I posted this at moparts.com today but wanted to share it here as well. Yes i know some members Vist ther as well.
In just a month I will be 45 and mark the 30 year mopar trip.
After reading the rebody thread that comes up on a regular basis again and again.
I have adapoted a few cars and they became "born again" and #'s did not get switched. If it was a 318 car it stayed as a 318 car with 318 car tittle and #'s.
It was what I made it and had fun building it as I saw fit.
Realy a shame that the hobby is what it is today.
My first ride was a 70 duster slantsix 904 blue with black guts. I do not have any pics of it after being painted back to B5.
Car ended up slant with headers 4bbl and 4 speed
me at 15 note the "BFG Belted" not radials :smoke:
2 years later got a free 72 rally car #'s matching 340/727 8 3/4 with 323's and dealer installed a/c from a friend of my brothers, he was going to join the navy and car had a cracked block due to no coolant in winter.
Also the passenger side was mashed in.
Fixed the side and got a Junk Yard 340 added a cam intake headers high jackers "the normal stuff you did back then"
Did a repaint
Ran with no hood for awhile it was the thing back then :apimp: I am the guy with the beer can on the right "Joe Dirt wantabee"
note the 100% corect wiper motor
AK5000 headers with aluimacote :laugh: and the dreaded black engine bay :tongue:
It died in a car crash at 60-70 when I was hit in the rear and spun out into a wall. Some idiot went across 3 lanes and ran into me :flame: in I-10 the driverside got the wall and the passenger side rear was hit by the car.Thus spining me into the wall.
Next up was get a cheap car again and raise the dead.
350 bucks got me a 71 318 car with a rod knock
Put all the good stuff on it and Born again as a clone with the 318 tags{the way it should be}
Got tired of it so changed it from the factory red to Plum
91 when I got married
My wife used it as her daily driver till I got tired of it again
So it became a parts car
Parts can be seen on the convert challenger I got for 1500 delivered also 318/904 car. Was at an all ford shop and no one wanted it since was a mopar
Saved everything I needed sent them to the striper
Restored everything while the car sat in body shop black hole just need the car back!
So got side tracked again and built the 73 nose car since it reminded me of the days of old :laugh:. was going to be a quick slap it together job and roll.It had been to long without a real car and get back on the vert later
Now I am finaly back to wanting to build the Convert. Rebuilding the house was 3 years more of putting it on the back burner.
As far as the Dart Sport goes:
The Dart was orginaly just like a local guys car gold with gold top but his is 318 mine was 340.
I hope he does not mind me posting a pic. His low mile very nice car.
Mine should have looked like this if it would have been restored as new. Sweet car :bow:
Always nice to see a car as it was that was never messed with!
But as you can see I always built them as day 2 or day 3 in some cases
As sweet as his car is I just could not do it. I had the motor sitting on the stand,the trans sitting as well and the FM3 paint was for the vert so it was a no brainer to do it as a custom and save major $$
Note Grownin up no one had dog dished unless it was a taxi cab or cop car.
