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Old 02-08-2001, 08:30 PM
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What is best $500 you guys have spent on your mopar?

To date mine is updating the brakes in our 1970 Duster to 11.75" disks & 11" drums, with manual aluminum master cylinder...but I am always looking for great ways to blow $

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Old 02-08-2001, 10:54 PM
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That's an easy one. The "best $500" I spent on my (a) Mopar was a complete, running, 1970 Charger, with big block, original owner, 80k mile straight body, great interior, poor paint car.

Yes it was owned by a little old lady!
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Old 02-08-2001, 11:33 PM
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i will be spending $500 on rolling chassis for 74 Challenger Rallye car, little rusty, but not bad, gonna do complete frame-off. E-bodies getting hard to find, expecially factory rallye, and for $500, i think i got damn good deal.

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Old 02-08-2001, 11:53 PM
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Mine was my first 69 Roadrunner that I bought in Riverside Ca. for $500. Rough interior and 4 speed, but we drove that Puppy all the way back to Vegas and came in smokin, the tranny was low on lube, like none! But I couldn't wipe the grin of my face for weeks.
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Old 02-09-2001, 09:42 AM
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will probaly be the Two '68 and '69 440 long blocks I will be purchasing for $200 a peice in the very near future.
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Old 02-09-2001, 07:01 PM
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I have to go down Memory Lane for this one.My best $500 was for a fully loaded '68 R/T Charger. The body was rough, but boy did that thing run!
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Old 02-10-2001, 07:01 AM
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Just bought a new MP 360 short block assembly with the wrong rod brgs in it,crank was .010 under and it had std brgs in it,with 2 minutes run time for $400.It didnt hurt a thing,Ive since put new brgs in it and plastigauged the clearances and it will be my 70 Dart dirt track motor,this sb cost $1200 new.....deal......PRO.....
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Old 02-10-2001, 07:50 AM
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Since my car crapped out today, it's probably gonna be a rebuilt 440 for $400.
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Old 02-11-2001, 05:09 AM
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$600.00 dynamic converter,lowered short times to 1.55
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Old 02-11-2001, 06:48 AM
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Took my hubcaps off and bought repro magnum 500s and Wide tires. Made all the difference in the world on my '69 Coronet, astheticly speaking.
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Old 02-11-2001, 11:20 PM
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well in 1978 my 440 " race" engine went bad, and I had was on the hunt for a 426 hemi...with no money to speak of, ( I was 20 then) I started my hunt, saved all the money I could, talked with anyone that would listen, they all thought that I was crazy. Well 3 weeks later I bought a basket case 426 HEMI for $300.00, it needed bored, there were parts missing(crank, oil pan, dist, water pump etc) But the major parts were there....also part of the deal was a B-body K frame,like new headers,rat roadster intake.The guy that sold it to me said that any time he needed parts for/ or worked on it that he ended up in the hospital over it......3 car wrecks chasing parts in two years, and one motorcycle wreck on his way over to work on it( in hospital 8weeks)..any way he said give me $300.00 and get that S.O.B. out of my life while I`m still alive,best $300. I`ve ever spent....and all the freinds that thought I was crazy looking for a Hemi wer`nt laughing so much the next season at the track....rustytoolss
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Old 02-12-2001, 01:06 AM
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Let's see, $500 bought me my first Mopar (74 Charger) ran good, decent shape, just ugly. Sold that one for $800... Now I'm about to buy a running 69 Dart for $500, it just needs brakes... Looks like there's cheap old Mopars all over the place for the taking...

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Old 02-12-2001, 02:08 AM
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The best $500 I ever spent on a Mopar (actually $450) was my first Mopar, a '70 Charger SE. It was a typical "rust belt" Mopar. Despite some rust it still looked pretty good. It had a black top, Y2 yellow paint, go-wing, black interior with leather buckets, console, tic-toc tach and a 383 4bbl backed up by a TorqueFlite and 2.76 gears. That thing could cruise all day at 3 grand(80mph)and get 20 miles per gallon. I treated it brutally but it was a tough s.o.b. and never let me down! I've owned at least one Mopar ever since!

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