Man I don't believe I missed my favorite car!
Somewhere around 1987 I bought my 69 Dart 340 Swinger 4 speed. Its f8 green with tan interior, stripe delete. Pretty much original, and I had known the car since 78-79, when a friend owned it. Sending it off to a body man this year for a going over, and hopefully be able to run it again next spring mostly redone- interior, detailing, chrome, etc.
At the same time my buddy owned this car, I had a 70 Nova 350 4 speed that was mildly built. The amazing thing is that we never street raced each other with these two cars... I knew his Dart was faster, he thought the Nova might take him( no way). My deciding factor for not buying more chevies was this:
I was continually breaking the trannies, cluster gears, 3rd gear, synchro rings. I never heard of too many Mopars breaking. I got real good at identifying and tearing down those muncie trannies and putting clutches in the Nova in the 4 years I drove it. Only had a Mopar four speed apart a couple times to repalce synchros and bearings. Their not as easy to put back together(maybe I didn't have enough practice? :thumrigh:
By the way, I didn't list any cars that I don't presently have, and I scrapped a lot of them. Always needed parts for something,and believe it was cheaper to buy the whole car, strip it and fix a better car than to get stuff from the junkyard for big bucks. Most cars I stripped were rusted/wrecked beyond repair. No deals like that anymore...