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The hoods scoops were never optional on a Duster. The scoops were part of the 1971 Duster Twister package. They were not available on Duster 340's

The cowl piece of stainless is the same between 2 door hardtop Dart, Scamps and all the 4 door sedans and 2 door sedans. The vertical windshield mouldings of a 2 or 4 door sedan can be shortened to use on a 2 door hardtop. All the other pieces are different.

2 door sedan and 4 door sedan use the same back glass, and moldings.

I was not aware of the early cars having shocks, then switching back to brackets. My December and February produced Dart Sport 360's both have the brackets, not shocks. Both cars have the 3 holes on the side of the frame, and the small hole in the front for the shocks, so they could use either...

it's a Dart Sport, and has the 4 Dart Sport tail lights. Perhaps the photo angle and damage make that hard to see.

The Canadian Dart Sports are identical to US Dart Sports. The snorkel scoop is cracked and stressed from the bent hood, but it is repairable. This car did have the blackout hood and scoop, and my sunroof Dart Sport that I am rebuilding, also has the blackout and scoop.

I do it to every A body that I restore, before I install the rear fender shields. I just force it into the coil, and after a few cycles, your hinges will be quieter, smoother, and easier to close.

Story I was told, is it was crashed during a high speed police chase in the early 90's. It's a total wreck, but it will donate it's engine, trans etc to my sunroof Dart Sport. Loads of good parts believe it or not.

Neat car, but this one certainly won't be back on the road.

The early 74's had the 73 style front bumper brackets, later production had the shocks. You can switch from one to the other if desired. The 74 cars had holes for both designs.

It's the nature of the design. I like to pack the spring with grease. Helps the hood to close easier, and gets rid of that spring "gronk" sound.

I find that the bumpers were installed prior to undercoat. Front bumper brackets usually have overspray on the rear area. Pretty much any part in the general area of the wheel wells would be installed prior to undercoating. The rear axle rebound bumpers were undercoated, so were the front fender...

I have done this exact conversion. I used the entire front inner structure with headlight mount from the 69 fender and swapped it into the 74 fender, and cut and butt welded in the side marker opening.

It was designed that way. You have to lock the door from the outside with the key.

70-72 use the same brackets. Sounds like you have 1973 brackets. 1973 added the horizontal bar because of the 5 mph impact regulations for 1973. These brackets also place the bumper further out.