Posted by John Schwartz on Saturday, October 06, 2007 at 20:26:45 :
Hi, my name is John and I am a MOPAR ADDICT!!
I have owned 3-68 cudas,1-69 cuda, 1-72 Fury, a 73 duster, and have 2-85 Ramchargers right now.
I wish to introduce the one that got me hooked to begin with.....my Grandads old 67 W200 PowerWagon!
You can see pictures I just took If you follow the link
Best way I could figure to show you all the details
It was bought new back then w/a 383 4 speed. My grandad passed in 79 and he had sold the truck to my Cousin. He added the brush buster and winch and generally used the truck for what it was designed for! He sold it to his nephew(another cousin) 5 yrs ago. Now it has come back to me
I don't know If I will restore it(doubt it), but I do want to fix the rust issues. I just got the VPW catalog yesterday abnd have spent hundreds in my head already I do want to make it a nice looking truck, just not a concours restoration. I plan on using 'My Beast'. It just has to many issues for me to fix all of them, I only have so much money at a given time, and too many other things fighting for a part of it. I am probably going to pull the cab to fix all the rust and replace the rubber mounts so the body lines up again. The bed may get replaced with a sheet of plate steel eventually.
The truck runs and drives, although the clutch sticks down sometimes. I'm not going to be driving it on the road until I fix that!! My cousin put buckets in the front and I hate 'em. What benches will fit this thing with little or no mods?
The only things that are going to drive me nuts is having my knees by my face and manual steering SUCKS imho.
I probably won't post a lot as I belong to a few other forums relating to my other hobbies(xs11.com, therustybunch.com,ramchargercentral.com........)BUT I will definately be here a couple times a week checking s**t out!! Cool site and I can't get enough of good old Mother. (mama MOPAR that is)
Keep up the great work and I hope to be able to contibute something to the site someday.
I also posted this on the Sweptline forum.
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