{"id":28208,"date":"2019-09-28T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:15","slug":"all-in-the-family-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2019\/09\/all-in-the-family-2.html","title":{"rendered":"All in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my experience, there are two types of \u201ccar people\u201d in this world. There are those who drive a nice car so they can take pride in ownership, they occasionally show it off at a Cars \u2018n Coffee and on a nice Saturday, weather permitting, they take their car for a quiet little cruise. These people enjoy their car as a weekend hobby. But then there are those who consider this hobby to be more of a lifestyle. They seem to turn every conversation towards their latest project, their closest friends are the people they\u2019ve met through the car community, they spend every spare dollar they have on their hot rods and every spare minute enjoying them. Dressed to the nines in Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> apparel, proudly lighting up his garage in memorabilia and leaving the house every day in one of his many hellish Mopar muscle cars, there is no doubt Ellis Abramson is the latter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ellis\u2019 infatuation with Dodge vehicles\ndeveloped into a full-time passion when he was around 16 years old and on the\nhunt for his first car. Back in the 1980s, Ellis\u2019 high school parking lot was\nfull of jocks driving brand-new Camaros and preps toting their dad\u2019s Mustangs,\nbut Ellis wasn\u2019t one of those kids that had everything handed to him. Being\nself-made and self-taught, he would have to make due hot-rodding on a\nhigh school kid budget. Luckily for Ellis, he found a 1973 Dodge Challenger that\nhe was able to score for just 600 bucks! Crushing all the gaudy rich kids in\ntheir Z28s with his old E-body, Ellis became instantly hooked on Mopar muscle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, Ellis has owned a little bit of everything. From Dodge Vipers to convertible \u2018Cudas, new-school Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcats to old-school Challengers. Of all the cars in Ellis\u2019 vast collection of almost 20 Mopars muscle machines, I think the coolest one has to be that very first 1973 Dodge Challenger. Not many people have the forethought to realize that you can\u2019t replace your first car, and lucky for Ellis, he was one of those few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With an impressive collection and genuine\npassion, Ellis takes every opportunity he can to share his love for Mopar with\nothers, and who better to share your enthusiasm with than your own kin? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hear lots of people complain that their children just aren\u2019t interested in cars, but Ellis took a hands-on approach introducing his kids to the hobby. With plenty of seat time and burnt-up tires, it\u2019s no surprise that all four of Ellis\u2019 children are just as addicted to Mopar muscle as he is. While all of Ellis\u2019 kids enjoy their own Dodge vehicles, his second eldest son, Mike, has taken an especially strong interest. When Mike was a freshman in high school, he kick-started a project that had been sitting in his dad\u2019s collection forever, a 1974 Dodge Challenger. Father and son worked together replacing the E-body\u2019s crusty sheet metal, fitting it with a 1970 model appearance, spraying the car in striking FJ5 Sublime green paint, and forging a connection between generations with one of the first ever Gen III HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> engine swaps. With its classic appearance and modern performance, Ellis and his son, Mike, built a car that exemplifies the lineage of Mopar, muscle as well as the lineage of the Abramson family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you\u2019re as enthusiastic as Ellis, you don\u2019t limit yourself to a hobby, you live your passion in every aspect of your life! Doing so, the people most important to you tend to take notice and share in your interest. I often hear old-timers saying the history, heritage and culture that\u2019s been developed in the Mopar community will soon be lost because there aren\u2019t enough enthusiasts in the upcoming generations. If you ask me, a younger Mopar fan, that\u2019s all a bunch of baloney! With people like Ellis sharing his knowledge, wisdom and passion with his own children, the hobby will continue to grow and evolve for decades to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my experience, there are two types of \u201ccar people\u201d in this world. There are those who drive a nice car so they can take pride in ownership, they occasionally show it off at a Cars \u2018n Coffee and on a nice Saturday, weather permitting, they take their car for a quiet little cruise. These people enjoy their car as a weekend hobby. But then there are those who consider this hobby to be more of a lifestyle. They seem to turn every conversation towards their latest project, their closest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":28213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[526,519,2948],"class_list":["post-28208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-challenger","tag-charger","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/feature-14.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28348,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions\/28348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}