They pissed me off today. The damn idiot hosts put a freaking TOYOTA engine into an otherwise nice looking 67 coronet... It ain't bad enough for them to stick an LS in damn near everything else they touch... So they gotta stoop even lower by sticking a Japanese engine in a true all American car? At a minimum they just devalued the car to a point "less than scrap value"
Why didn't they be pick a Chevy or Ford product to humiliate?
No, any time these car guys have to humiliate a brand it has to be. A Mopar... They don't show many on these shows to begin with but when they do feature a Mopar product they have to completely ruin it .. why are we Mopar guys the continual laughing stock of the hot rod world?
I'm sorry I wouldn't have a Toyota anything even if for free.

Mopar guys are laughing stock of the hot rod world? I did not know that!

Old News Linky

And everyone knows that Finnegan did it to his '68 Charger already.........

It sure seems like it, with as little aftermarket support as we get as compared to Ford gm and even the imports
And when we do it's "least as possible", and when we do get some TV coverage it's BS like this ..
Why couldn't they have picked a Chevelle for such a transplant? Oh God no, that could never be... Deface a Chevy like that oh no but not think twice of doing so to a Mopar product...

More Chevys get planted in Fords than anything else, by far. Started with the model T’s and A’s.

And that's plenty bad enough. As much as I hate that people have been "putting a Chevy engine in everything" for years now, this is worse. Japanese engine into classic American car .. maybe in Cuba with what I've heard happens to keep 60-70 year old cars running/
I have always been a fan of a saying that was on every GM air filter housing from the late 60s at least into the 80s, adapted for Mopar... Keep your gm car ALL GM, likewise KEEP YOUR MOPAR ALL MOPAR.
Not like there were "no Mopar engines available" or anything like that.... There's plenty of options for a different Mopar engine than stock, in that car.

I stopped watching them in Dec just ridiculous,and a terrible episode and I find those two irritating

Why couldn't they have picked a Chevelle for such a transplant?

Not a Chevelle, but an early Camaro.....almost 10 yrs ago. (sorry, for defiling this site ........)

Ok why wasn't that one done front and center on national TV? Ohh no, we can't show the desecration of a Camaro now can we? No we gotta make fun of, and humiliate a Mopar

I dunno about national TV, but this Camaro did make the rounds of magazines and national car shows back then. I saw it at the Auto Rama show when it came thru Houston back then. Not one person was standing around it (other than me) and it was positioned front and center where you couldn't miss it. I think it was more of an idea who's time hadn't come yet.

Get use to turbo 6 swaps. Mopar quietly just replaced the 5.7 and 6.4 hemis with turbo 6's

Most were too busy complaining about EV's to notice

They should change the name of that show to Car Fux! Right before that show the show All Girls Garage put a fake exhaust sound system into one of those fugly electric Mustangs! She said." it sounds like you are shifting the car but you are not"! Tune in next week when the girls on All Girls Garage will show you how to fake your orgasms!

I hope Mike will put a Mopar engine back in the Charger,and put that Yota engine in the Rotsun where it belongs!

Bryan Fuller is actually a decent fabricator, but the show isn't one I watch.
Most of those morning MT shows are goofy IMO, and basically just push products.
Finnegan must have fallen into the wrong crowd to even THINK about that engine swap...

I cannot stand watching All Girls Garage. These thirty-something year olds giggling like a couple of goofy teenagers, can't understand a lot of their "cute" (not) mumbling. I'm surprised they are not chewing bubble gum and texting too.

There was a Duster with a Toiletta moder in it at the MCACN show, just some young punk who hates "purists" and even had decals made to hand out to everyone...

It gives the car attention/indoor storage and keeps it from rotting away somewhere, engines can be swapped out. I see those hideous low rider impalas in the same light, I am betting a large number of those from the 80's and 90's are now back to stock and would have been tossed away back then had they not not been given any care.

I have no problem with the fact they put a turbo'd inline 6 in that car. Though if it was me I'd have turbo'd a slant 6....
I have a problem that they put a TOYOTA engine in a DODGE.
I wouldn't have a Toyota in my driveway even if I got it for free.

Not sure if it's still around, but there used to be a really nice looking 69 Chevelle with a 426 Hemi in the area.

For that matter, now that you've jogged my memory, back in the early '90's saw a late '70's Camaro 'street machine' running around Poughkeepsie with a 440 in it. Even had a huge sticker on the rear window proclaiming '440'. Never saw it up close.