jayhawk261
Member
Hello all, new to the A Body forum. I joined another site in the last few days as well. This site looks to have a lot more info though.
I'm looking at a 73 Duster for my son's first car. It looks like a good solid rust free car that will need some mechanical work. I'm planning on making the boy work for his ride by turning wrenches! We'll do an engine rebuild, clean it up and work on the brakes and what not. The plan is to do a manual trans swap with a T5, but looking in the forums here that's a fairly involved process. We may get him up and going and then start collecting the parts to do the swap later.
The first thing we have to do is replace the gas tank. It's apparently rusted and full of crap. All in all, it looks like it will be a good project though. Right now I am about $500 apart from the seller on making the deal. Hopefully we'll be able to work it out and we'll have a car for my boy.
I'm looking at a 73 Duster for my son's first car. It looks like a good solid rust free car that will need some mechanical work. I'm planning on making the boy work for his ride by turning wrenches! We'll do an engine rebuild, clean it up and work on the brakes and what not. The plan is to do a manual trans swap with a T5, but looking in the forums here that's a fairly involved process. We may get him up and going and then start collecting the parts to do the swap later.
The first thing we have to do is replace the gas tank. It's apparently rusted and full of crap. All in all, it looks like it will be a good project though. Right now I am about $500 apart from the seller on making the deal. Hopefully we'll be able to work it out and we'll have a car for my boy.
