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Great advice about the interior and nice priceView attachment 1715580767 View attachment 1715580768 View attachment 1715580769 Ethan, my youngest son (28) bought his first A body a 1974 Duster. He looked at a Demon earlier and then a turbo car and passed on both. He was never into racing or older cars growing up and now with me in Pa and him in Colorado I’m about useless to him. I feel he kinda rushed buying this one but he wanted to get working on something before house buying. He runs an autobody shop so when they dropped the rice down to 1500.00 he offered 1200.00 earlier this week and picked it up today. The slant six is out of the car but came with it as did the rest of the driveline. I told him to hold off spending on interior parts and 360 till the body is shaping up. That way if he lost interest he could probably recover what he has invested. I’m going to get him to sign up on abodiesonly so we can hopefully find some needed parts and advice. Better pictures coming soon.
What part of Colorado?
At least we know where he can get a good motor!
I agree. They used to use sand, instead of salt. Is this still true? A friend out there told me the windshields get sandblasted.Colorado is not too hard on cars, not like the north east.
I remember growing up in Pittsburgh in the 70's and 80's and them dumping salt all over the place. The salt back then didn't work below 20 degrees, yet they would dump it below 0???
With a restored car, salt really isn’t an issue today. Salted roads definitely eat up a cars metal if driving on wet roads that have salt on them. But, people don’t drive restored cars in these conditions today. Salted roads aren’t a threat until they become wet. Guys don’t bring their vintage cars out until long after the salt has been washed away. The biggest problem with cars in the northeast is moisture in the air or on the roads period. If any car is kept dry, you won’t have these severe rust issues. I’m anal enough with this point. That I don’t use water to clean my vintage cars. All dry cleaning.,I remember growing up in Pittsburgh in the 70's and 80's and them dumping salt all over the place. The salt back then didn't work below 20 degrees, yet they would dump it below 0???
Denver. While at his last shop they did a test n tune at Mile High drag strip and he took his daily driver. He really enjoyed it. He had to row the gears in this oneView attachment 1715580791