Unless you live under a rock somewhere, you are aware by this point that Dodge’s CEO and America’s all-around spokesman for late model muscle cars, Tim Kuniskis, “retired” very abruptly from being the CEO of Dodge and Ram trucks on May 17, 2024. We got the good fortune to know Tim after initially meeting Stellantis design chief Ralph Gilles, and throughout 2022 to 2024, Tim made numerous appearances in the pages of MCG and landed on our cover several times. To say we were stunned with his retirement wouldn’t be accurate, but rather, we were taken aback by the timing of it; we knew it was coming, we didn’t anticipate it coming that quickly. Obviously, with deals of this size, there are generally NDA’s (non disclosure agreements) between the exec and the company, so that’s why we haven’t seen any interviews with Tim since his retirement and we aren’t likely to for months, or until he announces his arrival at his next major career. Tim is a hardcore car guy who is passionate about performance and he was proud as hell of what they were doing at Dodge, he’s not just going to sit back at his age and stay out of the industry. Kuniskis will turn up somewhere else, we’d predict not that long into the future. There’s a deeper meaning for all of us regarding Tim’s retirement, but we’ll have a write up on that in an upcoming issue asap – and you guys aren’t going to like it, but, don’t shoot us, we’re just the piano players. Before we get that article out, watch for some other major Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram execs to retire or bail out. That said, we wish nothing but good luck and good fortune to our friend Tim who did so much to push the SRT group forward and bring us all the spectacular modern Mopar muscle cars of the last decade. We’ve not seen the last of Tim Kuniskis, the question is, what company will be fortunate enough to grab him before someone else does?

Quicksilver ’35 Dodge Coupe

Gary Reed in Colorado has one of the more radical ’35 Dodge coupes you’re ever going to run across, and this thing is all-Mopar from one end to the other. As they often say, anything worth doing is worth over-doing, so, when Gary decided to turn his somewhat derelict coupe into a street rod, he swung for the fences. Gary was one of the fortunate few who managed to find a wrecked Viper in a salvage yard, so the coupe now sports the big Copperhead V10 from the Viper, along with its six-speed stick. Needless to say, dropping the hammer on this one can produce a lot of tire smoke, but, Gary wanted it to be long-haul comfortable as well as seriously fast. To that end, you’ve got leather power seats, power windows, a GPS navigation system, Dakota Digital gauges, electric power brakes, a monster sound system, air conditioning, you name it. As is the case with most street rods, above all else, this one was built for driving and making every local cruise night and local car show event anywhere near home. If the snow isn’t all over the ground, on any given weekend, you’ll likely find the slick silver coupe rolling somewhere. And, with all the modern creature comforts inside the cabin and the slicked up and smoothed body of the ’35, which was already pretty slick to begin with, this one is hard to miss. Kudos to Gary for thinking outside of the box on this one, and hopefully we’ll get to see it in person soon.

Lifelong Infatuation ’72 Road Runner

Dennis McMillan became obsessed with long-nosed B-bodies when he was only thirteen. He visited a cousin back east, and a friend of his had a black ’71 Satellite; the boy instantly fell in love with the car. He spent the rest of that trip reading his cousin’s Mopar magazines he had laying everywhere, and before the trip was over, he knew he had to have one of these things. Being a lad on a limited budget in high school (weren’t we all), Dennis managed to find a B5 blue ’72 Road Runner that was a hot mess and was largely taken apart. He brought most of the car home in boxes, and over the course of the next few years, he restored it back to largely stock specs, with a few minor updates, and he had it ready for graduation and ran the wheels off it for the next two decades. Then, seeing more and more people doing long-distance tours and eyeing the RestoMod cars, he decided it was time for some major and radical updates for his faithful steed. He managed to find a 2010 Challenger SRT in a local salvage yard that made an excellent donor vehicle, and doing most of the work himself, Dennis transformed the ‘Runner into the seriously slick blue cruiser you see here. The car now sports the SRT New Gen Hemi, backed by a six-speed stick. He also moved most of the Challenger’s interior over to the B-body. Actually, he moved almost everything that was left of the SRT over to the Road Runner! It’s now got SRT giant slotted rotors, ABS, traction control, the navigation system, tpms sensors, a killer sound system, and, Dennis can even activate the “beep beep” horn with his key fob now. The car’s a lot more sinister now in it’s second ground-up rebuild, but being only forty-six now, we highly expect there will still be more changes down the road for the deep blue screamer. In the meantime, this one is living proof that an individual can build something that looks every bit as good as most custom shops even on a working guy’s budget. If you’ve got the elbow grease, the time, and a halfway decent workshop, here’s proof that anything’s possible.

