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My name is Cody and I just turned 17 on October 11th. I'm from Surrey BC, Canada. I've been a Mopar fan for as long as I can remember even though I grew up around GM muscle cars. My dad's friend owned most of them, including a '70 Buick GSX and '71 Camaro RS Z/28 that my dad and me restored. Although, I'll admit I didn't do much considering I was really young. I was a huge Dukes of Hazzard fan and ran home from school everyday to watch it. Even though they were reruns, they were new to me. I had General Lee toy cars, General Lee diecasts, a General Lee model but I really wanted my own General Lee.
In late 1998, one of my dad's friends was walking in a neighborhood in Richmond B.C and came across a Charger sitting in a field under a tarp. It was rusty, had spray painted '01's on it, missing parts and somebody had keyed the car and threw the front bumper through the windshield. It was not a pretty site but it was a true '69. My dad's friend told my dad about it and my dad headed over there. He went to the closest house and it happened to be the owner's friend who lived there. The owner had been storing it in the field but was planning on sending it to the scrapyard within the next few weeks. He apperentley used the '69 for parts for his '69 R/T which was sitting in the warm garage. My dad got in contact with the owner and found out it could be bought for $400. So my dad bought it. My dad's friend said good thing he bought it because he was going to steal the gas cap off of it but because we got it, he'd leave it haha. Anyways, I still remember that cold December night when I finally got to see it. A flatbed tow truck came and picked it up from that field and I remember sitting in the front seat of my dad's car as we followed the tow truck. All I did was sit there and stare up at the taillights of the Charger. On Christmas 1998, I opened a little box with car keys in it....you should of seen the look on my mom's face when she looked in the driveway! Over the years me and my dad fixed it slowly and got parts for it. In 2006, my parents seperated, my dad left and I was left to work on the car by myself. So far (money permitting), I've restored the grille and sandblasted a bunch of parts. I have also got a bunch of parts for it from the guys at dodgecharger.com. I have pictures that were taken right after we got it home but I have to find them. For now...
Back in 2001...
2007....
Current (had to take the front bumper off to get it to fit! :D)....
In October 2008, my dad bought and gave me a silver '90 Mustang LX 5.0 for my 16th birthday. However, he called me in late October and said he found a Duster sitting in a guys driveway in Delta B.C. At this point, Dusters weren't really that high in my books for some reason, I'll admit it. However, by looking at pictures in Mopar Muscle and online, I figured out it was a '73-'76 judging by my dad's description of the taillights. On November 8th I was in Vancouver attending a model car show and my dad took me to see the Duster. I looked at the fender tag and vin tag and saw that it was a '73 318 car. After talking to the owner, my dad talked to guy down from $1,200 to $650. After months of my dad trying to come up with extra money to buy the car, it was finally mine on February 21, 2009. Apperentley the kid's grandpa bought it brand new from Johnston Motors in Vancouver and drove it for years before giving it to his grandson. It stayed in the family from 1973-2009. Me and my dad traded the Mustang and Duster straight across. However, my dad and me wrecked the Mustang on March 29th while exiting the highway on the way to a car swap meet. It will be getting fixed though. Since I decided to live with my dad when my mom decided to move to the Interior of B.C, the Mustang sits in the garage with the Charger. The Duster sits in the driveway for now. I've done some work to it (again, while money permits). I got the starter rebuilt, tore out the old moldy carpet and headliner, cleaned the whole interior, got a Tuff wheel from it (again donated by the members of dodgecharger.com), bought 15x7 Rallyes for it and cleaned and painted those, me and my grandpa did body work on the lower quarters, front floor pans and sail panels. I painted the front fender and installed the missing front fender trim on both sides. Otherwise, the car is exactly how we bought it. I always wanted to start a registry for some kind of Mopar. When I found out that there was no registry for Dusters, I started one. Eventually I added Dart Sports and Demons to it also. Since then, I've become a huge fan of these cars.
The very first time I saw it on November 8, 2008....
January 3, 2009.....
February 21, 2009....(at my grandparents)
At a Mopar show back on July 12th. I got 1st Place in the Young Guns class (pardon the messed up dates on the pictures)...
In December 2008, I was talking to a friend of mine who has a private junkyard. He had a '70 Coronet 500 that was sitting there after being parted out. I jokingly said one day "so, you ready to give me that Coronet yet?" and he goes "Well, if you help me sell some cars, it's yours". So I've been posting ads online and managed to work off the car. I still have to go pick it up. It was originally F8 Green, green interior and a black vinyl top (still in this combo but interior is gone). 318 auto car.
That's pretty much the story of me and my Mopars. Hope you enjoyed reading it.
