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How To Make a Car Difficult to Steal: 1. Drive a Mopar with pushbutton automatic. They might get it started, but odds are they won't get it into gear. 2. Be Biff Tannen. Only he knows how to start his '46 Dodge.

'70 turn signal switches are one-year-only, and they're not available as aftermarket parts. The '71-up switch works in a '70 car, but has a differently-shaped hazard flasher knob. If you're talking about a smaller cam on your old switch, that sounds more like a '69-down switch. Oldkimmer's got...

No, it would be a manual (non-remote) round chrome one.

If the emblems are missing, check the VIN's first two characters. LL= Dart ("Dart 170" through '69) ; LH= Dart Custom ("Dart 270" through '69). Works the same with Valiants; VL= low trim line, VH= high trim line. There was also a "P" for premium, originally applied to the Dart GT and Valiant...

Unfortunately, yes. See here and here.

I never got around to it, but I thought about a DIY grid-type defogger that would be more like the factory type than the aftermarket stick-on types. I'd mask the interior of the glass (inside-up on a suitable workbench), draw the lines and bus bars on the mask and cut them out very carefully to...

Whatever which one puts the middle of the engine's torque peak in the middle of the speeds I intend to drive, given my tire size, nudged this way or that way depending on what kind of transmission, whjether I anticipate having a lot of hills to climb, whether I'll be spending more time in...

Bad drugs, often. Personality defects, often. Bad life choices for years, often. Addled brains from working around noxious chemicals, often.

Also: Also: Also: Listen to the guy who knows and do as he says. Your car's not going to get done. It's not going to get started or finished. It's not going to get worked on any more now than it has been in the past. More parts are going to go missing. Listen to his ex-partner and go get...

B = Barracuda H = High trim line 27 = Convertible P = 340-4bbl HP engine 9 = 1969 model year B = built at Hamtramck, Michigan 340937 = serial number

Roughly 50,000 aluminum-block 225s were factory-installed in cars from the Middle of the '61 model year to early in the '63 model year. They all had iron heads. Somebody must have gone to some effort on this swap, putting in a '66-'67 transmission or having a custom torque converter made to...

Donno. I'd probably take it to a good, reputable plating shop and ask their opinion on that question. Could be just the plating is crummy, or could be there's something about the casting (impurities/voids in the metal?) which would make even good plating go bad in a hurry.

Yup. See here. ("We haven't had any problem with those" LOLROFL)

1. Was your 200-mile trip all downhill with a tailwind? 2. Have you checked the accuracy of your odometer?

No. The Feather Duster and Dart Lite had an aluminum 1-barrel intake. Yes. No. The 2bbl setup used in Australia, South Africa, and other countries used an intake different than the US "Super Six" item shown here. Your one carburetor, shown rightside-up, appears to be a '66-'69 273 or 318...

In terms of the original vid in this thread: I won't sit in judgement of whether that guy should or shouldn't own a Mopar… …but that guy should definitely own a new choke thermostat, a couple of wrenches, and a factory service manual.

Oh, the Chinese respect patents now? Cool, since when?

That info is here (scroll down a bit)

That part's kind of lame, yeah, but eventually he got to the part where he tests it as it's meant to be used.

I've been saying for years that Mopar RTV is significantly better than other brands. Now there's test data confirming it. Skip ahead to 18:04 for the TLDR.

Find more info and pics (with more Lancers!) about this extremely-freaking-bad-idea trailer in the post and comments here.

You'll have to pick out an unusually shallow fan (the American type won't work) and it'll be real tight. See here and here.

While you're at it, for an easy safety gain put in this new-type turn signal flasher (2-prong like original; connect its ground wire conveniently). These have much lower internal resistance than the original type, for brighter turn signals. Louder click, too.

Yup, RT Engineering's is the one to get. I never supplied these.

…real quick in the opening sequence of the new sitcom "American Auto". Screengrabbed:

B for a 198, C for a 225, etc; whatever any given car was built with. These cars were aftermarket conversions, so no special VIN code for the engine.

The ones you're thinking of had a Nissan diesel (comparo test here). Before those, there were these with Perkins diesel engines.

Motor Trend, Aug '74; Popular Science Jul '74, Popular Mechanics Jul '74. Also, newspaper ad from somewhere and somewhen around that time. Related by subject (coulda-shoulda-woulda); see here.

Front turn signals invisible because too close to headlamps has been a problem for a long time. The minimum intensity requirement is 2.5× higher for turn signals within 4 inches of a low beam (or fog lamp, or DRL) than it is for further-away turn signals, but obviously this doesn't address the...

A decade? Naw, I've been around…put my name in the posted by member 2nd box in the Search thing (upper right corner of any FABO window) and you'll see all my babbling. It's just I've more or less retired, so I don't post as much as I used to.