Hi everyone!
New to this forum but no stranger to Mopars of the RWD kind.
I towed home a 1983 Dodge 400 Coupe on Friday.
Black/silver,with silver landau top and red velvet interior.Buckets and floorr shift console.Classy Super K IMHO,LOL!
It was running but the 2.2l crapped out on my initial look see visit.
The car was never winter driven,thus in excellent shape body and interior wise.
I decided to buy it anyways since the mechanicals on the K cars are so easy to fix--if you know what you are doing.(Follow up on this later )
The previous owner may be a member here--not sure.
He stated the 400 coupe is a rare beast with very few survivors left in existence.Anybody here able to confirm that?
Hard to believe it when I first started working in the auto service industry every other car on the road was either a K car or Phord Tempo.I am more aware how scarce these thing are now.Wrecking yards never have any--all got crushed.
I must admit I totally ignored the FWD cars since I was knee deep in 440's,383's and drove a number of daily grinders with 318's and slant sixes for many years.
I still love my 68 Newport 383,73 Satellite wagon with 318/3 on da tree,and 2006 300C with the HEMI!!
Gaz is not coming down in price and the 400 (known as the Super K)fit the bill just right with the combo of cheap to fix,cheap on gas,and cheap to insure.
Now I can get good MPG and still get my Mopar fix.
Cheers!!