why do you like mopar??

[brigond]

I come to realize the reasons I like Mopars . They remind me of my Hot Wheels and matchbox cars . they made these toys really cool and tough looking . it's like owning a real 1

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Why do i like Mopar? I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. 

[1974dodgecharger]

cause its 'MOPAR' 

[polywideblock]

I come to realize the reasons I like Mopars . They remind me of my Hot Wheels and matchbox cars . they made these toys really cool and tough looking . it's like owning a real 1

pretty much the same reason the cars, colours etc take me back to much happier times . that and its nice to be different, Fords and Chevy's are like a-hole's and belly buttons everybody's got one

[Back N Black]

I like Mopar's,Chevy's and Ford. I would love to have a 69 Mustang fast back and a 69 Chevelle sitting next to the Charger.

[71green go]

I love ALL cars ....all brands made really cool cars, but top of my list next would be a 68 Mustang fastback!......AFTER I own a 68 Charger
Mopar is tops for me....

[flyinlow]

Why do i like Mopar? I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. 

Late '60's early '70's car where around when I started driving,they have aways looked good to me. Mostly Plymouths around my parents house , so Roadrunners and Chargers came naturally. If I was to go non Mopar a 69 GTO would be nice. They are hard to get stuff for so it would be a lot like Moparing.

[rt green]

i loved the wild colors and they were fast. they were beating up everything else in the area where i grew up. the excuses the brand x guys had for losing were pretty funny.   mopars just look fast standing still.  loved the 68-74 body styles

[polywideblock]

I come to realize the reasons I like Mopars . They remind me of my Hot Wheels and matchbox cars . they made these toys really cool and tough looking . it's like owning a real 1

pretty much the same reason the cars, colours etc take me back to much happier times . that and its nice to be different, Fords and Chevy's are like a-hole's and belly buttons everybody's got one

think people are taking my last post the wrong way. not saying other brands are good/bad.just that over here everybody has an impala or a mustang , i like being differant. owning a mopar is "outside the box"

[Ghoste]

I prefer their engineering and styling.

[71charger_fan]

Line for line, I preferred the Chrysler styling over the competitors during the muscle car era when I was growing up. My first car obsession was the '68 Barracuda fastback when I was 10. I have a soft spot for many of the competitors' cars, like the '69-'70 Mustang fastbacks, '69 Camaro, '71-'74 AMX, '68-'71 Torino fastbacks, '68-'72 Vette, but have never seen a Chevelle, Chevy II, early Nova, '66-'67 GTO and several other extremely popular cars that I liked (styling wise).

[dyslexic teddybear]

A kinda inherited thing.

I'm third generation Mopar, my grandfather, father, brother.....it's what I grew up with. At least that's how it started. Styling, performance, engineering kept me. Doing my own maintenance/repairs was a necessity, and taught me much about my rigs. Helping friends with other brands.....also taught me much. And I stayed Mopar.

Not that others did not build some nice rigs, it's just with so many Mopars to chose from, I'm not going anywhere.

[JB400]

Well, I was born into it.  My family has always had them.  After helping rebuild everyone elses Chevies and Fords and comparing them to Mopar, Mopars seem to be a no brainer.  They have superior parts and engineering.  I especially like the fact that they have to detune a Mopar so that the other manufacturers canbe competitive   Mopar or no car

[dyslexic teddybear]

I especially like the fact that they have to detune a Mopar so that the other manufacturers canbe competitive   Mopar or no car

That too.

[Cooter]

I Always pulled for the underdog. Chrysler products were the most laughed at, run off the lot, cars around coming up. I remember when you got told to "Get that "Goat" (Although, typically means Pontiac, but to ignorant Chivvy and Ferd guys it somehow stood for the Ram?!?) outta here"!

I guess I've had the best luck with Chrysler Products. My best friend in HS had just bought a '66 Cornonet 500 with a 361. We thought it was a 383. We ran the hell outta that thing and it never gave up an inch. My auto shop teacher was big into Chryslers. He got me started with my first Nitrous motor in HS, a 340 with tunnel ram and Pro Shot fogger system at age 17. Damn, would that little 340 run. 4.56 gears and 727. I didn't have no money, so I had to compete with 468 BBC in '68 Camaro's. I had to spray it or I was sure to lose. My best friends Cousin ran a 1967 Satellite with a 440 and 4-speed. This was the first time I had seen a stick car run quicker than an automatic. Course my Brother had just bought his '69 R/T Charger. I was small block all the way after that 340, but once I lined up against my brother with a bad fuel pump and he would run off and leave me on the motor, I gave up on Small blocks and have been BB Chrysler ever since.

Although I've owned a '69 SS 396 Chevelle with a 454, an '82 Camaro Z/28, and a 5.0 liter mustang, I somehow always came back to the Chryslers.

[RCKSTR]

Dukes of hazzard has nothing to do with where my love for mopars started    

[Scaregrabber]

My Father and Grandfather were Mopar diehards and that started it but I have always been impressed by Chrysler engineering. They had so many firsts it's unreal, Alternators, safety rim wheels etc. Torsion bars, Torqueflites, Hemi 4 speeds, Dana rear axles, big brakes and capable suspensions and oh yeah 426 Hemi's. The Hemi was so strong that NHRA and NASCAR had to handicap or outlaw it to let GM and Ford have a chance.
That's why. I like Mopar styling as well but the engineering is what puts them on a pedestal. TV shows have nothing to do with it for me.

