That A-body Barracuda in the background could be a nice foundation, though you'd probably also need a parts car...

Yes, the fire was one of several fires that swept through napa county last year. in a yard of about 2100 cars, all but 200 burned from grass fire. So far, 1300 cars were crushed because the city mandated they do mandatory cleanup. they crushed soo many car bodies and trucks from the 1920-1980's. Several hundred cars that were stored there was a fellow moparts member and he lost a 20+ years collection of cars. I was asked with helping him with the cars and was given first shot at some of them. Most have burned interiors, but the bodies mostly did not get structure damage and work case was warped roof. These were the better cars he kept, so that's what I have to work with.

To answer a previous post, the a-bodies were no enough for parts cars and are not a good choice besides not having enough parts. Most of those got VERY hot and got super damaged. The one a-body you saw in the pic, this was it's interior. That is not spider webs on the steering column, but th windshield that melted onto it and liquified.

Thank you for the list, much appreciated. I think the Charger would be good as I was thinking aero nose or Coronet grill insert like a 500 with rear window plug (also heard the hatchback of a vega wagon makes a cheap rear window plug).


The curious yellow Roadrunner is my 1st choice and the Plumcrazy 70' HP Charger is my second choice. To be honest, I'm not fond of those colors so if I got either one, probably end up painting the car snow white.

suspension parts list is slowly growing while I clean out the back shed. Here is a starter list of what I have.

Magnum Force dropped spindles
1972 K-member that can be reinforced.
1.00 torsion bars
unused set kyb shocks
1972 Charger disc brakes
1974 A-body disc brakes
Stock and Magnum Force tubular upper control arm
Hotchkis torsion bars
FFI stage 2 box

I would up the ante with the torsion bars to go at least to a 1.10" bar.
The 1" bars won't be enough supporting the car at higher cornering speeds.

My '73 Dart has 1" bars, swaybar and adj. shocks all around, but really 'spirited' daily driving makes me wish for bigger torsion bars usually.

Sell all of that stuff and go buy a used Vette or Viper. Or even something like a MR2. You'll be able to start going to track days right away and it will cost you less time and money in the long run. Been there, done that......

Pick up a copy of Grassroots Motorsports magazine; it's dedicated to road-course & autocross stuff. They have a big classified section in the back, tire tests, build-ups, etc etc.
I totally get the build-my-own line of thinking, but like (I think) Andy's basically saying, a complete used deal may be a better use of $$$. I can't recall the last time I saw a Mopar in there, though.

This is my favorite old school Road race mopar, back before we had a "handling forum":

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/ubbt...tml#Post1106456

What did you decide to go with Migs?

A foot long at Subway and a bag of chips?