This is a page for my brother's cars. First off, there's the 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus he had in high school. He did all of the work with a friend, including the paint. Originally driven by the proverbial 'little old lady', it was a fairly low mile 318 with the slap-stick automatic. He put on 360 heads, a Purple Shaft cam, and the neighborhood was never the same. Here's a picture from right after it was painted.
One time he put some monster tires in back to see if it would help with traction. It put the power to the ground all right, too bad it also broke both motor mounts and launched the engine into the hood.
That was the early 80s, and now as
the millenium has come, he was bitten by the Mopar bug again. One of the guys
working for him brought an old Coronet to his attention. It was a 1967 Coronet
440 four-door with a 318 automatic. Unfortunately, Jeff was never one to be
picture-happy, so we don't have any pictures of how it looked when he got it.
Like my Fury, it was obviously a one-driver car with the only wear to be found
on the driver's side of the bench seat...the certicard was even in the sleeve
on the radiator! It had been sitting on the side of the road for awhile with a
flat tire...just long enough that a couple of punks came along and broke all of
the glass except the front vent windows. It was the stock 318, but the previous
owner had put dual exhaust on it. The tranny was slipping but it would still
punch through the gears. The test drive with no windshield was fun. The guy was
asking $300 for it, which my brother paid under the condition that he track
down the needed glass. The deal was done about a week later, and the rest as
they say, is history. My brother and I did the same rebuilds to our car, so go
back to the Fury pages to see the performance parts
we added. His engine was in better shape than mine, but that's balanced by the
fact that the Fury's body is in better shape (and doesn't leak like a sieve
when it rains!). As if he didn't need it with the weight advantage, he's also
got 3.5x gears in the back over my slowpoke 2.79s. His 235/60/r14s and
Its hard to make out, but he's got a functional hood scoop which I gave him when I replaced the hood on my 1976 Mustang (after the hood flew up while driving down the road). The Go-Wing looks great on his car, and that dark gray on the passenger quarter panel is the color he's thinking of (stealing my idea for the metallic pewter...guess I'll have to go with the Turquoise Metal Flake). You can also see that he went pretty wild with the color scheme like the purple underhood and yellow washer bottle.
More Coronet pictures plus some burnout shots here!