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Noob
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:12 am
by Serious Satellite
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2508363
New member partial to the 73-74 fuselage style Plymouth Satellite line, but love everything MOPAR. The love affair began back in the day, the seventies, and has continued to this day. The above link will show pictures of a neglected and abused east coast Satellite Sebring that I'm beginning to restore after bringing it to Ohio last year.
Love this site. It's nice to find a site dedicated to my favorite line of cars!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:36 am
by 71GTX
Welcome to the nest!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:18 am
by pistol grip
Welcome HoosierSat.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:20 am
by gionni
welcome and have fun!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:56 am
by CtownRunner
Welcome,
and enjoy the ride to restoration! Is this your first collector car?
Collector Car
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:08 am
by Serious Satellite
If you're talking Matchbox or Hot Wheels, no. I owned a ton of them back in the sixties!
I owned a 73 Road Runner back in the day until my brother totalled it when I was in basic training for the Army in 1978. Still don't know what he was doing driving it instead of his Charger SE. When I was stationed in Ft. Carson, I found a 74 Satellite Sebring Plus. I think I paid like 800 bucks for that car. It was right after the gas crisis so the larger cars and engines were going dirt cheap. What did I care? The Army was paying for everything else, I figured I could afford the gasoline.
The same brother wound up in financial problems, lost his car, and was walking to work trying to raise two sons. I sold him that Satellite for fifty bucks--all he could afford--and that thing lasted him for ten years.
I bought the current project for 700 bucks in Virginia and drove it home to Dayton, Ohio. I have to rebuild/replace the tranny since it's lost third gear, it has a 318 ci engine in it which will soon be hi po'd with 340 heads, camshaft etc. I'm gonna keep it small block, but use the old 340 heads to help put out something that looks like horsepower.
It'll stay a Satellite. I'm not cloning it, but I am adding a Bulge Hood--which I bought for 100 bucks on e-bay, delivered to the door--and Cargraphix has a 73/74 Roadrunner stripe package with the script and Road Runner character deleted. Saves about sixty bucks that way. Since the Road Runner was basically a trim package by this time, I figured it wouldn't hurt to embrace the Satellite for what it is but . . . sport it up a bit.
This has always been my favorite body style from Plymouth, heck from any car manufacturer. My brothers and I have owned everything from a 72 Powder Blue Satellite to a 74 Charger SE. My wife owned a 73 Road Runner and a Hemi Cuda. Both yellow! She now has a Plymouth Neon for the daily commute to work and refuses to part with it. So for our family it's always been Plymouth.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:15 am
by luvmoparz
Cool Story, Welcome!
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:34 am
by mopar71
Welcome to the nest.
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:32 pm
by 73 runner
Welcome to the nest, it is always nice to know someone who had or has a 73-74 model.
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:07 am
by Eric
Welcome to the nest, always room for another Buckeye!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:50 am
by bruce
Eric wrote:Welcome to the nest, always room for another Buckeye!!!
Nah, too MANY Buckeyes, we need more Hawkeyes, even transplanted ones like me!
Back on topic, welcome to the Nest!