marty mopar Posted May 17, 2021 Report Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) Here I am with my 1st car: 1948 Dodge Club coupe. Around 1971 and 100.00. I was the 2nd owner. Engine took a dump shortly after I bought it. The transmission oil was just like silver paint....full of fine metal. Had to borrow some $ from my dad to buy a motor out of a wrecking yard. In the early 1970s there were lots of these in the Phoenix, AZ area sitting in front of houses. I would go by and ask if they wanted to sell the parts off of them. They invariably answered "no' but you can take it away for free. I had a friend that was a repo man so he had a tow truck. I was able to snag 3 of them for nothing. I had a bunch of them...all sedans that I stripped and then scrapped the bare body shells. At one point I had a "sledge hammer party" at my place. A totally bare body shell/frame awaited my friends. I remember we beat the crap out of the car shell. It was one tough SOB. I bought a nice 1948 Dodge business coupe and rebuilt the engine at Arizona State University in a class I took. That part of ASU is long gone. It turned out really nice. Ran great . Wish I still had that one. There were lots of those cars in wrecking yards so I snagged anything that was still good. I kept all of it and when I started my Mopar parts business I had lots of this to begin my inventory. This is what got me into the hobby and the business. My father told me he owned a D-24 business coupe in Massachusetts where I was born. He drove it full of samples from his father's "dry goods business" up to Maine and other areas near there. He told me my mom ripped the door handle off it as she never had good depth perception. I was born in in 1949 so I do not remember the car. The one thing that I always loved was the dash on the car: gobs of chrome set off with wood graining. Edited May 17, 2021 by marty mopar 4 Quote
Conn47D24 Posted May 17, 2021 Report Posted May 17, 2021 Well Marty, I for one, and I'm sure others here are happy you bought that car, and started you business. Several key parts on my D24 are from your stock. PS: I had the same hair in 1971 Quote
marty mopar Posted May 17, 2021 Author Report Posted May 17, 2021 Glad you liked my beginnings in the hobby Quote
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