In 1956 I got into Chrysler Cars with a 56
Plymouth Fury that I raced at more that 8 different drag strips. Many years
later when I sold it I had won a total of 51 drag strip competition
trophies. I became friends with most of the Mopar guys at the drag strip
because we were a minority group compared to all the Chevy's and Ford in
attendance at the drag strip. Over the years us older guys and a lot of younger
guys have stayed friends and kept in touch with each other over the years. Most
of us collect Chrysler Products today. We love them.!!!!!
OK, HERE IS MY QUESTION--- Why
is it a large percentage of Mopar guys will not sell the cars they know
they will never restore? More than 50 years of experience racing,
collecting, restoring,selling, trading and locating Mopar's has put me in
touch with Mopar guys that have 10, 20, 30 and more cars that are just
sitting and rusting like "Miss Belvedere" did.
EXAMPLE-- One friend who has more than 100 Chrysler 300's that are
mostly high performance letter series, and they are sitting and rotting
inside and outside his building. They will not sell
them. Two of my best friends each have Mopar collector cars--- The
one friend has a Chrysler 300-C conv, 300-F conv, 3 Barracuda Conv, 3 Challenger
Conv, 58 Fury, 58 Belvedere Conv, 58 Dodge Regal Lancer 500, 58 Dodge 2
dr D 500, 4 Imperials of which 2 are conv. and at least 20 other
rare Mopar cars and he has not restored one single car in the last 35
years. But he says someday---you know the rest.That is just one friend, I
will not go into what the other friend has sitting and rusting for fear of
putting you into tears. I have met way too many Mopar guys who let their
cars rot for a lot of different reasons but they will not sell
them!!!!
What really bothers me is I
have a lot of Chevy and Ford friends and if they do not restore their
cars, most of them sell them to a friend who will restore them.
Why don't more Mopar guys do that. By keeping their cars out of circulation
they are permitting the Ford and Chevy guys to have many more cars on the road
today and at car shows and events.
Hey, I
apologize in advance if I offend anybody by not being politically correct and
being nice, but I live in the real world. If you don't have the money to fix it
up, sell your Mopar to someone who will fix it up. It does not deserve to just
rot like "Miss Belvedere" did in Tulsa.!!!!!!
THIS E MAIL WAS INSPIRED BY ALL THE GUY
WHO SAID " HOW COULD TULSA LET THAT CARS DETERIORATE LIKE THEY DID".
WELL, DON'T WE HAVE A LOT OF TULSA GUYS WITHIN THE MOPAR FOLLOWING.!!!!!
------THINK ABOUT IT, WE ALL KNOW SOME OF THESE TULSA
GUYS.
Ron Swartley
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