[MarkJerling]

How many Mopar?

None! But I do own a very nice Chrysler branded Swiss watch. Does that count?

And not for lack of trying. I tried hard to buy an Imperial in need of a lot of work but the owner was convinced he was sitting on a pile of gold and it slowly rotted away to little more than a pile of rust and eventually got hauled off to the scrap dealers when the old man died and his kids cleared the yard. Pity. It was a salvageable car when I first looked at it.

[Parallax]

None! But I do own a very nice Chrysler branded Swiss watch. Does that count?

Uh, no.

And not for lack of trying. I tried hard to buy an Imperial

My grandfather had a Chrysler New Yorker in the early 60s which he traded, in 1965, for a new '65 Imperial. For anyone unfamiliar with the Imperial of that era - it was a little smaller than the Titanic and had every bell, whistle, and doo-dad available on cars at the time. The engine was a bit smaller than that of a D8 Dozer. The ride quality was absolutely incredible!

[MarkJerling]

Uh, no.My grandfather had a Chrysler New Yorker in the early 60s which he traded, in 1965, for a new '65 Imperial. For anyone unfamiliar with the Imperial of that era - it was a little smaller than the Titanic and had every bell, whistle, and doo-dad available on cars at the time. The engine was a bit smaller than that of a D8 Dozer. The ride quality was absolutely incredible!

The car I was after was a '65 Imperial. When I first saw it, it had one bad rust patch on the trunk lid and some bad chassis rust, but other than that it mainly needed mechanical work done.
It would have needed a complete body off frame restoration but, everything was intact and the interior was good, so it was possible.
When I last saw it, some 15 years later, it was a complete wreck.

You're right, those cars were very, very advanced for their time.

[Racer X 69]

I've never had a Mopar, although I know if you haven't had a Mopar, you've just had a Nocar.

You Tube

You Tube

The first time I saw this was 8 years ago. A couple years later there was another.

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There is an earlier version, about 11 years ago, with biscuits in bikinis posing suggestively with various Mopars. Today I see there are several other versions.

Number 7, with a different tune, and a slideshow of Mopar awesomeness.

You Tube

You Tube

[lesmore49]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VkABns28LME



The first time I saw this was 8 years ago. A couple years later there was another.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LZX9AOAcB4c


There is an earlier version, about 11 years ago, with biscuits in bikinis posing suggestively with various Mopars. Today I see there are several other versions.

Number 7, with a different tune, and a slideshow of Mopar awesomeness.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ccIp3HmMCBk

Great Mopar action.

I've had some interesting rides in different Mopars....mostly from around 1967 to 1971... on empty country roads, late at night, from when I was an older teenager. More than 50 years ago.


Cars involved:

1967 Plymouth GTX- 440 cube V8-375 HP, torqueflite (automatic)
1961 Chrysler Imperial- 413 cube- 350 HP V8....had those four, individual, old style headlights
1970 Dodge Dart - 340 cube- 275 hp V8 (under rated @ 275, NHRA rated them @ 325 HP), 4 speed

[tim60]

Thank you Les!
I wish I knew the same amount of stuff about GM, but I don't! Quite possibly because I've only ever bought one GM vehicle.

I have only ever bought one GM vehicle and was very unimpressed by both the quality of the vehicle and by the business attitude of the dealer. GM and the dealer conspired to send all my later money for cars to other suppliers so the must live off the joy of the profit they made from my 1983 purchase.

I had a similar experience with my first mobile phone, a Samsung. The phone lasted less than a year and they said because it was a battery failure that it was not covered by warranty, because the battery only had 6 months, and that after about a 6 week warranty service run around where the warranty service guy did not do a basic test to find out that the cause of the problem was a SIM card failure. The OEM engaged a lazy and uncreative service provider who could have tested that hypothesis by putting a SIM card known to be good, such as his own, in the phone for a test. No fancy kit needed.

[tim60]

Quite a comprehensive list of do and don't.

I've been to racing events in the past .

Nowadays if I'm going to watch a big time race...say the Dutch GP @ Zandvoort...or any locale, I think I would prefer to sit in my very comfortable Lazy Boy recliner -special order built for XLT (extra large tall) individuals, like me...with the special order- firm comfort foam, rather then the normal softer foam , with a zero beer, in the comfort of my own home...and watching the race on our large TV.

Very clear picture on that large Samsung smart tv of ours.

