How did you become a Mopar A-body Enthusiast?

My cousin bought a new bright green 1970 Duster six cylinder car. I wanted one, but being 14 at the time I would have to wait. Four years later I couldn't afford a Duster but I could afford a $500 1964 Dodge Polara 500 with a 361 and a 4 speed. I eventually rebuilt the engine with all of the bolt on upgrades of the time, DP4B aluminum intake, AVS from a 440, headers, 480 purple cam, beefed up valve train, windage tray, ACCEL dual point distributor, and a street/strip clutch. The car was a good runner.......or so I thought. I had joined a Mopar club in 1975 and one night a fellow member and I got into a race. He had a completely stock 1974 Duster with a 360 and a 3 speed. I barely got him by half a fender! I thought to myself that I ought to look for a 360 Duster to buy and beef it up.
I was working for the parks and recreation department at the time and one of my duties was to prep two softball fields on Friday and Saturday nights, hang around until the last game, bring in the equipment and shut off the lights. On Saturday nights, the parking lot would start to fill up with odd muscle cars after I shut the lights down. One night I decided to hang around to see what was going on. That park was the meeting place for our local street racers to set up their matches. That night it happened that the featured race was between a guy who had come from another area with his modified 1970 396 Chevelle looking for our local factory 1971 340 Duster. It wasn't even close as the Duster dusted the Chevy. It was right there that I decided that I would get me a 1971 340 Duster.
I finally bought an orange 1971 340 Duster in 2010 after getting my two daughters through college and marriage. I am in the process of getting it reunited with a 1971 340 (non numbers matching but period correct).