Junkyard Tour: Stinnett's Auto & Truck Parts, 1973 Dodge Charger 440 Junkyard Dream Car

Find your dream automobile inward a junkyard. The Junkyard Life squad was a hundred miles into a day-long, junkyard crawling route trip when nosotros hitting pay dirt inward Woodstock, Alabama. Oddie Hubbard, the 72-year-old possessor of Stinnett's Auto & Truck Parts, gave us a tour of his place, together with the storey behind a mysterious dark Mopar that had been tucked away at the junkyard for decades.

Make friends, uncovering cars
  We've learned that junkyard owners together with counter men tin last downright hard to bargain with, together with that's on their skilful days. Say the incorrect affair together with yous volition never acquire passed the gatekeepers of the greasy kingdoms. I’m talking most yards where yous don't pull-your-own parts. We were lucky on this day. 
  Oddie gave us a squinty-eyed once-over together with determined nosotros were suitable guests. After some junkyard small-scale speak together with the obligatory, “got whatever former cars?,” he led us into the 'off limits' surface area of his yard.
  “Wait correct here,” Oddie said, equally he shuffled across the dark dirt.
  He disappeared through a side door of a metallic building, leaving us to wonder, “What the heck are nosotros inward for?”
  H5N1 few moments afterward nosotros could hear a chain rattle, together with then spin, equally the large, steel, roll-up door lifted earlier us, revealing a 1973 Dodge Charger 440 entombed inward a night storage edifice filled amongst transmissions.

This all-original, low-mile 1973 Dodge Charger 440 has been parked at Stinnett's Auto Parts for to a greater extent than than xx years.

Big block dark beauty B-Body
  “Wow!” H5N1 fourth dimension capsule of Mopar's youngest together with oft overlooked Dodge Charger was crammed betwixt dozens of transmissions together with 2 Harley Davidson police clitoris motorcycles.
  “It's a 440 car,” Oddie said.
  “Now we’re talking,” I reply. “A large block Mopar inward black.”
  The entire automobile appeared all-original, amongst only a pilus over 52,000 miles showing on the odometer. The paint, Rallye packet stripe together with interior all the same looked mint. The 440 Magnum emblems on the hood together with the ominous dark hue had me believing that I would uncovering a four-speed together with bucket seats. Not so. This 440 Charger was ordered amongst a split upwards bench topographic point together with a column shift automatic.
  Oddie gave us the lowdown on the 1973 Dodge Charger 440 Rallye that he bought from a automobile lot to a greater extent than than xx years ago. Oddie worked at the lot together with the B-Body Charger was a trade-in amongst an interesting dorsum story.
  “A probate justice inward Alabama owned the automobile but his boy kept getting speeding tickets inward it," said Oddie. "That didn't await likewise good, hence he had to acquire rid of the car."
  That's where Oddie took the keys together with relieved the justice of the embarrassing, Pb pes shenanigans his boy enjoyed inward the Charger. Life together with career changes bring dictated Oddie's determination to sit down on the Mopar musculus car.
  I had to inquire Oddie if he would sell the Charger. On that solar daytime he would have. He fifty-fifty tossed out a number. Since that visit, he has changed his hear most letting become of the Dodge together with I can’t blame him. H5N1 big, dark Dodge amongst a 440 looks tough and its similar coin inward the bank.

Stinnett's Auto Parts inward Woodstock, Alabama has 600 unusual together with domestic belatedly model vehicles inward their inventory along amongst an all-original 1973 Dodge Charger 440 inward storage.

Stinnett's family-owned together with operated
  Stinnett's is a household unit of measurement operation. Oddie Hubbard bought Stinnett's Auto & Truck Parts, which sits 5 miles due east of Vance together with the Mercedes Benz plant, inward the early on 1990s. You may uncovering whatever set out of Hubbard household unit of measurement members approximately the front end counter during the week. Oddie's son, Pat Hubbard, 48, answered the telephone on a recent afternoon together with Oddie's wife, Era, was only within earshot. 
  Oddie worked inward construction, the timber line of piece of employment concern together with at a automobile lot earlier getting his hands dingy selling parts. When asked why he got into the junk business, Oddie didn’t hesitate to answer. 
  "Just did," said Oddie. "Don't know why."
  Stinnett's junkyard has most 600 cars, unusual together with domestic belatedly models, on the yard. Oddie pointed out that the give-and-take 'junkyard' wasn't a term most modern solar daytime automotive recyclers used. 
  "Salvage yard is what they telephone telephone them, nowadays," says Oddie.

Mopar's large 440-cu. inch engine pumped out a 280 hp rating inward 1973.

We trace the parts together with preserve yous money
  Oddie’s son, Pat Hubbard, is a wealth of junkyard wisdom together with knows that fourth dimension is money. Pat doesn't empathise why someone, fifty-fifty a local mechanic, would effort thirty miles to the pull-your-own parts yards inward Birmingham for the same parts that Stinnett's could trace for you, saving gas together with time.
  "People don't realize they are spending to a greater extent than inward the long run," says Pat. "You figure your rate, together with then element inward driving time, summation your paying a helper to become amongst you. That's 4 together with a one-half hours of project costs spent on driving together with pulling a part." 
  Pat talked to a local Woodstock surface area mechanic who said he was going to Pull-A-Part instead of Stinnett's. "Don't brand no feel to me," said Pat.

– Jody Potter, junkyardlife.com

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Stinnett's Auto & Truck Parts
Open: Monday - Friday
Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Phone: 205-938-7849

Address:

25721 Highway 5

Woodstock, AL 35188-3130 
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More 1973 Dodge Charger Rallye 440 photos

Distinctive red “Rallye” stripes along the sides of the large dark 1973 B-Body cannot last missed. The Rallye packet was primarily a guess together with cut upgrade.

A column shifted TorqueFlight 727 automatic transmission moves the 440's ponies to the nurture wheels on this 1973 Dodge Charger. Hubbard's ’73 Rallye features a split upwards bench seat.

This ’73 Charger 440 Rallye has 52k miles together with a 150 mph speedo.

The 440 Mopar engine sits untouched together with unmodified inward the ’73 Charger.

440 Magnum emblems are buried nether the dust together with dirt on the Power bulge hood of this junkyard-owned 1973 Dodge Charger.

How long would yous allow a Mopar amongst a 440 sit?

A/C was needed to cool the hot shoe that drove this 440-equipped Charger.

A ability bulge hood is a sign that this Dodge Charger packs some muscle.

You wouldn't mean value 440 musculus when yous peek within together with spot a standard steering wheel, bench topographic point together with column shift auto inward the Dodge Charger.

Add a judge, speeding tickets together with a junkyard together with this is what yous get. H5N1 mothballed Mopar from the terminate of the musculus automobile era covered inward dust, surrounded past times transmissions.

The VIN set out on the ’73 Charger for the numbers chasing crowd.

The 1973 Dodge Charger featured redesigned tail lights amongst vertical slats.

Motorcycles together with transmissions crowd the infinite approximately the 1973 Dodge Charger at Stinnett's Auto Parts.

Chrome mirrors together with Rallye stripe were business office of the Rallye packet on Dodge Chargers.

Is that a custom personalized tag from 1994?

Dodge sold 119,318 Chargers inward 1973. The largest full production of whatever twelvemonth Charger.

Twin bumperettes are slow to withdraw together with a pop means to meliorate the ’73-’74 Charger's looks.

The R/T packet was no longer available on the Charger inward 1973. 

A unmarried snorkel air cleaner tops off this 440 Mopar ability plant.

The ’73 Charger is almost 18-feet long. The Rallye stripe makes it await fifty-fifty longer.

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