Re: old mopars drying up?

[Neal <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

good thoughts guys, but to play devils advocate heres a though: when i
graduated high school in '81, ( I'm 46, probably a bit younger than
most here) we thought the old rods and lead sleds  were for losers and
now  they seem to have made a comeback , albeit through the rat rod
thing . I even like them now and back when I was young  I wouldnt even
turn my head to look at them, except to say something nasty .maybe,
But still they have come back, so maybe there could be a second wind
down the road for our cars. This of course assumes that they are dying
out in interest, maybe, maybe not, as i said befoore with current
economy woes it's hard to say.
  Oh well, regardless of where current reality lies I like my old cars
and love working on them. I consider myself fortunate to have been in
the last generation of "cruisers" around here. Got my first Mopar in
fall of '81 (  it  was a Butterscotch  71 cuda with 75000 miles for
1800 bucks turnkey and drive away) and enjoyed  about 4 years of
"cruisin' the gut" every friday and saturday night, till drunken
rowdies and flowerbed urinating goons ruined it for everyone and the
cops shut it all down. So I feel  lucky  to have got to experience the
tail end of spontaneous cruising. Yes , it was probably better in the
early 70s when my big sisters would cruise their '60 Plymouth Fury,
but I still had a lot of fun on those friday and saturday nights
Memories of a lifetime.
 Now I talk to young kids about the gut and they just stare at you,
their whole idea of cruising is organized shows once a year with
cruising " events". I tell them about the "old days, when the rage was
Pro Street.They can't believe the mad thrash we used to go through to
take the car apart Sunday morning  for your next upgrade and get it
all back together by the next Friday nite. Wish I had some of that
energy now. LOL
  neal zimmerman, eugene oregon

