Retro pics, the good old days.

[Chryco Psycho]

 

[GY3R/T]

   I like the stance of those cuda's !!

[303 Mopar]

Sign me up!

[Brads70]

Sign me up!

That's more money than I started at being a mold maker! 

[RUNCHARGER]

Great pay for 1966. I didn't make that until 1975.

[Brads70]

Great pay for 1966. I didn't make that until 1975.

1975? I started at $2.65 per hour in the mid 80's.....

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Getting used to a new scanner, bear with me. My FM3 R/T with 15X8 and 15X7 and trim rings.

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Dang: This isn't user friendly. Let see if this works. This is a friends 440 six pack, 4 speed from 1979. This is an FJ5 car that was painted prior to 1978. This car looks just like this today but with a different owner.

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This is a faraway shot of a friends R-code Cuda. The throttle stuck and he put a rod out the side of the block in the traps at 130MPH or so. The block is still with the car and it is still modified right now. I tried to buy the car in 1980 but he wasn't saying what he would take and I wasn't going to keep going up in my offers. Too bad as I would have restored it to it's red on red, auto on column, factory 4.10 Dana glory.

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Okay: If this works I'll do a few per post. Sorry about the hassle. This is transplanted Hemi in the FM3 car circa 1981. In those days we drove them to work, polished them, raced at the track on the weekend.
For those that say it can't be done, note the original 383 radiator (cooled just fine thanks) and the wedge engine brake booster that worked with the Hemi valve cover (I did a secret mod there that made it work).

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Gary Zap's Hemi under glass 71 Road Runner around 1980. He formed that plexiglass hood over a stock Satellite hood somehow. A 6BBL Cuda at the same show and how we worked on cars in the 70's out in the driveway. I was swapping the 440 from the Challenger and the Hemi from the Cuda. Miraculously I found the original 383 decades later and swapped it back into the Challenger where it belonged.

[Brads70]

That hood is flat out cool! 

[Chryco Psycho]

Cool shot Sheldon
BTW I was making $7 / hr in 77 working nights at a grocery store , should have stayed there , would have retired with a great pension before I was 50 

[RUNCHARGER]

Neil: I was lucky. I left automotive and went to the railway in 1975. I was just going to stay there until I found a better paying job but I was still there 30 years later  so I ended up with an okay pension. I lost quite a bit in 2008 but overall we are still okay. I didn't always enjoy my work but it kept us clothed and fed. I always wanted to be in the car biz but I was worried I wouldn't enjoy working on them as much if it was my job too.
Gary Zap with the 71 Runner changed up the Hemi and added a Supercharger and Hilborn injection but kept the cool hood. He still has that car today. I'm still fighting this scanner, it is now turning my photo's into PDFs and my eyes are going buggy. I'll get some more on here when I figure it out. There's some more very rare cars in race trim etc.
One thing I really enjoyed in that era was driving my Challenger to the track and beating trailered race cars with it. I don't think I ever trailered a car to the track.

[Chryco Psycho]

I am with you , my race cars had plates & were driven , makes you a better racer as you have a lot more seat time IMO