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Hey.. Look what I just got to work on.... Finally something I want to do...70 Duster. Original 318 A/T car...Now 340...
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MOPARMITCH said:
Hey.. Look what I just got to work on.... Finally something I want to do...70 Duster. Original 318 A/T car...Now 340...
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A 70 model year duster has always been a special car to me.

I should have had one as a first car.

My adoptive grandma had one. Original yellow car that had been painted red. The red wasn't shiny but had more of a matte cherry dip cone look about it.

It was a slant six/ three by the knee. Bench seat car and it was going to be my first set of wheels because my grandma liked me because I made good grades and always helped in the kitchen and did what I am supposed to. I was so happy the day she told the whole family I was going to get her car for a first car since she didn't want to drive anymore.

So the next week a cousin wrecked her car, hit a parked car at 3 a.m. this cousin then asked grandma for the duster. At first they told her it was already taken. This cousin insisted that she get it not me because she made the case that I am not genetic family anyways. So a few family members got involved on her side so she ended up with the duster.

So a week after that, she let her boyfriend use the car to get cigarettes. He runs a red light and my poor duster got broad sided and destroyed. Broke my heart. Then the cousin asks me if I still wanted the duster she would sell it to me...... wrecked.

I have been looking for a 70 since then only to have them elude me because something always happened that prevented me from getting a 70. I have a 71 and a 72 that I thought of building as a 70 but i could never get ahold of a 70.
 
I wouldn't go near the beach, and I don't plan to, this is an especially bad outbreak of red tide, lived thru the dead marine-life smell and airborne algae toxins when I was a kid.
 
Rainy Day Auto said:
Mr.. mitch....... the area you live in looks gorgeous.

I assume all those trees are in your yard ...... that looks fantastic, lots of trees in one place looks so amazing
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Thank you.. I have lived here for quite a while... Only 3 acres, but it is secluded in the way out suburbs of Wash,. D.C.. But .... I like Viet Nam better ... may be moving there in a few....
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Went over to a friends that needed help on his 66 belvedere, blew out the fusable link when he changed the alt. The link blew a new one in still no charge. Seems somehow he blew it when the field wire hit the ground? Any how trouble shooting drove me crazy, the pos wire from the starter relay was still getting 12 volts with the neg off the battery? Turns out the MSD unit stays gharged for a while and backflows the voltage. Drove me crazy. He is getting another alt and we go from there, and yes the regulator was also changed when I was there. He wanted to pay me and I kept refusing so he gave me this to sell!

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halifaxhops said:
Went over to a friends that needed help on his 66 belvedere, blew out the fusable link when he changed the alt. The link blew a new one in still no charge. Seems somehow he blew it when the field wire hit the ground? Any how trouble shooting drove me crazy, the pos wire from the starter relay was still getting 12 volts with the neg off the battery? Turns out the MSD unit stays gharged for a while and backflows the voltage. Drove me crazy. He is getting another alt and we go from there, and yes the regulator was also changed when I was there. He wanted to pay me and I kept refusing so he gave me this to sell!

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EEEewwwww….That is one ugly....foot!
 
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