On 6/27/10, Dooner Funderburk <doonerfunderburk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jeff, I'm glad you enjoyed.
>
> The thing is, it all boils down to what makes you happy. If you don't enjoy
> it, it ain't worth it. If thinking about the history is what does it for
> you, that's the way you should go about this hobby. Me? I would be happiest,
> if everyone had an old car that they loved, and everyone got together to
> make it the best car for them (fantasy world). I would love to see at least
> one day a month, where there are so many old cars on the road, that everyone
> that doesn't have one, pulls over and gets out of their car and watches them
> go by.
>
> And see, you get the thumbs up. Doesn't matter who you are and what you look
> like, 9 times out of 10, you are going to get a positive reaction.
>
> For being the last generation that loves these cars, it saddens me when my
> boys point to a four door car from the 80s and 90s and says, "Look Daddy,
> there is a car like yours." I have to remember that those are old cars to
> them.
>
> Have fun and enjoy that old car.
> Dooner
>
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> From: "Jeff Adams" <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: old mopars drying up?
>
>>
>> I liked your response Dooner... pretty clever at the end. I've always
>> looked at my Polara as a piece of history, wondered where it has been,
>> how many family vacations, etc. Sometimes I think it sure would be
>> easier and cheaper to build a late model muscle car, but then I think it
>> would look just like a lot of other cars on the road. Every time I drive
>> mine, I either get a thumbs up or looks from people on the street. I see
>> myself as just the current caretake of the car (as mentioned here
>> before) and someday when I can no longer drive it, I hope the next owner
>> will look at it the same way. I agree that for the most part we are the
>> last generation to look at these cars the way we do, and that's a shame.
>> The more of these old cars we pull from the weeds and save, the more of
>> them on the street, and hopefully the odds of getting some younger
>> people's attention will go up. But even if that's not the case, we have
>> saved some history, shared, and enjoyed it through OUR lives, and that's
>> made the whole trip worthwhile to me! Fell off my soapbox, so I guess
>> I'm done now.
>>
>> Harold Dooner Funderburk wrote:
>>>
>>> This is just my opinion on ALL old cars dying out.
>>>
>>> Everybody always seems to go the show car or original (worth more $$$)
>>> route. Not too many people build drivers. I want mine for driving, not
>>> for
>>> show or resale.
>>> Also, I feel that the original route is bad. Let's just say, that one of
>>> you
>>> guys come up with a bad heart. The doctor says he can easily fix/replace
>>> it.
>>> You can either choose one of the same year model (same age as you, just
>>> taken care of a little better), or you can get a younger, more powerful
>>> one,
>>> that will last a long time. Which would you choose? Don't you think, if
>>> that
>>> old car could talk, she would choose the younger more powerful one?
>>> Then after the doctor fixes you, do you want to go home and have a great
>>>
>>> life, OR do you want to be put in a nursing home where you and your
>>> fixes
>>> can just sit there and wither away. I don't think that old car would
>>> just
>>> choose to be locked in the garage.
>>>
>>> I LOVE old cars. Not for the history, but for the style. New cars just
>>> don't
>>> have the style that old cars have (why do you think they are trying to
>>> make
>>> Challengers and Camaros look so much like the old ones). But the old
>>> cars
>>> don't have the technology that new cars do. So take an old stylish car
>>> and
>>> modernize it. Go with fuel injection, six speed automatic, four wheel
>>> disc
>>> brakes, electric fan and fuel pump, and any other modern device you can
>>> get
>>> on her. Then drive her every chance you get. Drive her around the world
>>> if
>>> you can. Show her that you really love her.
>>> And you can be some old wrinkly camel smokin' fart, some fat young
>>> pimple
>>> faced kid, OR anything in between,...... but if you are driving an old
>>> car,
>>> you got style.
>>>
>>> This announcement has been brought to you by the Just My Opinion
>>> Foundation.
>>> All opinions are sole property of me and are there for sharing, to
>>> entertain
>>> you, OR to get you to thinking for yourself.
>>>
>>> Thank you for listening,
>>> Dooner
>>>
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>>> From: <chymar01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:39 PM
>>> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: Re: old mopars drying up?
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Yeah, I've noticed that as well. Especially the last two years or so.
>>> > I used to find stuff on a pretty regular basis(I'm in NJ), but the
>>> > finds
>>> >
>>> > have dropped dramatically. I think we lost quite a few rebuildables
>>> > when
>>> >
>>> > the scrap prices shot up two years ago. Here it was over $16/100lbs. I
>>> > picked up an '87 Ramcharger, tok off the bumpers, radiator, A/C
>>> > compressor
>>> > and evaporator, wheels and a bunch of other stuff and still got nearly
>>> > $500 for scrap. One of the local junkyards closed to daily business and
>>> > started clearing out the old stuff and anything heavily picked over.
>>> > They
>>> > made 35k in a month.
>>> > Seems all I can find now are really nice, expensive cars or completely
>>> > trashed projects not worth resurrecting.
>>> >
>>> > Mark
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > From: "Neal" <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> > To: "1962to1965mopars" <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:19:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>> > Subject: old mopars drying up?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Hi all, I have been noticing that here locally there just doesnt seem
>>> > to be that many old mopars ( or musclecars period) advertised as much
>>> > or as often as five years ago. Seems like the various craigslists
>>> > cities here in oregon used to offer up all sorts of mopars, but
>>> > lately over the last couple years, u just don't see that much
>>> > advertised. Can we assume that all the old Mopars have been harvested
>>> > or is the economy making people play their cards close to the chest
>>> > and hold out on selling hoping for a better day?
>>> > You guys used to tease me aBOUT HOW MANY mOPARS i WOULD FIND IN
>>> > OREGON HERE FOR SALE, some of which I bought, but now its a rare day.
>>> > Just wondering if you guys see this drying up in other parts of
>>> > the country as well
>>> > neal zimmerman, eugene oregon
>>> >
>>> >
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>>
>>
>> Jeff Adams
>> 64 Polara
>>
>>
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>> Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person --
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>> recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect
>>
>> your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content
>> signal to Mopar topic.  Thanks!
>>
>> 1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
>> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and
>> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.
>>
>
>
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> Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person --
> directly to that person.  I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations
> as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to
> the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy,
> reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar
> topic.  Thanks!
>
> 1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and
> http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.
>
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