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Page 2 -> 2009 All Mopar Spring Roundup
Page 3 -> Mopar videos
Page 4 -> CarDomain Member Map
Page 5 -> Random photos from May 2007
Page 6 -> My stereo sucks
Page 7 -> 2007 Mopars Unlimited Spring Roundup
Page 8 -> My car makes Grassroots Motorsports!
Page 9 -> My car at the CarDomain Employee Car Show
Page 10 -> March 1966 Car Life road test and vintage ads
Page 11 -> My drip pan

I’ve owned this car for seven years. It’s my third Mopar.
I had a Slant 6 powered 63 Valiant convertible in college in the late 80s.
I had a 383 powered 70 Fury III convertible in the mid-90s.
To quote Al Pacino, "Every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in!"

 

 

Big Block B-body
Rust-free California car with original drivetrain & paint
361 Commando V8 with floor shift 727 automatic
Black bucket seat interior with center console
Built at the Lynch Road assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan

Modifications
Master Power disc brakes
Edelbrock Performer 383, dual-plane, high performance manifold
Edelbrock 600cfm carburetor with electric choke
Hooker Super Competition headers
Flowmaster dual exhaust
Mopar Performance electronic ignition
Accel Super Stock coil
Street cam
K&N Air Cleaner filter with chrome air cleaner cover
15 x 8 Magnum 500s
BF Goodrich Radial T/A 235/60/15s front, 255/60/15s rear
Juliano's retractable 3-point shoulder harness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Seattle Mopars Unlimited Spring Roundup 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Seattle Mopars Unlimited Spring Roundup 2004

 

 

 

 

Master Power disc brake kit

 

 

Goodbye drums

 

 

Goodbye scary single chamber master cylinder

 

 

Hello power disc brakes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOS 67 headrests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dig the rusty valve covers

 

 

 

 

Trim is in pretty good shape

 

 

255s fit just right in back

 

 

Still, thinking mini tubs might be cool...

How to mini tub a 60s Mopar

Factory undercoating on a California car. How cool is that?

 

 

Juliano's retractable 3-point shoulder harness install (done before the headrests)

 

 

 

 

No build sheet, but no rust either

 

 

All original back seats

 

 

Trunk before with slight surface rust. Note the factory spackle paint. Chrysler started painting trunks body color later in the model year.

 

 

Trunk after

 

 

I need the rear-most section of the center console. Looks like this. Let me know if you have one for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next
Torsion bars, leaf springs, shocks
Auto Meter gauges
Keystone Klassics

 

 

Production Numbers

35,399 Satellites were built in 1966
4,149 hardtops were built with the 361 2-bbl (754 4-speed cars)
7,795 hardtops were built with the 383 4-bbl (3,929 4-speed cars)
817 hardtops were built with the 426 Hemi (534 4-speed cars)
384 verts with the 361 (73 4-speed cars)
489 verts with the 383
and only 27 Hemi verts!!!