1971 340 Duster has a Valiant emblem?

[SSVDP]

I have a friend going to look at a '71 340 Duster.
He says the car has a Valiant emblem on the quarter panel & he asked me if this us how it originally came.
So my question is how was the exterior decorated on a '71 340 Duster?
Car does have a side stripe on it.

 

[pauly]

I know 1970's had the Valiant badge. The 318 cars had the V EIGHT badge too but the 340 cars did not.

 

[crackedback]

No Valiant or Duster emblems on exterior of a 71. It was all decals for a duster that year.

 

[pauly]

Thanks Crackedback...................good to know! I learned something today!

 

[Princess Valiant]

on a side note, I have noticed a lot of people tend to put the Plymouth emblem in the grille just because the grille has the mounting holes for it. The 70-2 grilles are all the same but the emblem is 70 only.

the "valiant" emblem on the fender is also 70 only as said above

 

[crackedback]

Thanks Crackedback...................good to know! I learned something today!

70's had the valiant badge by the Duster 340 sticker on fender. Some but not many had the V-Eight emblems on the front of fender.

71-72 was all stickers regarding model. 73 had return of emblems on fender again.

 

[Dartnut]

70's had the valiant badge by the Duster 340 sticker on fender. Some but not many had the V-Eight emblems on the front of fender.

71-72 was all stickers regarding model. 73 had return of emblems on fender again.

Good advice.
100% correct in my experience as well.

 

[ESP47]

on a side note, I have noticed a lot of people tend to put the Plymouth emblem in the grille just because the grille has the mounting holes for it. The 70-2 grilles are all the same but the emblem is 70 only.

the "valiant" emblem on the fender is also 70 only as said above

Thank you for this. I have a 71 and was like how the heck did I misplace that emblem? Never had it, that's why.

 

[SSVDP]

Thanks for the great info.

 

[ValerianMagnum]

1970 was the only year that we saw valiant duster on them if im not mistaken

 

[Dustdevl340]

I want to get that emblem for my grill. Didn't much care for it before but then I read about what it was supposed to symbolize - a rocket - Chrysler's participation as prime contractor for various missile programs in the 50s that lead to the Apollo program with which they were also heavily involved. I read about it on Allpar if I remember correctly.
Very cool story. Apparently their engineering and quality was so good they never had a failure with one of their rockets.

Steve