The best advice I got when I bought my Duster back in 2014 was “you can either tear the car apart and work on it for years, or get it drivable and enjoy it. Patina is the “in thing” right now, so maybe ride that fad until it’s gone, then restore the car” am I ever glad I followed that advice!! I’ve heard far too many stories where someone bought a car, tore it to pieces, then there is sat for the next decade. And I have no doubt I would’ve been one of those cases. So instead, it took me about 2 years to get the car drivable, and I’ve been enjoying the heck out of it since!
Here was the day I bought the car.
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First time I pulled it out of the shop.
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One of my many short drives.
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And here she is now after installing an HDK front suspension, new rear springs to drop the whole car about 2”
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I absolutely love driving this thing. It’s my daily driver as long as the roads aren’t treated or I have the car torn apart for some type of upgrade. Heck, we even took it on a 1000 mile round trip out to western Missouri to my in-laws over Christmas! I love nice, shiny, restored cars. But for a personal driver, I like em ratty!
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