My Dad was a mechanic and hotrodder from way back. All he had were Pontiacs & Oldsmobiles when he was younger. He went to work at DeKalb Chrysler-Plymouth in '65 or '66. His first Mopar was a '67 Belvedere II s/w he bought new for Mom to haul us 4 kids around in. IIRC, he started driving the '57 Olds (tri-power) that had been Mom's car. Several years later he bought a '65 Valiant 100 sedan, 170 /6 & 3 on the tree for his DD. In 1970 this became my first car. During the winter of '70 he told my Mom he was afraid I was going to get run over with that little /6 and he was going to put a 273 in it. Turned out to be a 340 from a '68 'cuda and the rest is history.
I should note that the first model car I put together around '64 or 5 was a Hemi under Glass Barracuda.



Tim