wanted! The correct grille for my 71 340 duster

kikgas01 said
He starts it once a month. He said if I want, he will have it all cleaned up, full tank of gas and ready so I can drive it home. I am gonna drive it home! He drives it 3 times a year or so. He has had in since it was new and he was in high school. This thing would be a huge hit at Mopar shows.

That is a super cool car and I really like the all original survivors.Sounds like you're planning on keeping it unrestored which is great to see.

At the very least,you might want to give a good check over before driving it though,make sure it has'nt leaked out it's fluids over the years when sitting and that the car is roadworthy.

I bought an all original 63k mile car about a year ago that was summer driven by the previous owner but mostly parked over the years and some things were overlooked.I had the car shipped most of the way here then drove the car about 50 miles home from the border crossing without incident but once I got the car home I started going over and found quite few things that could have caused problems.I found that the oil had leaked out of the rearend over the years there was none on the gears,all 4 wheel cylinders and the master cylinder were leaking,one of the front brake shoes was cracked and coming apart,both e-brake cables were seized,the idler arm was totally shot causing the steering linkage to rub on an exhaust pipe,both u-joints were insanely tight and two of the cups were full of red dust which used to be the bearings,and the rad was starting to leak.
Also,the horn relay did'nt work and the turn signal switch had failed so I had no horn or brake lights as well as no high beams.

I was lucky it was a fairly short drive with a break in the middle and nothing got hot enough or lost enough fluid to cause a problem but personally I'd recommend having the car towed or trailered until you have a chance to go over it throughly especially when a lot of the wearing parts on the car could still be the original 40 year old pieces.