A good example of buying a 70 Duster done rather than building one
I generally try not to condemn a car just because of little nit picky stuff like a black engine compartment or the "wrong" air cleaner. Or the Demon hood treatment on a Duster.
But that prop valve! And all of the brake lines routed around it, that whole thing is sketchy as all hell. And that's safety stuff. Anybody that would run brake lines like that is capable of anything.
Oh, and the paint- nothing against this one in particular, but no paint is good unless you've see it in person. It looks nice in the pictures, but it could easily be a bondo sculpture.
This one has lots of warning signs. No fender tag, and not even any holes for one. For that matter, a lot of factory holes appear to have been filled in the engine compartment. Washer nozzle stuff is missing. Rubber hood bumper stuff is missing. Splatter paint in the trunk is almost always bad, especially if it's right over the top of the rubber body plugs like this one. Shift boot is generic and super cheap. Wrong hardware in a reproduction rallye bezel. The entire interior is reproduction stuff and not fit super well on closer inspection. And none of the 340 or 4 speed stuff is obviously original. Also, doesn't appear to have rear torque boxes. 340 4 speed car should have had those. I realize not all of them did, but combined with the missing fender tag and everything else and I really wonder if it is an “H” code as claimed. And I don’t mind clones, but if it’s a clone you’d better say that it is.
I dunno. I'm not the originality police or anything but there's a lot of little and not so little stuff that's off with this one that tells me it’s not a high dollar build. I don’t think $20k is a steal on this one, this one could be hiding thousands of dollars of work. Looks like a flip job.
I generally try not to condemn a car just because of little nit picky stuff like a black engine compartment or the "wrong" air cleaner. Or the Demon hood treatment on a Duster.
But that prop valve! And all of the brake lines routed around it, that whole thing is sketchy as all hell. And that's safety stuff. Anybody that would run brake lines like that is capable of anything.
Oh, and the paint- nothing against this one in particular, but no paint is good unless you've see it in person. It looks nice in the pictures, but it could easily be a bondo sculpture.
This one has lots of warning signs. No fender tag, and not even any holes for one. For that matter, a lot of factory holes appear to have been filled in the engine compartment. Washer nozzle stuff is missing. Rubber hood bumper stuff is missing. Splatter paint in the trunk is almost always bad, especially if it's right over the top of the rubber body plugs like this one. Shift boot is generic and super cheap. Wrong hardware in a reproduction rallye bezel. The entire interior is reproduction stuff and not fit super well on closer inspection. And none of the 340 or 4 speed stuff is obviously original. Also, doesn't appear to have rear torque boxes. 340 4 speed car should have had those. I realize not all of them did, but combined with the missing fender tag and everything else and I really wonder if it is an “H” code as claimed. And I don’t mind clones, but if it’s a clone you’d better say that it is.
I dunno. I'm not the originality police or anything but there's a lot of little and not so little stuff that's off with this one that tells me it’s not a high dollar build. I don’t think $20k is a steal on this one, this one could be hiding thousands of dollars of work. Looks like a flip job.