Mopar Muscle cars
#31
12-22-2009, 06:30 AM
, will build mine for a high 11 second 1/4 mile. 
#33
12-23-2009, 09:42 AM
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I've been a fan of MOPAR 'hi-performance' cars for years.
Favorites:
'68 & '69 Roadrunner
Hemi Dart
340 Dart
340 Duster
340; Hemi; 440 'Cuda
Hemi SuperBird
'67 and '69 Charger
I'd like to get my hands on a '67 Belvedere II (an old friend had one) and put a 340 in it.
His was white w/gray interior and gray vinyl top. We took out that old, tired 318 and put a 340 and a massaged A727 TorqueFlite trans in it, w/3.55:1 rearend.
After he sold it, it had a 426 Hemi shoehorned into it.
Favorites:
'68 & '69 Roadrunner
Hemi Dart
340 Dart
340 Duster
340; Hemi; 440 'Cuda
Hemi SuperBird
'67 and '69 Charger
I'd like to get my hands on a '67 Belvedere II (an old friend had one) and put a 340 in it.
His was white w/gray interior and gray vinyl top. We took out that old, tired 318 and put a 340 and a massaged A727 TorqueFlite trans in it, w/3.55:1 rearend.
After he sold it, it had a 426 Hemi shoehorned into it.
#34
12-23-2009, 10:16 AM
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I'd like to get my hands on a '67 Belvedere II (an old friend had one) and put a 340 in it.
His was white w/gray interior and gray vinyl top. We took out that old, tired 318 and put a 340 and a massaged A727 TorqueFlite trans in it, w/3.55:1 rearend.
After he sold it, it had a 426 Hemi shoehorned into it.
#35
12-23-2009, 10:19 AM
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#36
12-23-2009, 10:41 AM
Off the top of my head I think Mopar made 1,974 T/A's ,,,could be way wrong but it was a one year only option.
My Challenger R/T, 440 Six Pack with 4 speed is one of 782 for 1970, they also made automatics and another run in 71.......... Its not an N96 shaker but wish it was .....
#37
12-23-2009, 10:48 AM
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#38
12-23-2009, 11:07 AM
Originally Posted by Cuda_jim 
I'd like to get my hands on a '67 Belvedere II (an old friend had one) and put a 340 in it.
His was white w/gray interior and gray vinyl top. We took out that old, tired 318 and put a 340 and a massaged A727 TorqueFlite trans in it, w/3.55:1 rearend.
After he sold it, it had a 426 Hemi shoehorned into it.
I'd like to get my hands on a '67 Belvedere II (an old friend had one) and put a 340 in it.
His was white w/gray interior and gray vinyl top. We took out that old, tired 318 and put a 340 and a massaged A727 TorqueFlite trans in it, w/3.55:1 rearend.
After he sold it, it had a 426 Hemi shoehorned into it.
Did I say that? I know better because.........
#39
12-23-2009, 11:17 AM
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"Shoehorned into it" was a figure of speech. Sorry.
When I was 12 or 13, I remember a guy that lived up the street from me, bought a GTX ('67, I think) to give to his brother, returning from Viet Nam.
He pulled the GTX out and started doing a burn-out, in front of his house.
'Something' broke under the hood. It made one heck of a noise!
Steam & smoke, rolling from under the hood.
Then, a stream of oil started seeping out, from under the car.
A tow-truck took the car away, about an hour later.
The dealer put another engine in that car.
When I was 12 or 13, I remember a guy that lived up the street from me, bought a GTX ('67, I think) to give to his brother, returning from Viet Nam.
He pulled the GTX out and started doing a burn-out, in front of his house.
'Something' broke under the hood. It made one heck of a noise!
Steam & smoke, rolling from under the hood.
Then, a stream of oil started seeping out, from under the car.
A tow-truck took the car away, about an hour later.
The dealer put another engine in that car.
#40
12-23-2009, 11:39 AM
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#41
12-24-2009, 09:05 PM
I'm somewhat of a Mopar guy myself... In my teens, I sold a Chevy pickup to buy a '73 Dodge Charger that had more things wrong with it than I had the know-how or the money to fix, but it was a fun car nonetheless... I do like the looks of those old B-bodies...
I now have an '89 Plymouth Gran Fury "S"-code (Police Interceptor) sitting in my driveway with a flattened cam - It was a fleet car used by the State of Montana Dept. of Justice and still has the DOJ tags on the doors, above the latch... It was my grandfather's car - he had been driving Dodges since the Dodge brothers were young lol (his first car was a Model A Ford that he shared with his brothers on the farm)... He bought this car 3-weeks before he died to replace a similarly-equipped Dodge Diplomat fleet/cop car that had been rear-ended by a truck in Missoula, MT (The impact was hard enough to bend the unibody on the Diplomat.) It was handed down to me after he died.
I now have an '89 Plymouth Gran Fury "S"-code (Police Interceptor) sitting in my driveway with a flattened cam - It was a fleet car used by the State of Montana Dept. of Justice and still has the DOJ tags on the doors, above the latch... It was my grandfather's car - he had been driving Dodges since the Dodge brothers were young lol (his first car was a Model A Ford that he shared with his brothers on the farm)... He bought this car 3-weeks before he died to replace a similarly-equipped Dodge Diplomat fleet/cop car that had been rear-ended by a truck in Missoula, MT (The impact was hard enough to bend the unibody on the Diplomat.) It was handed down to me after he died.
#42
12-31-2009, 11:04 AM
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Well, I HAD a 1973 Dodge Dart Sport.
Duster body style, 318 Auto
A few mods later,,,,,,
318 built up ,,,,A litlle.
904 tranny got dropped for a 727 Torqueflight with a B&M Shift kit.
Took that "Skinny" 2.73 out and put in a 3.55 posi out of a GTX with a 426 sitting in a junkyard in Tenn. when I went to college to be a mechanic. (Nashville Auto/Diesel College) Unfortunally I sold it for a truck,,,, Wished I'd never sold it now!!!
Duster body style, 318 Auto
A few mods later,,,,,,
318 built up ,,,,A litlle.
904 tranny got dropped for a 727 Torqueflight with a B&M Shift kit.
Took that "Skinny" 2.73 out and put in a 3.55 posi out of a GTX with a 426 sitting in a junkyard in Tenn. when I went to college to be a mechanic. (Nashville Auto/Diesel College) Unfortunally I sold it for a truck,,,, Wished I'd never sold it now!!!
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01-05-2010, 04:41 PM
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YouTube - unrestored 1970 440 6 pack plymouth roadrunner
i hope this worked
its the car i was talking about a few posts back my mileage was a couple K off
his mom is moving the car up to NH to put in big garage his dad built just for this car before he past away she's just trying to follow thru with his lifelong plans
i hope this worked
its the car i was talking about a few posts back my mileage was a couple K off
his mom is moving the car up to NH to put in big garage his dad built just for this car before he past away she's just trying to follow thru with his lifelong plans
#45
01-07-2010, 09:24 AM
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One of the guys here at work has a '70 Road Runner. It was a base model he actually bought new. I think it stickered under $3000. Nothing exotic, 383, 4-speed, black vinyl bench seat. I drove it and the reason I think it is a true muscle car is that between no power steering and the 12 inch clutch, it builds muscles on the driver.
They are real Mopar fanatics, as his wife has a '69 Dart GTS she also bought new, one of the last cars to come off the line at the Fullerton, CA plant.
Jim
They are real Mopar fanatics, as his wife has a '69 Dart GTS she also bought new, one of the last cars to come off the line at the Fullerton, CA plant.
Jim