What size wheels and tires are on the rear. They look like they are good size tires
Beater factory muscle drivers.
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Canucklehead
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They're actually not that big, the car is in storage but they're either 225 or 235/70r14, but they're on 14x6.5 chrome aftermarket rims that I had painted to match the car.
Not saying we can not get attached to a car, a hunk of steel, plastic, and rust ( somewhere). I still say they are meant to be used. To work. I if they respond to all the $ and work I put in them, I can get attached and love them. I have had cars that me and them just did not belong together!!! ha
I will love a good horse, but mine are bred to work, and they are happy when they have a job, and I love them for their want to and try. Just like a good dog that will follow me till Hell freezes over.
I will love a good horse, but mine are bred to work, and they are happy when they have a job, and I love them for their want to and try. Just like a good dog that will follow me till Hell freezes over.
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My '70 Duster isn't quite a "beater" but I drive it whenever I feel like it, rain or shine (sometimes even snow). It was my first car though so I have a lot of attachment to it, I'd like to get an old Dodge truck to use more as a beater. Currently it's my 1993 Cherokee but I have plans to start turning that into more of an off-road machine.
I love the original paint on my car btw, perfect amount of patina and it's very durable. People always ask when I'm gonna paint it and I'm always like "uhhmm I don't really know... maybe never?" Lol
I love the original paint on my car btw, perfect amount of patina and it's very durable. People always ask when I'm gonna paint it and I'm always like "uhhmm I don't really know... maybe never?" Lol
I would love to have a badass factory car. But in the meantime that's why I got this. No fender tag, no sweat. Drive it, beat it. Love it.
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Looks vaguely familiar! That looks like the day after Junior and I picked it up.
MopaR&D
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Wait my Duster isn't a factory 340 car... I guess it doesn't count?
Fantastic! Drive it, love it, beat on it!
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340 Formula S, original motor, tag, numbers, no rust...
Driven daily 1993-2003.
Looks same outside as I bought it in 1993. And a few little bruises more....
5 different sets of rims, 5 different tire sizes (not always with different rims, 5 different brands/types shocks, 3 sizes of torsion bars, 5 different front sway bars, 2 different K-members, original bore #’s 340 1993-2011, 2011-present 416 w/nothing reused from 340, 3 different bucket seats....
The drivers front has been dented back since I got it. But running it off track into gravel berm added some rash.
***forgot to mention I bent that left front 15x8 rallye rim. Right in the center too! Didn’t even feel it. Someone pointed it out a year later or so. ***
Driven daily 1993-2003.
Looks same outside as I bought it in 1993. And a few little bruises more....
5 different sets of rims, 5 different tire sizes (not always with different rims, 5 different brands/types shocks, 3 sizes of torsion bars, 5 different front sway bars, 2 different K-members, original bore #’s 340 1993-2011, 2011-present 416 w/nothing reused from 340, 3 different bucket seats....
The drivers front has been dented back since I got it. But running it off track into gravel berm added some rash.
***forgot to mention I bent that left front 15x8 rallye rim. Right in the center too! Didn’t even feel it. Someone pointed it out a year later or so. ***
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That is a thing of beauty! Mine just has to go in a straight line, at least.
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This is how a broke the K-member stud. Last trip back from Iowa after collage graduation.
Completely stuffed it to 5600 lbs. Weighed 3500 lbs empty. The car was so low in front I didn’t run LCA bump stops. Even with my .99” T-bars, the added weight caused it to bottom out.
I added air shocks to rear cause leaf was arching wrong way. But didn’t notice front had lowered that much.
The stuff on ground is JUST contents of car top carrier.
Completely stuffed it to 5600 lbs. Weighed 3500 lbs empty. The car was so low in front I didn’t run LCA bump stops. Even with my .99” T-bars, the added weight caused it to bottom out.
I added air shocks to rear cause leaf was arching wrong way. But didn’t notice front had lowered that much.
The stuff on ground is JUST contents of car top carrier.
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IIRC, that’s the old Palmdale dragstrip.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that car mentioned during local benchracing talk.
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It could be but from what I was told it was run at Baylands in Fremont. I just assumed that's where the picture was from.
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Maybe another M-code. I’ll check
Oh my God that is just so cool. That pic could have been taken in the late 70's, that's how I remember so many as a young kid in the 70's and all the "older" kids drove and raced around in cars like that. Ahh such a great time. Love your car!
Yes a cool time. I graduated HS in '66 and started jr. college, 4 years later the draft board still kept me 1A just so IF I got behind they could call me up without any delay. Then it is 1970. I was gonna graduate with my ag degree come Hell or high water, ,then and see if they got to my lottery number. Sept. get there and no draft for me.
Cool cars to see every day. NO I did not have a cool car or was a cool kid. You don't want to hear just how poor I was.
Now back to where we were.
Cool cars to see every day. NO I did not have a cool car or was a cool kid. You don't want to hear just how poor I was.
Now back to where we were.
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