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Mine was a 66 Chrysler Newport.

Bought it in the early 80s. Refrigerator White , 383 Big Block , push button transmission , a trunk you could comfortably fit 4 bodies in , ( not that I did ) and rode like a dream.

Paid 400 bucks for it in the early 80s. Fun cruiser . Fast for a land yacht too

Runner up was a 72 Plymouth Duster , had a 318 with 360 heads 727 transmission , headers , dual exhaust. Was a quick fun car you could fish tail like crazy.

Mine was a 66 Chrysler Newport. Bought it in the early 80s. Refrigerator White , 383 Big Block , push button transmission , a trunk you could comfortably fit 4 bodies in , ( not that I did ) and rode like a dream. Paid 400 bucks for it in the early 80s. Fun cruiser . Fast for a land yacht too Runner up was a 72 Plymouth Duster , had a 318 with 360 heads 727 transmission , headers , dual exhaust. Was a quick fun car you could fish tail like crazy.

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I had a 79 Aspen and a 73 Duster.

The Aspen had all of the late 1970s Chrysler problems. Bad transmission, bad electronic ignition, ass end completely rotted out, 318 smoked like train. Bought it in 89 and to get rid of it in 93 when the third TF904 we put under it died. It went to the scrapyard as a running junker for $75.

Duster had 50k on it when I bought it in 93, was on it's second set of tires and still had the original spare, was owned by the grandfather of a classmate and he'd left it when he died. Rotted out to the point of being unsafe to drive (no floorboards, torsion bars pulled out of the subframes, etc.) by 94. The Slant-6 in it probably is living on a tractor somewhere back home, that's where they seemed to end up.

The Aspen was a nice riding car, but it was a piece of shit. I'd still like to find one, tho.

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Lol , I had so many beat to hell Darts with slant6 motors. Those motors were pretty much indestructible !

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I had a Dart with the 318. Not much horsepower, but it was a great hill climber.

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They were. I meant it when I said mine probably ended up on something else, there were many repurposed slants running around on redneck farm equipment.

I'd trade a lot for the simplicity of that motor.