Old School Mopar

mbalbritton

mbalbritton

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Mar 22, 2005
Location
Lakeland, FL
My Dad has been restoring a '65 Cuda and recently started talking to a guy that is going to do a new gauge cluster for him. apparently the guy use to race an old Valiant and sent some pictures to my dad of it. I know there's a lot of old Mopar guys here and just general old school gear heads that enjoy these kind of photos. not to mention an interesting Header set up due to low ground clearance.

I think it's a pretty sick looking little Valiant.

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I had a 69 Barracuda fastback I drag raced for years.A guy a few miles from here has a 65 Valiant for sale that looks pretty good from the road.Be real hard not to slip a 440 in her.
 
I'd love to see it.

I'm tearing down my daily driver/drag car now. We did a build in January and have had some strange issues with it, so I'm pulling the heads and timing cover to rebuild it, taking my time this go around. It's a "Modern Mopar", Dodge Magnum.. the mustangs hate loosing to a wagon. :)
 
I sorta remember an old man had a Mopar shop outside or east of Goldsboro off hwy 111?? in the 80's........he had all kinds of stuff i'd never seen before like the Cross-ram duel 4bbl intakes and a 426 and such. A friend lived nearby the shop and visiting him one day we saw a guy come to pick up his newbuilt motor in a big Coronet?......it sounded loud and Nasty at idle and the guy rolled it through the pines and then stomped it out in the road, and promptly destroyed his rearend in a pile of oil and shredded parts after maybe 3 secs/25' ? He pulled over and jumped from the car laughing and hollering while kicking the broken shit out of the road.......it was a stock rearend and he had a built one in the making allready. Mopars can be BADASS.
 
My girlfriends dad in high school had 3 of those, he loved them.

Those white painted headers bring back memories, everybody used to paint them white way back. You was rich if you had chrome headers
 
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In my buddies yard right now, needs to be Christined out, push button trans, Foil's Auto Salvage on 49.
 
mommucked said:
I sorta remember an old man had a Mopar shop outside or east of Goldsboro off hwy 111?? in the 80's.........
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He did the machine work on my first flathead Willys engine. Doug Jackson wasn't all that old in the 80s my friend unless you were like 2 or 3. Hemi engine sittin on a stand and a late 60's Hemi Roadrunner sitting in the chicken coop.Doug's wife ran a slant six drag Dodge Dart for years. The ultimate Mopar man around these parts was Billy West who lived between Princeton and Pinelevel off Highway 70a.Man he had a yard and shop full of crap.Now he was old.He looked to be in his 70s back in the late 80s.
 
sgt26, I was in college WCC, 18yo about 84, and I remember the shop was like a big old barn w a small trailor park behind/beside it where my buddy lived. I seem to remember 2 guys there we spoke to while looking around the garage at the ongoing projects once or twice. I wonder if Billy was there because I don't think it was near Pinelevel and remember talking to a wise older gentleman in greasy coveralls........I was in college though and we gathered at my friends trailor to BBQ and get drunk some afternoons, maybe it was in Princeton?. It was a hoot to watch/hear that guy blow up the poor diff.! It may have been a Superbee?, but the car was plain jane looking, but not under the hood!. We all went out and pushed the car back to the shop. Good times I sorta remember :beer:
 
wait a dang minute here...I turned 18 in 84...we might know some of the same folks...in 84 I was rocking a 67 chrysler newport and then a 63 f100

That was Doug's place.The old man in coveralls might have been his dad.Old barn/chicken coop with a small trailer park.
 
As requested on my Dads '65 Cuda build.

as he found it:
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Starting the tear down at home:
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273 LA going in:

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Wilwood Slotted and Drilled and Tubular Uppers.


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It's headed to the body shop now. then it's the interior. Going with the factory Medium blue Flake and swapping out to a possibly a Grey Interior.
 
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