Wingfoot
September 20th, 2008, 05:50 PM
Wing, I drive a Neon to work everyday, I have a Durango in the driveway, I traded in a Grand Caravan on the Durango, I sold my Dakota pickup two years ago cause I couldn't stand seeing it sit in the the driveway for months not being driven, I traded in a Durango for the Grand Caravan......and I even have a Mitsubishi Galant sitting in my garage. (And one Ford Mustang) I like Dodge. It doesn't change the fact that when I ran Fire and Rescue we called the K cars Dodge Death Boxes or Dodge Koffins because if you were involved in an accident at even a moderate speed......chances are you weren't gonna make it.
A fellow MOPAR man! That's fanatastic ifindit! I have been since my jr high school dayz. My first science fair project was demonstrating how a distributor out of a 392 Dodge Hemi fired the 8 spark plugs. A friend of mine's parents had a 1958 Dodge in the back lot of their house for a 2nd or 3rd vehicle. My buddy and I just helped ourselves to the distributor. My neighbor welded up a stand that held the distributor and the spark plugs in a row. I used the battery from the donated Dodge to fire up the coil and a 1/4" drill to spin the distributor shaft. I got a ribbon for my effort and my buddy's parents never knew it came from their Dodge.
Since then I have owned a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback 340 Formula S, a 1969 Plymouth GTX 440 4-speed, a 1973 Plymouth Duster 340 automatic, 3 Dodge pickups, 2 Plymouth Horizon deathtraps and I'm on Dodge minivan #3 today. I've also owned a 1959 Corvette 283 automatic, a 1962 Corvette 327 4-speed, a 1970 Corvette 350 4-speed coupe and a 1967 Pontiac GTO 2 dr hardtop 400 4-speed. Of all the fun cars I've owned, the Corvettes were definitely high maintenance.
You can pretty much guess which cars I owned before my wife and I had kids. Every one of the muscle cars I owned I beat to the ground. Drive tires would last weeks, not years. I averaged 1 speeding ticket every 6 months between the ages 16 to 30. I remember standing in front of a Kansas traffic judge after receiving my 5th speeding ticket during my first year in the state. While reading the report of my Kansas driving record, the judge asked me, "Boy, did you just get out of prison?" I said, "No. I just moved here from Missouri." The judge said, " Why don't you move back!" What a JERK! He took my driver's license away for 90 days.
While in Kansas, I became good friends with Gary Pearman. Gary was working in the machine shop of Alan Patterson Racing Motors assigned to balancing sets of rods, pistons and crankshafts. Gary is now the crew chief of the Lucas Oil NHRA Pro Stock Dodge Hemi team of Larry Morgan. Last time I saw Gary was at the Topeka, Kansas 2008 NHRA drag race and he said to me, "Damn, you're getting FAT!" I said, "Thanks for noticing! That's spelled P-H-A-T, RIGHT?"
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff124/wingfootsmp/Photo1.jpg
Yeah, I love MOPARS! I'm tired of driving gutless V6s. I'll piece together a street MOPAR someday that will throw me in the backseat when I stick my foot in the carburetor; just like the good old dayz!
A fellow MOPAR man! That's fanatastic ifindit! I have been since my jr high school dayz. My first science fair project was demonstrating how a distributor out of a 392 Dodge Hemi fired the 8 spark plugs. A friend of mine's parents had a 1958 Dodge in the back lot of their house for a 2nd or 3rd vehicle. My buddy and I just helped ourselves to the distributor. My neighbor welded up a stand that held the distributor and the spark plugs in a row. I used the battery from the donated Dodge to fire up the coil and a 1/4" drill to spin the distributor shaft. I got a ribbon for my effort and my buddy's parents never knew it came from their Dodge.
Since then I have owned a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback 340 Formula S, a 1969 Plymouth GTX 440 4-speed, a 1973 Plymouth Duster 340 automatic, 3 Dodge pickups, 2 Plymouth Horizon deathtraps and I'm on Dodge minivan #3 today. I've also owned a 1959 Corvette 283 automatic, a 1962 Corvette 327 4-speed, a 1970 Corvette 350 4-speed coupe and a 1967 Pontiac GTO 2 dr hardtop 400 4-speed. Of all the fun cars I've owned, the Corvettes were definitely high maintenance.
You can pretty much guess which cars I owned before my wife and I had kids. Every one of the muscle cars I owned I beat to the ground. Drive tires would last weeks, not years. I averaged 1 speeding ticket every 6 months between the ages 16 to 30. I remember standing in front of a Kansas traffic judge after receiving my 5th speeding ticket during my first year in the state. While reading the report of my Kansas driving record, the judge asked me, "Boy, did you just get out of prison?" I said, "No. I just moved here from Missouri." The judge said, " Why don't you move back!" What a JERK! He took my driver's license away for 90 days.
While in Kansas, I became good friends with Gary Pearman. Gary was working in the machine shop of Alan Patterson Racing Motors assigned to balancing sets of rods, pistons and crankshafts. Gary is now the crew chief of the Lucas Oil NHRA Pro Stock Dodge Hemi team of Larry Morgan. Last time I saw Gary was at the Topeka, Kansas 2008 NHRA drag race and he said to me, "Damn, you're getting FAT!" I said, "Thanks for noticing! That's spelled P-H-A-T, RIGHT?"
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff124/wingfootsmp/Photo1.jpg
Yeah, I love MOPARS! I'm tired of driving gutless V6s. I'll piece together a street MOPAR someday that will throw me in the backseat when I stick my foot in the carburetor; just like the good old dayz!