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Classic American Muscle Cars: Mopar

Posted on 05/12/2018 6:59:35 AM PDT by ETL

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1 posted on 05/12/2018 6:59:36 AM PDT by ETL
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To: ETL

Chrysler built great engines and transmissions. Their bodies, while sylish had a tendency to stretch the sheet metal in difficult places that made them prone to rusting.

Once Diamler entered the picture, it was over for Chrysler (at least for me). Not sure how well the Fiat’s do. Time will tell.


2 posted on 05/12/2018 7:08:57 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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Mopar[1] is the parts, service and customer care organization within Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The name is a portmanteau of the words “MOtor” and “PARts”.[1][2]

Mopar also designs and builds a small number of customized vehicles.[3]

The term was first used by Chrysler in the 1920s and was introduced as a brand starting in 1937. The name Mopar was created by a committee to use on cans of “Chrysler Motor Parts” antifreeze.[1]

Mopar parts are original equipment manufactured parts for FCA US LLC vehicles. The term “Mopar” has passed into broader usage among car enthusiasts as an unambiguous reference to vehicles produced by former parent company Chrysler Group LLC, now FCA US.[4][5]

The term has thus become an inclusive word for any Chrysler-built vehicle—most any Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth, Imperial, DeSoto or Dodge Trucks/Ram By extension, it is also used for Jeep and AMC vehicles built after Chrysler’s 1987 buyout of American Motors Corporation including the short-lived Eagle brand.[6][7] The merger of these brands continues with custom-built cars such as the 2017 Mopar 1,036 hp (773 kW; 1,050 PS) Hemi Hellcat powered 1972 AMC Javelin AMX.[8] Since 2011, Mopar includes Fiat and Alfa Romeo following the Chrysler-Fiat merger.

In Canada, Chrysler parts were sold under the Chryco and AutoPar brands until the Mopar brand was phased into that nation’s market, starting in the late 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mopar


3 posted on 05/12/2018 7:09:10 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: ETL

Don’t forget the early b body hemis.


4 posted on 05/12/2018 7:09:39 AM PDT by ebshumidors
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B-body beast: Hemi-powered GTX to highlight this year’s Owls Head auction

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/04/14/b-body-beast-hemi-powered-gtx-to-highlight-this-years-owls-head-auction/


5 posted on 05/12/2018 7:15:03 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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6 posted on 05/12/2018 7:15:28 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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7 posted on 05/12/2018 7:16:43 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: ETL

Chrysler was still making Desotos in Mexico into the mid 60s.
The Plymouth Barracuda was named “Acapulco” in Mexico.


8 posted on 05/12/2018 7:17:15 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: ETL
I grew up in a Mopar family. Mom and dad bought a new Plymouth the year I was born, and mom still owns a late-model Dodge (which she drives very little). I haven't owned a Mopar for nearly 20 years, but I was lucky enough to have been a teenager at the tail end of the musclecar era... so I know the pros and cons of these rigs. To this day, I enjoy the sound of a high-output B/RB engine being cranked over by that high-speed starter.

I'd hate to have one back as my daily driver, though!

9 posted on 05/12/2018 7:17:20 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: ETL

Always loved classic Challengers and Chargers.


10 posted on 05/12/2018 7:20:42 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Ouderkirk
I was lucky enough to get my first car in 1978. could have had any mopar i wanted including a superbird. Dodge was for people who couldn't afford chevys and fords. seriously.. Mustangs and chevelles were the good cars, Dodge... ugly a$$ rust buckets. and those WHINEY starters every morning waking up your neighbors..
11 posted on 05/12/2018 7:20:46 AM PDT by Ikeon (WhAaat? you got offended by something you read on the intranet?)
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Muscle Cars You Should Know: 1967 Plymouth GTX

By Diego Rosenberg July 25, 2012

When Pontiac introduced the GTO in 1964, other manufacturers said “Me, too!” and built models to compete against the “Goat.” However, it took three model years for Plymouth to respond with a model that would compete head-to-head with the GTO.

But when Plymouth introduced the 1967 GTX, it more than competed with the GTO – it practically trounced it. Here’s the story how Plymouth saved the best for last.

