What Makes MoPar so Badda$$??

The first Mopar I paid attention to was my uncle's 55 Coronet. Yellow and black and it was cool. My Mom's side of the family all drove Mopars. My sister's first car was a 65 Belvedere. It was a gold colored 4 door but it still looked like the 65 Plymouth's that were mopping up at the drag strips across the country. I was almost 16 and needed a car to drive to school. The guy that was painting our house had a 65 Dart he wanted to sell. I was so excited just to have a car I really didn't care what it was. Soon after I bought it I began to figure out what I had. It was a white 65 2 door post car with a red interior. Under the hood was a small V-8 with a 4 barrel carb and the coolest chrome air cleaner and wrinkle finish valve covers. The weird thing was that it had a 3 on the tree. I beat the snot out of that thing. Boy those bias ply 13" tires would smoke for a half a block. Well only one did! lol Wish I still owned it There were only a handfull of 65 Darts made with a HP 273 and a 3 speed. I've been hooked ever since. tmm

Fun thread Keith!