Thanks for all the reply's. I will take everyone's advise and save the money for the patch panels. I will look at whether to get the whole floor or split. When I get to that part of the restore I will post the pics in "Member Restorations".
This is such a great community. So many people...
I am on a very limited budget for my restore of a 1975 Plymouth Duster. I have access to an auto body scrap metal bin. What are some of the draw backs to replacing the front floor pans on my Duster with scrapped sheet metal. That would make my cost for replacement of the floor pans, as my...
The LH front frame rail is rusted almost off. Doesn't the torsion bar run along side of the frame on the Dusters? Or do they run from frame rail to frame rail?
Yeah, I am taking it off, along with the upper control arm and lower control arm, so I can re-do the frame rail. Good call. I will take your advise and put some grease on it in the mean time. All advise is taken in the attitude it is given.
Thanks for the info. I know one thing, the color is close to my mom's 1972 Duster back in 1976. My brother painted some stars and stripes on it for the bicentennial. That car is long gone:(
Well, I've started my first project car. I took out the carpet already. No pics of that, thank God. I have the LF fender off and will work on the rust. Taking the fender off showed me a much larger problem. That's supposed to be a subframe :(
The stripe is called a Phoenix. YY1 is right, I've only seen it on red cars too. I thought it looked a little bit like the 340 stripe. The duster has a slant six. The last time gas was put in the tank was in October of 2008. Motor does turn over, but I only gave it a try to make sure...
I recently bought a 1975 Plymouth Duster in the hopes of fixing it up. Three years earlier I bought a 1997 Dodge Ram 1500. So, I guess I am a Mopar guy after all.