18's with 275s on a Duster

go-fish said

Maybe?!?! Hehe.

For the last month, putting the first 1500 miles on it was fun. This is a very nice car for someone who wants a car that represents a good numbers matching car. That’s not my style. I like to make a car in my own vision.
I had been having a desire to get a different car to put all this stuff I already have on (1971 Duster, 1969 Barracuda..).
I’m just going to do with it what I want , which already fits that car. Nothing, other than the brake kit, prevents it from looking original with a simple brake and wheel change.

My vision for Arthur’s Duster was always a Day 2 build. The Direct Connection spoilers and lookalikes would have been period correct. You could totally still drive this car to a show and enter it in the original class if you swapped back to the rallyes but that would be a future owners decision.

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I've struggle with the exact same dilemma with my '74 Duster, being an original 360 4 speed car it is a pretty low number car. But I don't really like driving a stock Duster, 360 or not, so I am always wanting more and/or bigger. Within reason, I just want it to drive better than stock. At the same time, the low numbers they manufactured, plus having the original motor, has made it difficult for me to cut it up for the 6 speed I've always wanted. But last year about this time I decided that "resale value" is only important if I was going to sell it, so I bought a T56 kit and planned to cut the floor out of it this winter.

But now things have changed (again) as I have been presented with a '73 Duster that is mostly solid and has no history (to me) and isn't anything special since it is a /6 auto car. So now I am going to put the G3/T56 in that, and build it past where my '74 is, while I leave that car alone other than just fixing some things. This gives me a car I can drive next summer while I wrench on the '73 and I can leave the '74 mostly alone and easy to return to "stock" if need be.