Son's 1973 Scamp project

65wgn440 · May 7, 2022

moparmandan said:
That's so awesome, man! Do you have a thread going about it or any pictures you could post up? I'd love to see it. I love being able to spend time in the shop with my son.

No, I just really build driver's, not much to look at. This will be the third vehicle I have done with my older son ('88 Mitsubishi Montero, '02 Mustang GT ) but first REAL car, PLYMOUTH ha-ha. The plan is to use many parts from 4-door Valiant that my youngest son and I put together for his first car ( RF framerail getting bad) and swapping some parts from a Duster I bought from the same guy that sold me Scamp. Then put Duster together with other parts from Valiant for youngest. So we will have a '72 Scamp wit '70-'71 Swinger front end and '74 Duster with "72 Valiant front end. Scamp is all pulled apart at my son's crappy one car garage right now, but will soon make it's way to my shop after we pull Valiant apart. Pics are of most of cars mentioned, except Montero. I don't have any pics of Montero unfortunately, it was a cool little SUV. 4wd, 4speed, 32" tires, clean as a whistle ! It was his first car. I should have bought that sucker from him when he got tired of it ( wanted to go faster ).

65wgn440 · May 7, 2022

BTW, I am not going to show my son your build thread, as I don't want to have to compete with yours !! Also, I too have dealt with Roy and he will be missed. He sold me a gas tank and related items for the Duster shortly before he passed. He even used one of his personal shipping discounts to save us money when he found out it was a father/son project. He also sent me items that were not supposed to be included in sale. We talked hunting and he showed me some recent trophies. Seems like he went doing what he loved. Good luck on rest of awesome build. You should be proud.

moparmandan · May 7, 2022

65wgn440 said:
BTW, I am not going to show my son your build thread, as I don't want to have to compete with yours !! Also, I too have dealt with Roy and he will be missed. He sold me a gas tank and related items for the Duster shortly before he passed. He even used one of his personal shipping discounts to save us money when he found out it was a father/son project. He also sent me items that were not supposed to be included in sale. We talked hunting and he showed me some recent trophies. Seems like he went doing what he loved. Good luck on rest of awesome build. You should be proud.

All of your projects look great to me! My sons paint was fine as is, Maaco type shop had done it, and again this time. It is far from great, it looks better in the pics. And he learned about bodywork, mostly that it is hard work!
Your Roy experience doesn't surprise me at all. He was a class act.

moparmandan · May 22, 2022

Road tested it. It's umm, peppy

Stops well.
Quit a list of things to finish up, lol, but not long now. Yes the plastic fuel filter will go away.
Just wanted to see if there was any trash in the line.

RustyRatRod · May 22, 2022

I don't know how I missed this build. This is really nice. What a fantastic father/son project. Yall are doin a fine job on it. I know yall are so blessed to have had Roy's involvement. We all miss him.

moparmandan · May 23, 2022

RustyRatRod said:
I don't know how I missed this build. This is really nice. What a fantastic father/son project. Yall are doin a fine job on it. I know yall are so blessed to have had Roy's involvement. We all miss him.

Thanks for checkin in Rob! I'll tell my son! But it's a big web site, hard to keep up with everything....
We are having a ball, trying to get ready for Carlisle. We think about Roy every time we work on it.

moparmandan · May 30, 2022

Little progress. The plastic headliner was challenging but we managed. As I learned here, we hung it in the dome light holes and worked it in, trimming with a Dremel cut off wheel as we went.