Will This Rusty 1973 Plymouth Scamp Run And Drive After Sitting Next To The Ocean For 20 Years?
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- On today’s episode, it’s a Scamp that you can probably smell through your screen, even without Smell-o-vision. I think I’m up to date on my tetanus shots… hopefully you are to even watch this. Anyway, I’ll spoil it for you - slant sixes are fantastic, and Dodge / Plymouth / Chrysler products tend to be magical. It’s a shame this one is so far gone.
In 1977 when we got married, my wife had a 72 Dart. Dark brown, black vinyl top, 225, power steering, and AT. The paint was incredible - a beautiful color and it was perfect.
The car turned 100K in 78, but it ran like a champion. It did, however, have rust in the front wheel wells and the top of the fender and you could check the tread on the tire when you opened the door.
In 79 or 80, Chicago had a ridiculous cold snap with night temps hitting 25 below. We didn't have a garage and the only car that started was the Dart. Our 75 Cordoba certainly wouldn't until the little Dodge jumped it.
That Dodge was a great car and I wish I could find one like it that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
I love the sound of that starter! Great cranking!
Its a one way to know its a MOPAR...😉
@Gili1973
It’s my favorite way to know that it is a Mopar! Man, I love that sound!
I own a 1975 Valiant custom been in the family for years....
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@Gili1973 You must love that car! I would!
@14:25 😅😂
Congratulations on the revival!
That takes me back. I had a 73 Scamp with a 318, it had a little less rust than this one lol.
I've had many slant six cars, I'd definitely like another but not that one. However that is the bench bucket seat I'd like to put in my Dart
Brought home an 87 d150 from the junk yard 225, starter wouldnt turn over at all, ran down a broken ground wire from the relay, been in love ever since, currently sitting in a 47 one ton dodge panel truck, i like my 2011 302 one piece aluminum driveshaft 6 speed manual that i can do standing still burnouts all the live long day, but i gush over my slant 6, something wrong there possibly, but thats life, thanks for the awesome videos
Haaaahaha. Nothing’s wrong, but a lot is right. Panel truck sounds extremely right. If it’s still got a flathead it’s not anything to write home about in the power department either. There’s a lot more to life than burnouts… thanks for watching!
Takes me back... My first new car was a 1972 Plymouth Duster with the 3-speed on the floor (Hurst) and the solid lifter 198 Slant Six. I paid $2471.00 for that car and drove it for 157K miles and 11 years. When the radiator rotted out, I installed one from a 1960's dart. My Duster came with an 11" clutch, and I used the trans to slow down, only braking to a stop at the end; when I junked the car due to terminal rust cancer, it still had the original factory brake shoes and the original clutch. In fact, the only real repairs I ever did were to replace a cracked exhaust manifold, replace a starter relay, and put new bearings in the alternator. The valves got a little tired at 100K miles, and I bolted on a 225 head that a friend gave me after I hand-ground the valves. It ran like it was new again, but used a quart of oil between changes after that. Loved that car...
Hell yeah dude.
Plymouth A Body 🤩
This is beautifully cinematic! Great video as usual!
Thank you! I honestly think this is some of my finest work, and I hope it finds more eyes eventually. Haha.
1st dodge I ever owned was a 63 4dr dart, 225, push button. Although not as rusted as this one, it came from Rhode Island and did have Flintstone floors, trunk, and of course bottom of doors where gone. It was only 18 years old, paid 200 bucks for it, Drove around north Texas for 4 months finishing military training and then to s. Cali with my wife and new born, where it finally blew the timing. Ohh, good times:)
Nice. I started when they were still relatively cheap - $140 Valiant, $300 Duster that drove home, $500 Scamp that immediately had a rod sent through the block (easy with that ether…), and all three of those came before my driver’s license. Haha. I love these cars. They’re my happy place.
I had a '73 Scamp, given to me by my mom, She bought it brand new in late 1972, so in 1979, My Jr Year in high school, mom gave it to me, the issue was, that Slant-6 was notorious for the valves just melting down, for the length I owned it, I went thru 3-4 quarts of oil a month...it burned oil like nobody's business...
The owner vomited when he seen you fix it lol
He knew it was only good for parts. Personally surprised it wasn’t seized solid and ran. Now, if he saw the next video when we took apart, he may well have vomited…
Younger hot dog was having a blast kicking the rust and dust off that thing. Lol. He's grown so much it seems.
Yeah he’s a huge boy now. Lol. I forgot his dad got him to kick this thing…
'75 Valiant Brougham hardtop was both the car I was brought home in, and my first car. 318, Discs, HD Cooling, HD 727, 3.21 Sure Grip, Buckets, AM/FM, Fuel Pacer, Wire Hubcaps, Cruise control.... every option except A/C and the Sunroof. Was Dealer Promo car. Mom got to drive it out of the showroom.
Foolishly sold it to a friend who claimed he'd "restore" it only to have him cut it up, realize what a project it was but rather than selling it back to me, sold it behind my back to some well-known local scrappers.
Needless to say, we are no longer friends.
Damn. That’s a bummer… those are kinda awesome too. There was one for sale in Oregon for quite a while and it was beautiful. They were just a little too proud of it.
@@DeadDodgeGarage Just kinda blows my mind how A-bodys were not very long ago... practically worthless and now are topping 30, 40 and 50 grand.
My first car was a 72 Plymouth Scamp with a 318. The quarters rusted but nothing close to your car. Interesting channel btw. I'll definitely be watching more. Love Mopars.
