CHRYSLER MOTORS FILM DODGE DART & PLYMOUTH DUSTER VS. CHEVY NOVA & MAVERICK COMPACT CARS XD12914
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This color educational/promotional film is about how much better a 1974 Chrysler Dart and Duster are compared with a Chevy Nova and Maverick. It was made in 1973 during the Oil Crisis and looks at "smaller" cars that Americans are predicted to buy.
Titles: Chrysler Motors Corporation (:09-:18). Wink Martindale, the game show host, hosts this. He talks to the camera. Dodge Dart is shown driving, followed by the Plymouth Valiant Duster (:19-:37). Opening title: DART AND DUSTER COMPARED WITH NOVA AND MAVERICK (:38-:41). Plymouth compact cars are shown. A car backs into a space. A hood is open for inspection. Parts of a Chrysler are shown separately. Mechanical vs electronic parts shown. Under the car, a suspension is shown. A mechanic works under a car (:41-2:19). A mechanic puts a car together. Dodge Dart bumpers compared to a Chevy Nova or Maverick. A 1974 Dart Sport races down the road. On the screen: Dart and Duster Automatic transmission doesn't need service under normal driving conditions but a Chevy Nova needs to have fluids and a service filter replaced at 24,000 miles. Maverick requires a band adjustment at 12,000 miles. Dart and Duster spark plugs replace at 18,000, Nova at 6,000 with leaded fuel, 12,000 with unleaded and a Maverick at 12,000 miles. Dart and Duster lubrication required at 36,000, a Nova at 6,000 (or 6 months), and a Maverick at 36,000. Three drivers exit their cars (Plymouth vs Chevy side by side) and open the hoods (2:20-4:04). Maverick has a different placement for their hood making it unbalanced. The cars open their trunks. Duster has lots of space and the spare tire is under the panel for more space. A Nova with its open trunk doesn't have lots of space, Maverick's trunk is smaller as well. Inside a Plymouth looks nice and polished when compared to a Nova and Maverick (4:05-5:59). Plymouth gauges. A foot presses a brake. Close on brakes. Interior of Plymouths. Armrest in a Plymouth. Three speed wipers in Plymouths only, rear window defogger also available. A sunroof is an option as well in a Plymouth. Close on AC unit
(6:00-7:26). Compact Plymouth Sedans come down a road and park. Other features for Plymouth's include: Vent windows, 2 positions on doors. A Dodge Dart goes down the road. Plymouth offers the following: electronic ignition is standard, manual disk brakes, torsion bar suspension. Other cars offered: Plymouth Scamp and the Dart Swinger. A Dodge Dart and then a Plymouth Valiant drive down the road (7:26-8:57). Title card: Extra care in engineering…it makes a difference, followed by an end disclaimer (8:58-9:25)
The original Plymouth Duster is a semi-fastback two-door coupe version of the compact-sized Plymouth Valiant automobile that was marketed by Plymouth in the U.S. from 1970 to 1976 model years. The Dodge Dart is a line of automobiles marketed by Dodge from the 1959 to 1976 model years in North America, with production extended to later years in various other markets.
The Dart name originally appeared on a 1956 Chrysler show car featuring a streamlined body designed by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Ghia that was later modified and renamed the Dart Diablo. The production Dart was introduced as a lower-priced, full-size Dodge in 1960 and 1961, became a mid-size car for 1962, and then was a compact from 1963 to 1976.
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It’s funny how soothing and relaxing these car test films are. In 1974, i was just a six years old little boy and i remember each and everyone of these cars, when they were marketed.
Miss my 73’ Dart Swinger slant six! One hell of a car! The 70s sure are missed in comparison to the disaster we’re going thru today. My 8 track player cranked up playing some Cheap Trick my high school fellow alumni. Those were truly the days!
I also had the 73 Swinger.
Mine had the 318 ci V-8.
I drove it between 1983nd 1992
Funny you should mention Cheap Trick on 8 track, the album Cheap Trick The Latest (2009) was available on 8 track as well as record or cd.
in 77 my friend's dad had that exact brown on creme 74 dart but his was the bucket seat console shift dart sport 360 with the e58 engine & opt rally wheels
Using Bricks as a reference was spot on for 1975 cars
Best comment of the day!
