Did I stumble across a Demon?

[sargentrs]

Bought a '74 Dart for $500 last Saturday. Finally got around to decoding the VIN tag and fender tag and here's what it comes up.

LP23:
Dodge Dart,Demon
Premium
2 Door Hardtop

C4B: 225 105HP(net) 1-1BBL 6 CYL
1974
Dodge Main, Hamtramck, MI, USA

370442: Sequence number

E24: 225 cid 1 barrel 6 Cylinder 145hp
D34: Light Duty Automatic Transmission
GE7: Burnished Red Poly Exterior Color
H1LL: Trim - High, Unknown, Unknown Color
000: Full Door Panels
328: Build Date: March 28
553691: Order number

V1P: Full Vinyl Top, Unknown color
U: USA Specifications
B43: Manual Brakes
C15: 70 only Deluxe Seat Belts
G11: Tinted Glass (all)
G52: Unknown

H51: Air Conditioning with Heater
J25: 3 Speed Wipers
J52: Inside Hood Release
L31: Hood/Fender Mounted Turn Signals
M21: Roof drip rail moldings
M25: Wide sill moldings

M26: Wheel Lip Moldings
M31: Belt Moldings
M38: Decklid Finish Panel Moldings
N76: Coolant Recovery System
R11: Radio Solid State AM (2 Watts)

V6Y: Longitudinal Stripes, Yellow
L1: Unknown
723: Unknown

Am I reading this wrong or did I stumble across a Demon with the 145hp 225ci? Everything appears original although it's been (crappily) repainted black but the engine compartment is red and it obviously had a vinyl roof and many of the options listed on the tag are evident. Are these tags known to be off a little?

 

[abodyjoe]

if its a 1974 then its a dart sport not a demon. only made demons in 71 and 72.

 

[moper]

... and the tail lights would be a series of vertical slots in the tail panel - not the squared off plastic lensese.

 

[abodyjoe]

demon:

dart sport:

 

[VDART]

how about pictures of that $500 74 demon!! still $500?? wow!! Lawrence

 

[doug 371]

lp23 makes it a dart not dart sport

 

[sargentrs]

Well Darn! Thought I'd found something. I get confused by some of the postings and pictures I see. Those top two Abodyjoe posted, to me, have always been "Dusters" (Hope I'm not insulting anybody!). My grandfather had one back in the 70's/80'a. Mine is like the 3rd picture. Do they have certain "nicknames" to keep 'em apart?

Here's my original introduction post http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=286331 I don't have any photos saved here at work. The guy was asking $1400 on Craigslist. I walked away with it for $500 and drove it home, a 45 minute drive, with a severe pucker factor involved. I thought it was going come apart or break down on me before I could get home. After I got her in the garage, put the front lug nuts on correctly and torqued them, capped off the open vacuum ports on the carb, wrapped up the hole in the exhaust pipe with muffler tape and added 3 quarts of tranny fluid, she ran like a top! Just gotta get all the lights working and she'll ready for her job as my daily work car. Thanks for setting me straight guys!

 

[74DartSwinger360]

That is a 1974 Dart Swinger

 

[sargentrs]

Thanks 74dartswinger! I'll refer to her as that in the future.

 

[abodyjoe]

Those top two Abodyjoe posted, to me, have always been "Dusters" (Hope I'm not insulting anybody!). My grandfather had one back in the 70's/80'a. Mine is like the 3rd picture. Do they have certain "nicknames" to keep 'em apart?

a duster is a plymouth. built from 1970 to 1975 or 76..

a demon(1971 and 1972) or dart sport(1973-1975 0r 76) isa dodge .


different tail light treatment and front clips.

what you have is just a run of the mill 74 dart. not that theres anything wrong with that..

 

[sargentrs]

Thanks for the clarification Abodyjoe! I get it now. I could always throw in the word "Swinger" and everybody pretty much knows what body style, right? I always look forward to seeing your posts just so I can see your avatar

 

[abodyjoe]

Or just use the word "dart". Most will think of what you have. Most say demon or dart sport when referring to those cars?

 

[sargentrs]

Thanks joe! How about this line?
E24: 225 cid 1 barrel 6 Cylinder 145hp
Can I count on that? She feels pretty peppy. I'll check the engine VIN to be sure.

 

[THEWHITEZOMBIE]

Seems to me a bunch of "anti" persons where against the name "demon" an chrysler had to change it to Dart Sport

 

[95teetee]

I could always throw in the word "Swinger" and everybody pretty much knows what body style, right?

yep, if you call it a swinger everyone will know exactly what it is.


Or you could get a Scamp, and everyone will call that a swinger too

 

[moparlover]

Seems to me a bunch of "anti" persons where against the name "demon" an chrysler had to change it to Dart Sport

people were a lil sensitive to devil stuff by the time '72 rolled around.

On January 25, 1971, guilty verdicts were returned against the four defendants on each of the 27 separate counts against them. Not far into the trial's penalty phase, the jurors saw, at last, the defense that Manson—in the prosecution's view—had planned to present. Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten testified the murders had been conceived as "copycat" versions of the Hinman murder, for which Atkins now took credit. The killings, they said, were intended to draw suspicion away from Bobby Beausoleil, by resembling the crime for which he had been jailed. This plan had supposedly been the work of, and carried out under the guidance of, not Manson, but someone allegedly in love with Beausoleil—Linda Kasabian. Among the narrative's weak points was the inability of Atkins to explain why, as she was maintaining, she had written "political piggy" at the Hinman house in the first place.

Midway through the penalty phase, Manson shaved his head and trimmed his beard to a fork; he told the press, "I am the Devil, and the Devil always has a bald head." In what the prosecution regarded as belated recognition on their part that imitation of Manson only proved his domination, the female defendants refrained from shaving their heads until the jurors retired to weigh the state's request for the death penalty.

The effort to exonerate Manson via the "copycat" scenario failed. On March 29, 1971, the jury returned verdicts of death against all four defendants on all counts. On April 19, 1971, Judge Older sentenced the four to death.

 

[pishta]

I worked with a guy that was on that jury in LA! Said it made his hair white...spooky ****.

 

[ledman]

From the title of this thread, I thought maybe you had met my Ex-wife:evil::vom::angryfir::snorting:

 

[oldmopardude]

Did she move to Phoenix by chance? She sounds like somebody I know! LoL

 

[ledman]

Did she move to Phoenix by chance? She sounds like somebody I know! LoL

Hahah no she now lives in the bay Area San Francisco CA, still not far enough away for me.