What One Car (doesn't have to be a Mopar) Turned You Into A Gearhead?
From my very first car(s), 57 Chivvies, (about 66-67) I did my own work. While my 57 was a low budget junker, I did manage to score a 327 for it locally. Broke a lot of 3 speeds, tho.
I guess what REALLY launched me into the dark twisty road to the bottom was in the fall of '68, going to Navy Electronics "A" school at Treasure Island, we had a ham club on base, K6NCG
Ironically, the building at that time, on the W end of the Island, facing the Golden Gate and Alcatraz, was also only about a block away from the auto hobby shop!!!
I made a friend in the club, an E-5 going to "B" school, and he had a nice little '65 Chevelle, and had bought a wrecked 67 Camaro. He'd put the 350/ 4speed and Rally wheels off the Camaro into the Chevelle. During our stay at TI, he broke two 10 bolt axles, snapped the input shaft off the 4 speed, and tore up a clutch on an extended weekend (Easter?) up in S Oregon.
Somehow, I was always the "default" mechanic.
HE BECAME the first owner of what was to become my 70 440-6 RR He still holds his original amateur callsign, K7WWA
Later I had a 63 Chev Impala SS 327, and didn't have it long when I traded it privately + cash for my first RR, a 69 383 4 speed. The "Dad" who owned it was unhappy with his kid's driving skills and wanted something "a little more tame."
But when a year? year and half? later, I bought that 70 from my old friend, we REALLY fell off the dark twisty cliff to the bottom of expensive mechanics heaven.
I have no good photos, due to film damage and a house fire. The car, in 73/4 or so, at my parent's home in N Idaho It would have had the 340 swapped into it then
From my very first car(s), 57 Chivvies, (about 66-67) I did my own work. While my 57 was a low budget junker, I did manage to score a 327 for it locally. Broke a lot of 3 speeds, tho.
I guess what REALLY launched me into the dark twisty road to the bottom was in the fall of '68, going to Navy Electronics "A" school at Treasure Island, we had a ham club on base, K6NCG
Ironically, the building at that time, on the W end of the Island, facing the Golden Gate and Alcatraz, was also only about a block away from the auto hobby shop!!!
I made a friend in the club, an E-5 going to "B" school, and he had a nice little '65 Chevelle, and had bought a wrecked 67 Camaro. He'd put the 350/ 4speed and Rally wheels off the Camaro into the Chevelle. During our stay at TI, he broke two 10 bolt axles, snapped the input shaft off the 4 speed, and tore up a clutch on an extended weekend (Easter?) up in S Oregon.
Somehow, I was always the "default" mechanic.
HE BECAME the first owner of what was to become my 70 440-6 RR He still holds his original amateur callsign, K7WWA
Later I had a 63 Chev Impala SS 327, and didn't have it long when I traded it privately + cash for my first RR, a 69 383 4 speed. The "Dad" who owned it was unhappy with his kid's driving skills and wanted something "a little more tame."
But when a year? year and half? later, I bought that 70 from my old friend, we REALLY fell off the dark twisty cliff to the bottom of expensive mechanics heaven.
I have no good photos, due to film damage and a house fire. The car, in 73/4 or so, at my parent's home in N Idaho It would have had the 340 swapped into it then