Finally....and a Challenger memory.

[Forty4]

I can't wait for the new Challenger to come out. I want one. I want one in black....

Have to share a Challenger story/memory with everyone. I had a buddy way back in 1972 (I know I'm dating myself and age here) that had a beautiful dark green 1970 440/six pack, 4 speed, Challenger. The first time I drove that car I fell in love with it. We would take that Challenger out and cruise the El Camino here in Northern California bay area on weekends. Man was that car a beast!

One day he rolls into work with a 1969 GTX 383 automatic. I ask where is the Challenger? He traded this guy straight across his 440/six pack Challenger for the 383 GTX AT. He said he got tired of shifting and it got real bad mpg's. :roll:

At the time I was driving a beautiful but mild 1969 Camaro RS 350 automatic. After I just about start crying how he could do something so stupid, he told me he wanted to asked me to trade my '69 Camaro with him but thought I would never give up my Camaro.

I have never forgot that beautiful 440 Challenger that would of been mine if he had only asked me to trade my car for his.

Time to stop thinking about that 1970 and buy my own NEW one. Maybe even take it out and cruise the El Camino again!

[MikeEast]

It wasn't meant to be - you had the experience or being able to get to know the car and it was good.
And I bet gas mileage did suck! :racing: I too have fond memories of Real Dodges and Plymouths, they are awesome machines.

I raced a Green GTX, I think it was, might have been a RoadRunner, one dark night in my wilder days. Whatever had the AirGrabber Hood Scoop that slid up out of the hood. He walked off and left me like I'd forgotten to shift or something, and I was driving my Maroon 65 Malibu Super Sport. 327 and a four barrel, 4 speed. It was pretty tired though.

I-89, coming up from Boston for the weekend, 3-4 hour ride. At like 2 AM, I'm burbling along at whatever rate and out of nowhere this Green Monster blares down a gear and starts pacing me in the left lane.

I look over and the hood scoop rises out of the hood... Talk about Intimidation!
We roll into it hard and he's off like the snarling wind, nice heavy Raaaappp as he shifts and then just.flat.gone. into the dark.

Always loved the sounds the 383's and 440's, with the squooshed Oval-ish tailpipes and driven like they were meant to be.

Mike

[boggart]

Roadrunners had the Airgrabber hood. Nice story. I love the old mopars myself.

[formerice]

My memories of the late 60's were of driving my 62 Chevy Super Sport and getting my ass handed to me by Mopars!

[MikeEast]

My memories of the late 60's were of driving my 62 Chevy Super Sport and getting my ass handed to me by Mopars! I was stationed at Mare Island (Vallejo), CA for a while and got to drive my buddies 62 Impala SS quite a bit (he was quite a drinker and I'd give up drinking to drive him around in it). He started with a 327 and by the time he was done with the motor it was seriously extreme - radical cam, tons of other goodies, and enough balls to destroy the rest of the drivetrain. On a regular basis. I've got some pics in a box somewhere of his spider gears. Or what was left of them. The two piece driveshaft setup he could spit onto the ground at will. We spend many an afteroon/evening in the parking lot with that thing up on jackstands.

And *I* never broke it once!!

Mike

[lilguyhemi]

Forty4 - What a miss!!

I still have fond memories of Brotherhood way in South City.....spped lovers paradise!!

[gn300]

My first car was a 72 challenger so iv'e got a million stories (including ones from the nakid city).

As a matter of fact i have the last part from my challenger ,the slapstick shifter, in my 79 300.

As well as the 2' tall plastic garfield that has sat on the dash,under the safty sticker, of every car iv.e owned.

Boy if it could talk!

[charliec]

I have great memories of driving a 70 Cuda convertible (440-4, auto, sublime green) from Roanoke (where I bought it) along the Blue Ridge Parkway and through VA down to my home in New Orleans back in the day. Beautiful country for a long drive with the top down in a big-block e-body....

Still have the car. Still runs great. Still handles like a freakin log.

Sorry, but my Magnum SRT8 is WAY faster and can actually go around a corner at more than 15mph without squealing and trying to flip over.

Still have my 70 Charger R/T, too (plum crazy, built 440-4, auto w/shiftkit) and I am sorry to report that most modern cars could hand it its ass on a plate, unless the road was dead straight (then I gotcha!).

But the old Mopars look the biz, that's for sure. Everybody thinks they are the meanest thing on the road, so fortunately I don't get tested much!

But I'll have one of the new Chally's for sure....

[DadsSRT8]

Charliec...

There are going to be several cuda's, chally's, chargers and a host of other Mopars @ Ricky's & Ronnies on 7/29/06 starts around 5:00 - 6:00.. two Socal Mopar clubs doing a joint gathering.. N/W corner Normandie and Sepuveda in Torrance..bring either the new one or old one...
KS

[charliec]

Thanks for the heads-up, DadsSRT, I've been to R+R's a couple of times... Would it be SouthBayMopars and Inland Mopars by any chance? I'll try to bring a couple of rides down! Look for the black Magnum SRT or the sublime Cuda 440 convert clone, that'll be me... say hi!

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