A little Mopar for your morning.

Welp, Forecasting snow here this week so I took the boat home this weekend and got some more pictures of Mopar for ya.


The 69

Brother on our 1955 Farmall cub. When I lived at this house it was my grass mower and boat mover! The ball mount on it is just the right height for Correct Craft trailers. ;). Hadn't cranked it in 2 months still spinning the 6 Volt system. Fired after two starter cranks.

Dad's 70 Cuda in the big barn.

Brothers 72 Swinger with some new sheet metal hung. In the big barn.

The boat all tucked away in the north shop.

Great looking '66 Zach. What's a retailer asking for a car like that now? I was into Pontiacs back in the '80's and was on a search for a nice GTO when I came upon a restored '68 Hemi Roadrunner. It was a classic Roadrunner with no comfort options, vinyl floor, cheap bench seat, little hub caps. The guy wanted $9,900 for it which was about double that a mint GTO was going for. I knew it was a great investment, but thought the price was nuts.

Yea the hood was a :(. Fun fact unless ordered with rally. the T/A's had black steel wheels and doggie dish hibcaps. AAR's was standard with Rally wheels. The T/A steelies were also used on hemi cars with steel 15" wheels and I think the 69 1/2 lift off hood bees and Roadrunners. This means they are $$$$$$$$$$$$.

I think my price is much more in line for a car with goofy things like that done to it. Now if someone did a high quality 340, 383, 440 clone car that was correct I would see it being closer to the 30-35 range. E bodies are $$$$. The 71 Challenger is much less desirable than the 70 but the 71 Cuda is as desirable or more than the 70. That car would be cool to dress up as an R/T SE "340" Shaker hood car being that it has the rare grill trim. If we were talking correctness the wheels would look kick ass in butterscotch with the correct Dodge doggie dishes. Put some Polyglass GT's on it and call it a day. It also needs the dual exit exhaust rear finish panel.

I would almost bet it was a disk brake car too.

Hmm. If it is as solid as it looks and taking away for a few of the goofy things being a 71 I would say 16,900? Tell me how close I am haha.

I will admit I probably know 3 times as much useless knowledge about Mopars that Correct Crafts.

I'm getting a little rusty on Vin and Fender Tag codes but I can still pick out quite a few.

It looks to be Butterscotch. One of my fave colors. It was an SE car at one point because of the small rear window and vinyl top.

Those Doggie Dishes are from the later 70's Diplomat base cars ewww... Stripes are correct. Thats an A body hood scoop gross. That front grill trim is very rare and very expensive. I'm going to say that was a highly optioned car (if original) being that it's an SE and has the grill trim option. I would guess if you look it probably has the overhead console. I doubt it was an RT originally because of the modification to the hood. R/T had atleast a power bulge. Fyi that car would look like the press virsion of the 71 T/A that never made it to production. If it had the correct T/A hood.

I was driving home yesterday from Wisconsin, and saw this '71 Challenger in an auto repair garage parking lot. Thought it was a timely find with this topic going.

Anybody know what color Dodge called this one? I talked to the owner, and it is for sale if anybody is interested. I can put you in touch with the guy.

Nice ride Mark. Something about luggage racks gets me going. My best friend and I were supposed to be first dibs on an amazing 70 Challenger that both of our dads used to ride around in as kids. (their child hood baseball coach). It was a hemi orange 383 4bbl power bulge hood auto with white side stripe and BURNT ORANGE INTERIOR! That option was very rare let alone on an orange car. This spring we found out she had sold it to an unknown source. If either Ryan or I would have aquired it she still would have been able to see the car at her leisure. Now it's probably going to be restored and sold at a profit.

Most of the time the 440 6bbl cars were faster than hemi cars when tuned correctly. There was a test in 69 1/2 with Ronnie Sox driving a stock 4 speed 6bbl Roadrunner. They adjusted the carb linkage removed the air cleaner and pumped up the front tires to around 50lbs and he ran consistant 12.80's on stock biasply tires. Hemi was rated 425/490 and 440 6bbl 390/490. The 440's made the power a little lower in the rpm band.



