Father-Son 1974 Duster Project

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A couple things. I have softened my stance on the H pipe, and I will be putting one on the car within the next month or so. I also had a set of beautiful bumpers chromed at Tri-City plating. They are absolutely gorgeous. Every time I walk out to the garage and look at the car, I get a little sick to my stomach because I really like the way the body colored painted bumpers look. Somebody knock some sense into me….

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I’m going to be selling these chrome bumpers I had done at Tri City Plating and I’ll be staying with my painted bumpers. I’ll be posting them in a for sale ad this evening.

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Ah screw it! I’m putting them on the car. Going to take some time to get used to the shine…..

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Chrome bumpers swapped in for the originals we had to paint when the car was being resto-modded due to bad pitting and a minuscule budget. Next up is modifying the Jegs 2-1/2 dual exhaust kit we used to now have an H pipe.

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This is a pretty neat pic of me, Misty and a rainbow down in Asbury Park at a cruise event….

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Back in December we participated in a Santa Parade of classic cars in Bloomfield NJ. We had a great time and I’m happy we participated. I’m pretty sure we were the only Chrysler product out of 50 something cars. Misty was certainly a head turner…

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Bloomfield NJ. That's pretty close to where I grew up. Clifton NJ. Hey what exit lol.if you ever get s chance, you got to go to Rutts Hut in Delawanna section of Clifton for hot dogs and a birch beer. Get the "rippers".
 
My dad is a disciple of Rutt’s. He grew up in Passaic. People rave about hotdogs at that place personally I have never seen what all the fuss is about. I was there with my own family about 12 years ago and I have to tell you man, that stuff is in edible. We live down the shore, which is where the absolute best New Jersey dogs can be found. Windmill all the way.

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A few more winter pics. I usually keep a cover on the car while in the garage to try and keep the inexpensive paint job from being faded by any unnecessary indirect sunlight. The cover was off to run the car for a bit and to wipe down some stuff under the hood. The Maaco paint still shines up nice after almost 10 years….

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Well I have decided to take the MSD box out of the car and try running an orange ignition box without the dual ballast resistor. It was suggest by a few guys on this forum to run a 12 volt 300 ohm coil. I have ignition one and ignition tied together and I have a constant 12 V when the key is either on start or run. Everything is wired correctly. The coil is wired correctly and the car barely will run until I just nurse it along on the throttle to get the RPMs up and then it seems to run better. I did not touch the timing at all, but I’m thinking that the MSD box with the multiple sparks cause the timing to be different. I think some of the mechanical timing is comes in. So I need to start over with timing, which is not my favorite thing to do…..

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Just for grins I dug out the HEI harness I made when I was first building the car and went to Napa and bought this made in the US HEI module. Hooked it up with the Pertronix coil I have and the motor runs great. Thinking I’ll run this for a while once I figure out where I’m going to hide it. Not interested in going with the under distributor mount that’s too much of a pain if you have to swap it out. But I will leave the orange box and put a ballast resistor in the car just for show to soothe some of the purists….

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