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MMissile
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258-6cyl. Largest factory engine in a Gremlin, was a 304 2bbl. Randall in AZ, did 401 conversions for a couple years. I think they did 13.
I had a 1972 gremlin x with the 258 it ran great for what it was and the mileage was good too.
I test drove a 258 with a three speed stick. It was a really torquey car.
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Surprising the difference between the Duster and Dart. And the Dart is more than the Roadrunner.
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Ugh... but I guess you gotta give him credit for combining the worst trends of the last twenty years- Dubs, Carolina Squat, (with a rake like that, how do you keep oil in the pan sump?) and I won't even get into the "cowl induction hood on a Mopar" debate...
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I actually kind of like that!
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I had one with the 232 six, and had the oil pump go out- on a dare I filled it with enough oil so the engine splash oiled ("Briggs oiling") and ran it another two years like that until some joker T-boned me at an intersection...
Those 232/258s were every bit as indestructible as Chrysler's slants.
Must have been a "brother" to my buddies Gremlin. Pretty much rusted-out, but it had that "hard to kill" 6 in it (I don't recall the CID), so we took it off-roading as much as possible ....and laid it on it's side no less than 6 times that I can recall (God, that was fun!). Unfortunately all of that off-road abuse resulted in the breaking of both shock towers, enough so that one of them was actually physically touching the engine when he was forced to call it quits.
But it still ran!
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Could have been!
I really liked that car, surprisingly zippy with a 3 speed floor shift. Made a great winter beater/back and forth to work car- a lot of guys around here had VeeDubs for their winter beaters, but I preferred something with a heater that actually functioned!
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Re: "winter beater". Man, that takes me back to the early 80's....
Hell, now that I think about it a little, some of my summer cars were winter beaters!
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Yup, "beater with a heater".Re: "winter beater". Man, that takes me back to the early 80's....
Hell, now that I think about it a little, some of my summer cars were winter beaters!
1969cuda
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‘29 Chrysler
That's beautiful!
Maintenance, or repair?
29 year old Ducane. Runs for a week or more then just decides not to light. Electrodes are pretty blown back, so I bought some new ones thinking they'd fit... but no go. I ended up regrinding points on the OE's, grabbing a couple 1/4" spacers from my aircraft hardware shelves and got them back out where they should be. Furnace is running again.. .we'll see how it goes!
That is old! But if there are no major cracks on the drum, and you can keep ‘er going: Send it!
It is a HQ holden made from 1971 to 1973 it is equivalent size to an A body
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You're right, of course- when I originally looked up the pic on the interweb it was erroneously labeled as a Torana.
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