Wagons are cool . I feel a change in direction of this thread... Pete you sure your dad didn't get sold a wagon with a max wedge in it ;).   

The 6 paks were wicked, you drove around on the center 350 cfm 2 barrel most of the time, so it got fairly decent mileage (even though mine had 4.56:1 rear gears - stock was 3.90:1) the two outer carbs were vacuum operated and just snapped open at around 4K rpm, and it was hold on to the wheel time. Took alot of adjustments to get the carbs to open at the right time, and you don't want to put the carb return rods on backwards cause they will jamp against the manifold, and stay open, found that little tidbit out the hard way. Good thing the cars had decent disc brakes on them. The 440 6 pac's were way more powerfull than my little 340/6.

You would of liked my buddies 70 R/T challenger convertible, it was red with a white top, white stripe, 440 6 pack, 4 speed pistogrip (coolest shifter ever made BTW) every available option from A/C, power top, power windows and locks to the rim blow horn. It was one of a group of 12 identical cars made for dealers early in the 70 model year (allegedly the first day of production). He bought it off a guy in the Navy for 1500 bucks in 81, sold his lime green AAR and kept this car around until about 10 years ago. Its undergoing (probably done by now) a complete nut and bolt restoration, (not that it needed much it was probably 85% or better original equipment when he sold it) and the new owner probably won't ever drive it again, last one sold for 350K.

This isn't it, but all 12 of them looke dthe same.

Mine went to NH in 82 or 83, mostly sat in the guy I sold it to's garage, then moved on to Maine about 20 years later. Guy in Maine returned it to its original colors, found 2 build sheets in it, and hunted me down for the original engine block. (which I knew where it was, and got him together with the guy who still had it. Said it was one of the straightest, rust free AAR's he had ever run across. Last I knew it sold for 45K, or so around 1999 or so. I sold it for $3500.

It was lemon twist, I had the two little chin spoilers then went on the front fenders, but never put them on. Was a real AAR BS23JOB VIN, me and two buddies had 3 of them in town. Both of theirs were 4 speeds, one was lime green, the other was the B5 metallic blue color, even back in the early 80's it was tough getting parts for them there was basically no aftermarket for them at the time, and the factory was running out of NOS parts. I got two of the last "hemi" fenders ('Cuda's used different fenders than Baracuda's to fit the 15" wheels) in the service parts system, and the last muffler, which had to be shipped back from Australia. I had a parts guy that could find almost anything in a delaership in the next town.

Mark C. ....Love the 'Cuda. White w/ Black stripes is so cool!

Zach.....You mention you have Flowmaster 40's on your car, I am (I mean my son is), is concerned with loudness of the 40's. Nice tone, but lacking some decibels. Any thoughts on how to get them a little louder? I am thinking of getting him an "H" pipe to get some loudness. By the way, your dad has fine tastes in trucks!! What color is it?

Haha awesome. Luke just loves the WS6 cars. His DD is a Seebring and he has a in process 72 Dart Swinger.

Any make of truck that says camper special is cool. Dad had a 68 camper special D200 with a 383 in it. My 67 has flow 40's on it and when I was 17 I drove it that way because I bought it and built it haha.

It's home...

The brothers Poncho is sitting beside it.

The '66-'67 B bodies are very nice, but, there is something about the '68-'69 B bodies that gets my blood to boiling. Not sure if the '70's are the same or not. I assume similar with minor tweeks??

Here are a couple of pictures I took this afternoon of two ads I bought in Noblesville in the early-mid 90's at a flee market. I have had them in my office ever since. They are cardboard backed, and covered with plastic. Nice old ads. I also found similar ads for a '69 Mach I, and a '69 Chevelle. '68 and '69 were the pinnacle of automotive design and performance in my humble opinion.   

By the way, when you say our hometown was one of the biggest Dodge areas, are you talking about Indy in general?? If so, I never knew that. Cool info.