Pops owned at least 4 M bodies and I owned 2 in my early driving years. I missed them. So I agreed to sell my Volare wagon project to a friend of mine (kept some of the parts for myself) and went in search of a Diplomat.
I found a gem built by a Mopar nut. Freshened up and pretty heavily modified for an FMJ. Nearly every part on the car had either a factory or dealer catalog part number.
He built it around 2008 and just drove it on nice days and down to Chryslers at Carlisle from upstate NY a handful of times. He had some amazing B bodies and such. This car was just a side project for him.
While he clearly cared for the car I'm pretty sure what he built meant a lot more to an FMJ nuts like me...
Exterior repainted with a set of the deep alloys and 6 slot steel wheels (with vented caps)
A tuff wheel and seats wrapped in your Italian grandmother's finest couch plastic
318 with a 4bbl Edlebrock on a Mopar Performance Intake
P4452759 cam with 260/268 on 110 degrees
Big valve 360 heads
TTI longtube headers into dual 2.5" 304ss exhaust with X-pipe and Spintechs
2400 stall (General Bracket) Mopar Performance converter in a rebuilt non-lockup A904 with a shift kit.
8.25" LSD rear with 2.95s and 10" drums
FFI Front and Rear Firm Feel swar bars
FFI Tie rods and quick ratio arms
FFI Bilsteins all around
I found a gem built by a Mopar nut. Freshened up and pretty heavily modified for an FMJ. Nearly every part on the car had either a factory or dealer catalog part number.
He built it around 2008 and just drove it on nice days and down to Chryslers at Carlisle from upstate NY a handful of times. He had some amazing B bodies and such. This car was just a side project for him.
While he clearly cared for the car I'm pretty sure what he built meant a lot more to an FMJ nuts like me...
Exterior repainted with a set of the deep alloys and 6 slot steel wheels (with vented caps)
A tuff wheel and seats wrapped in your Italian grandmother's finest couch plastic
318 with a 4bbl Edlebrock on a Mopar Performance Intake
P4452759 cam with 260/268 on 110 degrees
Big valve 360 heads
TTI longtube headers into dual 2.5" 304ss exhaust with X-pipe and Spintechs
2400 stall (General Bracket) Mopar Performance converter in a rebuilt non-lockup A904 with a shift kit.
8.25" LSD rear with 2.95s and 10" drums
FFI Front and Rear Firm Feel swar bars
FFI Tie rods and quick ratio arms
FFI Bilsteins all around