Why do you like Mopars?

[barbee6043]

I graduated HS is a small SW Ga town in 1966. Small as it was, there were muscle cars about...everywhere. Mopar was the red headed stepchild. Mostly Chevy and Ford country.
From mid 80s on I had just about them all, slants to hemis, A, B, E bodies, but no C bodies.
Back in the 80s they were every where and cheap, till the market crash and the top feeders got into it. Then the Mopar market crashed in late '91. Still fun for several more years.
It was fun back then. Not near so much now.

 

[440 PHIXX]

I liked all American cars as a kid. Especially the late 60’s Muscle Cars. Everyone had Chevys, some had Fords, you only saw a few Mopars. I read a lot of magazines, and the Mopars were the best engineered of all the cars from that era.

Oh yeah... we owned a few as well!

 

[black64]

I was a GM guy growing up with my dad working at Cadillac Although, my first car was a 55ford bought from my cousin, then mostly GM cars with the first new one being a 66 Chevelle, sold that got drafted in 66. Started my career at AMC in72 so I bought those and when Chrysler bought AMC I bought my first Chrysler vehicle a Dodge Van and it's been mopar ever since.

 

[6PKRTSE]

I think the movie Bullet did it for me as a kid. However, my parents said I would pick through the toy aisle as a kid for Chargers long before I was even old enough to know what a Charger was. I have owned at least one (Full size) Charger since I have been 15 years old. (35 years +). My whole family has worked for GM and Ford for Generations. I am the only black sheep (Mopar) dude in my Family. Now my kids are more into Mopars as well and now passing the torch to the little Mopar grand kids. Lol.

 

[Vitamin_A12]

Wild colors, cartoon characters and Dana 60's! None of the other manufacturers dared!

 

[Roger63]

When I was around 12 years old an older friend took me for a ride in a ugly green car. Scared the holy **** out of me, and I liked it. He had a big block dodge dart gts. Mopars are just so much different than any other muscle car.

 

[ricks_RR]

it started in high school all the seniors had the cars and the mopars would take my breathe away every time they started them up and left the school yard with a 100 feet of rubber .plus there is no sounds like a big block mopar when the RPM start coming up you just know that its a mopar leaving .now that i have owned a few my heart still miss's a beat when i hear that sound

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

Mom & dad had Chryslers; they had 67 Furyies as cabs, dad's cab was a Polara Police package, NJSPD interceptor bought at auction; 6 of us in HS had Mopars, 2 Cuda, 3 Challenger and my Charger.

 

[Lefty71]

This, right here!!! When I was about 7 years old, I ripped this advertisement out of a Readers Digest and pinned it up on my bedroom wall! It stayed there for like 20 years (and I had already had a couple three Mopars myself by the time I was 27). So, I already loved them at seven and can't remember exactly why, but my dad definitely had a Dart, a New Yorker and a Newport by the time was that old.... sure I can find a pic of me as a 3 year old standing next to the Newport....a red one no less lol.

 

[YY1]

Placeholder post until tomorrow.

 

[Bighouse]

When I was a kid nothing could stop the General Lee.

 

[Cranky]

Did some catching up on this thread but need to do more. Lots of cool stories in it!

 

[barbee6043]

Because Chevy guys hate them and I never did fit in with Chevy guys!!!!

 

[Black_Sheep]

Back in 1979 I bought a ‘70 Charger SE, being young and dumb I throughly abused that poor car and it withstood the thrashing without missing a beat. As I grew older and wiser I learned to appreciate how well engineered the suspension and drivetrains are. That and the styling of muscle era Mopars always appealed to me, even before I knew a damn thing about cars…

 

[chargervert]

The first time I laid eyes on a 68 Charger R/T I was in the backseat of my moms Chevy Impala and I saw the service station attendant putting the gas into the top of the rear quarter, I thought that it was the coolest car I had ever seenI I was glued to the window! Then the guy fired up the light metallic green Charger with the black tailstripe and pulled out of the gas station blazing the tires down the street sideways! It was so fuckin cool. I said that's the car I want when I grow up! My mom laughed, but two years later she and my dad divorced, and her new boyfriend who became my step father, just bought a new 1970 Charger R/T SE which became our family car from 1970 until 1982 when they sold it to a friend of mine. My sister got married to a guy who had a 70 Challenger R/T 440 Sixpack car and he gave me my first 140 mph experience in that car! I was hooked on Mopars from then on! The picture is of my mom's Charger R/T SE.

