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    freshen up tired original paint 68 barracuda...

    Yeah the comet thing does work. My 78 wagoneer was a real rot box. Paint was dead flat. Was shot with a paint ball gun many years ago. I repaired the rot. Painted the panels, and scrubbed the entire truck with comet an the finest steel wool I could get. I then compounded,polished, and waxed It...
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    what holds the remote mirror control in place?

    what style door do you have? i have one car that the mirror control goes through the sheetmetal part of the door and its just a sheetmetal nut that screwed on, just like the chrome retaining trim piece. my other car im going to ad the remote ralley mirrors but it goes through the door panel and...
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    74 Duster getting painted

    that is dirt cheap. its easy to spend 1000 in paint alone. the labor to paint isnt crazy but any body work is. i bet it comes out to about 8-10$ per hour all said and done.
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    1971 Scamp Can I Fit a 440 in without a scoop?

    its possible but depends on your intake and air filter combo.
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    windshield gasket

    i got sticker shock around here when looking to have my headliner and front and rear glass done on my 69 dart, 600-800 labor. i did it all myself and looked at it like this, doing it myself there is plenty of room for new parts if i screw up the first time around. headliner was a few hour job, i...
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    Molding in a hood scoop

    if the scoop fit the hood really nice i wouldnt try to go for the seamless look. its always going to be a steel hood with a scoop added. why hide it. i think rivets look better than cracks in fresh paint. foward facing scoops take in a ton of air when id drive down the highway with my aar 6 pac...
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    what welder for floorpans?

    dont waste your money on a cheap tig. it will take you forever to tig floorpans and you need get everything clean enough to eat off of. both sides. mig is much more forgiving, its way faster and you will get less warping. you will get much more use out of a mig on a car. i always recomend...
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    Duster bumper help needed!!

    i went to carlisile with every intention of buying amd front and rear bumpers and brackets to change over my 74. i then found out the one bumper wasnt released yet. they look pretty nice. im not into sitting in a parking lot and having people nit pick my car though. they looked good for a nice...
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    smashed parrot nose

    hmmm. there are plenty of bolt on options. cant say id go that route. there is a 74 dart on craigslist, i could se in the little pic while surfing it was a 69 so i had to get a better look, and click, its a 74 with a 69 hood, grill and bumper.
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    Help, what Mopar Blue is this?!

    the pt cruiser electric blue has B5 in the code in the color books, it is a bad *** color, kind of loud though. inside my dart was b5 and i painted it with the electric blue. that **** is expensive. paint guy told me its the pearl in it. beats me.
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    scamp grille conversion

    the fenders are different, but you dont need the pre 72 fenders to make it work.
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    scamp grille conversion

    the fenders on the 73 and newer dont have the tabs that the upper support bolts too. the upper support doesnt bolt to the core support if i remember right. there is a small tab that is welded tot he 72 and earlier fender that you dont have. you need to add that and use the upper grill support or...
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    scamp grille conversion

    there are plenty of people that have done this swap, i never heard of anyone changing the core support. there is a filler panel on both the 70-72 and 74 and newer, they look like they will interchange i have the parts here and have studied them pretty well. if you look at your pics you posted...
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    scamp grille conversion

    are you saying the radiator support is in the way? everything should unbolt and from what i see you will need to add tabs to your 73 fenders to attach the new upper grill suport too. i am going to do this swap on my 74 duster.
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    71 duster bumper on 74 duster

    the brackets are available new. for the front you do need a good amount of parts.
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    anyone use the AMD bumpers?

    i emailed amd and they told me the 70 duster front bumper has not even been released yet. and they have had no issues with thier bumpers. so i guess i got some bad info from the guy at carlisle.
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    anyone use the AMD bumpers?

    i was ready to buy a set of front and rear bumpers and brackets for my duster over the weekend and the guy tells me there are fit and finish issues with one bumper and they are out of stock on them. i quickly lost intrest. im going to convert my 74 duter to early style so i dont have cores and...
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    Cuda flip top gas cap on Duster??

    my duster came to me with one of those. what a piece of crap. im thinking of going with the flip top too.
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    '67 Valiant hood on '72 Duster?

    i always wanted to see an early val grill on a duster, but i dont have the balls to do it to mine.
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    Dantes parts?

    he does resell legendary but he gives a decent discount on a whole kit, and your order will be priority. i ordered my blue/blue bench covers, door panels, andheadliner, and carpet from him a few days later then my brother ordered black 67 bucket covers direct from legendary, i got mine about 10...
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    rear bumper duster vs valiant?

    73 duster and 4 dr valiant share the same rear bumper? i thought i remember they do, but its hard to imagine.
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    Duster rear bumper question

    is there actually a 73 bumper or is it just left over 72 stuff that was used?
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    Duster rear bumper question

    here ya go, anyone know why this bumper fit like this? i was really considering buying a brand new 72 bumper for my 74 until i saw this car. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1975-PANTHER-PINK-DUSTER-STROKED-451-BIG-BLOCK-VIDEO_W0QQitemZ220414335796QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks
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    Duster rear bumper question

    i thought so too, but this pink car i saw on ebay, the bumper hieght was too short, i was wondering if maybe they used an early valiant sedan bumper, i dont know how close they are but this car the bumper looked at least and inch too short on the hieght. it really fit terrible.
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    Duster rear bumper question

    so who can take good pics of a 73 duster or dart sport? did they use one year only 1/4s or bumpers to make things match up better or did they leave the factory with poor fit.
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    Duster rear bumper question

    i saw a car on ebay a few weeks ago it was a pink giveaway duster. i think it was a 75 and it had an early bumper, it fit terrible. i want to put an early rear bumper on my 74, but not if its gonna fit like that car.
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    Anyone ever chopped the top on an A-Body?

    i think you can spend your effort on better things. the tri5s chevies look awfull chopped. some hudsons are ok chopped, mercs, tall Ts, and thats about it. musclecars look like **** chopped. last year i saw a chopped early vailiant on the garden state parkway, never saw it again.
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    Is a 73 Duster front bumper the same as 74

    find out if his 74 has the impact shocks or not. i think 74 was the year they started using them, my 74 doenst have them. the chrome bumper itself might be the same eitherway, im not sure. i know the rear bumpers are different.
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    What polish after wet sanding

    buy the horible frieght sander polisher. its noisey as hell but works ok. you can grab them on sale for about 30 bucks. if you arent doing cars all the time it doesnt make a bunch of sense to drop a lot of cash on one.
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    Help with '69 Barracuda door vent window

    no they arent. there is deffinitely a difference in 67-69. i found this out the hard way after my car was apinted and buffed out. i drilled out the spotwelds, switched the vent window brackets around as my 69 were the nicest i had and they were complete. you will also run into issues with the...
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