Will this BIG BLOCK Chrysler RUN & DRIVE After 35 YEARS??

Kevin, Harold was a friend of my great-grandmother. He taught aircraft maintenance in the Navy and lived to be 100 years old. My mom said she had been in that car many years ago.

Owner's Manual: "Now this is a little different than most transmissions. First up, drive doesn't work but third does. Neutral is park, Reverse is second. If you want to use reverse, put it in drive. And the accelerator sticks so be careful but don't be afraid of it, You gotta give it to her or it's gonna stall. ---Ricky LaFleur

Thank you SO much for "making me buy" this Pinto! I'm already in love with it just from the little rip I've had in it. Really appreciate you trusting me to carry on the next chapter of this car, and you best believe I'm getting you out here to come race it sometime soon! Watching this ending, I definitely wish I had hung around a bit later for Bingo but the road was calling and the miles ahead were long ones! Gotta say, this ending really couldn't have been better!

No way, 2 videos in a week ?

The last bit of you guys rolling down the street after pushing the car was hilarious

Chrysler had 2 Big Block engine options. The "B" and the "RB" raised block. Many of the parts were interchangeable minus the Intakes. 361, 383, and 400 were "B" designation, and 350, 413, 426, and 440 were "RB" designation. The "B" engines had a 3.38 stroke whereas the "RB" had a 3.75 stroke. For identification on the "B" there was a slanted embossment in front of the driver's side head, and for the "RB" there was an embossment in front of the intake near the distributor. If you wanted to build a Mopar, you have one of the best beginning platforms to work with right there sir. Hope to see something special with this one, can't wait to see the next video.

My parents had a 76 Newport Custom. The memories of stuffing three high school students in the trunk and eight up front going to the drive-in movie theater are priceless. Took that car on trips across America and that 400 was a dream ride.

Harold was a navy vet who taught aircraft maintenance and inflight radar training. Pretty cool dude.

It's rare to find a Chrysler from the 70s WITHOUT a rust inducing vinyl top.Such a sweet old girl...She deserves a few more miles under her wheels...

All the best for your Marriage Digs & Mook. The best thing I ever did was put a ring on it! Love from the UK.

Ricky from trailer park boys would be proud 😂😂😂😊😊😊

That unmistakable sound of the Chrysler starter. My Dad had a 77 New Yorker with the 400 in it. That thing was a rocket... In a boxcar

One thing to remember about those - they're "Lean Burn". If you replace plugs, you need a very wide gap - .060" to .080", which they did because the mixture was lean enough that the longer spark was needed to fire it. Trust me on this - .035" gap just does not cut it, it'll run like cr@p ( - y'know, like it's doing...) You can ditch the whole lean-burn apparatus; just plumb-in a regular distributor. MOPAR distributors had three different styles; the only one that won't fit is a 440 distributor, because the 440 is a "RB" (raised-B) and the drive shaft is 1" too long. The 400 is a "B" engine, like the 383; be warned tho', the 318 / 340 / 360 (the "A" engines) distributor will fit just fine, but it'll (again) run like cr@p because the 318 / 340 / 360 distributor turns the other way - you can tell them apart because the vacuum advance canister points the opposite way - so your centrifugal advance actually retards spark instead of advancing it. Quick way to tell if you're wandering a junkyard looking for one, the "A" engine distributors are on the back of the engine, the "B" / "RB" distributors are on the front passenger-side, and you can tell a 440 by looking in front of the driver's side, just to the right of the left-side head; the 440 has a large rectangular cast iron lump, flat-topped, likely with 440 stamped on it; the 383 / 400 don't have that lump. So a 383 / 400 distributor is what you need, and if you look back far enough, you can get one with points. If not, the standard MOPAR fender-mount control box is a reasonably good system, and parts are cheap but they're getting hard to find. If you feel like blowing a whole lot of money on the car - and something tells me you don't - the 400 block has significantly bigger bores than the 440, and you can make wicked huge strokers out of them. And the Torqueflite trans had the rep' in the day of being the toughest auto of them all. Cheers!

I had a a car exactly like that except it was blue back in the early 90's. I got it from my father in law for $300. That lean burn system castrates these engines so, we ended up swapping in another carb and putting in a points distributer. Ran like a different car entirely. I drove it until I gutted the spider gears doing burnouts lol. I sat on blocks for 3 months before we found a posi axle from a Cordoba to bolt under it. Ended up selling it for $500. I drove it for about 2 years altogether and it had a really smooth ride on the interstate but, my wife at the time kept high centering it on the train tracks near the apartment we lived in. Seeing this video brought back some memories of that POS and gave me a chuckle.

The tow truck wheelie through the intersection very impressive guys. Good luck.

I'm going to assume these guys have never seen Trailer Park Boys

I’m an Aussie bloke, and I love these 70’s 4 door sedans/boats. Large 70’s Australian cars were Ford Fairlane, Holden Statesman and Chrysler Australia Valiants, all 3 are still cool. I don’t know when “The Car Community “ decided that only 2 door cars where the go, I blame the “reality TV” car soap operas. 🇦🇺🤙🏼

Big Green Meanie lives... for the moment. You two are single (double) handedly saving Malaise Era Land Yachts one car at a time. Your next adventure needs to be a Lincoln Continental

The Official Car of Canada, right down to the color and interior. Cool factor 10! Sweet Mopar - fires right up. 400's were fantastic.

I always enjoy the comedy between Angus and Kevin those two act like brothers that always have a good time. That is the greenest car I have ever seen