dodgedifferent2
hung like a stud field mouse and
wow that would suck ...taking pictures of invisible things again devil?
What car got you hooked?
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mr340
I don't always drink beer, but when I do
I've been hooked on cars for as long as I can remember. My Dad was a mechanic, and when I was younger he always had some neat cars ( never a mopar), He was a G.M. guy, with an occasional blue oval,like the Cortina GT. or the 65 stang. I was raised around this hobby, and it kinda stuck with me. As for my love of Mopar, that started back in '81 when I bought my first car. It was a '71 Demon with a /6 and A/C. A guy I worked with heard I was looking for a car, and he said "I have a 71 Demon, you can have it for $200.00.( being a Highschool kid with limited funds, thought this will work). So my first question was "what's a Demon?". He replied "just like a Duster but it's a Dodge". The car was delivered to me the next day and I've been hooked ever since.
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BootHead
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At 10 or 11 years of age I picked up my first issue of CarToons magazine, I think that's where the sub for Hot-Rod came from. The old people's cars were strictly point A to B vehicles so it's not from them. I used to pick a car out from the want-ads and "pimp" it out using said hot-rod mag and JC whitney catalogs. Add up all the cost and figure how many papers I'd have to deliver / and how many corn plants I'd have to neuter so I can drive this baby. My tastes varied but when I really started itching there were two brothers in town that had a pair of built shovels '70 and a '71. I think, There was a drag only Camaro and it's sister street/strip car on my route. Those would get me drooling. I remember the a-100 pick-up that would get me thinking too. There was a sundance (ooh Daisy's car)(wish I could sniff the seat) . A'course all this time There were them duke boys fighting the system in thier flying "plymouth charger" (remember they deleted all brand markings so I had to figure this out for myself) didn't know it was a Dodge until I bought the model kit which fell victim to a few well placed black-kats.
wunderless
burning the pancakes
Probably the dukes charger.
BB71Challenger
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ok i re-read this post only to come up with an odd question........WTF IS A DINKY CAR? canadian hot wheel?
Not A Duster
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Dinky toys were small - scale toy cars made in England I believe. (As were the original matchbox cars before mattell bought them out - probably with M16 profits....)
They were around a long time before Hot Wheels ever existed - the word "dinky" refered to the tiny size of the toys, not a body part...
I had tons of 'em as a kid - still have a couple.
They were around a long time before Hot Wheels ever existed - the word "dinky" refered to the tiny size of the toys, not a body part...
I had tons of 'em as a kid - still have a couple.
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dodgedifferent2
hung like a stud field mouse and
yep ... i lost alot out in the sandbox
mannye
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A Mach 1 Mustang used to park on my block when I was 6 or so and then the first time I saw a 1977 Stingray when I was about 9 (in '77). I used to sit on the floor in front of the car and stare up at that crazy front end.
In a neighborhood full of beaters, that Stingray looked like a spaceship!
Lucky for me, by the time I could actually afford to buy one, I knew better and got a 69 RR... BUT that was the really the one that hooked me.
In a neighborhood full of beaters, that Stingray looked like a spaceship!
Lucky for me, by the time I could actually afford to buy one, I knew better and got a 69 RR... BUT that was the really the one that hooked me.
Dr.Jass
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I imagine my being a gearhead was hereditary as my adoptive parents considered cars appliances but my biological father was apparently an auto mechanic. Big shock finding that one out.
As far as cars that got me hooked, well, I was born hooked. Though the first car I remember my Dad having was a '71 Maverick Grabber 4-speed, it was just Dad's car--"the Red Bomb" as the family affectionally knew it. By '76 it was so rusty you could chuck a cat through it with the windows up. At the same time, Mom had a '69 Polara tow-package car with a K-code 440 and 3.55SG that would probably hand the Mav its ass.
The Mopar thing started with that wagon, since I spent a lot more time in that car than the Grabber, as well as my all-time favorite Hot Wheel which belonged to my godmother's son. It was a '67 Barracuda fastback with the redline wheels... I loved it and it was the only toy car I ever treated with respect.
However, the first two cars I ever remember seeing that really blew me away were a Guards Red Porsche 911 and a Vitamin C Superbird owned by someone that worked at the local discount store.
Anyhow, by the time I'd gotten old enough to really know about cars, I found out that there were a few gems in the family past. My Dad's first car was a 1955 Chevy 150 or 210 coupe with a 265 Power Pac and a 3-speed. He owned it for two weeks; his parents flew down to Virginia, picked it up and drove it home when the Corps sent him to Okinawa. Mom threw out the receipt for that car not long after Dad died.
My uncle (Dad's brother) had a four-speed '61 Pontiac wagon with either a 389 or 421. The champ, though, was Grandpa's Dodge, which my parents took on their honeymoon: a bright-red 1957 Coronet D-500 with the pushbutton auto (there's a funny story about that pushbutton...). Sadly, by the time I came along, both Grandpa and the Dodge were long gone but that car rouses a lot of memories among my uncles, usually prefaced by "That car was way too fast for Dad."
