I Saved This Awesome 1974 Plymouth Duster From A Parts Car Death
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Today on Dead Plymouth Garage, it's time for one of my favorite things - buying a really cheap A body, reviving it, and saving it from a sad end so that it can live on as a viable project car. The added bonus on this deal is the warm and fuzzy feeling I get to be back in a '74 Duster, as that was the first Mopar I used as a daily driver. Oh, also, this might be the nicest running slant six I've ever heard - so there's that.
Nice work man! Can't believe that car was going to be parted out.
I totally agree with the mindset of saving these classics. Before I bought my short bed D100 (big block), the previous owner was going to part it out, but he could have been bluffing. However, I bought it for an amazing deal and the previous owner seemed pretty genuine. Anyway, the truck is super solid and I would have hated to see it have the same fate as many other great cars that have been parted out.
Glad you saved that duster. Also, that has a wicked stance!
It’s amazing what used to qualify as a parts donor… I know, I dig it. The secret? Literally the biggest possible rear tire that could fit 😅 I think a taller front tire but lower torsion bar setting would help the look a bit.
Lovely save - never thought id see you actually wash a car - im all fuzzy inside now
Thanks for the great work you're doing to save these beautiful cars.
I usually dislike a lot of narration, but yours is great. Very listenable and well edited. Better than the car. But entertaining. Thanks.
That's a solid unit, speed holes are just a unique feature at this point 😂😂
As a child of the 70s, and a teenager of the 80s, Centerline wheels will never hear a bad spoken about them by me. They're just so...hotroddy... I promise you, every person in town hears an open pipe car or truck running down the road thinks, "Well, Jamie got him some new pile of rust."
I love ‘em. They just seemed a little modern for the 60s gasser vibe I want for the car.
I'm the same, child of the very early 70's and teenager of the 80's these mid-late 70's cars were our High School Hot Rods, yeah there was the random late 60's and early 80's cars but for the most part the 73-78 cars were the norm. My first car was a 76 RS Camaro that I bought from my next door neighbor that she sold to me for $200 when she got married and moved to Texas with her new husband, My best friend had a 78 Nova, My High School Sweetheart had a 75 Thunderbird, Her best friend a 73 Dodge Dart and so on, these were the cars early Gen Xers grew-up with and drove in High School and They are coming back around as builds because for the most parts they are still around and either on the road or like this car are not far from it because the parts are still available and you can buy them DIRT CHEAP. Just about every project car in my club out here in Southern Arizona (Tucson area) that have been bought since the Dempanic and the Convid "outbreak", are the "smog" cars of the mid-late 70's. I've personally been driving while I work on a 73 Buick Regal That I bought for $1200 and after airing up the tires, throwing a battery in it and disconnecting the fuel system and running it on a gas can I drove it a little over 50 miles home. I was going to just park it in my shop and completely strip it and build it into a full Restomod but the longer I drove it home the better it got So I just decided to make a Daily Driver/Cruise/Cars and Coffee Car. As of right now I have right $4,000 and I all have to do is paint it. I've pulled the engine and trans cleaned them up really good and painted them pulled the body off the frame and sandblasted and repainted everything along with new bushing, bearings and body mounts. Redone the interior by dyeing most of it and then went to a junkyard and bought some captain style buckets and center consol from a 77 Olds Cutlass. It was originally green on green on green but It's now going to be Dark Silver with Dark red Interior. The wheels are the original steel wheels with baby moons. I'm not putting alot of money into it, I just want something nice to daily drive that I can still take cruise nights and cars and coffee's on the weekend.
Glad it’s being saved
Glad you may have found a buyer
But I do like it for a project / content car..dang it
Lots of people seem to! Judging by the reaction, it may just have to stick around for a while.
Yup. It can be saved. Just try finding one in Michigan that only has rust from the vinyl top! lol
Or Iowa. Impossible.
That's pretty cool man. I like it 👍
Great save!!! Your backyard is my happy place!!!! Lol.
Mine too! 😅
I believe the saying is "a Plymouth a day, keeps your savings away"... Something like that.
