It would cruise at 32 mph but could reach 60 with the governor defeated. I spent tons of hours on that tractor back in the 60's
Here are some pics of a similar one I found at a show last year.

 

[dstryr]

Summer of 1981, my cousin had a '73 Charger SE, white with black vinyl top and 400 auto. I was around 13 at the time and it was my sister, me, my cousin, his sister and her boyfriend, jumped in and eased down the street, east side Des Moines, IA. In a couple of minutes we were on I235 heading towards downtown and upwards around 105mph with Ain't Even Done With The Night screaming through the Pioneer 6x9 3-ways in the back window. This went on for a while and 20 minutes later we were easing up the street, radio back to a reasonable level and my cousin looks at us just before we pulled into the driveway and says, "not one 'f'n word".... About what?:glasses10:

 

[Tempest 455]

On the way home from hospital. Not sure which car, my Dad worked for Chrysler. Both parents are gone so can't ask.

We had a '68 Barracuda, so if he got it in late '67, might have been the '68.

1st cars I actually remember were '70 440 Challenger and '71 340 Cuda.

 

[Bladecutter]

Friends Parents had a 64? Dart w/ slant six. and that evolved into a 70 Duster w/ slant six. But my first.Fun' Mopar experience was a 69 318 Charger that i bought off a lot for 525.00 in 75..creme yellow/black vinyl/black hydes....made a lot of trips between southern Az & Bay Area...trunk saw a lot of action. Stuck some 50 series dunlop racing rains on it and terrorized nor-cal roads....auto crossed it, ran very close to Mustangs & Camaros that were set up for counterlocking...less than a second off them w/ a used car....funny..the wheels were Ford that i took to a tyre shop in sebastopol and gave the guy 20 bucks to torch out the centers so they would slip over the Mopar hub raise.....definitely something that wouldn't be done in this PC world. On the outlaw runs @ night, i embarrased a lot of so called exotics...B's wheelbase/track geometry is unbeatable. stable & forgiving. Had 69 318 Coro 500 hdtp and finally(my fav) a 68 440 Post Coro w 318. all three cars well under a grand apiece and tons of fun.....my 69 Coro...one night on Hwy 1 shoreline, north of SF....a new 911 S(1982)just waxed His ***!...Had His Babe in car w/ him...sticker still in window....he couldn't get me out of his rear view...pretty soon the chick is starting to flip out and started thrashing at Him...so He finally relented and moved over to let me by...of course as soon as i got by, on come the brights t and the driving lights and he' back in it trying to stay glued to me.....not a chance sourkraut. Nice car....terrible driver.

 

[747mopar]

Key word "COOL", with that thrown in there I'd have to say a 1971 Red Roadrunner with a wrap around white hood stripe and a nice running 360!

 

[Bladecutter]

Small Block....talking my language 747....good looking nose on them...that style same wheelbase as 66-70?
Hail # 22 69 Daytona w destroked 340 to 305ci, built by Kieth Black....churning all day long at 1970 Daytona 500......@ 10,500rpm & finishing seventh w/ damaged wheelbase, after having led the race before getting T-Boned, recovering & clawing His way back through field. Mario Rossi team owner flipping off Bill France, for preposterous rule change, Richard Brooks driving Bobby Allison's 1969 ride, with Kieth Black's "Lunch Box" motor as they affectionately referred to it. How Cool is that? France was assuredly going through some agony during race, not quite certain whether the mouse was going to actually do it.
B Body w/ IRS and small block is going to stack up real fine against exotics. Brakes and front tyres may last a bit longer too.

 

[GetX'd]

I don't know how or why it was mopar I fell in love with back in the day. I bought my first car and yes it was 68 GTX - still have the receipt from January of 1972. I was married to that car. Treated her with tender loving care. I was so in love with her I never divorced. Still have the same car 43 years later. Going thru a frame up restoration as we speak. I've talked about it on the site before. It's in the painters booth as we speak. Went through from bumper to bumper, mechanically and cosmetically.

I keep saying I'll post pics shortly and I will - it's just that my guy is very very slow and takes work in between. But he's charging me a reasonable hourly rate. I thought I have it back and done during June when I make my trip to Minnesota. Doesn't look like I'll be able to take possession of the car until a little later in the summer. There's still some odds and ends that need to be addressed. I rather have it right than fast.

Bottom line this this has been a life long love affair with a mopar that doesn't look like it's going to end soon. The car will probably go to someone in the family that's worthy of it and will take good care one day.

 

[GinoX]

We were being ferried to school and back in My aunt's 4-door (.... '63?) Plymouth in the late sixties when I was like 7~10 years old. Afterward it was in a 1969 Valiant until 1972 in my case, also a 4 door. Both were slant six cars with ac. I thought they were very cool being big American cars and airconditioned because most cars in the immediate neighbourhood were little Fiats, Toyotas and/or Datsuns

 

[mmissile]

1964. Parents bought a Dodge 330 wagon. 383/4-speed. I was eight.