My 73 scamp project

[mellow_utah]

Well I have been on here a while so I thought id post some pics of what I'm working on. It's a 73 scamp originally a /6 car that somehow my brother managed to ruin by persuading a rod through the side of the block while doing 70 down the freeway. The car sat around for a few years,changed hands for some body work and paint on another project, the work never got done so I repossessed it. Originally I was going to do a 440 swap (I might still later) but I just moved and had to get the car drivable ASAP. I located a dodge one ton van with a 360/727 with 60k on the odometer. I traded a savage 270 for it, yanked the motor and trans and gave the rest to my buddy for helping me with labor.

 

[mellow_utah]

Here's the van....15 passenger belonged to a church, the interior was like a time capsule!

 

[65dartcharger]

Great car to start with. 360 seems like a great engine too!

 

[mellow_utah]

Cleaned up the motor, swapped out the 2 barrel carb and intake, the oil pan, valve covers, and painted it. The inside was clean no sludge even in the pan

 

[mellow_utah]

All installed.....

 

[mellow_utah]

Decided I needed to make the car one color so about $50 worth of rustoleum rattle can would do, again in a hurry

 

[mellow_utah]

Sorry only letting me do one pic per post for some reason....

 

[mellow_utah]

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[mellow_utah]

Since I have moved and am no longer in a hurry, I'm starting into the suspension

 

[mellow_utah]

I just installed mancini xhd leaf springs. Putting the front /6 k member back in with some Schumacher conversion mounts because the v8 one I bought turned out to be bent. Cleaned and painted it, picked up some PST quick ratio steering kit, sway bar and QA1 strut rods

 

[mellow_utah]

Bottom

 

[mellow_utah]

Car still has the 73 nose on it that I blacked out. I want to find a 70-72 hood and bumper, I have the rest of the parts to convert the front to the 70-72 style or I also have an all metal 69 valiant grille

 

[mellow_utah]

Original interior except for the insert in the front seat

 

[mellow_utah]

Dash is in good shape except the fuel and temp gauges don't work lol. It's an (was) ac car and I have yet to figure out why it won't blow got air, blend doors move( can hear them), blower works and there wasn't anything in the heater core...am radio and fader knob work, even has a cabled hood popper

 

[Downtime!]

Nice work! If you do decide to go 440 later on, save your money and start with a 512. The 440 is fun, but like any other drug, eventually, you just want more.

 

[Abodybomber]

Nice looking ride,on the cheap.My kind of guy.

 

[mellow_utah]

Thanks guys! It is hard to decide with all the stuff you can do with a smallblock nowadays and since it's all set up for it. If I keep the smallblock I think I'll convert it to a manual trans. On the other hand I have a built big block in a torino and it's hard to beat the torque and feeling from a big block!

 

[mellow_utah]

Just got a 72 hood for 80 bucks so I put on my 72 front end. Still need a bumper, and I might put on my 69 valiant grille but it's got some dings that need fixed. So now I have some 73 parts for sale!

 

[mopar madness]

I like it, looks good.

 

[mellow_utah]

Thanks!

 

[mellow_utah]

Ordered a new carpet but had to do some prep work for some surface rust, water damaged sound deadener, and moldy seat belts. The floors were in great shape minus some surface rust.

 

[mellow_utah]

Rear floor looked great

 

[mellow_utah]

I coated the front and rear with rattle can duplicolor truck armor

 

[mellow_utah]

Front

 

[mellow_utah]

Found a dress shoe behind the rear seat dated September 1975 lol. I also found a second build sheet which seemed odd because I found one behind the rear back rest jute padding and one under the rear seat pad sandwiched between the foam and seat springs.