Why Mopar?............The Passion....

Pop cut his teeth hot rodding flat heads back in the '50s. His first was a '49 Ford, 3 dueces; 3/4 cam, those of you who are old enough will know the story. Always setting up other's cars to make 'em go faster. Later he went on to own a '55 Pontiac, a '58 Chevy, a '57 Ford, and a bunch of others. When he settled down and became a family man he went to AMC for the Ramblers and Jeep for the family trucksters. Ford trucks for the businesses he owned. I remember him pulling his dozer with a '74 F350 extended wheelbase stake body.
Then my sister gave him the '72 Duster that Jamison now has. The original 318 was blown. Some tech school in Texas did a half-a** rebuild on a 360 that needed the right work to be an engine again. Pop being Pop never did a lot without doing research and he came to the conclusion that Chrysler had the best engineered engines out there. As well as the best engineered suspensions. As well as the best engineered trannies. This was backed up with the fact that after putting bearings and shim stock in the 360 to take into account the idiots didn't bother to put rod bearings in the rebuild, and drove it for another year like that that the Chrysler engines could take a beating and come back for more.