Got another project

[Wayne M.]

well that'll take some digging. i'll try.

 

[DavidC]

well that'll take some digging. i'll try.

Think of it as a trip to the past .

Dave

 

[DavidC]

Wayne, do you have pictures of your Duster you can post ?. I for one would like to see it.

Dave

 

[Wayne M.]

Ok Dave, I may get a chance to look mid week.
Regarding my Duster, it was my first car, a well opted 318/ console car. I got it for $200 in 1985. I'ts been a work I. Progress since. The paint and body were done in '91, and the existing 340/904/8.75 were sunk in shortly after. I put W2 econo's on and an 8pt. Cage after that. It's still registered but it's been hung up apart putting in TTI headers and other things to make it more streetable. I had MP slip on race headers- just too low for the street. I've had other mopes come and go, but this one I'm attached to. If anyone has the 10/96 (IIRC) HP Mopar mag, it was in a small block shoot out at Englishtown in that issue. That was a good time!

 

[DavidC]

Now that is sweet. I always liked the Duster body style with a set of meats on the rear.

Dave

 

[Wayne M.]

Some recent mods are, B body brake conversion up front and a custom dash with an auto meter programmable speedo.

 

[Wayne M.]

Now that is sweet. I always liked the Duster body style with a set of meats on the rear.

Dave

Thanks, those are about as big as it gets before moving stuff around. 15X8 and 275 BFG drag radials. In the track shot, it's wearing cop wheels and 9X28 mickeys.

 

[DavidC]

Oh the days of past. I wonder how much this is worth these days.

Dave

 

[Wayne M.]

Check this out.

http://wellbornmusclecarmuseum.com

 

[DavidC]

I remember back in the early 70's there was a dealer in western PA that went around the country buying and some what restoring muscle cars. I was on leave from USAF and visited this dealer. He had 409, 396.427 Chevy's, lots of Mopars and Fords, all muscle even some Ramblers. I was tempted very hard to drive out of there in a AAR 340 sixpack real bad. Being in the Military I just could not afford it and looking back it would have been a steal.

Dave

 

[DavidC]

Check this out.

http://wellbornmusclecarmuseum.com

That was pretty cool. Interesting they say the air grabber debuted in 71 on the Charger. My 70 roadrunner has that option so there was some in house swapping going on. Kind of like the Daytona winged charger then Plymouth came out with the Super Bird. I did prefer the Plymouth's over the Dodges at the time although the 68-70 Chargers were a very nice body style.

Dave

 

[Wayne M.]

Yes the 70 road runner could have had an air grabber, but Chargers didn't till '71. I'm pretty sure that museum focus on '71 Chargers and wing cars.

 

[jgillott]

I remember back in the early 70's there was a dealer in western PA that went around the country buying and some what restoring muscle cars. I was on leave from USAF and visited this dealer. He had 409, 396.427 Chevy's, lots of Mopars and Fords, all muscle even some Ramblers. I was tempted very hard to drive out of there in a AAR 340 sixpack real bad. Being in the Military I just could not afford it and looking back it would have been a steal.

Dave

Do you remember the name of the dealer? Yenko in Canonsburg? Maybe Landy's?

 

[DavidC]

Do you remember the name of the dealer? Yenko in Canonsburg? Maybe Landy's?

No I do not, sorry. I cannot even remember the dealers location but was probably within 2 hrs west of Bristol. I know it was not Yenko or Landy's tho. I think I read about it in Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Cars, Chrysler Power. One of those, it was just to long ago. I will see if the Wife remembers as she went with me. Seems like I took the Turnpike to get there. They had absolutely nothing new and I was there probably 74-75.

Dave

 

[DavidC]

Do you remember the name of the dealer? Yenko in Canonsburg? Maybe Landy's?

No I do not, sorry. I cannot even remember the dealers location but was probably within 2 hrs west of Bristol. I know it was not Yenko or Landy's tho. I think I read about it in Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Cars, Chrysler Power. One of those, it was just to long ago. I will see if the Wife remembers as she went with me. Seems like I took the Turnpike to get there. They had absolutely nothing new and I was there probably 74-75.

Dave

 

[jgillott]

The only other one that I can think of that matches your description is Beck's that used to be in Scottdale. They had a small lot in town and probably 150-200 cars out in barns and on the grounds of the owners farm outside of Dawson. They operated until the very early '90's if I remember correctly. I don't know if the owner retired or just got out of the business, but overnight the cars just disappeared. Rumor has it that they were bought out in one large lot for a ton of money in 1990 standards by a collector. Others say that he sold the property with the cars on it and the new owner scrapped them all. If that was the case, it would have been awful. There were many sweet cars sitting out in those fields ranging from the mid 40's through the early 70's. Mostly Mopars, but a few Fords and GM's mixed in.

Side story on that dealer. They had a green 70 Charger 440 RT ,727 floor console, etc. sitting in the weeds down there for probably 10+ years. I must have stopped there 2 dozen times from the late 80's to early '90's trying to buy that car. When they first got it in, it needed a drivers side quarter but the rest of the car was solid. By the time they closed down, it was pretty much rotted away. Every time I stopped, the answer was "No, I'm going to restore that car for myself". It's probably long been parted out somewhere by now.

 

[DavidC]

This was a paved lot with a building on it and was the basic dealer of the day set up. I remember it was a typical PA. day, rain heavy overcast. The weather did not matter as I was a kid in a candy store.

Dave

 

[Wayne M.]

Think of it as a trip to the past .

Dave

David, I looked through one box 'o books and while I found some CP, I didn't see that cover. Will keep trying

 

[DavidC]

David, I looked through one box 'o books and while I found some CP, I didn't see that cover. Will keep trying

Bummer, the Wife can't find mine either. I want to say it is between 84-87 but I could be wrong.

Dave

 

[DavidC]

David, I looked through one box 'o books and while I found some CP, I didn't see that cover. Will keep trying

Found it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 1988

Dave