Only 733 US-spec GTXs were built with the HEMI, including an estimated 17 convertibles.

When relating the history of the GTX, you can’t do it without revisiting how the GTO was created and the performance market at the time: In 1962, GM had over 50% market penetration. Legend has it they pulled out of racing in 1963 as one way to keep the Feds from accusing them of operating as a monopoly. This was especially bad news for Pontiac, whose success relied on the credo, “You can’t sell an old man’s car to a young man, but you can sell a young man’s car to an old man.” In response, Pontiac decided to concentrate on street performance.

As the brand was about to introduce a redesigned and enlarged Tempest for 1964 – following the lead of the mid-sized Ford Fairlane – the model was ripe for a performance variant. However, politics at GM also led to a rule limiting the engine size for its new mid-sized cars to 330 cid. In Pontiac’s case, that meant the most powerful motor available was the 326 HO rated at 280 horsepower, which was a fine motor but not up to the task of waging battle against 427 Galaxies or even 421 HO Catalinas.

The answer, to Pontiac’s engineers and managers, was to create an optional package – not a model – that that took advantage of a loophole in the rules that allowed a bigger engine. With the GTO and its 389 a marketing and sales success, other manufacturers scrambled to offer their own GTO.

Details specific to the GTX included mock hood scoops, intricate taillights (shared with the Satellite), and badging.

Meanwhile, back at Highland Park, the Chrysler Corporation was still reeling from a few years of bizarre Virgil Exner styling and a miscalculated downsizing of its bread and butter Plymouths and Dodges. Chrysler had the performance options for a screamer on the drag strip (426 Max Wedge and, come mid-year, the Race HEMI), but not much else for the street other than the brand-new 365-horsepower 426-S. It was more powerful than the GTO’s Tri-Power 389, but no one was buying these cars, and the 383/330 wasn’t competitive enough.

Standard was the Super Commando 440 with 375 horses. Optional was the 426 HEMI.

For 1965, the GTO package’s second model year, Plymouth reconfigured its B-body line for the new mid-sized car class. The new model line started with the Belvedere I, then Belvedere II and topping with the Satellite, but Plymouth didn’t have a dedicated performance model to compete with the GTO. Like before, these Plymouths could be optioned out like before with the Commando 383 and 426 V-8s but they were not giving Plymouth any street cred.

Things changed slightly for 1966 with the advent of the Street HEMI, but the HEMI was expensive and complicated for the average enthusiast. Plus, the models “Belvedere” and “Satellite” simply didn’t have the cachet of “GTO,” and the market was demanding cars that had the image of performance. Pontiac was selling 96,000+ GTOs, Chevrolet sold over 72,000 SS 396s, and there were more than 37,000 Ford Fairlane GTs running around Every Town, USA, which were sales that could have been Plymouth’s but 10,000 383 and 1500 HEMI Plymouths weren’t making a dent. It was clear that Plymouth still needed an image car.


12 posted on 05/12/2018 7:25:27 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: ETL
What a way to start a Saturday morning.
My first car: '76 Plymouth Fury

My 2nd: '78 Dodge Monaco

They were pretty much identical.

13 posted on 05/12/2018 7:26:06 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: ETL

Any idea what they are hoping to get?


14 posted on 05/12/2018 7:28:10 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (RINO politicians beware your time is coming ... SOON)
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From the link...

“UPDATE (23.August 2016): The 1967 Plymouth Hemi GTX sold for a hammer price of $66,000.”

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/04/14/b-body-beast-hemi-powered-gtx-to-highlight-this-years-owls-head-auction/


15 posted on 05/12/2018 7:35:48 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: ETL

Yes please.


16 posted on 05/12/2018 7:35:50 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Yes please.

Sorry, I forgot the question. :)

17 posted on 05/12/2018 7:36:54 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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To: ETL

Nope:
M ore
O utstanding
P ower
A nd
R aceability


18 posted on 05/12/2018 7:37:14 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ETL

My brother had a 440 Roadrunner triple-deuce, built to 3/4 race. I have to admit it could blow my small-block Impala SS off the road.


19 posted on 05/12/2018 7:38:48 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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muscle

20 posted on 05/12/2018 7:40:46 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes. See my FR home page)
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