I'm binge watching your videos after getting a tip from UTG (also a UA-cam suggestion to watch the "unsafe at any speed" Charger video... In answer to a question you asked on a different video, i wouldn't trade the '68 Charger for a '69, I've always loved the '68, i don't know why... I also like the '73, but that's partly the styling and partly because it's the year i was born... So... (Technically, i suppose I should chase the '74 because i was born in September).
Love your style... Keep up the irreverent work! 🤣
…good save! 👍🏼
…I had a 74 Plymouth Duster all original 360 back in 76. ( now, working on a 73 dodge challenger that is the project!) ✌🏼
Love Your Attitude Bro Awsome
Is there a restorable ‘64-‘66 Barracuda in existence that has a pristine windshield? Yeah, I know … the answer is no!
Given that the layers always separate and produce that obvious ghosting, I don’t think any classic Mopar has a windshield that could be described as pristine.
Now that I’ve seen the video…can you fix it so it’d make the drive to WI 😜?
Oh, *now* you want it 🤣 it would be my pleasure!
My wife says I should drive it there myself. I like this idea
@@DeadDodgeGarage and then take it to the power tour?
@@stage0garage you have all of the best ideas. I told Mrs. Jamie we should do Power Tour with the wagon. She didn't say no!
@@DeadDodgeGarage count me in! I have a few ‘79 Mopars to choose from.
hay also gas tank are not that much put it on a vsia lol tanks are another simple fix .wow
Oh I know. Needs strap and filler neck as well as it’s all gone. My Visa is getting pretty hot these days 😅
hi don t you have a power washer at home to clean up your mopars it would be a lot better for you and not kill yourself to wash them k.
Yeah, I do. Pressure washers are great. They also leave marks and remove loose paint and trim, so there are reasons I don’t normally use it on classic cars.
Right at 0:20 in the video, where's the full vid of this? Shit looks like fun y'all.
It’s called “Aggressively Disassembling A 1973 Plymouth Scamp Rust Bucket,” and I’ll attach a link which might even work: ua-cam.com/video/-p_SfPIEoLA/v-deo.html
You certainly are a gluten for punishment. Rock on man.🤟
*Glutton
Amazing what some people consider parts cars these days. I know it's not an early Duster, but man that thing is definitely a worthy candidate for a little love. Oh, and that Star Wars crawl was friggin' awesome lol. Won't be able to make the livestream tonight, hope everyone has a great time!
I wasn’t sure how that would play but I’m glad I went with it 🤣 catch you next week Stacey!
The problem is there are guys with better condition Dusters, that need minor things, with MORE money and LESS of a conscience, than the average guy. I saved a 74 Gold Duster a year and a half or so ago doing the same thing, I gave him the parts he was going to waste a whole car for. I can't drive it on the road with no title... but EXCELLENT drag car material. It will continue on!!
Good for you for saving the Duster. The way I look at it is one more car on the road thats not lost to history and may be the next person will take the car to the next lever.
Poor boys garage saves way worse mopars than that so you're doing pretty good 👍
Not surprised to see it start so relatively easily; that wasn't a Holley carb on it.
Nice save.
I was shocked when it wasn’t a 1920 and it still wouldn’t idle at first… but it came around.
For sure! The Holley carbs were TRASH in the '70s!
a legend cannot die so good thing you saved it and now to bring it to life and show it to the new generations what a real american muscle car is
Actually; WHAT A REAL VEHICLE WAS!
I don't think I would ever in my life have considered that a parts car! Worth saving and I would have had a tough time passing that one up as well!
And trailer burnouts will NEVER get old! 😆
No, they really never will 🤣 yeah… I might have to change my mind on selling it on. I love the look and have some ideas.
Lol we were chatting when the cable on the truck left ya. It's a good save and I am getting a rust free one of these in April to run through the shop. Your right the early ones are hard to find so these are more sought after and affordable. They are nice pay checks when you find them. The fact it runs and sorta drives is 4 grand here. Brakes are optional equipment
Right - it totally would be worth that here with paperwork and a little less rust. Probably looking at a little under half that as is, but I’m good with it.
save them all! as a young man I saved up to 100, all different kinds of Dodges and Plymouths❤
"How to save a life" played in my head while watching this. Well done jamie. Haha
Those dusters have such nice looking bodylines. Thats a nice one
That's nice..Definitely worth saving 👍
I still have my 63 valiant convertible
Make it a cop car, like Hunter's.
