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Hey guys! :) A lot of you already know me from me putting my 2 cents in as often as I can on here. My story isn't really that impressive, but I'll give it a shot.
I'm just a 21 year old (22 in December), country girl that's been born and raised in Southeast Missouri. My mom's side of the family is practically owned every model and make of muscle car, but they are pretty loyal to Mopars, being the only ones they keep around. So needless to say, my mom is the one who has got me into the car scene. She has a Plum Crazy Purple '74 Chally w/ a mild 440, and she's got a 426 mocked up and ready to set down in it. She's also got a '73 Satellite, and a '72 Charger. Well, her younger brother seen the interest I was showing when I was young, so when I was 13 he asked me if I 'wanted' his '66 Dart. It had been sitting out in his pasture for god knows how long, and the mice had made nests in the padding of the seats. It was faded red/red interior, and ugly to say the least. It was definately not the Challenger I was used to seeing, but it didn't take me long to look past all of that and imagine what it could be. We drug it out of the pasture and up to the shop, and I shopvacced all of the junk out of it. The body was straight as an arrow, but just about every weekend for about a year, my uncle had me over at the shop, teaching me body work and making me sand. I will tell you now.. I despise it with a passion.. lol.. I give props to all you body guys out there. We finally got it all sanded, and I went and picked out the color it is now, and he painted it for me. I was soo excited about having it painted! But when I got to his house.. I was almost in tears. He got too much thinner in the last coat and it ran like a waterfall all over the place. I got past the idea of it looking like hell, because it did look better than what it did before. We started tinkering with it, getting it running right. The carb was all gunked up, and after we got it all cleaned out, it ran good. When I turned 16 and started driving.. it was my everyday driver.. I got good looks and bad looks when I drove it to school, but I didn't care. I was always proud of it. :)
I'm currently in nursing school as a lot of you know. I have big plans for the Dart, but its currently parked for the time being, and no work is being done to it. When I'm out of school next July, we're (me and my momma 8)) going to pick the work back up on it. I plan on putting a 426 Stroker kit in its current 360, and putting hemi heads on it. We might include a mini tub but I'm still undecided on it. Its going to be painted Strawberry Electric, a really metallicy, pearly, pink, with a gloss black hood... Also, I'm still undecided about my wheel choice, but I'm wanting something polished/black...
But.. I guess thats pretty much it.. I guess I had more to say about it than what I thought.. lol..
Here's my mom's Chally and her Hemi... and then my Dart in its current state and the concept of when it's done is in my signature.. :)
Hey guys! :) A lot of you already know me from me putting my 2 cents in as often as I can on here. My story isn't really that impressive, but I'll give it a shot.
I'm just a 21 year old (22 in December), country girl that's been born and raised in Southeast Missouri. My mom's side of the family is practically owned every model and make of muscle car, but they are pretty loyal to Mopars, being the only ones they keep around. So needless to say, my mom is the one who has got me into the car scene. She has a Plum Crazy Purple '74 Chally w/ a mild 440, and she's got a 426 mocked up and ready to set down in it. She's also got a '73 Satellite, and a '72 Charger. Well, her younger brother seen the interest I was showing when I was young, so when I was 13 he asked me if I 'wanted' his '66 Dart. It had been sitting out in his pasture for god knows how long, and the mice had made nests in the padding of the seats. It was faded red/red interior, and ugly to say the least. It was definately not the Challenger I was used to seeing, but it didn't take me long to look past all of that and imagine what it could be. We drug it out of the pasture and up to the shop, and I shopvacced all of the junk out of it. The body was straight as an arrow, but just about every weekend for about a year, my uncle had me over at the shop, teaching me body work and making me sand. I will tell you now.. I despise it with a passion.. lol.. I give props to all you body guys out there. We finally got it all sanded, and I went and picked out the color it is now, and he painted it for me. I was soo excited about having it painted! But when I got to his house.. I was almost in tears. He got too much thinner in the last coat and it ran like a waterfall all over the place. I got past the idea of it looking like hell, because it did look better than what it did before. We started tinkering with it, getting it running right. The carb was all gunked up, and after we got it all cleaned out, it ran good. When I turned 16 and started driving.. it was my everyday driver.. I got good looks and bad looks when I drove it to school, but I didn't care. I was always proud of it. :)
I'm currently in nursing school as a lot of you know. I have big plans for the Dart, but its currently parked for the time being, and no work is being done to it. When I'm out of school next July, we're (me and my momma 8)) going to pick the work back up on it. I plan on putting a 426 Stroker kit in its current 360, and putting hemi heads on it. We might include a mini tub but I'm still undecided on it. Its going to be painted Strawberry Electric, a really metallicy, pearly, pink, with a gloss black hood... Also, I'm still undecided about my wheel choice, but I'm wanting something polished/black...
But.. I guess thats pretty much it.. I guess I had more to say about it than what I thought.. lol..
Here's my mom's Chally and her Hemi... and then my Dart in its current state and the concept of when it's done is in my signature.. :)
