Hello everyone
My name is Jeremy and I've been cruising this site for awhile now and I figured it's time to introduce myself and my project. I have a 1974 Plymouth Scamp I picked up right after graduating in 2015. I was driving to college and kept seeing this old car sitting in a driveway so one day with time to kill I stopped and found that it had a for sale sign in it. It looked a little rough but there was a drag racing sticker from 97 in the window, that got my attention. The year I was born somebody was racing this car! I got super excited and called my uncle for some help. I had no idea what I was looking at so I got him to help. (My uncle has been racing amd building mopars for years at Woodburn Dragstrip) He came on out and took a look at it with me and decided that it was a good start. So I bartered with the seller and ended up picking it up for $800. I got it home washed it and started to figure out what I needed to do. The interior floor pan and headliner were covered in surface rust. So out came the little interior and i got to work. I sanded down everything to remove all the surface rust and then I coated it with some rustleom rust preventer and then a brown paint. The only other rust issue at this point was the trunk. The spare wheel well was shot and had a hole in it, but that wasn't important at the time so I left it. I got a new altenator, regulator and ignition resistor and quickly had the engine running and charging. At this point it became my daily driver. The car had a 318 at the time and my way to town was a 3 mile road that had an overpass. I soon learned that this 318 wasn't stock. I figured I had a small camshaft in it and my 904 transmission I knew had a shift kit. I usually cruised that road at 100mph It was so much fun to drive and I am honestly amazed I never got into trouble or had any real problems! I quickly learned the gas gauge reads wrong though. Anyways at this time I was getting ready to start college and the scamps heater never did work. So I ended up trading it for a 93 Honda Accord so I could make my 20 minute drive to school easier. I regretted trading it and wished that I could get it back. Fast forward to 2016, I was doing an engine swap in my Datsun 240z and it was the swap from hell. Nothing was going right. In my frustration I hopped on Craigslist and started searching for cars. I managed to find my car!! I couldn't believe so I called the guy and the next day went to look at it. Sure enough it was my car! He had swapped in a rebuilt stock 360 and left the 904 with a shift kit, and had started some body work. I managed to strike up a deal with him and work out a deal. He still had the 318 that came in it and he sourced a 727 to go in. So I was luckily able to get those with the car but I payed wayyyy to much to get it back.
All said in done I'm so happy to have the car back. When I got it, it had issues through. The wiring harness was pretty much shot between rats chewing on it and previous owners wiring hacks. So I ended up parking it in my shop November of 2016 and decided to rewire it completely. I had the car stripped of all wiring that month and removed some other stuff to change it a bit. Then I got busy with with college and work and it sat and sat. I would randomly go out and work on it but nothing big happened. Then I bought an EZ wiring harness and started to install it just this past month. It's been interesting since I work 6 days a week, I get home from my job as a diesel mechanic, eat dinner then work on my car for a couple hours. Although it's been slow progress has been good! My light system is all wired in and my new gauges are wired up. I got a new dash insert with autometer ultra lite gauges from fastlane west in California. I have to finish my motors wiring and install a brake booster, master cylinder, figure out mu throttle linkage, exhuast system from the headers back, a jeggs universals heater, block off the cowl fresh air port, mount my dash and install my windshield.
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