I can tape, and reverse footage quickly to watch Verstappen, pass the Mercedes in that tight corner , see a variety of camera angles..from all around the track, as opposed to being there, sitting in one place, by the track, to watch the same action, around the same corner, over and over again.

I know I'm losing all the excitement by not being there, I'm missing the roar of the crowd, the smell of the crowd....the sound of canvas ripping..as the Ferrari engine hits 12,000 rpm and above...the uncomfortable seating , fighting traffic, getting into the venue, fighting traffic getting out of the venue.

On the other hand...maybe I'm just an old fart, who has been there, done that...and now enjoys the comforts of our abode.

Do you miss the smell and substance of the emissions of people who drank too much beer?

[CharLac]

How many Mopar?

In my life....


Four Ford (Mustang {'71 my first car}, Fairmount {bought for ice racing and never used}, Escort {Frankenford...built from the parts of dead escorts}, Explorer)
Four Toyota (Celica GT, Corolla and 3 pickups)
One Honda (Civic)
Two Suzuki (Esteem, Vitara)
Two BMW (325s)
One Subaru (Forester)

And one 1953 Chrysler New Yorker that I planned to fix up and never did. Drove it once out on a backroad with some buddies and that was it.

I did have a Chev but it was my Dad's handmedown so not a purchase.

[Racer X 69]

In my life....

Four Toyota (Celica GT, Corolla and 3 pickups)

Check your math Charlie.

I've never been good at arithmetic, but if I recall correctly, 2+3=5.

Oh, and didn't you post a picture once of you with a Pontiac Firebird?

[Racer X 69]

I posted a list of cars I have owned and their colors recently, in another thread, and neglected to mention Mopar ownership.

I had, for a very short time, a 1964 Dodge Dart 4 door. I bought it from a friend for $300. It had been his mom's car, and when she had to quit driving it was offered for sale, and being in the market for a cheap beater I snapped it up.

It was a nice, clean car, slant 6, three speed manual column shift, green metallic paint, and still had the JC Whitney clear vinyl seat covers. Being a moms car, it was low miles and we'll cared for. A real creampuff.

I was really liking the car, but after only having it a few months it was totalled. On my way home from the laundromat and grocery shopping, a young girl in a Toyota Celica ran a red light and I t-boned her, square in her driver's door. I could tell she wasn't wearing a seatbelt because as her car was being pushed away from mine by the impact, the door window broke, and she came about halfway out the opening. Her car spun around, and hit a Camaro that had stopped at the light that she ignored. After the vehicles stopped moving from the impact, she came running to my car, screaming at me, "Why didn't you stop?"

I replied, "I was trying, but you ran a red light, I had the right of way, and I was going 35."

Then I saw the blood. She had hit her face on something, her nose and lips were bleeding profusely, blood pouring onto a bright white sweater.

She told me she was just turned 16, and had only had her license for one week, and her dad had just bought the car for her.

Her insurance company gave me $800 for the car, $200 for my groceries, and another $400 for miscellaneous items and the inconvenience. Since I had the car towed to my home, they paid the tow bill, and let me keep the car, which I sold to the wrecking yard for $200.

I made out alright, considering the original $300 I spent on the car.

[Racer X 69]

I’ve noticed these before, in F1 during practice sessions, and wondered what was going on. For sure, I surmised they were some manner of data collection devices, but just didn’t know.

Today, watching the F1 practice sessions from Zandvoort, I noticed some cars had them yet again.

So I went surfing on the information superhighway.

As I guessed, they are for data collection, arrays of pito tubes, for measuring airflow, in various areas around the car, the wake behind the front tires, the airflow entering and spilling around the rear wing, etc. A way to prove out the virtual designs, or show where the design doesn’t meet the engineering expectation.

Pretty cool stuff.

Back in the days before wind tunnels and high tech gimcracks and geegaws, they would tape short bits of yarn to the bodywork in a grid pattern, then observe the way they fluttered in the airflow as the car moved around the racecourse.

You Tube

You Tube

(Sorry, F1 wants viewers to go watch the video elsewhere, and being on my phone I am too technologically inept to sort out how to simply post a link and compell the forum software to not try and imbed the video. Please do go see it, informative and fascinating.)

[CharLac]

Check your math Charlie.

I've never been good at arithmetic, but if I recall correctly, 2+3=5.

Oh, and didn't you post a picture once of you with a Pontiac Firebird?

Bahahah...I had forgotten my Celica at first. Updated the car but not the number.