My name is Cody and I just turned 17 on October 11th. I'm from Surrey BC, Canada. I've been a Mopar fan for as long as I can remember even though I grew up around GM muscle cars. My dad's friend owned most of them, including a '70 Buick GSX and '71 Camaro RS Z/28 that my dad and me restored. Although, I'll admit I didn't do much considering I was really young. I was a huge Dukes of Hazzard fan and ran home from school everyday to watch it. Even though they were reruns, they were new to me. I had General Lee toy cars, General Lee diecasts, a General Lee model but I really wanted my own General Lee.
In late 1998, one of my dad's friends was walking in a neighborhood in Richmond B.C and came across a Charger sitting in a field under a tarp. It was rusty, had spray painted '01's on it, missing parts and somebody had keyed the car and threw the front bumper through the windshield. It was not a pretty site but it was a true '69. My dad's friend told my dad about it and my dad headed over there. He went to the closest house and it happened to be the owner's friend who lived there. The owner had been storing it in the field but was planning on sending it to the scrapyard within the next few weeks. He apperentley used the '69 for parts for his '69 R/T which was sitting in the warm garage. My dad got in contact with the owner and found out it could be bought for $400. So my dad bought it. My dad's friend said good thing he bought it because he was going to steal the gas cap off of it but because we got it, he'd leave it haha. Anyways, I still remember that cold December night when I finally got to see it. A flatbed tow truck came and picked it up from that field and I remember sitting in the front seat of my dad's car as we followed the tow truck. All I did was sit there and stare up at the taillights of the Charger. On Christmas 1998, I opened a little box with car keys in it....you should of seen the look on my mom's face when she looked in the driveway! Over the years me and my dad fixed it slowly and got parts for it. In 2006, my parents seperated, my dad left and I was left to work on the car by myself. So far (money permitting), I've restored the grille and sandblasted a bunch of parts. I have also got a bunch of parts for it from the guys at dodgecharger.com. I have pictures that were taken right after we got it home but I have to find them. For now...
Back in 2001...
2007....
Current (had to take the front bumper off to get it to fit! :D)....
In October 2008, my dad bought and gave me a silver '90 Mustang LX 5.0 for my 16th birthday. However, he called me in late October and said he found a Duster sitting in a guys driveway in Delta B.C. At this point, Dusters weren't really that high in my books for some reason, I'll admit it. However, by looking at pictures in Mopar Muscle and online, I figured out it was a '73-'76 judging by my dad's description of the taillights. On November 8th I was in Vancouver attending a model car show and my dad took me to see the Duster. I looked at the fender tag and vin tag and saw that it was a '73 318 car. After talking to the owner, my dad talked to guy down from $1,200 to $650. After months of my dad trying to come up with extra money to buy the car, it was finally mine on February 21, 2009. Apperentley the kid's grandpa bought it brand new from Johnston Motors in Vancouver and drove it for years before giving it to his grandson. It stayed in the family from 1973-2009. Me and my dad traded the Mustang and Duster straight across. However, my dad and me wrecked the Mustang on March 29th while exiting the highway on the way to a car swap meet. It will be getting fixed though. Since I decided to live with my dad when my mom decided to move to the Interior of B.C, the Mustang sits in the garage with the Charger. The Duster sits in the driveway for now. I've done some work to it (again, while money permits). I got the starter rebuilt, tore out the old moldy carpet and headliner, cleaned the whole interior, got a Tuff wheel from it (again donated by the members of dodgecharger.com), bought 15x7 Rallyes for it and cleaned and painted those, me and my grandpa did body work on the lower quarters, front floor pans and sail panels. I painted the front fender and installed the missing front fender trim on both sides. Otherwise, the car is exactly how we bought it. I always wanted to start a registry for some kind of Mopar. When I found out that there was no registry for Dusters, I started one. Eventually I added Dart Sports and Demons to it also. Since then, I've become a huge fan of these cars.
The very first time I saw it on November 8, 2008....
January 3, 2009.....
February 21, 2009....(at my grandparents)
At a Mopar show back on July 12th. I got 1st Place in the Young Guns class (pardon the messed up dates on the pictures)...
In December 2008, I was talking to a friend of mine who has a private junkyard. He had a '70 Coronet 500 that was sitting there after being parted out. I jokingly said one day "so, you ready to give me that Coronet yet?" and he goes "Well, if you help me sell some cars, it's yours". So I've been posting ads online and managed to work off the car. I still have to go pick it up. It was originally F8 Green, green interior and a black vinyl top (still in this combo but interior is gone). 318 auto car.
That's pretty much the story of me and my Mopars. Hope you enjoyed reading it.
