What was your first Muscle Car experience ?

[Fireman Dave]

Ronnie Sox is considered by many to be one of (if not THE) greatest 4-speed drivers in drag racing history. Sox and Martin had all kinds of cool Plymouth drag cars - Cudas, GTXs, Dusters, and even a Superbird among them. They all had that same red, white, and blue paint scheme.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Maybe I have the BBC confused with the 426 Hemi's debut...



Did the 454 BBC make its debut in '70?



Matt

 

[DKayser]

Mother Mopar & Honda Motor Company

Have one thing in common. They define "competitive" as stranglehold. When either one goes racing, it ain`t pretty, especially for their competition. Nothing,I repeat, Nothing will run with a Hemi in race trim under equal conditions. That is why Nascar and the NHRA handicapped them to death. Give Mopar time, they will dominate P/Stock again eventually. Hemi domination is like death & taxes; inevitable. The sad part is how cheap they were just a few years ago. As a 19 year old fresh out of school, I had to pass on a nice 69 Charger R/T. 426 Hemi, auto, ps,pb. It needed valve guides, or seals; puffed a bit on startup & deceleration. Decent body & interior. Pa said no way in hell. So I bought a 70`cuda 340. Yeah, that`s a LOT safer. I saw the Charger sell 2 years later for 4500 & it had been molested big time. All the unique Hemi parts were robbed & replaced by incorrect wedge pieces. Way to go, Doug. Wish I had bought it for the 1500 I saw it go for the first time. DK. :{

 

[CFast]

:{ :{ :{ that's me crying for you DKayser. :{ :{ :{

 

[Fireman Dave]

Go here if you want to cry some more. :{



http://carsinbarns.com/Mopars In Barns/MoparIndex.htm

 

[CFast]

:{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :--)aaaaahhhhhhhhh who would. . why... what are they thinking! Talk about making a case for justafiable homicide! Thanks for that site, now I won't sleep at night. :{ :{ What's wrong with those backwoods hillbilly's?

 

[Hohn]

Yeah, it's too bad to see how the mopar market has gone. The "desireable" cars fall in one of two categories:



1) Restored and owned by some rich dude who never drives it, just brags about it since he has like 100 other cars.



2) Abused and neglected, and owned by a bumpkin whose going to deprive the world of a great mopar because he's going to let it sit outside and rot forever until it's just a distant memory.



Both of these irritate me.



Alas, I parted with my '69 Coronet because I didn't want to be one of the latter. The car was perfectly restorable and solid where it needed to be, but it needed a LOT of work-- both pans (trunk and floor), quarters, interior trim. But it was 90% solid-- no rust in the rear backlight, frame was great.



That car was my daily driver in '96. Then I was accepted into the US Air force academy and had to let it sit.



It was another year and a half after graduation until I got it back to me (Apr 2001). It was in rough shape and not really streetable (weather had taken it's toll).



So rather than lug it around clinging to a pipe dream, I put it on Ebay as Abraham took Isaac up the mountain, only I didn't find a ram in the thicket.



My car sold using the "buy it now" option in 3 hours. Guy came the next week from Chicago (to GA). $600 and it was free.



I think he parted the car out to restore his '69 six pack 'Bee.



I don't want to know for sure what's going on now.



RIP- 1969 Coronet, 2dr post, B5 blue, 318/904.

 

[DKayser]

Originally posted by Hohn

Yeah, it's too bad to see how the mopar market has gone. The "desireable" cars fall in one of two categories:



1) Restored and owned by some rich dude who never drives it, just brags about it since he has like 100 other cars.



2) Abused and neglected, and owned by a bumpkin whose going to deprive the world of a great mopar because he's going to let it sit outside and rot forever until it's just a distant memory.



Both of these irritate me.



Alas, I parted with my '69 Coronet because I didn't want to be one of the latter. The car was perfectly restorable and solid where it needed to be, but it needed a LOT of work-- both pans (trunk and floor), quarters, interior trim. But it was 90% solid-- no rust in the rear backlight, frame was great.



That car was my daily driver in '96. Then I was accepted into the US Air force academy and had to let it sit.



It was another year and a half after graduation until I got it back to me (Apr 2001). It was in rough shape and not really streetable (weather had taken it's toll).



So rather than lug it around clinging to a pipe dream, I put it on Ebay as Abraham took Isaac up the mountain, only I didn't find a ram in the thicket.



My car sold using the "buy it now" option in 3 hours. Guy came the next week from Chicago (to GA). $600 and it was free.



I think he parted the car out to restore his '69 six pack 'Bee.



I don't want to know for sure what's going on now.



RIP- 1969 Coronet, 2dr post, B5 blue, 318/904.

Well, look at it this way. It died that a very desireable Mopar could live! I believe that you get Karma points for allowing it to"Go gently into that good night. "It really is better to sell than to hoard & ignore. DK.

 

[CFast]

Agreed. It died so another may live.