71 duster resto'mod "driver" project...
to solve the "before I repaint the car, you must put an engine in it" dilemma I was given, like a true Canadian, I found the solution buried beneath the snow lol..........
I'd pretty much finished all the winter projects I could do and had to hold out for spring... and finally, spring started to rear it's head. I was really hoping to find a buildable 340 to place between the fenders once again; however, time and budget didn't allow for this at the time, so my next best solution was to use the engine out of a 74 e58 360 challenger that was once slated to become my midlife crisis car....
...long story short, I wound up living out my midlife crisis in a big turbo Srt-4, and at one point during my midlife crisis journey, I gifted the challenger to my oldest son as a graduation present.... but on with the current part of the story....
The snow began to melt....
and finally spring was in full bloom....(though I believe this next picture was actually taken prior to the snow falling lol)
at this point, and now early spring of 2011.... I got working on getting the car ready to head back to the painter and the spring projects began.....
pulled the engine from the chally....
and the tear down began
to solve the "before I repaint the car, you must put an engine in it" dilemma I was given, like a true Canadian, I found the solution buried beneath the snow lol..........
I'd pretty much finished all the winter projects I could do and had to hold out for spring... and finally, spring started to rear it's head. I was really hoping to find a buildable 340 to place between the fenders once again; however, time and budget didn't allow for this at the time, so my next best solution was to use the engine out of a 74 e58 360 challenger that was once slated to become my midlife crisis car....
...long story short, I wound up living out my midlife crisis in a big turbo Srt-4, and at one point during my midlife crisis journey, I gifted the challenger to my oldest son as a graduation present.... but on with the current part of the story....
The snow began to melt....
and finally spring was in full bloom....(though I believe this next picture was actually taken prior to the snow falling lol)
at this point, and now early spring of 2011.... I got working on getting the car ready to head back to the painter and the spring projects began.....
pulled the engine from the chally....
and the tear down began