Except the bricks had far better quality control
Dart sport was a sweet ride
The cars are great. But with Wink Martindale as your narrator you just have to go buy a new '74 !
I was thinking the same thing. I wish I could go down and buy a brand new 74 Dodge Dart Swinger☺
I had a 74 Duster with 170,000 miles. I decided to sell it for an 84 VW GTI. I still have the GTI, but I long for my Duster again.
I remember my father's '68 Dart, blue color. Nice ride. One flaw, the carburetor valve would stick. Upholstery changed out about 1980. He got rid of it about '97.
I had a '67 Valiant Signet, 225cu in slant six with factory air!
It was unstoppable!
@doubleheadergr wow! I guess you win.
Neat :)
Twin 1968 Darts.. both model 270, both A.C., radio etc, my ladies Car is still slant6, mine is now 318, hers was Blue, mine was light Green.. peace..
Simulated wood grain I am sold.
These cars had slant sixes that would easily go 200 thousand miles and get 25 to 30 mpg all day long ! I'd buy one tomorrow if they were still available! I've owned 2darts and a valiant years ago!
Our family had a 73 Duster, 75 Fury and 1980 Diplomat with Slant Sixes. The engines were far and away the best things about these cars.
I had a ‘75 Plymouth Fury with the 318 V8. About 22MPG once some of the environmental crap was removed. 62MPH was her sweet spot in terms of harmonics (don’t know the RPMs at that level-ground speed).
But the salt air environment was her doom while I was stationed aboard a USN ship out of Norfolk, VA; couldn’t keep up with the body & frame rusting out. 😢
I had a few slants and you could never kill them. 318s were great as well.
the first car i owned when i got out of the military in 1980 and got married was a 1975 chevy nova 4 door it had a bench front seat am radio was a great car when i got rid of it in 1990 i had well over 100,000 miles on it and i only replaced the starter did all the required maintenance replacing every thing that needed to be replaced and i still remember the license plate.
My Granddad owned a '72 4-door Chevy Nova brand new from 1972 to 1982. He only got rid of it because my grandmother made him get a new car, which he HATED! (he bought a Citation LOL!!)
I had Pontiac's version of the Nova. A brown on brown 4 door Ventura with a tiny 260 c.i. V8. It was dog slow but extremely reliable.
@@Nunofurdambiznez WOW !!
69 Nova 250,000 +
coil springs showing on drivers side seat - engine still ran perfectly.
Dart/Valiant was really the better car to buy. With the slant-6 they were absolutely indestructible as long as they were not allowed to rust away. My favorite $300 used car in the 80s-90s.
Not going to lie, I actually want one of these, any one of these.
It’s Wink!!! Tic, Tac, Dough!
Yup!!! "I guess that you have to start somewhere"
Cameron Fatemi Game show.
That's true. I do miss those vent windows.
When I was in high school, my friend's older sister was married and had a Duster 340 which she used to let borrow once in a while. Imagine a car full of mouth-breathing teenage boys going 130 MPH down the freeway. Fastest I've even been in a car.
LMAO those things were monsters!
The 340 was a performance engine in its original design.
@@michaelmccarthy4615 1970 340 Wedge in the Duster was a beast
and your still alive LOL
@@joejones5653 fyi: the small blocks are not referred to as wedge engines. They all were wedge combustion engines. There were no equivalent hemis in their classification.
New Dodges in the 70’s smelled good.
Ford also had it's own 'Maverick' , it's more muscle-bound cousin the Comet. That was my daily-driver when I was 16; a '72 Comet with a hood scoop, mag wheels and a 302 with a 3 speed on the floor - Trouble! I'd drive it down to the drive-thru liquor store in Key West and fill up my beer cooler in the back seat, go and pick up a couple of buddies and we'd cruise all over town getting drunk as we went... ah the 70's!! I'm amazed we didn't die and never killed anyone although a number of friends can't say the same thing.
Muscle bound? Those 302s in the Grabber were painfully slow!!
Maybe you’re still drunk!?
A 340 Duster would walk past your Muscle bound Comet every time.
Get a grip my friend
...plus the Dart ashtray holds six full packs of cigarette butts versus Nova's two pack capacity...
dbradley3
My grandpa always had those little bean bag ashtrays on the dash.
