Author: patrick66

41st Annual COMA Mopar show, shine and swap

Bring ’em out!

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My barn-find Charger

Ok, a closet-find. My son was going through a closet full of stuff that got stashed away and forgotten through the years. Out popped the Dukes Charger, an RC car we’d forgotten about. It’s dusty. We don’t have batteries or the controller, so it’ll …

My ’66 500 and I spend our 44th anniversary together

April 1 is the day I bought my Coronet 500 from my brother-in-law in 1980, taking possession of it one year later to the day, as I returned from my first duty station in Alaska.

Beware the Ides of March

Oh, and today is Pi Day (3/14)…Friday is the Ides of March. And Sunday (3/17) is my personal favorite – Saint Patrick’s Day!!!

Anyone notice Zuckerbook is down?

Yup, FB apparently imploded, at least temporarily, across the US this morning, 5 March. Mine kicked me off and logged me out, and wouldn’t let me log back in. My wife, several of her friends, and my sister are also all off.

Anyone else enjoying the …

Radio “delete”

Radios were an option on all ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Mopars that I can think of. Even a heater was an option in most car and truck lines for many years. Push-button automatic cars were available with a three-speed column shifter as standard, in most cases; or a three-speed floor shifter.

Point being, the block-off plate for those features really should be referred to as a “fill plate”, IMO. It would be dumb to refer to the transmission fill plate as a “transmission-delete plate”, right…

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Picking up a ’66 Coronet 440 sedan this weekend

Got a line on a complete ’66 Coronet 440 four-door this week, priced very well for a "B"-body of any kind these days. Haven’t bought a project of any kind in close to four years. I’ll fire off pics of it once it’s sitting in my driveway. T…