72 Duster Resurrection

Duster Captain said

Im here! Stupid life and job stuff has been getting in the way of my Duster today....
Im in Houston. Tons of pick a part boneyards around but I am struggling to find ones that have older cars....any ideas? Abilene would be a trek for me, but if the juice is worth the squeeze...
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I would call every one of em. I just checked in your area. Theres a LKQ pick a part. I would head there first looking for 82 to 89 diplomat/fury/fifth ave M body brakes. I wish we had a pick a part out here. I would pick up the phone and call em all on that. Sometimes its just better if you just go and look for yourself. Most of these places have so much stuff they dont even know what they have. If all else fails you can get em out here in abilene from spindle out from $100-$150. I'd meet ya and take you to our 1 big yard thats got 10 acres of cars and about 2 dozen M bodies. The other mopar yard out here has about 8-9 M bodies. You dont live in the rust belt states finding one shouldent be a problem, i bet if i went down there i could find at minimum 12 M body cars in your boneyards down there.

Heck, check your local police auctions. You may be able to buy a complete M body for a couple hundred. 1982 up they are all 318 cars.

Pull out everything you can use, sell the rest of the pieces on evilbay, scrap the remainder. If you do it right everything you keep from the car could cost you nothing if you can sell some of rhe other pieces from it. They come 2ith 15x7 steelies that mopar dog dish caps fit. Not sure but i think their rear axle fits an A body.

Also, You said you have a 318. Do you have the transmission for it? The slant 6 trans wont fit a V8.