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New78kitcar

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Just acquired an A43 1978 dodge Aspen kit car. Looking to decode car.

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Looking forward to seeing it.Rare car
 

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So here she is. 30 years of barn dust. But almost everything is there. This is a one owner car. I still have a whole garage of parts to go through. So far most everything is here. Not sure yet what I'm going to do with it.

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I'll be holding on to it. I found mostly all new rubber and tail light lenses. And the oem decals I found. Your car is beautiful maybe I can get this one back. I've found that it has new suspension bushings and shock all the way around. I'm missing the front lip spoiler. That's probably not even available. I am happy to say it has new brakes all the way around and runs and drives like a top. So the real hard part starts with trying to find good interior parts and getting
 

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They are NOS stock decals I believe. They are in with the stuff that came with the car. I can ask the original owner where her husband found them if she remembers. They owned the car all its life so I can get a pretty good story out of her as time goes by and I keep digging.
 

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Some pics. I got most all the dash lights working. Took the display out of one old chronometer and rebuilt mine. Took the gas tank down. Re built rubber lines. I'm looking for a filler neck rubber seal mine is destroyed and I'm looking for a gas pick-up filter or complete sending unit? Also other parts. If you know where to get parts let me know. Thanks.

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I have an aftermarket sender, and a replacement filter sock if you want them. If your original sender is in good shape other that the filter, I would just change the filter. I can post pics when I get home
 

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Very cool. I was able to get the filler neck seal. How much do you want for the filter?
 

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So who knows what carburetor came on the kit car? Was it a thermo-quad or a Rochester quadrajet. Are they lean burn. How would I know? There is an edelbrock quadrajet manifold and carb in it now. I put an edelbrock 1406 on it today so it would run while I figure out what manifold and carb are stock. I'm looking for console lid? Started repairing plastiwelding the feder flairs its amazing how the dealer put these together.

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Thermoquad with lean burn, I have been plastic welding my rear spoiler

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