Cars

Ken on February 16th, 2012

I’ve got 2 small block Mopars sitting in my garage and I want to find a car for one of them. One is a 273 and the other is a 360. The 273 was the stock engine in my 66 Barracuda so if I rebuild it, I’ll probably build it pretty close to stock. I [...]

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Ken on March 20th, 2011

I haven’t had a good daily driver since my wife started driving our Subaru wagon, so my next project is definitely going to be a daily driver for myself. I need something practical, so I’m thinking along the lines of a Pinto station wagon (or possibly an Accord wagon). I really like the Honda, but [...]

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Ken on February 15th, 2011

I’d pretty much given up on the idea of ever getting a 1970 Cuda but the economy continues to suck and prices are “relatively” affordable. Besides I’m letting my wife buy a house this year so she owes me one:) My first car was a 1970 Barracuda (Vitamin C Orange and Slapstick automatic) and letting [...]

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Ken on January 11th, 2011

I’ve pretty much decided that my next project is going to be a 1971-74 Dodge Coronet. My first choice would be a 1973 Coronet Crestwood station wagon because that’s what my parents had when I was a kid and I have a lot of good memories of family trips, learning how to drive, partying, etc. [...]

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Ken on April 21st, 2010

We just bought a Honda S2000 for my wife and I’ve been doing some reading on it. Many of the reviewers compare its performance (note: the S2000 is no longer in production) favorably with cars costing up to 3 times as much – that puts the S2000 into Chevy Corvette and Dodge Viper territory. So [...]

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Ken on April 14th, 2010

With all the crap going on with my 66 Barracuda, I really felt like I needed an easy project to take my mind off of it for awhile so I started looking for something different. I was hoping to find another Mopar. Instead I found a 1962 Buick Special station wagon. This should be a [...]

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Ken on April 11th, 2010

It wasn’t supposed to happen – I wanted my 66 Plymouth Barracuda to be a turn-key car, not a project car. All that went to s*** last week. The shop that installed the engine and did the transmission conversion called and told me the number cylinder is dead (this is a brand Mopar 318). Engine [...]

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Ken on March 18th, 2010

Building your own project car can be challenging and fun and most important can save you a lot of money. Most custom shops charge a minimum of $65 an hour with the hours and dollars adding up fast. Even if you can’t do all the work on your car yourself – and not many can [...]

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