My first car was the 75 Dodge Dart sport, same color and decals like the one in the film, I added slotted mag wheels, edelbrock manifold, hooker headers, air shocks all around, moroso ignition, (i think it was) a spreadbore carb and a cam, had the pleasure of driving it in germany when I got transferred here, that 2.71 / 1 rear end ratio let it hit some high speeds on the autobahn, I really miss that car.
My mother bought a 1979 Plymouth Volaré Duster in November of 1978....AM radio, no A/C, bucket seats and the 225 Super Slant Six.
Video leaves out the horrible quality control problems, the rusting of torsion bar mounts & the dangers when they collapse while driving! Still a nice video & nice designed car:)
Mopar A Bodies Forever!!! Daily driver everyday and Everywhere 1968 Dodge Dart..
the plymouth duster! my spirit animal (i know ... sad)
No. No. No. It's a good spirit.
16 feet is compact?... Gotta love America!!!
Al Bundy's car
Al Bundy's Plymouth Duster that he always called his Dodge?
There the exact same car lol . Just a badge swap lol . I can Throw on new fenders and Quarter panels and My 68 Dodge Coronet becomes a Plymouth Satellite .
You know people are in the land of nostalgic delusion when they fondly remember US cars from the 1970's. I know, because I do it too.
Most of them were rubbish but by the standards of the day the Dart and Valiant were reliable.
My 1st car was a very cheap 74' Duster (maroon Feather Duster w/white vinyl top, 225 cid slant six). VERY easy to work on and got 25 mpg all day long as long as you kept it at or below 55 mph. Sharp looking car IMO. Remember $500 or less cars at one time and now look at what you get for $3000. Not much.
Must've been out of tune, because a Feather Duster would easily do over 30 mpg.
@@20alphabet Mine had the 225 and I'm pretty sure it was marked on the side with decals in gold that stated "Feather Duster" but you know the more I think about it it may have been "Gold Duster". I know a smaller 198 version was available for 74' but since my car was used, very used, the motor may have not been original. Dunno. I was pretty happy with 25 though.
They didn't like showing the sedans for long...
The coupe's looked good. But the sedan's look like they are from the 1960's.
Because they date from 1967.
I'll take a 318 manual duster....but oil undercoat the hell out if it.
To be fair, they oil undercoat themselves pretty effectively...
Those torsion bar springs are a trip
Th only question here is whether to choose a Plymouth or a Dodge.
You'd shop both dealers and choose between the two based on price and which dealer had the color and equipment you wanted. In '74 they were functionally identical, the coupes were starting in '71 but up till then the Valiant sedans were on a 108" wheelbase and the Darts 111". For '74-76 all sedans used what had been the Dart body on 111" wb. Rumor has it the Valiant sedan body dies were worn out, they had sold so many.
@@nlpnt We had a very basic 73 Duster when I was learning to drive. Ours was second hand and less than pristine. I suppose a fully loaded Duster with the fold down rear seat would be fine but it is hard to argue against the practicality of the 4 doors. The answer must be one of each with a trunk full of spare ballast resistors. :)
@@rightlanehog3151 .. that gave me a chuckle even here in Australia.
I know for a fact you are speaking from experience 😉
@@scottkirkham1230 We had a 75 Plymouth Fury and a 1980 Dodge Diplomat with the same Slant 6 Engine but I believe in those later models that specific issue had been resolved. For the record, these 1974 Darts and Valiants were possibly the most reliable cars offered by any American company at the time.
My dad had a 1968 Dodge dart i love that car.that was my first car
I'M SOLD! I'll take one of each...
When can you deliver?
I would buy one right now too, if they still made them the same way.
@@bendeleted9155 in a heartbeat!
I had a1973 Duster with 318 two barrel auto, 3:23 "sure grip" rear, babymoons, trim rings , custom Cordoba blue metallic done at the auto paint / body shop extra wide FR70 14in tires (it came with D78 2 ply bais tires)and wheels all the options including A/C ,fold down rear seat, armrest on the front .Heavy duty suspension. And more girl friends then you can dream. Got it new in my senior year in high school. They left out two could lay down on that carpeting from the trunk to the inside of the car. But then again I can understand that. Heck Henry Ford changed his old model T because of the back seat. I guess you can tell it was fast, handed good for it's time, ate gas but I just didn't care.