The sound of that starter motor took me back to the days when I owned my 64 Valiant. 😢
That sound is the music of my people! Ok that and the straight piped slant in general 😅
@@DeadDodgeGarage Oh man, I drove my share of straight-piped Volares with the "Super Six". They sound good at idle but they drone like a mutha on the highway. 🤣
@@LongIslandMopars I first gave a slant car the sawzall treatment at 18, and I remember driving up and over a bridge on the way home and thinking...what have I done? Haha.
@@DeadDodgeGarage They do not make nice noises. However, I always had my valves adjusted properly. I had the quietest slants around thanks to the teachings of my dad. Adjust them running, fully hot, very low idle.
That's a nice car, glad you saved it. I'm not a Mopar guy but still wouldn't mind having that. Great video, thanks.
The MoPars of "the era" were GREAT!
That duster is not bad at all, a great project for sure - all the better that it’s a slant 6. As much as everybody loves the big V8’s, there is a place in this world for inline 6 engines I have had many
I totally agree! And I sold this car to a young guy, who seriously went ham on it, fixing all of the rust, repairing, coating, and sound deadening the floor. Last I saw it it was really coming together well.
@@DeadDodgeGarage did he drive it home with one headlight?
Had a 72 just like it, same color. I love it!
Awesome save!👍 That vinal top trim is worth a pretty penny in my part of the country, it's not reproduced and hard to find!
Yep but if it were me I'd paint the roof a different color than the car (Something Chrysler did in the later Duster's) and keep the trim. My aunt had a Brown 76 Duster that had a white painted roof, she bought it new that way. They started doing away with the vinyl tops because it was just cheaper to paint the roof a different color than it was to paint the top in epoxy and put a vinyl top on it.
@@TheREALOC1972 Yep, Chrysler called them White hat specials back in the day.👍
@@musclecarmitch908 yep, I knew they had a name for them but couldn't remember, That's what I would do with it. I men the trim s already there, why not.
@@TheREALOC1972 👍
My first car was a 73 Dart 318 . I was 15 and a friend and I bought it from a junkyard for 75 bucks it had a bad timing chain and we got that from the junkyard for 5 buck and he tow it to my house 3 days later we had the chain in and back together smoking the tiers.but here's the sad part my mom made me sale it back to the junkyard guy because I didn't have my license he gave me 200 dollars and his wife drove it and gave it to their daughter. Thin when I was 18 I got my 71 swinger V8 but that's another even better story let me know if you want to read that one. MOPAR .....
3 months later... I remember a good buddy of mine had this same color Duster model. Per usual it had to be Christened with a moniker. It became known as Buster the Duster. This would have been in the early 1980's. If memory serves my gray cells even partially, he had a couple mechanical issues, what those were though, I just can't recall. It was though a good running car for his needs with maybe a 'charging' issue if I were to guess after seeing the regulator concern you pointed out.
What became of the car, I'd guess money being tight at that time in our young lives, Buster likely was sold off for little cash and off went Buster to some other fella to get working as a daily driver in our region of and time of our lives as minumum wage service oriented workers in the S.F. Bay Area.
Duuuuddddeeeeeeee I love lov lov that Duster but the HAPPY ending ? That 225 slant six . Mine had a 2 bbl. Thansk for saving the ol gal ... She is cool.
Thanks for picking that one up. It had also been haunting my marketplace.
Valiant save sir, Valiant indeed. A-body reference, pun, innuendo intended. Resilient scunge is the worst scunge of all.
Awsome Video Good Watch MOPAR To The End !!!!
There's a 79 t roof rt in my local wrecking yard. Not going to last long.
Shit I Wish You Were In My Neighbor Hood !!!! Lol
That's better than the Volare :-)
So much better
kudos for the Elvin Bishop "fooled around and fell in love" reference . . .
