440 4 spd GTX. Bought in 1978 for $400. It was already beat to death and rusty. I put the final nails in its coffin. Looking back it was quite a dangerous car for a 16 year old.

The first Mopar that I had was a 67 Satellite, Scorch Red 318 Automatic.

It was a red version of the 67 Satellite that I traded off about 7 years ago, though the red one wasn't nearly as nice as the dark turquoise one..

Of course the year was about 1976 then....

My first Mopar was a '78 LeBaron Medallion coupe. Was my 8th car, my second street-legal and drivable car, and the first car I ever crossed the country in. Made the mistake of trading it for a '99 Chevy Blazer thinking that the move would leave me with a more reliable, more fuel-efficient vehicle to drive daily. Oh, how wrong I was. I wonder if it still exists....FP22G8G266687, last seen in Killeen, Texas.

Great picture. A 16 year old with a 440/4 speed

I think it's kind of sad that few teens will have these great stories of their first cars.

I found this IDENTICAL to my first vehicle, a '67 D100 ute/poly 318 three on tree truck on the web. Second pic is actual truck after I did some body work and painted it. Driver's window was a piece of plexi glass I did my best to fit after I slammed the door so hard once it broke window. I was mad because I dropped a starter mounting bolt into housing and I was trying to replace it in a parts store parking lot lol

1974 Dart Swinger. /6 auto, running on 5 cylinders. $500 in 1995

Great stories of your first cars.
It's amazing that some of you, still have your car, in your possession!
My 300 convertible is now owned by my brother, after he found it for sale
a few years ago now. I sold it in 1991( regrettably) and in that whole time, between then
and when my brother brought it home... the car hasn't changed at all.
It STILL has the baby moon wheels on it! I had a set of F60-15 Firestone redline tires/original hub caps on it
for car shows, back in the day...and the redline spare, is still in the trunk!
Keep the stories/pictures coming.

SomeCarGuy... that Road Runner is really similar to the car that an older
kid ( 17) owned down the street from me, in the mid 70's. I was about 12 or so, when he took
me for a ride. It my first time in Muscle Mopar...It was B5 blue, 383 4 speed, with Magnum 500 wheels. It was kind of ratty looking..
and had no hood on the car, just like the pic you posted. He dumped the clutch, and took off.... smoking the tires
I was completely hooked, and just loved it... hence my username... LOL

'69 Super Bee. 383 4-speed with cold a/c. Blue with black stripe and vinyl roof. Just a good used car in 1975.

Awesome car! Love it!

My first car was a '69 Dart Swinger 340 4 speed car. Bought it in1972 off the used car lot of a Chevy dealer. Put a cam, headers, intake, 750 Holley, and 3:91 gears in it. Used to cruise Saturday night with it. That little Dart surprised a lot of big block cars. I joined the Army in '74, went to Germany and my mother sold it while I was away. Wish I still had it...

I'm embarrassed and now have given away that I'm an old f@rt as I read about all of these cool first Mopars I thought I wouldn't be the only old f@rt that ordered a '69 RR new or even bought a new one off of a dealership lot new.

Again a photo of my '69 RR back in '69. I was 18 at the time and about to turn 19 in a couple of months when it arrived at the dealership. Ah those were "the best of times and the worst of times". Got my draft notice just after Labor Day '69, and this is my older sister that waited every day leaning on my Road Runner waiting to the last minute for the mail as here then boyfriend was in Vietnam in the 25th Infantry. They are still married. One of the days that the mail was close to late for me to take her to work, guess what showed up, a letter from the draft board for me. Now I had to figure out where to store the RR. Keep it for 10 years and sold it for $1500. Then got the A12 RR, a '68 RR and a '69 M-Code Dart and then a '69 GTX all I guess because of that '69 "Best of Times and The Worst of Times era.

Mike

I was never a first Mopar

However, the first Mopar I ever owned was a '69 Dodge Super Bee 383 4-speed I bought in my senior year of high school back in '76-77

I still have the first Mopar I bought. I picked up this 1965 Coronet 500 with a 426W back in 1980. It had a Max Wedge cross ram on it when I bought it but it wasn't working very well so I ended up going back to a single 4bbl. It is a factory four speed car, but I swapped in a Doug Nash back in the 90's. Still has most of the original paint, original glass, original body panels, etc. Car has never been hit and doesn't have any rust. Been stored in a heated garage for many years so it escaped the fate of a lot of other cars.
I'll probably sell it this year or next. I don't really need it anymore and I need to start to downsize a few things.

I was just out of high school and bought a very solid 67 Coronet R/T with camaro front seats and no carpeting, for $500, that had many owners prior so that it's history was lost. The 440 that was in it had a bad rod knock probably because of the 4.56 gears that were in it. So found a 70 town and country with a 383 and slapped that in. There were a couple of things that were odd to me at the time, namely the skid plate on the k frame and the external tranny cooler. Doing further research I found I owned a hemi car. Being 18, and not really rich, I wanted to get rid of it because mini tubbing a hemi car which in the late 80's and early 90's were getting valuable, was something I couldn't do. Also didn't help that I hit a telephone pole racing a 68 chevelle after the throttle stuck open.

Anyway, a guy gave me good money for it and another 67 Coronet R/T 4speed parts car I bought for $300 to fix the damaged car. I later bought a 67 Coronet 500 that I restored and mini tubbed without worry of effecting it's value.

I still own it today and would also have a 68 charger that got rearended which provided insurance money to cover a very nice one owner 59 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer which was my dream car for 12 years until I found it. Never really appreciated the forward look cars growing up. It was all about the muscle car years for me. But as I got older, I started noticing how cool the jet age styling was just few years prior to the muscle cars.

70 V code super trac 4-speed. $800

rapom... that is a beautiful looking '59 Dodge! The Coronet looks great too!

Ordered this Cuda late May 1971, and got it sometime in July 71.
Ordered from John J. Collins Chrysler Plymouth, Waterbury, Connecticut.
Cost me $3,900.00 bucks, back in 71, with quite a few options on the car.
Probably built near the end of production for 1971 vehicles.
Kept it for 39 years, before selling it off, back in 2010.
Had over 300,000 miles on it, when sold.
Originally a 383 4bbl, 3:55 sure grip. automatic.
I had the 383 with 4bbl, then, for years a 6bbl. carburation set up.
Then i yanked out the 383, and put a 440 in it, transferring the 6bbl. carbs onto a 440 6 bbl. manifold.
Ran that 440 for years, until that engine let go on the I-5, coming back from a Spring Fling, car show.
Put another 440 in it, and that was the engine that the Cuda sold with back in 2010.
But i saved the old 383, and that engine left here also, when the car sold.
Ran consistent 13.20's, at 108 mph, at Sacramento Raceway, street tires, open headers.
Never did get it into the 12's.
Close but no cigar.
The guy that wound up getting the car after the flipper, tried getting it into the 12's, but he never did either.
He sold it, but it's still here somewhere in Commiefornia, but now it's Sassy Grass Green.

Great Story

Bought this ‘70 Sport Satellite at 15 years old for $500 in 1990. It had a wore out 318, wore out front suspension but spent the summer once I got my license at my grandpas body shop sanding on it all summer & he painted it a few weeks before school started in fall. It was a fun car & was an original sunfire yellow with black vinyl top & gold interior car.