MoPars Left For Dead

This one is my sons 70 340 Dart. It was purchased from the 2nd owner who owned it since early spring 1970. He still had some of the original dealership paperwork with the car including the original owners name. It was sold new from Quality Dodge in Kansas City Kansas in December 1969. Its had one repaint in the late 70's but is an original plum crazy car with black vinyl top and a white stripe. As you can see the pack-rats made a nice home out of it for several decades along with a few snakes. They chewed up the wires, belts, and hoses but amazingly the original build sheet was fully intact under the front bench seat! We plan on keeping the original color combo but are more day two guys so we plan on mini tubbing it and basically using my Duster as the blueprint for the suspension. The first four pictures of it are from about 12 years ago when I first came across the car. Then the rest from when we finally bought it and cleaned it up.

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Looks complete. Why was it parked? Will/does it run? I'm glad your son got it.

I see so many tv shows where they pull a car out from somewhere, and it runs, after some work. Why were they scrapped, and why hasn't someone grabbed it/them over the years?

When Roadkill pulled their 69 Mach I out of a yard is an example. Around here, those kinds of cars are loooong gone from junk yards.

EDIT: They were probably scrapped because at the time, they were just junk, not worth fixing. But to sit there for years?