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A friend suggested I join, my names Nick, I've been around Mopar's most of my life and have owned quite a few, mind you primarily C bodies and trucks, I'm a career journeyman Automotive and truck and coach mechanic here in Ontario, Canada. Self taught welder, bodyman and painter.

My experience with A bodies goes back to when I came home from the hospital in my mom's '71 B5 Duster and has lead to me now restoring a '68 Dart for a friend of mine.
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Currently I have a '52 Dodge pickup, '69 Fury III Convertible, '69 Sport Fury, '70 Fury III coupe, '73 Fury I sedan, 85 Caravelle AHB, and my daily driver '01 Ram 1500 Sport 4x4.
 
Here's some pictures, I was moving cars around a few months back...

I slowly acquired my "keepers" and have been collecting up everything they need before attacking each one.

The '52 is a street rod project of sorts, I bought it after someone had a failed rat rod project with it, the cab and frame were butchered, but it had enough for me to work with as I wanted to build it on a first gen Dakota Frame anyway, keeping it all Mopar it has a '00 360 Magnum from my old Durango, '02 Dakota NV3500HD 5 speed, and will use my leather buckets out of the Durango.

The '69 Ragtop I've owned for 12 years, it was the first project car I bought for myself after working on a few with and for friends, truth be told it's a basketcase, but it taught me a lot, and forced me to learn a lot of skills, it's been on the backburner while I've collected up sheet metal for it, eventually it will have a '99 318 Magnum running the OE EFI and a '92 518 OD trans.

The '69 Sport Fury I bought on a lead from a friend, originally intending to part it, until I got looking at it and quickly realized how special of a car it was, with SPD 2 days before my ragtop, both Windsor cars, its a 383 H code Super Commando car, with optional 3.23 gear set, console shifted 727, low restriction dual exhaust, PW, cruise, disc brakes, HD suspension, and Jamiaca blue with black top, black gut and white painted pin stripe. I'm the second owner and it has 51k miles.

The '70 I bought off a friend as a roller, he first talked to me about it in '12 and I bought it in '18, it's very solid, just ugly, I swapped it to a Sport Fury clone and it will be built as a "What If", I've built a 440 for it and dressed it out as a U code 375 horse engine.

My '73 is the first Mopar I remember as a child, I eventually bought it, and while it's a basket case, I did briefly have it on the road and I'm currently restoring it on a rotisserie.

The '85 was a Windsor Ontario Police cruiser, a friend found it and I went and got it, I actually found one of the officers who drove it in service, and found out a lot of its history, it was one of the 3 prisoner partition test cars.

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A friend suggested I join, my names Nick, I've been around Mopar's most of my life and have owned quite a few, mind you primarily C bodies and trucks, I'm a career journeyman Automotive and truck and coach mechanic here in Ontario, Canada. Self taught welder, bodyman and painter.

My experience with A bodies goes back to when I came home from the hospital in my mom's '71 B5 Duster and has lead to me now restoring a '68 Dart for a friend of mine.
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Currently I have a '52 Dodge pickup, '69 Fury III Convertible, '69 Sport Fury, '70 Fury III coupe, '73 Fury I sedan, 85 Caravelle AHB, and my daily driver '01 Ram 1500 Sport 4x4.
Welcome from NJ!
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Welcome from NJ! You come to the right place So many knowledgeable members great sources of knowledgeable, experienced members and adding yourself makes for an even greater pool of resources for the same!
 
Glad to have you aboard, there's lots of good people and info on here.
Nice car collection you have there...
Are you on For C Bodies Only?
If not, you should sign up there.
 
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