When you know you are not dealing with a mopar person

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"I used to have one of those cars, it was a 440 Hemi Six Pack."
Was it a 440, a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack?
"It was a 440 Hemi Six Pack, they only made like a hundred of them so you probably never saw one."
Oh, I gotta go get some racing air...
"I used to use that in my street slicks, I never took it to the track but it ran low 12's all the time."
Yah, I really gotta go now.
 
How about the ads that read "All Original" yet every service part that could be replaced, has been. Reupholstered seats, color change, non stock tires and wheels BUT is is All Original.
 
Went to a Mopar dealership for a car show with my Hang 10 . The car salesman tells me to park “your
Duster with those funny stripes” next to the blue Charger. Idiot...had to explain the difference. Anyways they now sell Maserati’s, Alpha Romeo’s, and Fiat’s. Bettenhausen; Tony must be rolling over.
 
DemonDave said:
Every time I see a not-black Mopar with a black engine compartment, a Scamp with a Dart bumblebee stripe or a Demon/Dart Sport wearing a Duster stripe I know that I'm in the company of a non-Mopar person. Mopar people know better! :poke:
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I get the poky stick thing so I'm not going to red X you.
But seriously, have you ever tried to keep a yellow or white daily or any not black daily driver engine compartment looking like anything?
It's just not worth it.
So mine's black.
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I do draw the line on splatter paint trunks.
 
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Now that I understand that "3/4 race cam" does not mean that I've only got 3/4 of a cam in my car .................
I just gotta ask.
If someone has a 3/4 race cam does that mean they only win 3/4 of their races?
 
Naaaa, it’s just a cam that’s a 1/4 shy of a real race cam.

:rofl:
 
When they try to tell you the 727 TorqueFlite was weak and they would always blow up (?!?!?!?). Or the Duster wasn't based on the Valiant but its own platform, and A-bodies were narrowed in '67 (this was an older Ford guy at a track event, probably just had his stuff all mixed up). Some people at the track were also asking stuff like "You gonna put coilovers on that thing?" ...No because that would involve swapping the entire front end including the subframe and converting the rear suspension to link-coil type from leaf springs. It's got them TORSION BARS Y'ALL, still got a lot left to do with the factory suspension before I look at doing big expensive conversions to make the suspension the same as any other performance car (Boring!). Can't really blame them though, it was a road-racing-style event so all the cars there were late-model imports, Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes etc. my Duster was by far the oldest thing there.

Those people were all pretty reasonable though, thankfully I haven't run into someone who is a total jackass and adamantly tries to tell me something incorrect about my car or old Mopars in general.
 
My favorite is hey I used to own your car. I what year , normally back in the 1990's is the reply. I say that funny as I have it since 1981 and it has had the same paint since 1989. And my favorite reply them it to tell them maybe when you saw me drive by back then you had a brain fart and thought it was you driving by
 
Here is one for you all.

I owned the car and still have the title 1969 Coronet R/T. The car numbers said it was 440 magnum 4spd.

When I bought it in late 1972 with 1300 miles on it for $1300 dollars. The owner told me it was a 440 six pack he ordered new. It did have a six pack motor not just a six pack. I knew this because I broke the Crank and couldn't use the damper on the new short block . It was for the heavier rods

My son went to work for the dealer where the car was purchased. I asked the 80 some year old owner. Mr. Berk at Berk motors in West Catasaqua., Pa. He confirmed the order along with his son's Dennis Berk and Nathan Berk. They remembered the car because it came in with the six pack motor extra in a crate and had to be dealer installed.

For the longest time I thought the guy bought the motor and installed it.

Car was stolen in 73 along with my 70 340 swinger. The swinger I got back in the early 2000's 27 years later. The R/T was never returned.

I can post a picture of the title if someone knows of a light yellow 69 R/T with red interior on the Data plate. Color I was changed.

Maybe someone can look for it. I believe I saw it and I knew the owner. Buy the time I got where the car was parked he was gone. Reagle Dodge Bangor, Pa. car show about 15 years ago. I remembered the guy, He was friends with the person who had the Swinger Tony P. from Jim Thorpe Pa. who's not talking.

He had it stored and and the tow co. removed it for the owner of the property. I knew the tow guy. Here is a picture of the swinger when it was returned. Well I actually bought the car back from a tow company not knowing it was mine until it was at my house. I still had the title and sold it a Carlisle. I bought those wheels in 72.

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When they have all the details wrong but know it’s rare and extremely valuable.
 
I had a guy stop in this summer when he saw my '69 Notch in the garage. I was out putzing around, the Cuda didn't have fenders or doors on it. "What is that, a Chevelle?" No, its a Barracuda. "That's not a 'Cuda!" You're right, it's a Barracuda. He thought Barracuda's were only the e-body type. I had to pull out a fender with the emblems on it and show him the trunk before he believed me. Pulled up pics on the computer.. he had no idea Barracuda's existed before '70. I think he fell in love with my car though.
 
I can't tell ya how many times people tell me "hey nice GTO! I had one just like it.." while looking right at P-L-Y-M-O-U-T-H on the back..
 
...and one for the 3/4 cam guys!


(Clip is 59 seconds long...no attention span necessary!)
 
I think I had a 3/4 cam once, stupid low zinc oils

beanhead said:
...and one for the 3/4 cam guys!


(Clip is 59 seconds long...no attention span necessary!)
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reminds me of this one




(I guess I aughta translate it)
the cop askes if hes the driver
then he askes how fast he was going, the kid claims he was doing 211
the cop says, no more then 74, then the narrator tell you gambling tip #12 "only bluff when its believable"
 
diymirage said:
I think I had a 3/4 cam once, stupid low zinc oils
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Well in that case I have a 15/16 cam that came out of the Wife's 72 Dart .:D
One of my stupid favorites is when someone asks "Does that have a cam in it?"
I say "Of course it does, or it couldn't run"

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66340SEDAN said:
I had a guy a few weeks ago telling me he owned a 1966 GTX...
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Hey might have been a 1966 I sold one time . I bought a 67 gtx to change my 66 belvedere to a 67 , switched the grill and tail lights (no they weren`t totally bolt in), and sold the 66 gtx for ther same price I gave for the 67---------both were the same color too----------
 
I was filling up at an ARCO station in Mill Valley, CA. A gray-haired gentleman walked over and asked me why it said "Plymouth" on the side of the car. I never understood how he could have been bewildered by the decal.

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DemonDave said:
Every time I see a not-black Mopar with a black engine compartment, a Scamp with a Dart bumblebee stripe or a Demon/Dart Sport wearing a Duster stripe I know that I'm in the company of a non-Mopar person. Mopar people know better! :poke:
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you forgot the Cowl Induction style hood :p
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DemonDave said:
Every time I see a not-black Mopar with a black engine compartment, a Scamp with a Dart bumblebee stripe or a Demon/Dart Sport wearing a Duster stripe I know that I'm in the company of a non-Mopar person. Mopar people know better! :poke:
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AAAAAAAARRRGH!!!! I Can't stand that black engine compartment crap. Can't see **** with my creaky old eyes.
 
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