wtf is this guy, or bidders smoking??????????? or am i missing something?????????

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Race cars were often updated with the newest look, even though it was the same old car. Maybe that's it.
 
well i know the racers would "update" cars rather than buy a new body, changing the trunk panel seems like alot of work though
 
Cars were always updated to compete. 70 Cudas and Challengers were updated to 72 body style all the time, including the rear light panel. Very common to do, even in 63 they were throwing 64 and even 65 front clips on them.
 
so how is this a hemi car???????????????
 
340plot said:
so how is this a hemi car???????????????
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Parts supplied from Chrysler and sponsered would be my guess. It started as a bare "Body in White" shell. Several plain bodies were sold, especially through Sox & Martin and Petty, you could order them out of a catalog. Also, racers were given extra bodies like this for a spare car, sometimes whole cars were given so they could be stripped for parts or their engines pulled and rum in the race car.
 
What the seller is proposing is reasonable. I have no idea how to verify a car like that. Could a Duster have been aquired as a "body in white"?
 
Yes- you can even get a non-VIN Challenger today for racing.
 
sr71mopar said:
What the seller is proposing is reasonable. I have no idea how to verify a car like that. Could a Duster have been aquired as a "body in white"?
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I believe most of the 70-up A-body pro stock cars started out as a "Body in white" Most had Hemi's, then engines got smaller as the Hemi was slowly factored out of competition

Several E-body cars were white bodies without vins too.
 
Very seldom in that era were cars shipped to racers in any other configuration than plain "body in white". Why send a bunch of interior, trim and other items that will just be trashed the minute they get the cars. And, if the car were actually a 73, the Hemi wasn't in production anyway and wouldnt have even come with the car no matter what. By 1973 everybody was running a smallblock, and without much success at that....

What makes this a Hemi car?? Maybe the fact that it has a Hemi, and has probably always been Hemi-powered. If you're looking for an original Hemi-powered Duster, you're barking up the wrong tree, there were no such cars built, except at the shops of racers of the era!! Geof
 
That car is a treasure to someone who was there back in the day when they called Pro-stock qualifying to the staging lanes for the last round and here they would come. Dusters,Mavericks ,Camaros,Hornets,Gremlins,Pintos.When Pro/stock was really PRO-STOCK.Man those were the days,Kevin.
 
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