How many CURRENT owners of real '74 360 Duster 4 speed cars on here?

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Hi there, my Dad bought this car new in 74. It left the family in 2000 but long story short I was able to get it back after my Dad Died last year. I believe it to be the real deal 74 360 4speed car. In addition as you can see it has the factory blacked out hood which should make it more rare but correct me if I am wrong. I also realized that the scoop is not factory. My Dad was a gearhead mechanic so he liked to add things. At one time it had a vinyl roof that was not factory but it has since been removed. He also added some Headers. It has chrome on the rockers so I am wondering if anyone would knows if that meant it would have had chrome on the wheels wells as a package. I would like to add them back. Also any other thoughts would be appreciated. The stripe was removed in 2000 but I have the decal and will be putting them back on soon. This was bought in the summer of 74 in Edmonton Alberta.

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Great story and post up more photos!

That’s a real deal 360 4spd Duster!! Later model year build to with a scheduled production date of April 16 1974. Your Dad probably bought it in the summer of 74?

M26 is the code for wheel lip mouldings. Hard to tell if that’s a 25 or 26 under the screw. M25 is sill/rocker mouldings.
 
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H22A4 said:
Great story and post up more photos!

That’s a real deal 360 4spd Duster!! Later model year build to with a scheduled production date of April 16 1974. Your Dad probably bought it in the summer of 74?

M26 is the code for wheel lip mouldings. Hard to tell if that’s a 25 or 26 under the screw.
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H22A4 said:
Great story and post up more photos!

That’s a real deal 360 4spd Duster!! Later model year build to with a scheduled production date of April 16 1974. Your Dad probably bought it in the summer of 74?

M26 is the code for wheel lip mouldings. Hard to tell if that’s a 25 or 26 under the screw. M25 is sill/rocker mouldings.
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Wow thanks for that info! I figured it wouldn't just be on the rocker. Does any of the codes say anything about the blacked out hood? Thanks again
 
Yes it can only be on the "rocker." E5 color is really nice!
 
H22A4 said:
Great story and post up more photos!

That’s a real deal 360 4spd Duster!! Later model year build to with a scheduled production date of April 16 1974. Your Dad probably bought it in the summer of 74?

M26 is the code for wheel lip mouldings. Hard to tell if that’s a 25 or 26 under the screw. M25 is sill/rocker mouldings.
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I looked closer and yes itis the M25. Makes sense because now I notice a bunch of holes where the trim would have went on the wheel wells.

Any thoughts on the blacked out hood? Where would it tell me that it was from factory on the fender tag.
 
I believe the Twister model is the only one that came with the stripes and two little small scoops. The 360 did not.
 
The decode.exe tool I downloaded years ago says V21 is Hood Performance Treatment?
 
And the brochure for 1974 Dusters shows a hood blackout treatment option.
 
oldkimmer said:
Like in his pic? Kim
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The brochure doesn’t show a picture, only a line in the option list. I did find other pictures (Daniel’s being one) that showed the same hood treatment. I am guessing the hood treatment is stock.

As KZ1972 already said, the scoop isn’t factory, but there were scoops associated with the hood treatment that looked like the twin ‘69 Cuda scoops and set in the black areas. There appears to be some confusion as to if those scoops were on the Twister package cars only or not. Daniel’s car showed evidence of them being installed at one time, but this car looks to never having had them (unless the holes were fixed and the black re-sprayed).

I would link to pictures of @daniel_depetro car, but can’t right now.
 
Updated tally:

1 individual that hasn't posted, so I won’t say who he is (and I don’t remember anymore)

Myself – DionR - yes
oldkimmer – yes
TimS – no (1/28/2018 reference to selling to a friend)
MrHemi
360Duster4speed – as of 4/26/2020
Driven
daniel_depetro
manofmopar340
Moparman1966
poppaweelee
Abody4speed – as of 7/13/2015
sobiecam – as of 9/15/2015
TireSmoknTim – as of 10/6/2016
Mark Damewood – as of 5/7/2017
Money pitt (friend) – as of 1/27/2018
gdrill – sold but still alive
Shayne Dysart – as of 2/8/2020
JRS - as of 2/13/2020
Mike Mitchem - as of 8/9/2020
KZ1972 - as of 8/20/2020

Dates are the last time they posted in this thread with something indicating they still owned the car.

