Weather permitting, and the car is still there, I'd like to tackle the grille replacement this weekend. It looks like I'd have to remove this bar to allow for easier removal of the hood ornament and access to the grille nuts. Am I right in that?
Cool! My mom's first car was a used '70 Duster with a Slant 6 1bbl (slow but reliable) lasted a few years before the New England winters killed the undercarriage...(a few months before I was born)It smells like dead animal with a little hint of lime.
After a long, lengthy and surprisingly emotional conversation with my, uncle this past Sunday, it’s official; I’m getting his/my moms ‘70 Plymouth, Duster.
He bought it from my mom and parked it 27 years ago, basically so someone else didn’t get their hands on it and he could hold it for me.
Now that I’m an adult and proven not a complete degenerate/delinquent and have an interest in cars and a want to own that particular car, he’s ready to let me have it.
So begins the planning of a Roadkill style trip to bring it home from Southern California to Northern Illinois.
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Let me guess. Subframe rails rotted out and the t-bars tore out of the crossmember? That killed many a Duster, Dart, Valiant, etc around here and sent them to the scrapyard way before their time.Cool! My mom's first car was a used '70 Duster with a Slant 6 1bbl (slow but reliable) lasted a few years before the New England winters killed the undercarriage...(a few months before I was born)
That’s all this car is too. /6 & 904 on the column. My mom got it in ‘93 from the second owner, he got it from his parents. He was the bass player in a cover band with my, dad at the time and made them a deal on it when they needed a car.Cool! My mom's first car was a used '70 Duster with a Slant 6 1bbl (slow but reliable) lasted a few years before the New England winters killed the undercarriage...(a few months before I was born)
Cool!That’s all this car is too. /6 & 904 on the column. My mom got it in ‘93 from the second owner, he got it from his parents. He was the bass player in a cover band with my, dad at the time and made them a deal on it when they needed a car.
It was the first car I got to start, warm up, rev; that I can remember anyway. Around ‘95, my parents needed cash and my uncle, having a love and understanding of the classic/muscle car market, made them a $3k cash offer, more than twice what they had paid for it and, a great price for someone looking for a ‘70 Duster or any original, numbers matching Mopar for that matter.
It sits factory stock. He’s rebuilt everything on the car that could be, engine and transmission aside, those are untouched. He drives it rarely on weekends around town and to get fresh gas and that’s about it.
He scored a deal on a ‘70 Nova a few years ago for $750, it got sold out of spite (a build between brother-in-laws turned sour), that’s when he decided that he would let me have it; just barley got around to calling me about it though, lmao
Yeah, after looking in the service manual, looks like I remove the turn signal bezel and maybe able to get to the nut holding the chrome strip beneath the bezel in place. I'll dig into it this weekend and see what I can see and decide from there whether to bust it out soon or wait till after it's driveable.No that makes more work. The hood ornament has to come off and there are some nuts around the edges of the grille. The strips under the headlights also have to come off.
Now we're talking. I ain't got the FaceSpace though. If it runs then it's the right price. I figure that's about $375 in 1985 money. Worth it. I'd pay $375 for a running car. Shoot, sell the grill, strip the engine and transmission, and crush the rest and you'd be even. Maybe sell the hard to find bits on ebay‘77 aspen wagon for $1k in, Ohio.
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