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Difference between 70-71-72 dusters...
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So here is my question for the group, especially TA who started me down this rabbit hole...... I have a 70 intact Duster with a 198 /6 3 on the tree numbers matching, conventional dash with knob radio, that I had planned to clone to a 340 with 71 stripes (my high school car). Now TA has almost 100% convinced me that I should just restore as is. Thoughts???
Cheers
Tim
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Tim
Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
He convinced me to leave mine as it is.
I have a 71 duster slant car, and I was going to clone it to a 340 car with 70 stripes and a 70 color.
But now after thinking bout it, i am leaving it pure 71 and a slant
Decades ago, we stuck a bigger engine in a ??? called it hotrodding,then came the clone deal, I always thought that it originated at BJ!? Back bout mid 90's I got into early B bodies, stuck a 440 4 speed in a 64 Savoy ( originally a slant no doubt), light fun car and I called it " a savoy with a 440) LOL, NOBODY hardly found much love in what I did to the savoys, 65 coronets, 64 bels. and a host of others. There were just slant or poly 318 cars nobody wanted, there were too many REAL muscle cars out there to restore for fair prices.
IN our A body world these days, most of our cars we are building are NOT "musclecars", but slants and low compression teeners. Afffordable fun builders, no matter which direction we go. Personally I love to put my foot in one with some real hp, and feel the rush, BUT I also love just tooling down the road in an anemic stock slant. Best of both and all worlds is have a fleet cars! of hemis, big blocks, 340's, stroked 360's, and some stock teeners and slants!!!
And, throw in a Ford of some sort for the days you are feelng just a little "off"!!???? ha
IN our A body world these days, most of our cars we are building are NOT "musclecars", but slants and low compression teeners. Afffordable fun builders, no matter which direction we go. Personally I love to put my foot in one with some real hp, and feel the rush, BUT I also love just tooling down the road in an anemic stock slant. Best of both and all worlds is have a fleet cars! of hemis, big blocks, 340's, stroked 360's, and some stock teeners and slants!!!
And, throw in a Ford of some sort for the days you are feelng just a little "off"!!???? ha
Alaskan_TA
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Original cars as delivered are getting to be hard to find.
Years ago, there was a Panther Pink T/A clone for sale in Canada.
It was originally a Panther Pink 198 /6 3-speed stick car.
I had the money at the time & the price was 'right', especially since I would have sold all the T/A clone stuff of to get some money back.
So, I asked the seller if the original flat hood, /6 & three speed came with it.
His response - " I threw all that crap away!"
My response - "You just lost your buyer."
It took close to 2 years to actually sell & that guy did not keep it for long.
Some cars do not have as much value as others in monetary terms.
Historically though? /6 cars are being changed all the time.
Years ago, there was a Panther Pink T/A clone for sale in Canada.
It was originally a Panther Pink 198 /6 3-speed stick car.
I had the money at the time & the price was 'right', especially since I would have sold all the T/A clone stuff of to get some money back.
So, I asked the seller if the original flat hood, /6 & three speed came with it.
His response - " I threw all that crap away!"
My response - "You just lost your buyer."
It took close to 2 years to actually sell & that guy did not keep it for long.
Some cars do not have as much value as others in monetary terms.
Historically though? /6 cars are being changed all the time.
The 70 and early 71 a bodies had the flat right inner apron. Late 71 and 72 had the recessed depression in the right inner apron. And if I remember right, there was a late 72 version of that too with a larger depression for the vapour cannister.
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