Gary! Time to swap projects!
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- The 68's had turquise paint for the high perf engines
- 68 HP engines had Holley carbs while the standard engines had a Carter AVS
- 69 HP engines wore Hemi Orange and sported a Carter AVS while the standard engine wore turquoise and a Holley.
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My dad built a plastic model version of the Dukes of Hazzard Dodge Charger when I was only three or four years old. I ended up with it a few years ago, and immediately noticed that the model was incorrect. The model was actually a Charger 500, with a 1969 standard grille. No Charger 500's were used in the Dukes of Hazzard. I did some research and found that MPC is who made the kit, and it was a mass-produced kit. 
I wonder how many other guys noticed that the body was wrong.
I wonder how many other guys noticed that the body was wrong.
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My dad built a plastic model version of the Dukes of Hazzard Dodge Charger when I was only three or four years old. I ended up with it a few years ago, and immediately noticed that the model was incorrect. The model was actually a Charger 500, with a 1969 standard grille. No Charger 500's were used in the Dukes of Hazzard. I did some research and found that MPC is who made the kit, and it was a mass-produced kit.
I wonder how many other guys noticed that the body was wrong.
I wonder how many other guys noticed that the body was wrong.
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Bill - Had missed this. By '72 many of the cars were nothing but badged variants of the previous muscle cars, but that Swinger might be the last of the real things. Just don't remember. What I do remember was a '69 Swinger giving my Bee a run for the money - in downtown Wichita on a Sunday for that matter. That small-block would run and the A-bodies were just light enough......
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Little did I know, finding parts for a 1980 Ford F-Series truck would turn out to be a nightmare as well.
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Ahh, but Ma Mopar had several different A blocks and B blocks, plus the two bottom block to clutch or converter housing bolts on A blocks are in backwards, you have to remove the oil filter to get the right side out and in correctly.
There was a kid around here with a supposedly bad 340 Duster, he damn near blew it up trying to outrun my 66 GT350. Right on one of the busiest streets in Newport News.
Bell housings, how many different patterns has GM used. They finally standardized everything except Chevrolet and Cadillac with the BOP pattern. Then they came out with the universal case TH350 and 200, lower bolts and dowel pins the same, top four holes are dual pattern.
There was a kid around here with a supposedly bad 340 Duster, he damn near blew it up trying to outrun my 66 GT350. Right on one of the busiest streets in Newport News.
Bell housings, how many different patterns has GM used. They finally standardized everything except Chevrolet and Cadillac with the BOP pattern. Then they came out with the universal case TH350 and 200, lower bolts and dowel pins the same, top four holes are dual pattern.
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There's a kid that lives down the road from me with a Sublime Duster 340. Completely restored, daily driver. I wasn't much of an A-Body fan, but it's a beautiful car.
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Back in the day the B-bodies were an average sized car, and the A-bodies were small. But now the A-bodies are a good size and one of them is a better daily driver, by far, than a B or C-body. And, as I said, that 340 can run.
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Ah yes mopar...
I would like to get a hold of a early 70's or a 1978 Dodge Monaco someday. Perferably an old police cruiser, with all the heavy duty components. The county here had several in Lt. Blue/white scheme. They could flat outrun anything at the time.
You couldn't throw a cat without hitting one of them in the 80's. Taxi Cabs, Fire Marshal Cars, Police Cruisers, even the standard family versions...
You can thank Hollywood that most of them are gone...saw one in the wrecking yard about 5 years ago. All that was left was an empty shell.
I would like to get a hold of a early 70's or a 1978 Dodge Monaco someday. Perferably an old police cruiser, with all the heavy duty components. The county here had several in Lt. Blue/white scheme. They could flat outrun anything at the time.
You couldn't throw a cat without hitting one of them in the 80's. Taxi Cabs, Fire Marshal Cars, Police Cruisers, even the standard family versions...
You can thank Hollywood that most of them are gone...saw one in the wrecking yard about 5 years ago. All that was left was an empty shell.
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Gary, I'm telling my age, I learned to drive on a "typewriter drive" Torqueflite. It was a 1962 Dodge Dart, the one with the droopy headlights. Dad bought a Belvidere wagon that was basically the same car, gotta love those "forward look" models.
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Bill - You started LATE. I learned on a '34 Ford sedan, which was Dad's work car. He and I'd gone rabbit hunting and he parked it in the field - cross-wise to the furrows. I'd been badgering him to teach me to drive and when we got back to the car he tossed me the keys. No instructions, nada. Took a while to find a gear low enough for that flat-head V8 to pull it out of the furrows, but it finally did. I was 10 - you do the math as you know I'm 1 year junior to you.