1974 Dodge Dart SE. 4 door, slant six, automatic. With PB, PS and AC. Most comfortable seats I ever sat in. Drove it cross country in 84

Great stories people!
I laughed about the B&B story in the '73 Road Runner...
Keep your first Mopar's coming.

No pic right now but mine was a '67 D100 utiline swb, poly 318 and three on the tree when I was 16. It was sitting on a guys side yard with grass cut all around it as if it hadn't moved in years, and it hadn't. I knocked and asked if he wanted to sell it. He hem and hawed and finally said "I guess I need to get rid of it". $150 and it was mine. Flintstone floors, bubbling on hood and real rough paint but I was in love. He let me get it running there with a new battery and gas can. I broke down three or four times before I got it home two miles away lol. Overheated, gas leaked, brakes locked up. I got it all squared away and drove it to high school.

1968 Barracuda fast back, 318, auto and center console. No seats however, I bought it out of the junkyard for $500
Owned it for 7 wonderful years.

Mine was a 77 B200 Tradesman Van with a 2 barrel 400. Actually said motorhome on the title. Seemed to be hemi orange with murals of sailing ships all over it. Finished off the inside myself(they actually had stores that sold stuff for vans back then). Cockpit lights, bed, icebox, sink with water, 4 captains chairs and stereo system that would bounce the outside mirrors. Thing needed an alignment every 6 months for some reason but loved it. Had to sell it in 87' when I got a job and they had underground parking. Van wouldn't fit due to what seemed like really low ceilings.

This with no white walls and a slant 6 instead of a V8. I lowered the front end way down to get some rake to the point it started to rub the front sway bar brackets on dips in the road and going up driveway curbs so I had to raise it back up some. Fun driving car that was good on gas, although I really wished it was a V8.

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Graduated HS and got a job. My Dad let me drive his '65 Rambler until I saved up enough for a down payment for my first car.
1971 In-Violet 340 'cuda, 11,000 miles, 3.23 gears, white gut and roof, Rallye dash and a 3-speed manual . In 6 months I had a Pistol Grip 4-speed out of a totaled low mile '72 340 Challenger installed. 2 years later, I sold it to my brother (his first car) and he still has it. Great car and I still miss it.

My first car was a Mopar, 1976 66 Satellite 2 door hdtp poly 318 auto maroon with black interior. Next in 1977 was a 69 Fury crew cab 383 2bbl auto gold with green top and interior, third in 1978 was a 69 GTS Q5 383 4-speed which I still have, sort of... In between those three I had a 64 Rambler American with a twin stick overdrive and a 65 Galaxy 500 390 auto.

My first Mopar was a 1959 Dodge Coronet 2 door hardtop that was pink and white. It had the one year only 326 C.I. Poly motor like the other brands had the 318 C.I. Poly motors, pushbutton on the dash for the two speed Power Flyte tranny
Big car that wasn't fast, it was my go to work and everything else car

My 1st Mopar (it was my 2nd car) was a 72 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus. I bought it in 75, just after high school graduation. My 1st car was a 69 Buick that had 49,000 miles on it, that proved to be not up to the challenges of this teenage lead foot. I owned the Buick for 12 months and replaced the 350 Buck motor 3 times, and the transmission was slipping bad. I replaced 3 sets of rear wheel bearings, and 2 sets of new tires in about 10,000 miles. the Plymouth had about 60,000 miles on it but the 318, 904 and 8 1/4 with 3:23 gears held up much better. The 1st major repair was at 125,000 when I had the transmission rebuilt. I replaced it with another Mopar at around 140,000 miles with the motor still pretty much untouched. I sold the Plymouth to my brother in law He finally killed it when he went down into a ditch and ripped the oil filter off the motor. Until then, the motor was still pretty much untouched. It was a great car, and it was really pretty sharp. It was a bronze color, with a 1/2 canopy white vinyl top and silver across the bottom from the chrome strip down. It had the Magnum 500 wheels.

that Plymouth was the first of more then probably 100 Mopars that have been in my wife & my immediate family. I bought, sold, parted out, built, junked, and raced (on a dirt track), and driven Mopars a lot of miles since 1975. Still only Mopars at my house, but the newest one is an 04 model that is still here.

I got this one most of the way back, but grew tired of waiting and moved on. It was a really nice car after the next guy ran it through his body shop for final paint. It was in epoxy primer when I traded it and a 451 stroker for a mint 68 charger that was a factory 383 stick car made completely into an RT clone, Dana and all. I think I did ok. The Road Runner ended up being sold a few times over the years, I’ve googled the vin from time to time. Once it was at Vanguard. I laughed when the guy said in a video that the “383 is really strong.” I got all warm and fuzzy when he talked about the brakes being so good, as I really out a lot of time and money into making those the best I could.

One guy threatened to sue me because I posted a warning on here about how it was being misrepresented as an original metal car on eBay. Pretty bold claim when I hand made more than a few parts of that car. Later it lost the lift off hood I put on it. Not sure why somebody put a regular one back.

This was mine, bought when I was in high school, a '70 Challenger SE, 383 2 bbl car. Awful photo, but shown here pulling a high school homecoming float.

Bought my first car in 1976. 1969 Charger R/T. It sold new here and I was the 3rd owner. 60K mile and 700.00 Owned it until 87.

1965 Sport Fury with the 426 wedge and automatic that I bought at a sheriff's sale in 1972 for $400.

1957 Dodge Coronet club sedan D500 ex-CHP.

The first Mopar titled to me was a '68 Valiant V100 ex-fleet car that I bought from the New York Telephone Company in Buffalo in 1974. Phone company policy at that time was to repaint their surplus vehicles to prevent unauthorized representation, so the purchase price of $150.00 included an Earl Scheib-type repaint in school bus yellow. The car ran like a top and I drove it for a couple of years in college. I sold it because I won a DEA sealed bid sale for a confiscated '70 LeMans. I wish I still had the Valiant....

1957 Dodge Royal 4 door, gold n white. Then a 64 Dart, then a 73 & 74 Dart. 64 Polara, then the illustrious 78 Dodge Magnum XE.

Inherited a 76 Aspen 2 door from my fiance' when we married

First MOPAR I owned (1982) was a '70 440 Cuda.....yes I wish I still had it but back then they were a dime a dozen.

My first car was technically a '71 340 Duster, bought it just before I turned 19, had it like 3 weeks, brakes failed, had a accident in it, never even got to register it in my name, drove it just 5 times, so I have always considered my next cat as my first car, '70 340 'Cuda, bought in 1987, still have it today, LimeLight, hockey sticks, road lamps, 727, console etc. It has a 493 in it now, runs mid to high 10s on pump gas on the motor, 3800lbs, full length exhaust.

Bed and Breakfasts ?


my first mopar titled in my name was, and still is after all these years, my 69 charger i bought back in 1970 as a "total" when i was working at a body shop.
i paid $500.00 for it.