 

[Islandkent]

 

[GetX'd]

Not totally sure when it happened. i never had any money but I did have desires. I had 6 brothers but only 2 were car guys. They had all manner of cool cars back then. The brother I got along with the best had a 67 SS 396 Chevelle as one of his stable so that was the car I thought I wanted most back then but I was still too young. At 17 2 buddies and I got in an accident - getting rear ended by a drunk as we were tooling down the highway trying to pick up 3 chicks that were walking home. I was hurt the worst having a collapsed lung and a badly lacerated skull - lost 2 pints of blood before getting to the hospital. Anyway that go me a little bit of coin with which I only had one thing in mind - the nicest car I could afford. One of the guys that lived near us and hung out at the local drive-in had a jet black on black 67 Coronet R/T. And she was a screamer - nicest car in the area by a mile. I saw plenty of everything and drove plenty of various muscle cars. But one caught my eye - not exactly sure when but it became the ONLY car for me. I went on the hunt for the rare 68 GTX. There were just none around back then. I had $1100 in my pocket that was it. I saw o e advertised way over on the other side of Mpls. Went there on a cold November Night with a couple of buddies. I let one of them drive it because I was a bit of a chicken to really light it up - this guy was nuts and let that thing scream from top to bottom rpm’s. That was it - peeled off the 11 Benjamins and owned that car - for 48 yrs until just 3 yrs ago when I sold it to a very close life long friend. The times I had in that car - I could just never sell it - until recently when I decided I could, but only to the right guy. The funny thing was as i said they were rare around Mpls. Back then I saw one somewhere that made it the one and only car I wanted. Never owned any other muscle car - never wanted aNy other muscle car either. It was just that one GTX. Well the X became somewhat legendary in Mpls and nothing ever beat me (save one Boss 429) - suddenly 68 GTXs started popping up all over the place. Many, many of my friends and acquaintances started buying them. What was rare when I bought mine suddenly there were a bunch of them in NE Mpls. The guys up there remember that phenomenon still to this day. I truly loved that car and when I sold it i knew there was no other one for me to buy - that was it - that one car for my whole life. Still widely recognized all over Mpls. Amen

 

[Black_Sheep]

Not totally sure when it happened. i never had any money but I did have desires. I had 6 brothers but only 2 were car guys. They had all manner of cool cars back then. The brother I got along with the best had a 67 SS 396 Chevelle as one of his stable so that was the car I thought I wanted most back then but I was still too young. At 17 2 buddies and I got in an accident - getting rear ended by a drunk as we were tooling down the highway trying to pick up 3 chicks that were walking home. I was hurt the worst having a collapsed lung and a badly lacerated skull - lost 2 pints of blood before getting to the hospital. Anyway that go me a little bit of coin with which I only had one thing in mind - the nicest car I could afford. One of the guys that lived near us and hung out at the local drive-in had a jet black on black 67 Coronet R/T. And she was a screamer - nicest car in the area by a mile. I saw plenty of everything and drove plenty of various muscle cars. But one caught my eye - not exactly sure when but it became the ONLY car for me. I went on the hunt for the rare 68 GTX. There were just none around back then. I had $1100 in my pocket that was it. I saw o e advertised way over on the other side of Mpls. Went there on a cold November Night with a couple of buddies. I let one of them drive it because I was a bit of a chicken to really light it up - this guy was nuts and let that thing scream from top to bottom rpm’s. That was it - peeled off the 11 Benjamins and owned that car - for 48 yrs until just 3 yrs ago when I sold it to a very close life long friend. The times I had in that car - I could just never sell it - until recently when I decided I could, but only to the right guy. The funny thing was as i said they were rare around Mpls. Back then I saw one somewhere that made it the one and only car I wanted. Never owned any other muscle car - never wanted aNy other muscle car either. It was just that one GTX. Well the X became somewhat legendary in Mpls and nothing ever beat me (save one Boss 429) - suddenly 68 GTXs started popping up all over the place. Many, many of my friends and acquaintances started buying them. What was rare when I bought mine suddenly there were a bunch of them in NE Mpls. The guys up there remember that phenomenon still to this day. I truly loved that car and when I sold it i knew there was no other one for me to buy - that was it - that one car for my whole life. Still widely recognized all over Mpls. Amen

Remember a gold ‘67 R/T that used to cruise Central back in the day?

 

[GetX'd]

Remember a gold ‘67 R/T that used to cruise Central back in the day?

Can’t say I do - but Ive no doubt we’ve crossed paths back then. That was my main drag strip.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Can’t say I do - but Ive no doubt we’ve crossed paths back then. That was my main drag strip.

It was my friend Al, he had one of the fastest cars around back then. He liked to cruise back and forth between the Sun Drive-In and Porky’s, looking for the next street race. He passed away a couple years ago, his son still has the car somewhere in northern Minnesota. Last I heard it’s fallen into disrepair.