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Fratzog
Old Man with a Hat
Yes, sad to see, yet the derby folks seem to be the only ones stepping up with cash. Hopefully parts get made available.
73Coupe
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The_Eagles’_Nest
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What’s that? The I have a “small pee pee” starter pack?
twostick
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Probably pre 67 full frame cars. 67 and up isn't much different structurally speaking than any other unibody Cbody.
Those full frame Imps had a well deserved reputation.
Kevin
73Coupe
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The more a pickup is made to look artificially bigger, the smaller the 'schvantz', as in the case of the knuckle dragger hauling away this Imperial to the derby.....
LocuMob
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I call it Little Dick Syndrome, or LDS.
YES!, In the late Seventies, in New Jersey anyway, they outlawed Imperials. I saw the entry form: "In fairness to all our competitors, no Chrysler Imperials"! My friends told me one time at the Flemington, NJ track that the only 2 cars left were Imperials and they just bashed away at each other! When I sold My '65 Crown Coupe a friend told it probably would be a derby car but the guy who bought told me no he wanted to drive it. When you sell a car there is nothing you can do about what the next guy is going to do.
WissaMan
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I went to many DD's as a child in the 80's and always rooted for the Chryslers. From what I saw, the late 60's Chryslers usually didn't do too well. I seem to remember them stalling out a lot and become sitting ducks. The rear ends also usually got bent straight up like a turkey tail. The 69-72 Chryslers usually seemed to do pretty well with their full wrap-around front bumpers. And the rear end usually compressed more straight.
Nowadays though I have no desire to watch anyone smash up old cars regardless of the brand.
Nowadays though I have no desire to watch anyone smash up old cars regardless of the brand.
Owen11x
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It's an absolute blast to send them off *** packing GM wagons and sedans though 
. Don't knock all of us derby guys. We're not all the same. Cracks me up though whenever derby is mentioned on this forum and it's send them straight to the cross type situation. We buy cars that are for sale. Anyone can buy them. We just buy them since no one else does
Perfect example the ABS on the 73 imperial I scrapped. I could have easily been greedy and accepted the $1000 offer I had for the complete abs system but I declined because shipping all that would have been a PITA so I accepted an offer that wasn't even near half of that original offer just so because he showed up and pulled the parts. Derby guys are not all dirt bags....
. Don't knock all of us derby guys. We're not all the same. Cracks me up though whenever derby is mentioned on this forum and it's send them straight to the cross type situation. We buy cars that are for sale. Anyone can buy them. We just buy them since no one else doesPerfect example the ABS on the 73 imperial I scrapped. I could have easily been greedy and accepted the $1000 offer I had for the complete abs system but I declined because shipping all that would have been a PITA so I accepted an offer that wasn't even near half of that original offer just so because he showed up and pulled the parts. Derby guys are not all dirt bags....
that's what surprised me. I thought they were banned by name owing to how they were built like brick shithouses.
On a side note, I'd imagine in a mad max scenario and if you had all the guzzoline you ever needed...a body on frame imperial could probably work. that, or a p71 crown vic.
57fury440
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I've always been turned off by the " I'm the new caretaker" thing. I've been a car guy all my life, but they are just metal, and the new owner bought that can do with it as he pleases. Some cars have a big following like the E bodies my son and I have, and others do not. Anyone could have bought that car, but a derby guy came with cash, and it is his to do what he wants with it. It doesn't make him a dirtbag, just a guy with a conflicting hobby. I like to see old cars saved and put back on the road, but it does not always work out.
Owen11x
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It's a lot of fun y'all should try it
57fury440
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Long Island is where the first demo derby was held. I think it was Islip speedway in the fifties.
Owen11x
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Track shot live started by Josh Decker out of New York is a great guy. Die hard Mopar guy. They live stream all over the US free viewing derbies live on YouTube. I will drag a car up and over there sometime before I hang it up.
Owen11x
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And I will add. Anyone willing to cough up $100 go to www.derbynation.tv.com and order the derby started yesterday to Sunday. At Bristol motor speedway. $400,000 in prize money you'll see we aren't a bunch of hillbilly red necks. And yes there are quite a few imperials running and 65-68 Chrysler wagons with imperial subs in them running this weekend. You'll see the best of the best in this sport.
71Polara383
Kid with ballcap
Seeing Mopar dominate in EVERY SINGLE MOTORSPORT is why it doesn't bother me. Now these-days, if you are tearing up a NICE driver for derby...eh you are a low form of life. But the unfinished projects? The cars YOU ALL say are junk and worthless in other FS threads...Screw it right?
Here is how it goes most of the time....
1. C body in poor/parts/project condition appears for sale.
2. It gets posted here, picked apart and rejected by the masses.
3. Someone finally steps up with Cash and buys it.
4. People Complain more now the car is going to die and how dumb demos are.
Maybe, just maybe, if folks were more optimistic about project cars posted for sale from other sites here, they would find homes that want to save them...But you old farts around here only want super solid, perfect survivor type cars or it's not worth the time/money/too big of a project... unless it's an ugly gold and white car or the dumb Plymouths with the stripes. Lurkers read that **** ya know.
Our discussions here have an impact on every C bodies fate that gets shared and discussed.
Here is how it goes most of the time....
1. C body in poor/parts/project condition appears for sale.
2. It gets posted here, picked apart and rejected by the masses.
3. Someone finally steps up with Cash and buys it.
4. People Complain more now the car is going to die and how dumb demos are.
Maybe, just maybe, if folks were more optimistic about project cars posted for sale from other sites here, they would find homes that want to save them...But you old farts around here only want super solid, perfect survivor type cars or it's not worth the time/money/too big of a project... unless it's an ugly gold and white car or the dumb Plymouths with the stripes. Lurkers read that **** ya know.
Our discussions here have an impact on every C bodies fate that gets shared and discussed.
Owen11x
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This is a small small glimpse of the hundreds I've had in my life. Perfect examples I remember where and how much a paid for every single one of these all were left for dead. Several came from scrap yards in South Dakota and Iowa. And all of these and dozens others I have/had have been posted on this forum for sale whole or parts and I've never had a single person buy a car from me on here. Just thousands of parts. Literally.
I have derbied only one car I actually regret wrecking and I was 19 at the time and I still regret it today. But it was for the metal mayhem derby and it was 10,000 to win so it took the best car money could buy at that time.
Now rust don't bother me as much because it means I can add plate to the body and frame and it ends up better in the end within reason. But I know from experience no one will buy these cars in dead state. We can play a game though these are all recent within 2 years or so since I've had this phone guess the prices and then tell me what you'd pay for the car as seen. And I'll tell you what I paid for the car as is plus traveling for them. And yes every single one has rust in the body and or needed stub repairs
I have derbied only one car I actually regret wrecking and I was 19 at the time and I still regret it today. But it was for the metal mayhem derby and it was 10,000 to win so it took the best car money could buy at that time.
Now rust don't bother me as much because it means I can add plate to the body and frame and it ends up better in the end within reason. But I know from experience no one will buy these cars in dead state. We can play a game though these are all recent within 2 years or so since I've had this phone guess the prices and then tell me what you'd pay for the car as seen. And I'll tell you what I paid for the car as is plus traveling for them. And yes every single one has rust in the body and or needed stub repairs
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