Approximately 14 years ago, my uncle from Pennsylvania (who is a Chevy guy) invited me to visit him.  During our visit, he said he had a surprise for me.  So we rode out in his 1968 Chevy SS Camaro to Gibsonia, PA.  This place is agrarian and nothing like the hometown...

  Bill Sarber travelled to Chicago, Illinois to buy car. Legendary drag racer and engine builder, Jim Oddy built the motor. He was the first racer to go over 200 mph in a ProMod race car. He was sponsored by Summit Racing and is in the International Drag Racing...

  Well it all started a couple of years ago.  I had completed the restoration of my 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner and wanted to make it available for someone else to enjoy.  I had completed it in April 2006 and was ready for a new challenge.  I put the Roadrunner up...

Around Thanksgiving 2014 I was reading the latest issue of Mopar Muscle Magazine and noticed an article about the Scat Pack Dodge Charger. The article went on to praise the virtues of the car and its sticker price of $39,995. My wife had been bugging me about a car we...

At 13 years of age I started saving up money for a car. I saved up $500.00 by the time I was 15 years of age, now I did not choose the car, my mother took my money out of my account and bought the car to surprise me and what do you know a Mopar. I was happy just to...

  In early 2010, I started getting serious about finding myself another roadrunner after being without a car for 30 years.  Long, long ago, in 1972 I was a sophomore in high school and was lucky enough to have bought a rare canary yellow 1969 roadrunner with...

  I’m brand new to the Mopar scene but I drank the Kool-Aid as soon as I bought my 1972 Charger. Not only are these cars a blast to drive, they are esthetically pleasing to both the eyes and the ears. At every show, meet, cruise, event, driveway and heck even in...

It’s always nice to hear from folks admiring my 1971 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible that they’re amazed to learn I’m the original owner. Yes, it’s true; I ordered the car from a Cincinnati dealership, the only car I’ve ever ordered from the factory, in March, 1971. It...

To tell my Duster’s story I first need to begin with how I came to be a MOPAR fan. In 1962 I was a high school junior and like most guys loved drag racing. On one Sunday afternoon at the drag strip, we were ready to settle in and watch the super stockers go at it. As...

Back in 2007, just before I moved to San Antonio for a job, the heater core cracked in my daily driver at the time, a Nissan 200SX, and antifreeze flooded the cabin. Instead of getting the car fixed and wanting to focus on the new job and the move, I donated the car...

  An original 30,000 miles Cbody, 383 Commando V8 with all the bells and whistles. I am only the 3rd owner of a car that has spent much of its life garaged or in the back of a shop. I have only updated tires, rims and exhaust for a muscle car feel and  have all...

My first car was a 56 Ford Fairlane. That’s been a few cars and some years ago. I’ve had a number of them since that old Ford. I guess I’ve had about every make and model at one time or another. Any time I’d see an older car of any kind I had to  top and look at it....

I've had a fascination with cars my whole life, back in the 70's I owned a Chevy SS396 El Camino, a Dodge Dart Sport 340 and  a Chevy Camaro Z28. I have made my living working on cars and have even rebuilt a few including a 1977 Pontiac Firebird in  the early '90's....

  In May of last year the Mopar bug bit. Always wanting a 70 Roadrunner or 2-door B-body, it’s out of my budget. So the search  began for the biggest and most unique, a C-body with the mighty RB engine. I’ve been a Mopar nut since childhood, owning a  71 340...

  ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ In 1997, I bought a dark green with white vinyl top 1974 Barracuda for $350. Originally my intentions were to use the car for  parts, but I realized the car had potential. All the interior and glass were...

CHRISTMAS IN JULY February 2006, Detroit Auto Show, Dodge unveils the Challenger concept car. WOW, I need to get one of those. It looked so  much like the 1970s Challenger, and that was a good looking car. Unfortunately I missed out on owning one back in the 70’s  and...

  A Dream “In Progress” Being a baby boomer, life long auto mechanic,and a car racing fan, I have always been interested in restoring an old car or building my own hot rod. But I never had the money (having served 20 years in the Air Force and was required to...

My ’65 Dodge Coronet has been in our family since I was 8 years old. We originally got it out of a marsh in Berlin, WI from a cousin. It was a total basket case; rotten floors, and rear quarter panels,it took us about 3 days to get it out of the ground and towed home....

I grew up in southern West Virginia, in the mountains, with twisty windy roads. One of our neighbors was a mechanic at Mabe  Cartwright Dodge, in the nearest town of Welch. He had the opportunity to drive cars off of the lot and liked to give “exciting test rides” to...

  My love for Mopars began way back when I was around the age of 6 or 7. My father,Richard Seale, at the time had a small collection of old Dodges, and there was always one that seemed to catch my eye. It was the 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T. It was  white with a dark...

It all started back in 1999 when I sold my 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Fastback. I have wanted a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner for  many, many years and this gave me the opportunity to get the car of my dreams. Well, the saga begins as a nightmare. I could  have bought a car...

