1974 Dart Sport “Desert Rat”

Jim Kueneman said

That is great! I hated that liner in the '72 when we took it out and also looked at the reproductions. The research I did was they use plastic and they have an issue with delaminating after a few years. Yours will likely never delaminate. We ended up with a retro kit to make it a bow type since they still had the alligator teeth in the body in '72. Trust me once you start driving you will realize you NEVER look at the headliner and what you have will work forever.

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I’m super happy with how it came out. It was really sketchy installing it by myself but I finally got it. I was on the verge of putting a 5 bow type in it... if I would have had to pull it back out and re-build it I was going with bows. I have an extra set from a 70 I parted out years ago.

It’s sad, my father and I parted out my Uncles 73 Gold Duster slant with a perfect black interior that my drunk teenage cousin (at the time, he’s 50 now!) drove into a tree.
It’s headliner was in the rafters of a basement we rented for parts storage a few houses down from us. (I think we had the majority of 3 dusters/Darts and at least 8 1968-1970 Chargers down there!) We cleaned out the basement when he moved and the perfect headliner was left behind.