A buddy had the Firebird and Ms Charlac V3 had a Pontiac GrandAm

[gaweidert]

CURSE YOU RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You must be a prophet!


Well big expense #3 has hit AND IT IS MY TRUCK! More insidious that a simple transmission problem. Rodent damage. It must have just happened this week as We were camping last week and all was good. Because of past rodent issues I tend to keep a pretty good eye on the issue. The truck has been rock solid for almost 6 years and 56,000 miles (90,000 km) of driving except for the (coc terms adhered too and ban hammer not needed) rodents.


I was starting out on my first trip in months to take some photographs. Heading towards the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge I turn on the radio and the whole AM band is nothing but static. Then I try to wash the windshield and while the fluid motor is running no juice. I just filled it up last week. So I go to a local park and pull off in a parking lot and pondered things. FM part of radio worked fine. I try to use the windshield washer pumps works but no fluid delivered. Saw big flow of washer fluid came from area of the passenger side front tire. Coincidentally right next to the antenna wire Take away antenna from AM radio and all you get is static. Opening the hood I find a huge grass nest under the power brake booster/cylinder combo. At the least the rodents chewed through the antenna wire and the washer fluid tubing. It goes into the shop next week.


September is turning into a very expensive month. Split molar needs a crown, school taxes, tree removal, and now this. At least the school taxes were already in the budget.

Next time suggest that I will win a lottery mega jackpot.

[CharLac]

CURSE YOU RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You must be a prophet!


Well big expense #3 has hit AND IT IS MY TRUCK! More insidious that a simple transmission problem. Rodent damage. It must have just happened this week as We were camping last week and all was good. Because of past rodent issues I tend to keep a pretty good eye on the issue. The truck has been rock solid for almost 6 years and 56,000 miles (90,000 km) of driving except for the (coc terms adhered too and ban hammer not needed) rodents.


I was starting out on my first trip in months to take some photographs. Heading towards the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge I turn on the radio and the whole AM band is nothing but static. Then I try to wash the windshield and while the fluid motor is running no juice. I just filled it up last week. So I go to a local park and pull off in a parking lot and pondered things. FM part of radio worked fine. I try to use the windshield washer pumps works but no fluid delivered. Saw big flow of washer fluid came from area of the passenger side front tire. Coincidentally right next to the antenna wire Take away antenna from AM radio and all you get is static. Opening the hood I find a huge grass nest under the power brake booster/cylinder combo. At the least the rodents chewed through the antenna wire and the washer fluid tubing. It goes into the shop next week.


September is turning into a very expensive month. Split molar needs a crown, school taxes, tree removal, and now this. At least the school taxes were already in the budget.

Next time suggest that I will win a lottery mega jackpot.

After the winter I always give the engine compartment a good soaking with my pressure washer to avoid this kind of thing. I seem to remember reading somewhere that road salt can cause them to eat parts of you vehicle....

[Racer X 69]

CURSE YOU RACER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You must be a prophet!


Well big expense #3 has hit AND IT IS MY TRUCK! More insidious that a simple transmission problem. Rodent damage. It must have just happened this week as We were camping last week and all was good. Because of past rodent issues I tend to keep a pretty good eye on the issue. The truck has been rock solid for almost 6 years and 56,000 miles (90,000 km) of driving except for the (coc terms adhered too and ban hammer not needed) rodents.


I was starting out on my first trip in months to take some photographs. Heading towards the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge I turn on the radio and the whole AM band is nothing but static. Then I try to wash the windshield and while the fluid motor is running no juice. I just filled it up last week. So I go to a local park and pull off in a parking lot and pondered things. FM part of radio worked fine. I try to use the windshield washer pumps works but no fluid delivered. Saw big flow of washer fluid came from area of the passenger side front tire. Coincidentally right next to the antenna wire Take away antenna from AM radio and all you get is static. Opening the hood I find a huge grass nest under the power brake booster/cylinder combo. At the least the rodents chewed through the antenna wire and the washer fluid tubing. It goes into the shop next week.


September is turning into a very expensive month. Split molar needs a crown, school taxes, tree removal, and now this. At least the school taxes were already in the budget.

Next time suggest that I will win a lottery mega jackpot.

I'm so sorry to read of your misfortune George, it sucks when vermin move in.

Now you've joined the likes of Rupert, with his ongoing battle with the Army of Otis.

I hope it doesn't get too costly.