All these years I thought Minnesota and Wisconsin rust buckets were the kings of rust...
Well… they are, but the ocean is pretty bad. Haha.
Those cars were pretty decent ,back in the day (I was there) .
I still think they’re pretty decent. They’re still cheap and easy to keep on the road. The cars aren’t a dime a dozen anymore… oh well.
Nice bernie sanders on the trailer 😂😂😂😂
This deserves More Views!
That’s what I think! Thank you!
You just can't kill the leaning tower of power!
I can’t understand why anybody wouldn’t like a slant six my 67 valiant was sitting for 30 yrs and fired up. After a little work it turned into a daily driver that 225 purs like a kitten. You’d never tell it ever sat.
I love them! They’re such happy little engines. I think the tendency with a ‘muscle car’ is to want V8 rumble and burnout power on command. I love those things too, but these days I think a good slant should be left alone and enjoyed.
Yeah, I had a 74 slant six as my first car. Decent little motor. Produced 95 hp which ironically allowed a top speed of the same number, 95mph. Of most of the Scamp/Dart/valiant variants I've seen in my life, most seemed to have the 225...a few with the 318, but never ran into one with the puny 198 six under the hood, so I have no idea if those motors were very reliable.
Is this where my steering column for the Dart came from?!? I'm so stoked if so 🤣🤣🤣 legit saving some history
Why, yes! Yes it is! 🤣
@Dead Dodge Garage I'm laughing way too hard. That's so cool I got a piece of the ocean scamp and didn't know it
Definitely looks like a Gray's Harbor County coast car...the grille, multi-speed wiper set up, some of the lenses, various bits & pieces are usable.
I got my '76 Valiant off the Tulalip Reservation for free. V8, "Custom" cheapy that has a 318. All panels solid, 88k miles and I took it to NC when I abandoned Washington State. Did Mopar buy/sell/trading for years, so I saved up tons of things I thought would be fun to convert and/or add onto a fun old Mopar.
It's going down
Nice. Yes I saved all sorts of useful bits out of this car - it lives on in several places. But none of the sheet metal was usable.
@@DeadDodgeGarage oh, I could tell! I scavenged the AC from a '75 Dart that lived its life by the Carolina coast and it was just as rotted.
same taillights as my 71, sold it for $800 in 78
Yep, they were 71-73 on Scamp. Also used on 70 dart. I’ve had a few myself.
that shit’ll buff out.
Wow! So why not get a blower and just clear all the nests off before working on it?
And your kid is adorable! 😊
I dunno, because I’d never thought of that? 😅
Almost at 300subs (: Great Vids!
All mopars are self fixing. My uncle taught me that when I was a kid 👌
Seriously tho!
Careful being given me Bernard's on the trailer because the car might spook and have to go to I expect to have because of it massive amounts of rust everywhere
Well Jamie you know Christine was alive with right
You and me you don't replace everything guards that bad but works for his body are on old barn garage
I am so confused
I’m from Massachusetts but have never seen roof rot that bad but it’s fixable
In a later video, we peeled the quarter panels and the roof off by hand - it was only ‘solid’ metal across the top of the windshield. I thought the roof was good, but it had holes out in the middle, and the drip rails crumbled to pieces too. The right front fender looked solid. It wasn’t, the headlight bucket area was rusted to the point that it wasn’t attached to the fender anymore. The trunk floor looked solid. Nope, barely hanging together, until we touched it. Rusty Swiss cheese. I wanted to save the passenger door because it looked ok. My friend grabbed the outer skin at the bottom with both hands and peeled that off too. The rear frame rails were coming to pieces. The front frame rails looked good, until I put jack stands under them and they went squish. I then put a flat bar through both of them with very little effort.
My point… if there was good metal on the car to start welding new stuff onto, I don’t know where it was. I’m sure with an entire lifetime and a couple parts cars, one could somehow find enough bits worth saving to say it was this Scamp when one was finished. I don’t enjoy turning cars into parts. I believe any that can be saved need to be. This poor thing couldn’t. I’ve never seen anything quite like it either. The moral, I suppose, is that we shouldn’t park things under trees in grass right next to the ocean for 20 years.
You are funny.
Slant 6 lives
too much grass growing in the carb!
Slant 6
Good glass
Well… it was until I cracked the windshield. It had pretty bad separation around the edges but I still would’ve preferred it in one piece.
i was born in 73 and there is not one body part any good left on me also
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Where the heck do you live guy? I want some of your mopar finds. Lol I have a bunch never can have too many
I’m in Aberdeen, WA - unfortunately close to the coast so a lot of what I find in my own back yard is pretty crusty. But I do find them.
By long view Kelso area?
@@randallobrien1812 Nope, that's too far south, Aberdeen/Hoquiam are on the way to Ocean Shores and the coast.
POE-TENT-I_ALL!
That car didn’t have any.
You know you could have just did that with an English removal from AGM and not had to dig all that shit out there nor take 2 cards apart
…what?
😆 VERY COOL 😎
Just save whatever you can off of her, I guess.
Oh, I did. I saved absolutely anything that was worth saving - except the E-brake handle, and I still regret it.
Send me a come back tomorrow it will be repaired not Christine LOL smile
This car is in pieces 😅 it didn’t fix itself thankfully
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Man throwing rust all over the place yet running ! I just bought a 67 valiant. I hope I get lucky too.
If the crank turns… it’s gonna run. Haha.