Car that hooked you on Mopar
My Mopar exposure got started at a young age but in kind of a roundabout way. My dad would only drive Hudsons (later became part of AMC which later became part of Mopar) and they're my very first memory of a family car. I remember laying down on the package tray on road trips from SoCal to Las Vegas staring up at the stars during nighttime drives. I also remember sitting on his lap and steering the car while he worked the gas and brake pedals. Try and get away with that today!
He died way too young at 44 years old and my mom continued to drive our last Hudson until 1959 when she bought a '59 Fury 2-door hardtop, coral with white top and those fins! That was the first "real" Mopar I remember.
It later got traded in, after she remarried, for a '61 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 and the family stayed GM.
Shortly after I got married, my then-wife got in an accident that almost totalled our only car ('64 Olds F85). We decided we needed a 2nd car and bought a 2-month old '69 340 Swinger, Charger red with black interior and white butt stripe. That 340 Dart was all it took to get me hooked for life.
