PwrWgnDrvr wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 7:33 pm
No, he didn't have "a" car of that era....he had many!
Like what? My first car (at 19) was a Valiant wagon, but within a year I T-boned it into a pickup doing a left-turn around the end of the center divide just west of the entry to Lafayette Reservoir on Mt. Diablo Bl. The replacement Dart 270 became that second wild and crazy Porsche destroyer, which started as a 273 with 3-on-the-tree. Went through a ton of 9" clutches until I got the 10-1/2, got the discs because it ate 9" brakes, added the 4spd with the hump, and then blew up the 273. So I got the 318 at a wrecking yard, whence I learned the hard way about pilot bushings. So what sounds like a lot of cars was instead a LOT of iterations on the same car including a bunch of failed experiments (such as 360 heads on it that clipped the pistons). Yet despite so many fits abuse, that 4spd Dart ended with 180K on it, and I pushed the pistons out of the tops of the cylinders (the rings were shot, but there was no ridge). I was building another when I met my wife, but that project ended up stillborn. It rusted right through that beautiful blue metallic while I was building our house (photo shows how subtle the flares were on the rear fenders, partly because I'd folded the inside flange up against the body). Sent it to the chipper. So the total is three of those cars, one of which I never drove.
Oh and Terry, you'll note that I'd moved the gas filler. That was for the same reason I won't keep the stock gas filler setup on a Swept. Corner that car hard with the stock setup, and no matter what was the cap or filler neck, it would leak. This setup never did, which is why I built at least three of those adaptations for others (it has a copper drain tube so that water wouldn't get in there). Slosh a Swept on the terrible roads we have, and they do the same (Dodge should have fired that engineer). I'm thinking the fix is to weld in a tube with the typical latter day flap valve in it (don't remember who posted on it here, but it was a good job).
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