21 cars!
 
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This page mentions the hood treatment and says it is available on the Duster 360, but no info on what it included or looked like.

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The 1970 Hamtramck Registry - 1974 Plymouth Dealership Data Book - Valiant/Duster

On a later page, it shows what is included on the Twister package, but doesn’t mention the hoot treatment nor the scoops.

There is also info there saying the rocker molding would have been packaged with the wheel well moldings, confirming that this car should have had them. It was a package, shouldn’t have been able to get one without the other.
 
DionR said:
This page mentions the hood treatment and says it is available on the Duster 360, but no info on what it included or looked like.

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The 1970 Hamtramck Registry - 1974 Plymouth Dealership Data Book - Valiant/Duster

On a later page, it shows what is included on the Twister package, but doesn’t mention the hoot treatment nor the scoops.

There is also info there saying the rocker molding would have been packaged with the wheel well moldings, confirming that this car should have had them. It was a package, shouldn’t have been able to get one without the other.
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Here is a picture I got of an article called going 'against the grain with aa 360 Duster'. There is no doubt that the treatment is stock. I was just curious where it indicates thisnon the fender tag. I also have included a picture of my parent with the car in the back ground shortly after they bought the car. The scoop is not on in in this picture but I always knew it wasn't stock
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DionR said:
The brochure doesn’t show a picture, only a line in the option list. I did find other pictures (Daniel’s being one) that showed the same hood treatment. I am guessing the hood treatment is stock.

As KZ1972 already said, the scoop isn’t factory, but there were scoops associated with the hood treatment that looked like the twin ‘69 Cuda scoops and set in the black areas. There appears to be some confusion as to if those scoops were on the Twister package cars only or not. Daniel’s car showed evidence of them being installed at one time, but this car looks to never having had them (unless the holes were fixed and the black re-sprayed).

I would link to pictures of @daniel_depetro car, but can’t right now.
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The Twister option had the option of also including the two small hood scoops that first appeared in the ‘69 Cuda. Just ordering the Twister option didn’t include the hood scoops. However, I believe the hood scoops were only available on the ‘73 Duster Twister and not ‘74.
 
KZ1972 said:
Here is a picture I got of an article called going 'against the grain with aa 360 Duster'. There is no doubt that the treatment is stock. I was just curious where it indicates thisnon the fender tag. I also have included a picture of my parent with the car in the back ground shortly after they bought the car. The scoop is not on in in this picture but I always knew it wasn't stockView attachment 1715581803View attachment 1715581804
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That’s pretty cool you’ve got old photos of the car. Great history.

Was it bought from Crosstown? How’d you track the car down after it was sold?
 
I suspect the V21 code on the tag refers to the Performance Hood Paint Treatment.
 
H22A4 said:
That’s pretty cool you’ve got old photos of the car. Great history.

Was it bought from Crosstown? How’d you track the car down after it was sold?
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I believe Crosstown. We lived on the north side so it would make sense. I spoke to the sales manager there and he said they have been around for that long and they sold a lot of performance cars back then.
I was able to contact the guy he sold it to via Facebook. The guy still had it and after some hard decision making he decided to let me bring it back to the family. I am very grateful he did.

On another note and idea how many would 360 4speed cars with the hood treatment would have been made? Number has to be low.
 
Wow, I have never seen a Duster 360 (74) with that Hood Treatment. Very cool!
 
I have to say that the hood treatment is something new to me, so I bet the number of total Dusters with it was low to begin with, and when you factor in the low production of 360/4 speed cars, I think TF360 is correct that it is very, very low.

KZ1972, any idea if your Dad spec’ed the car like this, or was it something the dealership ordered and he bought off the showroom floor?

Such a cool story and car.
 
KZ1972, you should consider starting a separate thread on your car since it’s a great story.
 
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