Mopars and thin air

[High Plains Mopars]

I've been lurking for a couple months and figured it was time to register and play.

My name is Tony and I live in Colorado, where hte air is thin and the cars are slow. Preference is towards mopars, but I can appreciate improving handling aspects of any classic. I've been into the handling aspect of cars since the early 80s with my first foray into oval track racing. I've played with drag cars as well, I currently have one in the garage as a matter of fact, but have always hated slowing down for traffic and corners. Started building my first pro touring car in the early 90s (before anyone really knew what it was, we called 'em canyon carvers) and people thought I was kind of nuts. It was a 67 GTX with big brakes, big springs, and decent power. Of course it has taken me so long to finish it that pro-touring has become the rage since then. I also have a 73 Challenger that is going the same route, although it may have more of a vintage trans am vibe (picture attached, I hope). In any case, it will haul butt too. I sell parts as a sideline to help finance my toys and can often be found at Mopar meets though out the Rockies. I'm always shocked by how so many mopar enthusiasts miss the whole point of suspension build ups and are perfectly content to restore adn drive 40 year old technology.

[Steve68]

Welcome Tony, Good to see some Mopars on the board, I have some friends that live in Denver an Longmont, I'm in FL, go up to go 4 wheeling, lots of fun, later Steve

[OLDFLM]

Welcome Tony!
I'm in Colorado Springs...
V/R,
Ty

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Welcome to the site, Tony. Nice challenger!

[TonyHuntimer]

Welcome Tony!

I love to see more Mopars and Fords pop up on this website!

Enjoy,
Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

[ZZ430]

Heya Tony, good to see you here.

What part of Colorado?

[Steve1968LS2]

Welcome Tony!!! We love Mopars here

Your gonna LOVE the July issue of PHR.. It's Mopar mania..

Anyways, welcome to the site and it's nice to have some variety here..

[High Plains Mopars]

Thanks for the welcome. I'm in Colorado Springs and have to admit, I'm kind of suprised to see a couple other posts from here. Very cool. Have any of you participated in CECA (Colo Exotic Car Assoc)road events? They occasionally rent road courses in the state and have open track days. These would be a great way to go out and test those suspensions.


TC

[skeevay]

I'm Breathing the thin air too....a warm welcome from Fort Collins!!

[Andrew McBride]

Welcome aboard! Great looking car you got there.

Andrew

[F1 Speed]

Welcome Tony,
I'm based out of the North Denver area.

[High Plains Mopars]

Thanks for the nice comments on the car. Believe or not that only represents a little over $2000 investment to date. I got a heckuva deal on the car itself but it looked like a late 70s holdout with air shocks, M50s with deep reverse Cragars, long shackles and shag carpet. I had enough spare parts sitting around the garage that putting some heavy duty springs and sway bars with some 12" disc rotors have made a world of difference. A few weekends sanding and buffing the paint brought the shine back to it. I had originally intended to use it in the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge but I'm a little over budget at the moment. I still have the original engine and trans that I could sell off to bring me back into line with the intention of the rules, then maybe ...

[mopork]

Welcome to the board ! Your car looks killer, by the way I would almost kill for an old set of deep Cragars from the 70's



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