Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/24/21 12:59 PM
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A great classic muscle car is just that no matter what brand. Yep, someone let that go a bit too long.
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/24/21 02:29 PM
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
[Re: Mr PotatoHead]
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01/24/21 03:00 PM
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A great classic muscle car is just that no matter what brand. Yep, someone let that go a bit too long. I like 'em all. Just prefer Mopar. Truly sad. And a 4 spd. car to boot. Tim
'71 Charger 383/727 '17 Challenger SXT (Wifeys car )
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/25/21 08:59 PM
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Know of a '71 Cuda that has been sitting outside with a half$$s cover since I was in H.S. 45years. I stop once and the guy said he was retiring and going to fix it up. that was 8 years ago. Really sucks.
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/25/21 10:24 PM
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Sunroofcuda
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I saw a LOT of musclecars sitting in junkyards all over TX. & the SW US from 1984-1992. There are a few that really stick in my memory though. We visited a junkyard in Sierra Vista, AZ. & sitting waaaaaaaay in the back was the badly rusted hulk of a black 71 Cuda 340. I mean there was NOTHING salvageable on that one. It just sat quietly as the wind blew & the Earth reclaimed the rusty metal. Then there was a '70 Cuda 383 convertible in a junkyard in Safford, AZ. Vitamin C, white interior, chrome bumpers, hockey stick stripes. That car had run over a huge rock or something as the entire floorpan, K-member, etc. was ripped open like a tin can & just destroyed. The quarters were a little rusty, but good solid wheel tubs. We reluctantly had the quarters cut off of that car - hell they were going to crush it. We hated to cut that car up. That same yard in Safford had quite a few old musclecar wrecks in it. A 69 SC Rambler, a '70 Torino Cobra Jet, a 69 Cyclone 428 CJ car, quite a few '70 Cudas (hardtops) besides the convertible - the others were 340's & 383's. Hell - I have one of the fender tags still sitting here on my desk just for old time sake. Come to think of it, I have the fender tag from the convertible Cuda here too: BS27N0B170151. The other tag I have is from an In-Violet '70 Cuda 340: BS23H0E123608.
Then there was the big wrecking yard in Yuma, AZ. - Dick's Auto Salvage. In there with two other cars sitting on top of it was a B5 '71 Cuda 383 HT: shaker, front elastomeric, rear window louvers, white interior & automatic with console, & I think a white vinyl top. No billboards. Car was very rusty & very mangled. Mangled front bumper was still intact, but shaker & hood, louvers, etc. all long gone. There was a huge & very well organized wrecking yard in Pampa, TX. that is no longer in business, & was LOADED with all kinds of muscle cars. Probably 45 GTO's, GTO Judge - a 69 red one (yes - red), a Dan Gurney & a Cale Yarborough - 69 Cyclones. Only place I ever saw either one of those wrecked. We got 3 sets of 70-71 Torino rear window louvers out of there & all were nice condition. Lots of great memories. Strange to think that ALL of these cars were brand new, beautiful & shiny at one time! Most of the cars in these yards were probably wrecked in the mid-late 70's. They lived short lives. Man, the red Judge was hit SO hard - looked like it had been going at least 80 & was piled-up in the front. The impact destroyed the roof - the firewall was in the back seat. It hurt to look at it. SO many of these beauties were destroyed from mixing youth, horsepower, & lots of beer together.
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/26/21 02:50 AM
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SO many of these beauties were destroyed from mixing youth, horsepower, & lots of beer together. And yet, some of us kids survived...
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Re: Hate to see it even if not a Mopar!
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01/26/21 02:53 PM
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moparx
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SO many of these beauties were destroyed from mixing youth, horsepower, & lots of beer together. And yet, some of us kids survived... locally, there were only two hemi cars. one, a 66 plymouth body in white turned into a circle track car, the other, a 68 coronet r/t. both wadded up early in their life, the 66 having it's crash on a public road in front of the owner's house while he was "testing". it involved a couple other cars, and those had multiple severe injuries and a possible death. the r/t suffered a similar fate, and i know for sure, beer was definitely involved. that car sat in the local junkyard for a while, and when i finally decided i could come up with the $300.00 [ ] to buy the remains, it was gone. it resurfaced in the early 2000's as a restored car in the pittsburgh area. it was featured in MCG as a multi-page, all color spread. the original owner was credited in the article, and i presented him a copy of that magazine. he was pleased the car was resurrected, but at the same time sad he had totaled it so close to being new. the stories i could tell involving beer with those cars could fill a small book, especially the incredible survivals. many of those cars ended up in my junkyard. sadly, there were a few tragedies involved as well............. if the horsepower available today was available back when these cars were new, i doubt many here would be members, myself in particular. it is rather ironic i sign off every post with this : it's a reminder of what could have been...........
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