Mopars you've owned

[thebankerstoy]

Part 3:
The Mopars I've owned over the years include the following.

Richard

(01) 1966 Coronet 500 2 Door Hardtop, originally painted in the Light Green Metalic with a Black interior, originally powered by a 361 engine, automatic transmission, 8.75 rear axle assembly with a 2.76 gear ratio and no Sure Grip, power steering and brakes, factory power windows and factory a/c. I have a thread here on the DCR showing most of the work done on my Coronet so I'll just post some of my favorite pictures before and after it's restoration back in 1990-1991.

[67r/t4speeder]

Richard your 67 R/T looked about the condition Max was when we bought it.
Just the way thay were back then and cheap too.

[thebankerstoy]

Part 4:
The Mopars I've owned over the years include the following.

Richard

Last up are the various Dodge pickup trucks I've owned over the years.

(01 and 02) 1973 & 1974 Dodge Club Cabs, both were the Metallic Brown and both were small block powered with automatic transmissions, both had power steering and brakes and factory a/c and both had the heavy duty towing and cooling packages. I have no pictures of either one of these pickups.

(03) 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT 2x4, single cab, long bed, Dark Blue Metallic, gray interior, 5.2 engine, automatic transmission, power steering and brakes, factory a/c, 3.92 gear ratio, I upgraded the rear suspension to heavy duty leaf springs and added a set of the "helper springs", heavy duty towing and cooling packages, heavy duty rear hitch, trailer brake assembly. This awesome pickup could haul my 16 foot car trailer loaded up with my 66 Coronet 500 and all of my race gear in the bed and never complained! I absolutely loved that truck until the day it was taken out by a U.S. Mail truck while my son was driving it. My son wasn't hurt but it totaled the Ram. The only picture I have of this 94 Ram after my computer crashed shows it sitting behind my 66 Coronet 500 at one of our local race tracks back in 1997 or so.



(04) Last but certainly not least is my beloved 1999 Dodge Ram Sport 1500 Quad Cab, 2x4, short bed, bought this truck brand new in April 1999 and it was loaded with factory options and I had planned on keeping it forever right up until early 2018 when a damned Lexus driver pulled out in front of my wife and I and then stopped right in front of us! My wife was driving and did her best to avoid the idiot in the Lexus but she really had nowhere to go and even though it was in MINT condition and was a low mileage truck our insurance company totaled it due to it being a 1999 vintage. I bought it back from our insurance company and sold it to an awesome friend of mine and he fixed all of the damage and repainted it in it's original Solar Yellow but as of yet has not had the custom art work redone on the front grille, hood and doors.

When the truck was only six months old I had all of the following done.

(A) "Ghosted" art work was painted on various parts of the truck in House of Colors Candy Pearl Tangerine Orange (and yes Virginia, it's REALLY difficult to see all of this beautiful art work in pictures!). The front grille, hood and front doors received ghosted flames, the front fascia receive a ghosted Standing Road Runner with racing helmet as used on the 1969 Plymouth Road Runners, the fiberglass bed cover received a large ghosted 3-D Chrysler Pentastar and the tailgate received ghosted DODGE block letters and a Running Road Runner with Dust Trail as used on the 1970 Road Runners.
(B) A custom DODGE front windshield decal was made and installed
© The front suspension was lowered 2 inches and the rear suspension was lowered 4 inches and aftermarket heavy duty shock absorbers were installed
(D) At that same time I bought the custom 17x9 alloy wheels and Goodyear Eagle tires and had a local muffler shop install a new custom cat-back dual exhaust system with chrome tips that was run out underneath the rear bumper.

So it survives and is in great hands these days.....just not in my hands anymore.

[thebankerstoy]

Richard your 67 R/T looked about the condition Max was when we bought it.
Just the way thay were back then and cheap too.

Absolutely Andy! My brother-in-law and I bought that 67 R/T for a hundred dollars and it was a rust free California car! The guy we bought it from lived in an apartment complex and the complex owner told him it HAD to go immediately! Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good! LOL!

Richard

[Mark's 69]

1973 Dart Sport First car I ever bought. Frame rot took that one.
1970 Super Bee 383 4speed. Sold it for pennies on the dollar
1977 Charger Devoured gasoline and couldn't go 100mph. Traded in on a...
1980 Dodge Omni 024 2.2 4 or 5 speed? Loved that car but learned you can't slow quickly on a curve in a front wheel drive car, ended up on the roof.
77 or 78 Ramcharger Liked it but it just wasn't practical so traded it in on something else.
1969 Coronet 440 Super Bee tribute. I think I like working on it more than driving it because I change something on it almost every year.
1974 Dodge Dart project that I'm really dragging my feet on.
1998 Dodge Stratus (wife's car) Stolen and totaled by teenagers. They tried stealing another when they wrecked it but the homeowners were both State Troopers so that didn't work out for them.
2008 Ram 1500 standard cab long bed. 4.7 ran ok and 8ft beds are the bomb! Traded in on my present truck
2015 Ram Quad cab 5.7 Hemi. Only had 23k when I bought it last year. Took it to Carlisle last year when I didn't get the Coronet's steering box back in time, took 2nd place in it's class! Love it
2014 Charger V6 ( wife's car) She loves it and when I talk about getting a newer one she just brushes it off.

[67r/t4speeder]

I did remember another 67 R/T we briefly owned . Once I found out it was repaired from a wreck incorrectly we sold it again to drag racer that was didn't mind the damage area and owns a body shop.
It was blue 4 speed 440 dana car. The dash is in Max since mine burned up in a fire.

[67440Dodge]

I rented a Dodge Caliber one time... once I got used to that CVT transmission it was a blast to drive