Why the /6

ok, time for my reply to this thread after reading ALL the pages so far.

The thread shifted a bit south and when from "why?" to "silly little slant six people" to "we can rock, see I told you mom!"

I own a 6.7 Cummins Diesel truck rocket ship 4 door 4wd 3500 single rear wheel Cost $60k
I own a 1972 Dodge Demon 340 4 speed that is rare and fast and very clean. worth approx. $20,000
I also own a 1966 Barracuda with a /6 and used Cragar s/s and the paint is shot but the interior is awesome and I have a very clean install of a good stereo and speakers. I put approx. 3,000miles on the Barracuda last year. The Demon got approx. 100miles last year and the truck was new in July and I am at 35k.

"Who cares? Right? I do. I love to go fast and always want to win on the street, the strip or in business. The Demon is a full street car and never has seen the track but I love my Barracuda with the /6 and the worn Cragars because it runs well, never an issue and any where I go it gets noticed. If at a show, I stand out with the /6 ; every one has a story. The Demon, just blends in between the "my mom owned one of those" to "a kid in high school stories"

With the Demon, everyone wants to race you... not good for my personality or my pocket book / license. Again I hate to loose! As of yesterday I just installed new front torsion bars on the front and super stock springs in the rear direct from Mopar for the Barracuda. I am awaiting the new steering box from Firm Feel hopefully this week. All new shocks and it is just plain fun to drive. I've gotten to a financial point in my life now that the fuel cost don't bother me at all (paying $4.55 a gal for diesel in CT). The Demon never breaks down so that is not it at all. The /6 is history... good or bad. Just owning a piece of history is very cool to me. If people want to put me down go ahead, most of the time they are just jealous because they drive a mini van and own nothing other people want to look at. If they want to race, I will go home and grab the Demon and they back off.

On many boards there is a "ladder of power" as I see it. The later 70's cars with /6 are at the bottom and the Hemi V-8 and 6 pack cars fully loaded are at the top with everything in between). If you own a /6 your seem to feel small. My attitude is with out the 7 billion /6 made there would be no 426 Hemi Daytona cars. Just like the new Hemi's would not even exist with out the 4 cylinder engines in the K-cars back in the early 80's. Thank you Lee Iacocca. Lucky for us we have a choice, mine is building my Barracuda to swap out the /6 (OMG!) for a V-6 and overdrive from a new Charger. Why? Why not. But until then the /6 will keep running away, giving me a simple break from the week's troubles. Also, Yahoo! to the turbo /6's that stuff is just really cool I give credit to all of those out there who step outside the box and the main stream and run their own life. Rock on!