  As a new member to the club, it is my honor and distinct pleasure to present one of my MOPARs as our Car of the Quarter. This is only the third MOPAR I’ve ever owned; I still have the first (74 Barracuda), and I recently sold the second (70 Cuda) to free up the...

  HISTORY: 1988 MY WIFE OF 46 YEARS PRESENTED ME WITH THE CAR, ($300.00). 1988 – 1999 BROUGHT CAR HOME IN A FLAT-BED TRAILER, A PICK UP, AND A SUBURBAN, AFTER SEVERAL HOURS PICKING PARTS FROM AN OVERGROWN FIELD, THE CAR HAD BEEN DIS-ASSEMBLED, ALL BUT CAB WAS...

  It’s a 1975 Plymouth Duster that started life as a 6cyl Automatic on the column. I had always wanted a Duster since watching some kid in high school doing burn outs on Houston Street in front of Sam Houston High School with his 340 Duster. I bought the car and...

  Our car is a 1971 Challenger. The car had a 318 engine with automatic and 2.71 gears. It now has a 1970 340 with 9.7:1 compression. The heads are Mopar X-heads, ported. Intake is an Edelbrock Performer, carb is a Holley 650, cam is a Mopar purple cam, exhaust...

Back sometime in 1985 and being a member of the San Antonio Mopar Club, a club member named Erick S. told the members at a meeting the whereabouts of a 1971 Charger R/T. At the time I was driving a 1972 Charger and a 1973 Satellite. The next day after work I drove to...

In the summer of 2001, I was in the process of selling my previous toy, a 1950 Ford F+1 pickup. A friend of mine educated me on Mopar performance which intrigued me on researching Mopar muscle cars on my own. Of course, I got real interested when I visited a few car...

  I've always wanted a Challenger since I saw the movie "Vanishing Point" one late night in 1978 or 79 before I could even drive. Good thing that I never got one back then. I would have wrapped it around a tree on some back road in Orange County, N.Y. Fast...

By now, I guess that you have heard the saying “Does it have a HEMI in it”? Here’s a story about a 1970 Dodge HEMI Super Bee that finally came back to life after many years of hard work, lots of part scrounging, and last but not least, lots of cash. I bought the 1970...

  Originally my car was a red Grand Coupe Barracuda with a 318 engine, 2-bbl carburetor, a 727 automatic transmission, and leather interior. When I purchased the car in 1994, it was being used as a parts car. At the time of purchase, the car contained a 440...

Decisions, decisions. What to do? Here we were, five-year members of the MMCSA and enjoying it all. We had Jorene's yellow 1966 Charger to participate in all of the Club activities. Cruises, parades, show and shines, car shows and the whole Monty. We had not been...

It all started back in 1989 when my dad bought a 1973 340 Challenger when I was 11 year old. The car was a numbers matching 340 Rallye car. It was Top Banana Yellow with a black vinyl top and black interior. It had a 340 4 barrel, 727 tranny, and 3.23 posi rear end,...

Let me tell you how I became the 2nd owner of a 1970 Dodge Challenger in January 2000. The original owner had it parked under a carport for 15 years. My brother-in-law had seen it and knew I would be interested in it. After talking to the owner, he explained that they...

Believe it or not. Going on 23 years and still loving it. In the summer of 1977, I was working at my first job and saving money to buy my first car. At the same time, my oldest sister was expecting her first child and was preparing to purchase a family vehicle. She...

  Well, I guess my story starts back in the spring of ‘93... My wife suggested that I needed a hobby, and as I had always loved  cars, I decided to get one to work on. I’ve had several different types, mostly Corvettes and no Mopars, but I thought this time I ...

  It all began in 1997 a few months after opening the new shop. A phone call, a trip to Austin, and $300 netted a 1972 Dodge Demon desperately in need of attention. It had a slant-6 that didn't run, the under-hood area had the distinct rust color of an engine...

  Funny how little things can sometimes set big things into motion. In my case that little thing was a paint color called Radar Blue. The big thing being finding a body style that the paint would look killer on. Well, fellow club member, Paul Gaspard solved that...

The Imperial marque confuses even the most knowing car people. Was it a standalone brand, like DeSoto, or simple the top of the line version of Chrysler? The answer is both. The name was in use on Chryslers from 1924. For twenty years, 1955 – 1975, it was a standalone...

In March of 1992, I spotted a ‘69 Dodge Charger SE at the Handi Stop near Seguin, TX. I had owned two other Chargers in the  past: a ‘70 Charger RT 426 Street Hemi and a ‘73 Charger SE 400; but the ‘69 was one Charger I always thought was  special. It wasn’t too...

  "Oh, what a rush!" Yes, that's what I felt when I first fired up the magnificent 440. The exhilaration of a freshly built big block through open headers is totally unbelievable. Now to tell you a little about this newfound ecstasy. Growing up in the 50s and 60s...