What really cemented the already-Mopar-slanted fetish was my friend Dave buying a '74 'Cuda when he was 14. We worked on that car for nearly 3 years before ever legally driving it, but Dave lived out of the way and there were a number of not-old-enough-to-drive back-road hijinks well before that.
So, though I couldn't find a Mopar for my first ride, when that one died of a broken back, I found a '73 Challenger 340/4-speed car that forever sealed my fate. I've been sidetracked a time or two, but it's been Pentastar power for the most part ever since.
As far as cars that got me hooked, well, I was born hooked. Though the first car I remember my Dad having was a '71 Maverick Grabber 4-speed, it was just Dad's car--"the Red Bomb" as the family affectionally knew it. By '76 it was so rusty you could chuck a cat through it with the windows up. At the same time, Mom had a '69 Polara tow-package car with a K-code 440 and 3.55SG that would probably hand the Mav its ass.
The Mopar thing started with that wagon, since I spent a lot more time in that car than the Grabber, as well as my all-time favorite Hot Wheel which belonged to my godmother's son. It was a '67 Barracuda fastback with the redline wheels... I loved it and it was the only toy car I ever treated with respect.
However, the first two cars I ever remember seeing that really blew me away were a Guards Red Porsche 911 and a Vitamin C Superbird owned by someone that worked at the local discount store.
Anyhow, by the time I'd gotten old enough to really know about cars, I found out that there were a few gems in the family past. My Dad's first car was a 1955 Chevy 150 or 210 coupe with a 265 Power Pac and a 3-speed. He owned it for two weeks; his parents flew down to Virginia, picked it up and drove it home when the Corps sent him to Okinawa. Mom threw out the receipt for that car not long after Dad died.
My uncle (Dad's brother) had a four-speed '61 Pontiac wagon with either a 389 or 421. The champ, though, was Grandpa's Dodge, which my parents took on their honeymoon: a bright-red 1957 Coronet D-500 with the pushbutton auto (there's a funny story about that pushbutton...). Sadly, by the time I came along, both Grandpa and the Dodge were long gone but that car rouses a lot of memories among my uncles, usually prefaced by "That car was way too fast for Dad."
What really cemented the already-Mopar-slanted fetish was my friend Dave buying a '74 'Cuda when he was 14. We worked on that car for nearly 3 years before ever legally driving it, but Dave lived out of the way and there were a number of not-old-enough-to-drive back-road hijinks well before that.
So, though I couldn't find a Mopar for my first ride, when that one died of a broken back, I found a '73 Challenger 340/4-speed car that forever sealed my fate. I've been sidetracked a time or two, but it's been Pentastar power for the most part ever since.
For me it was pulling into the local gas station years ago and seeing the tail end of a (unknown to me at the time) '77 or '78 Dodge Monaco sedan. Thought it odd looking and kinda neat. Seen it a few times and thought what the heck was it. Then I caught a glimpse of the Dukes on the old TNN channel surfing one time and yep, there was that type of car. Got hooked on the Dukes and learned about the cars and then the Chargers, then started getting out of the Dukes routine and learned about other Mopars.
Those '75-'78 Dodge and Plymouth 4-drs still have a special place for me. Maybe thats why I have three of them and 3 2-drs!
Those '75-'78 Dodge and Plymouth 4-drs still have a special place for me. Maybe thats why I have three of them and 3 2-drs!
71ChargerRT
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...when I was little, 2 or 3 everyone in my family bought them for me, then there was a 67 Coronet 440 convertible that my dad had, it was a poly 318 but a cool car. My first car was a 67 Mustang coupe 6cyl auto, but the Mopar bug really hit with the 70 Imperial my dad bought when I was 12, I thought that was the coolest car I had ever seen, had more buttons than his 85 Seville...pos Then there was my 72 Satellite, dad's 73 Chally and it's just gotten worse since:strike:
...when I was little, 2 or 3 everyone in my family bought them for me, then there was a 67 Coronet 440 convertible that my dad had, it was a poly 318 but a cool car. My first car was a 67 Mustang coupe 6cyl auto, but the Mopar bug really hit with the 70 Imperial my dad bought when I was 12, I thought that was the coolest car I had ever seen, had more buttons than his 85 Seville...pos Then there was my 72 Satellite, dad's 73 Chally and it's just gotten worse since:strike:
71ChargerRT
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Well what is your first tat? My avatar is my left forearm here are a couple more. I also have more Mopar based tats coming...as soon as the money doesFishboy said:Oooohh tattoos!!! :dance:
Hopefully getting my 2nd pro tatt soon. gonna be the 67/68 Barracuda hood fishy emblem. I got a buncha ink planned out
Great storys guys and DG:clap: Keep em coming please:dance:
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What got me into cars wasn't even remotely a Mopar. My folks had a 68 396/375 4 speed SS Chevelle (mom bought it new). It was kind of plain, no vinyl roof, no console, poverty caps. What it lacked in flash, however, it made up for in the way of an M-22 trans, and 4.56 gears. What really got me was the sound of that transmission. It howled like a truck trans, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I thought that car was cool until I saw my friend's dad's black 69 Bee, and it's been Mopar since then.