your Mopar's story
I'll give you Lucille's (My '74 Duster) Story.
I'd have been 16 at the time and I was driving around in a beat up 1984 Dodge D50 4x4 (still own that truck) and I wanted a Duster / Demon / Dart Sport / 67-69 Cuda or a Cuda/Challenger, but didn't have a whole lot of money.
So I got on Ebay and kept searching day after day till I found a car I could afford. A '74 Duster that needed a good bit of TLC, won the bid (Boy was I sweating during the last few minutes of that auction)
That weekend, my dad and I drove roughly 80 miles to pick up the car. It had the original 318 in it still, was about halfway through a 4-Speed conversion and the original 904 (rebuilt) was out of the car but came with it. Plus enough New, NOS, and Used parts to completely fill the car to the roof and the bed of a GMC Sonoma (that we used to tow the Duster home)
Here's what she looked like the day I brought it home, promptly pulled the 318 out because it needed new Freeze Plugs, and thats where things went downhill. Because I pulled the 318, I decided a 340 was a better idea, if it was getting a 340 it needed an 8-3/4" Rear and a built transmission...
6 Months after bringing it home, it looked like this (and had a stout 340 / 727 combo)
A year after I brought it home
In 2010
And in 2011 (last time I drove it)
Here's where the story gets sad....
Late 2011 / Early 2012
It hasn't been driven since then. In fact, it's barely been touched aside from tearing the car apart. I'm still a large fortune away from getting all the parts I need, and putting it back together again. Here it is, 2014, and it's still in pieces. The original plan was to tear it apart in 2011, and have it running again (with new paint too) for Spring 2012 :oops:
I'll give you Lucille's (My '74 Duster) Story.
I'd have been 16 at the time and I was driving around in a beat up 1984 Dodge D50 4x4 (still own that truck) and I wanted a Duster / Demon / Dart Sport / 67-69 Cuda or a Cuda/Challenger, but didn't have a whole lot of money.
So I got on Ebay and kept searching day after day till I found a car I could afford. A '74 Duster that needed a good bit of TLC, won the bid (Boy was I sweating during the last few minutes of that auction)
That weekend, my dad and I drove roughly 80 miles to pick up the car. It had the original 318 in it still, was about halfway through a 4-Speed conversion and the original 904 (rebuilt) was out of the car but came with it. Plus enough New, NOS, and Used parts to completely fill the car to the roof and the bed of a GMC Sonoma (that we used to tow the Duster home)
Here's what she looked like the day I brought it home, promptly pulled the 318 out because it needed new Freeze Plugs, and thats where things went downhill. Because I pulled the 318, I decided a 340 was a better idea, if it was getting a 340 it needed an 8-3/4" Rear and a built transmission...
6 Months after bringing it home, it looked like this (and had a stout 340 / 727 combo)
A year after I brought it home
In 2010
And in 2011 (last time I drove it)
Here's where the story gets sad....
Late 2011 / Early 2012
It hasn't been driven since then. In fact, it's barely been touched aside from tearing the car apart. I'm still a large fortune away from getting all the parts I need, and putting it back together again. Here it is, 2014, and it's still in pieces. The original plan was to tear it apart in 2011, and have it running again (with new paint too) for Spring 2012 :oops:
