How did you become a Mopar A-body Enthusiast?

My first car was a 64 Polara with a 2 barrel Poly 318 and a push button 727. What a great car, put a lot of trouble free miles on it. But it was hard to find performance parts for a Poly. And I wanted something faster. My dad bought a used 67 fastback Barracuda for my brother Tom, about 1971. We still have it. Still a test mule. Then I bought a "64" 273 2 barrel Barracuda 4 speed. You could get all kinds of performance parts for that. I don't think the original motor made it a month before it was pulled and sent out to the machine shop for a set of TRW 10.5 : 1 forged pistons, rebuilt rods, and new cam bearings. Irwin and I put the short block in by hand, and I finished assembling it from there. What a great engine. Made a home made custom dash using Stewart Warner tach, 160 mph speedometer, and vacuume gage. I drove that car everywhere. It handled great, had plenty of power and got great gas mileage. It was my test mule and daily driver for about 20 years. Thought about replacing the Barracuda but every time I test drove anything, the Barracuda was faster and felt better, so I just kept fixing it up and upgrading it. It even had a hot 170 engine in it for awhile after gas wasn't good enough to run the 273 at 10 degrees BTDC. After the third accident, it took a year to decide to pull all the parts and let her go. I still have the 273, maybe I'll transplant it into something some day. Since that 64, I've always had an A Body, from 170 cu in to an Original 383 HP.