Mopar Parts for 1962-1979 Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth Restorations

You're three years into a Road Runner build and you need a door panel clip. Not a door panel, not even the whole clip set, just the one clip that some previous owner snapped off in 1987 trying to get to a stuck window regulator. You call around, you post in a forum, somebody in Ohio has "half a set, maybe" and wants to trade for a manifold. This is the part of Mopar ownership nobody puts on a t-shirt.

Restoring a car from Highland Park's golden years just hits different than a GM build. Fewer suppliers chase these platforms, and the parts that do exist are scattered across a dozen small specialty brands instead of one or two dominant names that show up on every parts wall in the country. First Place Auto Parts built out a dedicated Mopar lineup to cut down on some of that scavenger hunt, covering A-Body, B-Body, C-Body, and E-Body platforms from 1962 to 1979, the window that gave us the Road Runner, the Cuda, the Coronet, and the rest of the Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth lineup that made the '60s and '70s worth living through if you cared about cars at all.

Interior

This is the deepest end of the catalog, and it needs to be. Interiors take the worst beating of any part of a classic car. Seats get sat in for fifty years, carpet soaks up whatever Michigan winter or Arizona summer the car spent its life in, and door panels crack the second somebody leans on them wrong getting out. The interior lineup covers seat upholstery for reupholstering worn factory seats, door panels, carpet and insulation, interior trim, interior accessories, and rubber components like pedal pads and shifter boots.

Ask anyone who's actually finished a restoration and they'll tell you the interior is where the project either starts feeling like a finished car or keeps feeling like a shell with an engine in it. Having factory-style upholstery and trim in one place means less time cross-referencing part numbers between three vendors who each carry a third of what you need.

Exterior & Body

Emblems and trim, lighting and lenses, weatherstripping, body mounts and bushings. The emblems section is where the good stuff lives, licensed reproduction badges like Road Runner and Barracuda emblems, Challenger and Charger script, R/T badges, the little pieces of brightwork that go missing or get scuffed up over two or three repaints and nobody notices until the car's almost done and something looks off. A lot of that trim comes out of Trim Parts, which has been reproducing GM and Mopar exterior and interior trim to factory-correct spec for over 40 years.

Body mounts and weatherstripping don't get nearly the credit they deserve. Nobody posts a photo of new body mounts on Instagram. But rotted-out rubber mounts let the body sit crooked on the frame, and dried weatherstripping is the reason a car that looks finished still whistles at 60 and leaks the first time it rains. It's unglamorous work that makes the difference between a show car and a show car you can actually drive somewhere.

Brake System

Disc brake conversion kits, conversion brake lines, brake boosters and master cylinders. Most Mopars from this era rolled off the line with drums all the way around, or drums in back at best, which was fine in 1968 and is a lot less fine in modern traffic with modern following distances. A conversion kit lets you swap to discs without redesigning the front end or the rear suspension from scratch, and lines that are pre-bent to the factory routing save you from a whole afternoon of trial-fitting tubing by hand. The full brake system lineup covers Mopar alongside GM and Ford platforms from the same era.

Repair Parts

Disc brake parts, drum brake parts, flex hoses and lines, e-brake cables, proportioning valves. This category is for the cars staying with their original brake setup, or for a full rebuild as part of a bigger restoration. It's a shorter list than the conversion side, but it covers the stuff that just wears out on a normal service interval no matter what brake system the car is running. The whole grouping lives under repair parts.

Coverage Across the Lineup

The thing that actually ties the whole catalog together is that it's organized by platform, not by individual model. Instead of a separate parts list for every nameplate, First Place Auto Parts groups Mopar coverage around the shared A-Body, B-Body, C-Body, and E-Body architecture. That's just a more honest way to shop, because a Duster and a Dart shared a lot more than their badges, and the same goes for a Satellite, GTX, Coronet, Challenger, Charger, Cuda, and Road Runner. Different sheet metal, plenty of shared bones underneath.

For a market that never got the reproduction volume GM cars did, having interior, exterior, brake, and repair parts organized in one place, filtered by year, make, and model, is the difference between a build that keeps moving and one that stalls out for six weeks waiting on back-ordered trim from three different specialty shops that all somehow think somebody else has it in stock.