@@justina3221 Well, it was a 318 Plymouth duster and I paid extra for the sure grip rear and that would be both wheels spinning when you're slammed on the accelerator so rest assured I had it I paid for it the car with taxes in Pennsylvania from Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania Chrysler plymouth, which is no longer there $3200 for the "short"
Went online to find the brochure. It clearly lists the rearrens and the options, and anybody can get a duster valiant barracuda brochure and read it. take care
My Dad had a 71 then a 73 Duster back in the day.. I don't remember which engine they both had...
Just before the robot welders began taking over.
Top stuff
Not in my driveway! Like the video tho.
I didn’t know NASA used Chrysler electronic ignition ...We had a Volare’ new in 1976. All I remember about it was being stranded On the side of the road all the time.
Wink Martindale!
Good quality cars back then
Me gustan los tres carros
The film failed to address the trim package with the duster....the dust devil on the corner panel and the flat black hood.
"Easy to park", yeah. Comparing these to a Mercedes Benz "S" series of the era. Big, big, big difference. The rest is......history!
Wink! Where's your Deck of Cards?
36,000 miles on an oil change?!?! Or is it lubrication for other parts?
Chassis lubrication. Ball joints, tie rods, etc.
Disc brakes were available on the nova
Disk brakes came standard on Darts, I have A 1973 340 sport, With Disk brakes On front
Correct
Watching this my phone screen is rusting. I'm a Mopar guy. Had horrible luck in Ohio with these
That's Wink Martindale.
Extra Care in Engineering.
Go duster!!
So that's what they drive like without Al pushing one.
At Chrysler: we make the ugliest but greatest steel land yachts!
Chrysler can't tout their electronics with a straight face these days. 😐
Never could
The last " true " mopar ever made was the 1988 model year, after that they slid down the hill. Once fiat got on board they jumped off the cliff. Mopar is on life support, they have not got long left. If ford can get things right they can too. GM however is a lost cause
also but for different reasons. American automotive management philosophy is dysfunctional and greed driven.
Can't mess with Ford or GM
@@jmac5058 verry true .and im a mopar guy
funny how they never talked about economy on these cars....i know for a fact a 6 cylinder maverick will get 33 mpg's all day long ....took my drivers test in a maverick..and owned many over the years...i'll take a maverick stallion or grabber
The Maverick wasn't a bad looking car (better than the Nova's shown here) . The Maverick with a 302 V8 was A pretty quick car but couldn't touch a Duster or a Dart with a 340!
You can have every Maverick they were not only ugly but a real piece of junk.
@@4thstooge75The Maverick Grabber was a 17 second car where the 340 Duster was in the 13s.
The Darts and Dusters were far superior to the competition, except for build quality.
Al Bundy's car 😎👍🇺🇸
so many dusters and demon darts at one point. the chevy II, then "nova," caught a case of the uglies when five mile per hour impact bumpers were mandated. forget about comparisons, the maverick and chryslers are simply more attractive cars to purchase and own. ..and the nova years before was such a neato vehicle. all thw cars with vinyl "connective tissue," between the bumpers that faded to another color or peeled away in ten months- are all gone. no classics after when? '78 or '80?
You're not kidding. The '73 and newer Nova's were just awful. I wish I had bought a '72 Rally Nova for $2800.00 when I had the chance somewhere back in the '80's. My first car was a '64 Chevy II.
The Maverick is super ugly
Then the Japanese arrived with small cars.
Pity Chrysler suffered a stroke and has forgotten how to built decent vehicles. The all fall apart oh so quick. Shame.🙄🙄🙄😏😏😏🤔🤔🤔😣😣😣😯😯😯
James James that ain't no lie. I would buy a Chrysler again if these were made.
@@chryslerelectronicleanburn1676 I 2nd that emotion
Shut up and take my money
Only Mopar's compact is butt ugly. Sad but true
Dodge is no longer a American Company
An not A
Chryslers were friggin JUNK
Maverick is a bigger Pinto just a bit more ugly.
Wink Martindale!