Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "AMMO NYC"
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I stumbled onto this episode just now and it brings joy seeing a vintage Dodge from the 60's being preserved. this one was in very good survivor mode for a convertible from the rust belt? Anyway, It brings back memories of my parents old Dodge 330 station wagon with the slant six. It was the base trim so had the torque flite transmission with pushbutton controls.
Anyway, like this 880, it had AC, AM pushbutton radio, roof racks, wind deflectors on the D pillars, and full wheel covers. It was white with blue interior like this one, and came with only 2 lap belts standard, driver and front passenger, my late father added belts for the rest of the positions, front and back and had the dealer install them as we knew we'd need a new car to drove all the way across the country from Jacksonville FL to Washington State, and McChord AFB that year.
We end up moving out of this area in 1967 to Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, then to Jacksonville while he did his tour of Vietnam in 1968-69 and was asked where he'd wanted to retire, back to McChord and UP, which is what we did, so the wagon made the trip across the country twice.
We'd ended up keeping the car until 1977 and sold it then with about 145K miles on it and a second transmission, still running, though not great by then.
Due to that car, I have developed a soft spot for Chrysler products since then as we have had several other dodges/plymouths since then and I even had a 1968 Newport, never mind a base pillared 4 door for my first car in HS in the early 80's.
Both my grandmother's 2 door base 330 and our wagon were white with blue interiors, hers stayed white but we repainted our car in 1968 in a sky blue and it's now one of my top colors for a car.
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