A-Body torque boxes?

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cliff guinand

cliff guinand

71&72 Cdn 340 Specials
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Couple quick question on A-Body torque boxes...
I have a couple 340 Swingers - a '70 4 speed version and a '72 automatic (cdn) - the 4 speed car has front boxes and none in the back. My '72 automatic has boxes on all 4 corners which I understand/hear is not something you find everyday (the '72 340 Swinger Specials are as well i guess). Here's my question/query: is there any automatic Swingers out there with torque boxes or is mine an odd find. Also, I know most '70 Dart Swinger 340's got torque boxes - at least 2, if not 4 on each corner - but did 340 Dusters and Demons get boxes? Also, how about '68 and '69 340 Darts? I haven't owned any of them and I guess I never crawled under one to check either, so let me know.
 
A buddy of mine has an unrestored '70 Duster 340 3 speed car that got them from the factory, front and back. Don't know if all of the 340 cars had them though.
 
I guess that I don't know what a torque box is. Can you post a couple pics? Maybe the front and rear boxes.
Thanks!
C
 
The original missile just had them on the back, It seems to me that front only is unusual.
Andrew
 
From my understanding, all of the 72 Swinger 340 cars were dealer-order specials. Correct me if I am wrong, but I understood they were purposely batch built for the orders. Maybe it is possible that the purchasing dealers specified that all the cars received them? Do other known examples have the boxes?

I do know that all 69 cuda440s and GTS440s received them.

Grant
 
OneOfMany said:
From my understanding, all of the 72 Swinger 340 cars were dealer-order specials. Correct me if I am wrong, but I understood they were purposely batch built for the orders. Maybe it is possible that the purchasing dealers specified that all the cars received them? Do other known examples have the boxes?

I do know that all 69 cuda440s and GTS440s received them.

Grant
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'cuda 440's and 440 GTS's only have them in the rear.
 
wish4hemi, thanks for the link. My day wouldn't be complete if I didn't learn something.
C
 
OneOfMany said:
From my understanding, all of the 72 Swinger 340 cars were dealer-order specials. Correct me if I am wrong, but I understood they were purposely batch built for the orders. Maybe it is possible that the purchasing dealers specified that all the cars received them? Do other known examples have the boxes?

I do know that all 69 cuda440s and GTS440s received them.

Grant
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Yes, they were all Y39 special order cars and it could have been a dealer request (along with the order) to have torque boxes in place but like all the '70's etc., they were hit and miss, 2 on some, 4 on others and a couple didn't have them. That's truer for the '71 Swinger 340 Specials because there's more examples out there (21 of the total of 65) but there's only been 7 '72's found so far and I haven't been able to see and verify if they all have them or not. With that said, do we know if any other automatics got the boxes or was it just a manual transmission thing for A-bodies?
As a side note, not sure if you know, but with the 45 or 50 Crosstown cars ordered for '72, the other dealership that got the 'gifts' from head office was Pembina Dodge out there in Winnipeg - there's been only one example of that batch found - so, keep a sharp eye out! Even tho there were only a hand full of the Pembina cars (10 or 15) there should be a few survivors out there. They will have a VIN LL23H2R33330XX with a build date of 616 - spread the word... Cliff
 
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