What’s that sound?! You’re hearing hundreds of Mopar powered vehicles getting ready to invade Beech Bend Raceway this September. That’s right, Holley’s 5th annual MoParty™ returns to Beech Bend Raceway this September 13-15, 2024. Numerous event segments tailored for Mopar enthusiasts abound including autocross, 3S Challenge, drag racing and more! Other events like a dyno challenge, burnout competition and car show will take place, making this one of the wildest Mopar parties ever held. The event is open to any ride utilizing a Mopar engine, including AMC. For more information on specific events, or to make reservations to get in on the fun, check out the site at moparty.com! You won’t want to miss Holley’s MoParty!

There are Superbirds and then there are Superbirds. Clayton King recently sent us some photos of a rather legendary ‘Bird in the hobby that we hadn’t seen in a while, but we were decently acquainted with many years ago. Behold, the magical 440+6 four-speed Superbird of Rick Edwards Sr., the car’s original owner, but it’s now co-owned with his son, Rick Jr. The pair of Ricks live in Northern Kentucky, and if this car could talk, it would put most winged cars to shame. This photo was taken at the 2024 Cavalcade of Customs in Cincinnati, Ohio, but the crazy cool thing about this car is that it’s been Rick Seniors near daily-driver ever since it was new. With 171,000 miles on the odometer now, the ‘Bird has been all over the country; California, Wisconsin, Chicago, it’s made many trips to Talladega, and it’s been a regular at winged car meets since the late 1970’s. Heck, Rick and Rick even drove it to the MCACN show in 2022 in the middle of a blinding snow storm!

Almost everything you’re looking at is original as well – this is a true survivor in every sense of the word. Yes, the tires have been changed several times, some hoses, belts, basic maintenance items, but Rick has taken immaculate care of the car since new. One of the coolest bits of proof as to how much this car was enjoyed is atop the driver’s door. There’s about a foot-and-a-half section on top of the door where the paint’s worn down to whitish-looking primer, because Rick always used to hang his arm out of the door on long distance road trips! Hey, it gets hot in these things when you’re going cross country!

We’re glad to see this famed survivor Superbird back out in circulation again, and even more pleased that it’s going to stay in the family probably forever, so, we don’t have to worry about anyone grabbing it and killing its history or personality by doing a ground-up restoration on a car that’s a reference piece of originality. Thanks to Clayton for the photos, and all we can say to the Edwards family is well done, and keep on rolling up those miles and having fun!

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Don’t believe the rumors! MoParty is not cancelled for 2024!

The internet is a crazy place of wild speculation and conspiracy theories, not all of them untrue, but you never know what to believe anymore. Because Holley has not released their 2024 MoParty show dates as of yet, there’s a lot of speculation that the show isn’t going to happen. According to my sources at Holley, just yesterday, that is not the case. The MoParty is definitely happening in 2024, and the dates will be released very soon. Sign up for alerts on Mopar1source and you’ll be the first to know when they’re announced!

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1966 Plymouth Satellite Charity Giveaway

As if you didn’t need another reason to head over the the Muscle Cars at the Strip event in Las Vegas, (MATS), here’s one more reason you need to be there. Some months ago, event promoter and coordinator Phil Painter ran across a hardcore Mopar guy who’s had a hard time of life in the last four years. Quinn Peterson was diagnosed with a very rare form of bone cancer three years ago after suffering with an increasingly sore shoulder for about a year before that. The cancer was so advanced, by the time they cut the massive tumors off, they ended up having to amputate his right arm. About a year ago, it came back, and resulted in seven more tumors having to be removed, and an awful lot of chemo and radiation treatments. Through it all, however, Quinn remained selfless, and in his own words, “I wasn’t gonna’ let this win. I wasn’t gonna’ let this control my life.” He was back in the gym only nine days after the amputation, he’s continued working throughout, and, he’s still driving his black Challenger almost daily! Inspired by Quinn’s attitude and his work he was doing with Children’s Cancer Charities, Phil decided they could do more. He got on the phone, and soon enough, he had a dark blue metallic 1966 Satellite that had been restified very nicely back in 2020, and that car will be raffled off at the MATS event on March 17, 2024, to some lucky Mopar person. Tickets are only $5, and you do not have to be present to win, but if you are, hey, you get to drive it home!

