What is your first impression of a Mopar?

[Gumby]

I remember being a young child, and the parents took me and my sister to a small town that had a cafe known for it's pizza, south of us, and seeing a Winged car cruising that small town. The pizza was SO good, cheese that kept strectching and chewing and was so good, then piling in the car (I think the folks had a 1969 Ford Galaxy), and seeing that winged warrior just subtly cruising around. WOW! lol. I remember cruising by the football feild that they had, but then seeing the winged car. I also remember seeing cars with "440" on them around town and asking my dad if that meant if they had 440 engines in them! lol. I was born in 1963. I vividly remember seeing the winged car. My first car was a 1973 Charger. Anyone else?

[willhaven]

General Lee.

The show was already in syndication when I was a kid, but I thought it was the most awesome car in the world when I was five.

The Charger is still one of my favorite cars (probably 3rd), but I'm definitely more Bullitt than Lee these days.

[Bullitt-]

My earliest  Mopar memory is of a winged car but of a different ilk, most would say fins.
    My uncle had a red/white '60 Fury 383 Golden Commando which had  the dual 4brls on the long ram intake. The car was stunning in person, he rolled it in the early '60s & transplanted the motor into a cream/burgundy 57 Belvedere. I was there the day he fired the '57 up for the first time & went on it's test drive, I was about 5-yrs old.

   Something like this

[CID440]

My grandmother worked for Chrysler and all the family (dad, uncles, cousins and aunts) all drove something Mopar.  Dad had a 340 duster and mom had the 70 challenger, those were the first two cars I can recollect from being a small lad.

[MEK-Dangerfield]

Gumby, I'm a year older than you.   

My first impression came from an aunt who had a 64 Coronet. That was one amazing woman. All of 100 pounds, and would roll up her sleeves to work on an engine. I just thought the push button automatic tranny was the neatest thing. Then later my Dad started buying Mopars instead of Buick's and Old's. I took my driver's test in a 71 Dodge Crestwood station wagon.  I guess if I could drive the "Queen Mary", then I could drive anything.   

[Gumby]

I don't remember when I first saw a Challenger, but I've wanted one since i was about 7 or 8. I have a couple of Popular Mechanics issues that I stole from the school library from 1970, lol. One issue test drives the '70 Challenger, then a few months later, another issue rates it on "long term" real world tests. I've kept the issues all these years. I finally have a Challenger to go with them. I didn't steal the Challenger from the library.

[cuda]

I loved my first impression of mopar and have been stuck on them since. I graduated high school with a matching #s 1970 panther pink 340 duster,the seed was set. 

[usraptr]

My Dad's 1967 Ply Fury.  But ugly!  But when the '70 Cuda came out I was in love!

[jordan]

I was 9 years old in 1979.  I lived in the country and the neighbor boys and I were "sleeping" outside in the "fort" on a hot summer night.  The older farm boy down the road had a black 71 satellite, and his buddy had a butterscotch 69 roadrunner.  There was an intersection nearby, about a half mile from the neighbors farm, and those two guys sat out there doing "cheerios" at midnight until they blew out both tires, on both cars!!!!  Smoke was everywhere as seen from the headlights turning in circles, and the sound of those 440s' singing at redline for minutes after minutes was just incredible to a nine year old boy.  I remember the sound of those cars idling down the road with the blown tires flopping in the wheel wells. That is the precise moment I knew what a mopar was.  Too cool to forget. 

[jimynick]

Boy, I'm the old fart here I guess. My first impressions of a Mopar were the seemingly acre of chrome and wood grain on the dash of my grandfather's new 54 Desoto. He was a Chrysler/Dodge/Desoto dealer at the time;  or my Dad's 36 Dodge coupe stock car that my mother used to drive on the street, with me in it.  I was literally raised around, on and in Mopars since I could walk and the habit dies hard. 

[hooD]

My dad bought a brand new '65 Chrysler Newport and also had a '66 Dodge Dart.  I drove the 383 Newport and the 273 Dart when I was 15 getting my driver's license. 

Then in 1972 my best friend from high school bought a 70 Challenger with a 340 4spd.  I was a mopar crack head by then.  When I graduated from high school in '72 I bought my cuda brand new that fall when the 73's came out.  The rest is history.

[Super Blue 72]

A 1967 Plymouth wagon brought me home when I was born, after that we had a Chysler Town & Country wagon...

As far as muscle goes, it was a winged car for me as well.

I remember lying across the middle row seats and looking out the window and seeing a red wing with a Road Runner caricature drive by.  It looked like a sharks fin cruising around looking for prey...

[HemiOrange70]

I was about 7 or so and my best freinds Dad owned a Chrysler dealership. Every Sunday they would visit for dinner, first car I remember was a Lime green car with the tornado on it (Duster) and the next week a Road runner. I thought how cool to have a Roadrunner on your car and the horn went beep beep

[Sleepychallenger]

My earliest memory is of washing my dads (now mine) Challenger. It took me about 3 hours to get it right and he kept showing where I missed the wheel wells or the rocker panels and that I needed to hold the hose a certain way so that I didnt scratch the car. Not only did I get to wash the Challenger but I also got taught early how to do a job right the first time and to have attention to detail. I think I was about 5.

[Road_Runner]

I had to think about this for a while, but the first Mopar I remember was a neighbor's gorgeous black Chrysler 300C!!  It looked awesome since they kept it perfectly clean with all that chrome & shiney black paint.  I was only 5 or 6 at the time and I didn't even know what kind of car it was, only that it was mean looking and I wanted one..  I looked at car pictures years later until I identified it as either a 63 or 64.  Never forgot the look.

Later, Jim