Sheldon

[HANDM]

Because that's how I get my therapy

And because they are hands down the best looking musclecars around

[Cooter]

I actually heard the "Banned Hemi" thing a little differently...

Story goes, that GM and Ford were got wind of Chrysler's attempt to build a DOHC Hemi for NASCAR and Ford decided they would build a DOHC version of their famous "Shotgun" engine. [Semi-Hemi]. Of course, GM wasn't too far behind and decided to scare up designs for their own version of a DOHC "Hemi" and the war was on. So much so, that NASCAR figured with the HP going up and up and up, it wouldn't be too long before people [Fans] were gonna be killed by speeds, so Banning any type of "Hemi" engine was so.

[polywideblock]

article in mopar action says that it was only an electric powered valve train test rig and when nascar officials saw pic they sh*t themselves and baned all overhead cams ,Chrysler already had such an advantage all they could see was a monopoly by mopar

[Ghoste]

Chryslers DOHC Hemi was a repsonse to Ford introducing their 427 SOHC.  I think it was another couple of years before GM began to experiment much with hemispherical chambers.  I think the Boss 9 was a plan B after the SOHC was disallowed.

[Bob T]

Out here in the southern colonies, 27 years ago when I got my licence there was never that many U.S. cars and the prices were always high. Usual ugly notchbacks and camaros but they'd never appealed and again the prices were too high, we were only getting around 50 -54cents exchange rate with the U.S dollar back then.  I'd only had Aussie Holden 6 cyl's and a couple of 308's in panelvan and station wagon until one day in my mid 20's a good mate of mine took me for a quick haul in his genuine Aussie Chrysler Valiant Charger E49. Triple weber 45's and 4 speed, 320+hp weighed in at around 1400kg, got a chirp out of it going into 3rd on a dry road from a standing start, not many sbc could do that back then and they looked way cool against all the other clunky sameness. It really rung a bell with me and I set to selling my other cars to get hold of one.

I was fortunate enough to get a real 71 R/T Valiant Charger fitted with six pack and 4 speed about 3 years later after that ride, sold it 3 years after that to put the dough into a business but resolved to get another strong Mopar when I could. 4 Mopars ( 1 Valiant VH sedan, 1 71 VH Pacer 4 sp 6 pk, 1 68 Charger 318 auto ) and 8 years later I have the one I want and do not intend to part with it 1968 Charger R/T black on black, auto , strong 440.

The 68's represent the high water mark of the Muscle Car Years and the Chrysler Letter Cars D, F, G of the Fin Era for me, but the styling, power and appeal of the Pentastar products leave the other manufacturers in their wake. Not so one eyed that I cant appreciate other cool or desirable other guys ''pride and joy'' but there's few others I'd shell out to own.

[1carcrazyguy]

Came home from the hospital in my moms  71 Satellite Sebring Plus.  Dad had 2 70 Chargers at the time and had many, many Mopars over the years.  You just never knew what was going to be in the driveway when you got home from school!    Then when my oldest brother was old enough to drive.   He had a 68 Charger then a 69 Coronet R/T and a 70 Challenger R/T.  My other brothers, one had a couple of 72-74 Barracudas, another had a 66 Charger and then a 72 Charger, and another brother had a Duster and a 69 Road Runner......so  I guess I was just raised right and trying my best to carry on the tradition!! 

[brigond]

I love cars period ! When I was elementary school age me and a friend used to sit in our parents cars for hours, wishing we could drive. My parents gave me my first car. A very used 12 year old 1973 nova. One of the cars we used to sit in wishing. I finally saved enough money to buy my own first car. It was a 1968 charger that I drove in the later years of high school. Man I loved that car! I grew a great appreciation for mopars of all kinds. I had trouble keeping up with repairs and eventually sold it. That was sometime in the late 80s . In 1992 I was looking for another 68 with $5000 in hand. While looking , A friend of mine found a really nice 1964 impala SS for sale. Though it wasn't the car I was looking for, it was in such great shape, and i was itching for something to drive. I bought the Impala.
   I have been yearning for a mopar  ever since. I could have sold the Chevy sooner and I almost did so many times but I was attached. As you may have noticed I have trouble giving up things I really like.  The wife has no problem with my car hobby but one at a time only. It took me all these years to give in to my charger wants. I sold the Impala last December to search for my "Hot Wheels car".  I was originally looking for 68 to  70 chargers. As I came across the 3rd generation chargers , I added them to the search. After all these years of wanting to get back into a charger , it  finally happened . I ended up with a 1971 charger S/E 383. I paid $15 k with a few grand left over for toys and improvements. I have arrived!!!!! 

[CaptMarvel]

Love the whole Mopar "look" hard to explain, I guess they're just cleaner and sleeker looking than alot of the old GM stuff. Seems like GM and Ford always had more sharper, incongruous body lines and big nasty ugly eggcrate grilles and weird tail panels..Chrysler was always different, even their trucks looked cleaner than their
counterparts....compare say, a 67 Caprice, Buick, Olds or Impala with a 71 Roadrunner or 69 Charger..just different worlds...I guess the closest thing to the Mopar style was some of the AMC stuff, which I've also always liked..It never hurt that Mopars werent slouches in the performance dept either...Also, I hit driving age in the late 70's when my dad was buying mostly Dodges and Chryslers, guess I grew up on them..I do like the looks of some late 60s Novas, GTOs and Cougars, but I'll die a Chrysler guy..