The car itself was sold new in Arizona and spent the rest of its life in SoCal, so this was a rust-free low-mileage car to begin with. The previous owner restored it back to dark blue metallic, the seats are the very dressy light blue metallic buckets, and this one is a console-shifted automatic. Originally a 318 car, the Satellite now sports a very low-mileage Bob Lambeck-built 383 with a host of mods and a stall converter as well in the TorqueFlite tranny. It rumbles, it roars, but she’ll still run just fine on pump gas and you can drive this thing coast-to-coast if you want thanks to the reasonable low gear ratio still in the 8-3/4” rear.

All of the money raised by this giveaway goes straight to the Children’s Cancer charities that Quinn selected, “My course is set, but, maybe something good can come out of all this. Maybe we can help some kids along the way.” That’s the kinda’ guy Quinn is, and that’s why Phil Painter jumped into the fray to make this happen. So, to buy your tickets for five bucks a pop, head over to www.matslv.com and follow the links, you’ll get there. There’s also more photos of the car posted there, and a link to a nice twenty-minute YouTube video of Quinn showing the car off, driving it around Vegas, and you get to see pretty much every area of the car. This one is for a seriously good cause, the tickets are dirt cheap, and you really can’t go wrong here. As we always say with these things, if we don’t win it, we hope one of our readers does! Good luck and get those tickets quick!

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Here are pictures of my 'Cudas. The 1970 'Cuda is an N code 383, four-speed, 3:23 gears car. It has 54,000 original miles, factory triple black, all-original unrestored car, never apart, was repainted about twenty-five-years ago with added hockey stick stripes. It was a body side molding car. It's all matching numbers, with a broadcast sheet, sold new here in Buffalo, it's never left the area, and never seen winter.

The 1971 'Cuda was featured in MCG in the 20th Anniversary issue. It's certified by Galen Govier as the last 440+6 'Cuda built. It's a four-speed, 4.10 gears Super Track Pack car with 58,000 original miles , original broadcast sheet, she was restored in 1995. Everything is original to the car except the motor. Both cars came with 14x6" steelies with Dog Dish hubcaps. I have the complete history of both cars, from the original owners to me. I met most of the former owners. As Steven Juliano used to say "We are just caretakers of these cars for the next guys that come along." I've priceless memories with them, some of them I owe to you! THANK YOU! I'm a lucky guy. I'm an American, and in the Mopar ranks! The past several years since I retired, they just sit in the garage. Maybe it is time to pass them to the next caretaker.

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Doug Williams sent us these photos of his gorgeous and loaded down 1970 Road Runner. While we’ll admit we are a bit partial to the ’70 models, and our own Randy Holden has owned four of the things through the years, this is definitely one to write home about. This is among the most heavily optioned ’70 Road Runners we’ve seen, and it has the fender tag and broadcast sheet to back it up. A California car most of its life, when restored twenty-seven-years ago, there was no rust to speak of, but it received the full ground-up treatment anyway. While it is a 383 car, somebody wanted this one to look and drive fantastic. The Hemi Orange paint with the white vinyl top and a white bucket seat interior is a dynamite combo, but add the hood blackout stripe, factory Dust Trail side stripes, and a factory spoiler on the deck, and you really create a visual knockout. It’s got factory hood pins, a/c, cruise control, power disc brakes, power steering, electric windows, and dual rearview mirrors on the doors. We’re quite certain it would’ve had an Air Grabber hood, but, you couldn’t get that with air conditioning. It came with 14” Road Wheels from the factory, but Doug’s replaced those with more showy 15” Magnum 500s, so the wheelhouses are more filled up and there’s a little more bling where the rubber meets the road. While she’s a beauty, Doug regularly drives this one and it’s a frequent flier at local parking lot shows and some of the bigger Mopar events. For a restoration that old, this is one beeping Plymouth that is aging very gracefully! Thanks to Doug for sending in the photos and info!