'72 Chally.

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This one is sitting at Yorkton Dodge for a mere $15,999, the salesman told me it was appraised for $22,000.

It's a '72 340 sixpack clone. The salesman informed me that this car was not original as the 340 was discontinued in 1971, I said '73 and he argued with me.

It's a '72 318 2bbl auto car with a 1970 340 sixpack 727 auto 3.55 8.25 SG, 4 wheel manual drum brakes, manual steering, no options other then buckets/console.

I contains so much body filler it's just nasty. :D

Hood, fenders, rockers, door skins, 1/4's, trunk extentions, hell I can see bondo in the floor under the rocker guard. :doubt:

Needless to say you should have seen the look on the salesman's face when I broke out laughing when he said it was worth $22,000. :D

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I remember having a similar discussion with a Chrysler salesman years ago. I was down at the dealership buyng something from the parts department for my coronet rag I was restoring. I had driven down in my 95% original survivor 73 340 roadrunner. He came out and flat out told me that the car never came with a 340...the 340 was stopped in 71. Even though the hood call outs on the original stripe clearly showed 340. I also showed him the E55 on the fender tag. He would not believe it. 360 maybe he told me but no 340's.
 
The front bumper is a '73, but trust me that's the least of my annoyances with this car. Good job for laughing at him! :dance:
 
I might be picking this one up next weekend:
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It's totally rust free, just needs some assembly.
The deal is done, just need to wrap up a rig to haul it with and get 2 appointments for the week out of the way.

Mark.
 
Looks decent Mark!

Nice Dipster! Did a good job chevyizing the underhood area. There's a Duster with a 383 at a Toyota dealer down here I want to look at, just haven't had a free minute to get over there.
 
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Yeah, it's Petty Blue and it has a blue interior, with a white vinyl top.
Of all the "basket cases" I looked at online, it's the best priced with the least amount of work involved.
I saw some more complete ones, even runner-drivers, but $ for $, this one needs the least major bodywork and it comes with a 440 automatic, to boot.

Here's a trunk floor shot, nice and clean!

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I wondered too is it was a really petty blue car....thought maybe it was a previous paint job. What is the paint code for that one anyways? I think I remember all petty blue painted cars with a 999 paint code, or some darn thing???
 
I saw a Petty Blue '70(?) Challenger while I was at work the other day. I tried to snap a good pic of it but, I got it as it rounded the corner. Not sure if it's the color the car was born with but it did look good!
 
That's a '72. Contrary to popular belief, the only car ever offered by Chrysler in Petty Blue was the Superbird. In '72, they introduced a color called "Super Blue" by Dodge and "Basin Street Blue" by Plymouth. It is not Petty Blue. The color formulations for those colors are pretty close, but side by side they're noticeably different.
 
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Actually, Doc is right, "Petty" Blue is a slight bit lighter than "Super/Basin Street" Blue.
The fender tag code is TB3.
I once had a 1972 Demon 340 that was a TB3, black interior, white vinyl top automatic car.

I got it off Ebay out of Louisiana and it had been sanded down to bare metal and let sit.
It was nothing but orange rust when I got it, took quite a long time with muriatic acid and a roll of shop towels to get all of that rust ate off, then into a temporary paint.
The roof was a horrible job to do.

Mark.
 
Basin St./Super Blue has more blue, green, and yellow toners in it, and less white. I actually prefer Super Blue to Petty Blue, truth be known.
 
Chrysler called it, "Color not appearing on this car" as it was not an offered option on the Chrysler-badged models. Now you have me wondering whether that car would've had a TB3 or 999 paint code, which supposedly all special-order color cars supposedly got... yet it was a production-line color for Dodge and Plymouth models. :hmmm:
 
It seems to me that somewhere I saw a car with both, a 999 and a color code, BUT that could be something with 2-tone paint, like an optional colored car with a painted roof.

Mark.
 
You would've loved the '70 Duster my friend almost bought back in '93. FM3, black-painted top, factory 340/4-speed, rust-free and a drag car since new. The ONLY documented FM3 car of any model ever built with a black-painted roof. It had the vinyl-top trim, but it was gloss black instead of vinyl. At the time, we thought someone had stripped the vinyl and just painted the roof; it was actually original. The last I knew (15 years ago) it was somewhere in WI and had appeared in Galen's column in Mopar Collector's Guide. By the time we found it for sale, it had been converted to a "Dana 600" (that's what the ad said) and an automatic. The original motor had been blown years before, but it still had a 340 and it was a freakin' rocket with 4.56 gears. If memory serves, it had a 4-pin Six-Pack hood on it at the time, but other than that it was all original paint. It was jetted way too richly, and we referred to it as "Pink 'n' Stinky" because the fumes in the cabin were nearly unbearable. We test-drove that car multiple times, but Dan never actually bought it.

Stretch and I both know the guy that did the automatic conversion (John Langin). He swapped everything but the pedals, and sold the whole 4-speed setup for around $150.
 
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