My "new" '74 Duster- or why I need a project like a hole in the head

DionR said
Man that looks good, absolutely nailed the look I want.

Funny thing about the marker lights is, about 6 months ago I put on a set of the "stick on" factory ones, but it was because I had the opportunity to get paint on the car but wasn't looking to customize it and didn't have time for any real body work. Just wanted better than what was on there before I disassembled it.

My preference is the '70-71 flush ones, which I might go for someday. Car needs a bunch of body work so this paint isn't going be the end of the project.

Might look at using the marker lights from a new Challenger, too. They are flush, and smaller than the '70 style, but no idea how easy the would be to retrofit.

Either way, I like the '68 style ones you used, much more classy than the '74 style. And even better that they match now.

Yeah I was all over the place on picking which sidemarkers to use. The fenders on my Duster are from a '71 Dart, so, I could have stuck with the '71 fronts and just done the rears to match. Which I considered. Of course on a Demon the side markers didn't match from the factory, they used Duster markers in the back and Dart markers in the front, so mismatched from the get go. I actually considered putting a set of '71 Dart rear markers on it, so the rears would match the front. Different, kind of like a "the way the factory should have done it" kind of thing. But the Duster quarter doesn't have a nice flat spot like the Dart, and the shape of the quarter doesn't match the '71 Dart quarter. It would have worked, but it was tough to find a spot where the '71 Dart marker looked good in the Duster quarter.

But in the end I liked the simplicity of the '68 markers. Not flush but close to it, small, kind of a classic look. Definitely easier to install in the rear than either of the '71 options, you'd need a patch panel for those. But I had to make a patch panel for the front, although it's just a flat piece of metal. The rears would need a patch cut from a factory quarter to have the flanging to make the light flush like original.