Howling the hoop on the trailer made my face get all smiley😊
Years ago I had a 74 Duster. It wasn’t much better than this😉
I like this car a lot too for some reason do you know why you got so many views on it because of the color and the way it looks
I LIKE THE RIMS & BULLET DENTS ON DA DUSTER... 😂
You should have seen what they considered parts cars in the 80's and 90's!!
Solid,straight complete 1968 Charger R/T 440 that would still run and drive and a $60,000 car today, they chopped them up for parts,same with Cuda's etc...Not kidding either!
A parts guy here would buy cars off local auto trader and part them out and he sold parts at a high price,and he was in business for decades! He ruined thousands of great cars..majority were not wrecked either nor needed major mechanical work!
I saved a '73 340 Cuda from him as I beat him to the seller,he pulled up about 5 minutes after I handed the guy the cash and I got the title..Solid car paint,interior perfect,engine ran strong same with trans..Was my daily for 2 years,looked perfect from 5 feet away! The guy would have parted that car out he told me! car looked like it had new paint from 5 feet away,minor rock chips,minor road rash on rockers and lower rear 1/4 panels..Original paint shined like new and looked like new paint if you didnt see the minor rock chips,white stripe was perfect,vynal top was perfect,no bubbling of rust under it! Zero rust,Zero dents,interior had a minor split in drivers seat(I repaired)..clean and looked nearly show car fresh..Gauges clear etc..150,000 mile,clean 73 340 Cuda! I drove the car 2 years as a daily before rebuilding the engine/trans after lots of light to light racing (hey I was young)..Unreal the cars that got junked/parted out!
And yes,my buddy bought a rallye hood from him for his base Challenger he cloned to a 440 R/T in 1992..and we seen the cars he had,many were not crashed or junk,most looked better than what was driving on the roads,meaning paint,interior etc..
People had to buy from him for some rare cars when their was no reproduction parts,so my buddy contributed to the insanity!! Thats how he bought near mint cars and parted them out..He didn't care,he made double or triple back chopping them up! As he screwed the guys with high prices that needed the parts! Glad for reproduction parts,it brought used parts down in prices making it worth selling the car complete worth more vs parts in most cases!
I know it! It’s a totally different time we’re living in - and we can definitely thank guys like that for part of it. Not long ago this car would’ve been $100-$200 or scrap.
Love your work! I was never a fan of centerline wheels! Thanks for your insight and knowledge Jamie! You were right about my electrical issues with the charger! Bulk head connection at the firewall, thanks buddy! I wish I could figure out how to send you a picture of my charger
Oh cool, happy to help! You could email me one at DeadDodgeGarage@gmail.com
Wow... that Duster has the electric rear defroster?!? That's kinda rare. Just that by itself makes it work getting! If you ever have to scrap that car for some reason, make sure to pull that rear window, the wiring, and switch. Also, seems I recall reading in my owner's manual years ago that the electric rear defroster option included a 60 amp alternator... whereas models without that option came with the 45 ro 50 amp alternator.
Would be crazy if you discovered the thing still worked!
It didn’t work… which was unfortunate. That would make good sense - they definitely pull some juice.
Got my first car in 1989, it was a green 74'Duster with a 318 and dual glass pack exhaust, paid $300 for it and thought I was king of the streets lol.
In a world of Japanese econo boxes and gutless G bodies, you probably were! 😅
I remember when I ordered a new '76 Duster, the electronic rear window defogger was an option. Before that, some of them had a hose that blew onto the rear window, coming out from the rear shelf, just like the hose that blew onto windshield.
Yep. My ‘68 Charger had the blower type. I believe the electric type came around ‘74. I think my ‘74 Duster had it, but I could be wrong. It’s been a while. Haha.
