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| − | :The MoparWiki has the goal of ultimately being the single best source for All Things [[Mopar]]. [[Makes]], [[models]], people, [[platforms]], components, [[racing]] -- anything Mopar. This is to be accomplished by the [[collaboration]] with anyone wishing to improve a MoparWiki with facts or editing for style.
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| − | :<center>[[Image:Lilred-jan11-a.jpg|thumb|350px|1978 Lil Red Express]]</center>
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| − | *Equipment Sales Code 1978 Code Description Sales Code 1979 Code Description
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| − | *Bright front bumper MD2 Chrome bumper
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| − | *Exterior paint color PY3442 Bright Canyon Red PY3450 Medium Canyon Red
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| − | ;BK's User Page -- All members get one of these
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| − | :[[Image:ZHMMmagnum28.jpg|thumb|300px|Dave's 78 Magnum]]
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| − | BK (short for Big Kahuna -- a name friends gave him back in the early 90s) is the [[Administrator]] of [[MoparStyle]], which he started in 2001. He's a semi-retired business executive/owner who now spends with his family, [[drag racing]], and maintaining a slew of web sites and a gaggle of [[collector cars]].
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| − | Eldest of five boys and three girls who grew up in poverty living in a 2 bedroom apartment. Born in Michigan, but moved to Texas in 1961. Moved again to New Jersey in 1966, New York in 1970, and back to Texas after completion of Military service. Grew up with very little supervision, as his family was so large. His father always worked three minimum wage jobs concurrently, and his mother was too overwhelmed to keep up with all of the kids by herself -- so Dave pretty much grew up on the streets -- getting into a lot of trouble with the law as a kid. He always had a job of some type as a kid, from paper routes to washing dishes.
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| − | He was a D/F student until leaving high school by mutual agreement at 16. Later attended various colleges in the evenings under the GI Bill, with a focus on business and computer science
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| − | Dave enlisted in the USAF in 1972, shortly after turning 17, and was the youngest to be serving at the time he arrived to Basic Training in San Antonio, Texas. He spent three years active duty driving trucks, and exchanged his last year active for two years Active Reserves (under Palace Chase) to teach others to drive trucks. Dave spent the next ten years attending college in the evenings under the GI Bill. He is a service connected Vietnam Era disabled Veteran.
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| − | After he completed his military service, he (in order) drove taxi, Tractor-trailer, and dump truck; laid blacktop, roofed, and repo'd vacuum cleaners; was a bill collector, a carpet cleaning salesman, and a draftsman; a postage equipment repairman, a mailroom equipment salesman, and a computer repairman; a computer salesman, Executive VP of two large collection agencies, and owned a collections agency; owned a distress debt buying business, a software company, and a web hosting company; owned an race engine building company, and he now designs web sites. Dave and his eldest son (Dallas) recently started a Motorcycle Tour business by the name of Texas Motorcycle Excursions.
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| − | A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:LongPages Long Wikis]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:ShortPages Short Wikis]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:AllPages All Wikis]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages Wikis Wanted]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:PopularPages Popular Wikis]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:AncientPages Oldest Wikis]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges Recent Changes]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Statistics MoparWiki Statistics]
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| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing Wikipedia's Tutorial on WIki Editing]
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| − | * [http://www.moparstyle.com/forums/ MoparStyle Forums]
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| − | :We are looking for a volunteer with Administrator and programmer experience to help out with the the administration of the MoparWiki web site.
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