Day 2 & Street Freak Mopar Thread

[brent396]

Cool bee any more pics

[SS427]

Do you need/want any copies of these magazines or do you already have them? If you need them I will dig them out after MCACN if that works.

[PxTx]

Here is my wife's 1971 Duster when she first got cira 1993. She actually trusted me enough after dating only 6 months or so. "See babe, there's a cool little project car I know of and it doesn't run, but you won't have your licence for 6 months anyways. I think you should buy it!"

Having my dad as a resource probably gave me a bit too much confidence in being able to handle any project. The only part bad about that was how many projects I took in without consulting my parents. My mom drew the line after I had about 9 cars/ motorcycles at their house.



Yeah, it doesn't run but you gotta see my vision. Tires came off right away and the 15x8 Cragar's that couldn't fit my 65 Chevelle fit great! L60 LARAMIE rocking out back. This is also where I learned about small lug Chrysler. Someone previously had bought axles out back for the big pattern, but left the front's stock. Notice no lugs on the front. This was just a Photo-op.

I'll have to dig some better pictures, but this gets you the idea. Car was quickly painted a more universally likeable color. Found a set of small lug Cragar SS wheels and also found a set of Cragar Mach 8 wheels with a more neutral offset so we could run 295/50 15 in the stock wheel wells.







To my wife's credit, she saw more in me than I did at the time. Hard to beleive that was 20 years ago! Pretty cool she wasn't a poser either. She helped swing wrenches and raced it at the track. This was a track rental day and I don't think I drove it once!

[427TJ]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: whitetop</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Really clean 69 Barracuda.

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Yep, and add a 440-6 or a Hemi and call it perfect. Oh, and WHITE headers snaking out from underneath.

[Plowman]

That look's sooooo cool PXTX,some Duster. *Paul

[whitetop]

Everyone remembers a local car when growing up they consider magical...a car that just takes you back to a different time.

This is mine. A guy in my hometown, Phil, bought this '71 Duster brand new and today he still owns it today with 17k original miles and paint. I remember this car very well because his dad's Texaco gas station was right next to my grade school and he would come by the school every day about the same time and I would peer out the window which was road level just to catch a glimpse of it. Still remember the white coated headers sticking out underneath and with the brown paint and Cragars it just had a wow factor. Car was not the fastest to begin with (318 Duster) but it just had that &quot;high school&quot; look we remember so well and it was always exceptionaly clean..and still is.

The dent in the rear quarter was from a errant baseball thrown at his senior picnic.

Car had Sun gauges and tach , Torker intake, Nationwise (NRS) valve covers and L60-14 Dayton bias tires and E-70's on the front.

Phil told me he bought the car from money he earned working at his dad's gas station since he was really young and the first dealer he went to did not take him seriously at 16 years old so the next dealer he took cash and they did. I think his dad did have to make the official purchase due to his age.

[whitetop]

Phil's Mom was an artist and she hand lettered some lyrics from a song by the group Traffic, <span style="font-style: italic">The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys </span>on the rear tail pan. Song lyrics or some similar philosophical quote lettered on cars was so 1970's.

Here are the lyrics.

<span style="font-style: italic">The percentage you're paying is too high priced
while you're living beyond all your means
and the man in the suit has just bought a new car
from the profit he's made on your dreams</span>

[brent396]

Very nice [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[chevelle1969]

Very cool White top. Do you have any more pics of that Duster?.I remember My Dads first Company car was a Straight 6 duster that same brown with those odd looking full wheel covers with white wall tires.car was only 2 years old at the time.

[mockingbird812]

Very NICE! Looks like that lil fella is right at home with those cars! Are you from Ohio?