Hey I would drive that car my first car was a 1979 Dodge Aspen 2 door with the super six it and the Duster look the same from the side almost anyway that car is awesome if I lived closer I would buy it patch the holes in the roof it cleaned up and let my kid drive it for his first car. I had a 73 that he was wanting but it was a 340 car and he was upset when I sold it
Shipping isn’t free, but it isn’t tooooo much 😁
Sweet ride 👍
I bought a 63 Dodge 880 wagon one owner for $80 one time and traded it for a light blue 74 Duster slant 6 with a floor shift 3 speed. It was slow but fun at least ! lol
Using full throttle full time is the most fun! 😅
love you guys but its not that expnsive to buy a new Battery or 2 .sorry ,man its a pet peeve of mine fraser..i wish i could come there to help you ..and clean up this duster i had 4 of them when i was a young man lol toronto ontario canada.. 6 good but the body falls off .....up here,,lol
Batteries cost $85 at the cheapest here, and that’s with my commercial discount at the budget parts store. So… I’m good with the kind of ok used ones I’ve got 😅 I buy nice batteries for the cars that deserve them.
Thank you for saving this A body .
Dead Dodge Garage sounds familiar…🐴
I don’t know what’s going on here, but I like it. Lol
Restore it. Put in a V8. Then you might have something worthwhile.
Do you know what restoring a car costs? Do you know what a ‘74 Duster will be worth afterwards? I’m just wondering, because I work at a restoration shop, so I do…
Sweet ride, duster/demon . My favourite, just needs 426 hemi...sweet...
As exciting and nuts as that would be, I personally find a spicy small block to be the ultimate engine choice for an A body like this.
I remember a guy selling a Duster he said it was a 71 1/2. Did they have something like that?
It’s possible there may have been some random package change, option update, or similar during the production run that might lead someone to say their car was a 71 1/2, but there’s definitely nothing major or official that changed. People call the A12 cars 1969 1/2 because that package was released in the middle of the ‘69 run. To me it’s still the same ‘69 body and was made at the latest in the middle of 1969, so I can’t say I get it.
A little effort and that could be your next fly in and drive it home.
You talk about typical roof rust. They never lasted long enough for that here.
My good friend Jayson in Wisconsin is interested, so now the real question is - does he fly in and drive it, or do I deliver it and fly out?!
Looks like a daily driver to me.
Love your videos I use to have a 65 cuda
I like it. Always wanted a duster
Oh good for you for saving this.
You got a good sense of humor...😊
Could be worse Could be a Honda 👍
Never seen a car sooooo rigged 😜
That slant 6 ps pump is low pressure just like performance steering
Actually the pump seems to be doin its thing, I think it’s a control valve problem in the box, or something similarly horrible. Oh well…
I want it. No.. I need it. Not sure why buy I want to make her perfect.
Well, have your people call my people 😁 I don’t need it and don’t need a ton of money for it.
like the dusters but like Honda to! they never break down,, and lots of hp for the smal engines,, yea Americans don't like that being over classed yey
I’m a secret Toyota guy myself. Hondas are always slammed with dumb exhausts and even dumber drivers around here… meanwhile the Toyotas just keep going under the radar forever.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Yea we got that a bit here also . But the police is getting them of the streets now. If youre cought with wrong loud exaust you get a wok notification and have to build the whole car back to standerd ! So the more normal drivers are now leading the way . There very good cars more race cars and very easy to work on ! My son is now with me swaping a engine in his Del sol. crx 1,6 B with turbo.. the 1.4d engine is sold here for dirt cheap 150 euro. So we replaced a engine with a headgaskitleak, for cheap.. lol .. WE live in Holland btw, europe. my son is racing now on Nurnburgring with friends in his Accord 2,4 liter Vtec. thats also goes like lightning. Not as fast as Porsches and stuf but older Hondas are cheap.. and you get a lot of hp out of those engines . Toyontas are i think the best cars on the market !! alswais on nr 1. So good choises.. but i like the raw and simple usa muscle cars also very mutch !! so easy.. and nice sounds !! cu greets from holland !!
hi jamie .got too love a duster no matter what condition!!! oh ya there's. that damn baby blue d50 in your neighbors yard
I swear none of my neighbors have a D50. Lol. Are you seeing a broke ass Nissan rolled back into some bushes?
lol.. ya that could be a nissan.! its hard to see .with those shitty camera angles. ok just took another look ya its a shit ass nissan. tks for bursting my bubble. ps. love your youtube page. i watch you more than u.t.g@@DeadDodgeGarage
I remember my other grandma (not the one with the big Dodge, this is the grandmother whose maiden name was the Zelasko, that park was named after her uncle) I remember at least twice she had to get a new voltage regulator on her 1960s era plymouth Belvedere II. I also remember that when she used for turn indicator, the voltage gauge would wiggle a little bit. Looking back on it, it seems a little weird to me that the turn signal would use enough voltage set the voltage gauge did that.
Brake lights too. Watching the ammeter when hitting the brake pedal is a great way to find out if your brake lights are working. Haha. I can’t tell you how many voltage regulators of both styles I’ve replaced in the last 15 years. Just so many.
My 72 Duster did that too
Great music! Only someone who lives in Aberdeen would put in music that cool onto a UA-cam video!
Haaahaha. I like this. Thanks. I recorded and performed it too 🙂
@@DeadDodgeGarage Are you serious? I was thinking it was good stock music, and I mean that as a complement because it struck me as stock music that does NOT sound like stock music. I just sent a link to your channel to my cousin who also has family ties to Aberdeen - he even married someone from Aberdeen. Anyway, our mutual grandmother had an enormous white Dodge - it might have been a 1960 Matator. I even gave it a "tune up" (I thought I knew how to use a strobe). I wish I could go back and time and drive that car to your shop so you could do a video about it. I am sure it was long ago melted down to make soup cans or fidget spinners.
Awesome watch bro!
Mmmmm duster(homer drool)
A dog peed on my shoe👞
I like the color 😐
I agree save them
NOT A GARBAGE CAN CUDA.. THE DUMPSTER CAN DUSTER... 😠😡
Dumpster Duster has a good ring
@@DeadDodgeGarage YEP... UOR WELCOME..👍
This car would make a great daily.
Agreed, but I’m building a Barracuda or two for that already!
What a beginning to AWESOME! These old MoPars were THE BEST!
Must be an early '74 given the front bumper guards
Interesting
@@DeadDodgeGarage Yes, those big thick ones were specifically made so 73 Dusters could comply with new safety regs. They used up the last of those already made on the early '74 cars
Wow wish I could find these great cars around here, but unfortunately most of the great cars are expensive or they've been crushed or rotted out.
Your neighbors must love you 😆
Well I work on their shit 🤣 and tolerate the screaming, the Rangers somehow doing big smokey burnouts, quads doing wheelies down the street all the time… I think I’m ok lol
Another \6, way to go😎😎😎
Yeah that brings my current total to three running slant cars and one spare engine. Excessive? What does that mean?
You beat me to that one! It was cheap!
Ha! I knew it would be on your radar too. It was listed by the previous guy for quite a while. My yard is starting to look like yours now with all these A bodies 😅
@@DeadDodgeGarage who doesn't love A bodies!
Its not easy bein green.
That was *almost* the tag line I used for the thumbnail. Haha.
Yes, I completely agree with you Jamie.
Around here, if a Duster looks that good and even runs & drives, it'd be worth at least 3 grand all day long...
Last summer is seen a 70' hard top Catalina in about that same condition but with no motor or trans sell for 3800 dollars.
I could NEVER "feel" a Pontiac Catalina!
Nice car, I had one in the copper bronze color.
Again, never bet against a slant 6!
Yeah that’s just not the smart money. Haha.
@@DeadDodgeGarage The opener was epic today!
I’m glad you saved it! It has lots of potential and you can tell it wanted to live. And nope my Honda is quiet now 😅
Honda?! Gimme a break!
I'm gonna start having my wife watch this show. I only have 6 old cars, and you make me look GOOD! Compared to you, I'm almost normal!
Just get rid of those and go live in a junkyard. Works for me
Just one of the many services I offer: making everybody else look good by comparison 🤣
For some reason these bodies are really sharp looking now. I like it.
Isn’t that interesting? I liked my ‘74 when I had it, of course, but like most other people I’ve always thought of them as the ugly ones. I actually like the front end now. Something about time passing. Also the more every modern car looks like a jelly bean space ship, the better this looks. I suppose having driven one in my formative years probably helps too.