Drive your parents car, or your first car, or one from a different era..whatever. 1974 Plymouth Valient. 1K, I-6 engine, auto trans, new floor pan, clean, slightly more than 100k miles. Great color, too..Enjoy. http://newlondon.craigslist.org/cto/2031745028.html
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Oct. 29, 2010 6:29 p.m. triumph5 HalfDork
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Oct. 29, 2010 6:43 p.m. triumph5 HalfDork
Forgot:, not mine, no relations, not affiliated, blah, blah, Build a Hemi Clone, a 4 door version, but justification for buying. "Look, room for the car seat!" Quite a time capsule, given its pedestrian destiny.
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Oct. 29, 2010 8:26 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork
For $1k I'd make that thing squeal like a pig!
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Oct. 29, 2010 8:31 p.m. novaderrik HalfDork
if i had the cash, i'd buy it and just drive it as is.
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Oct. 29, 2010 8:33 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork
Aw crap, it's only two hours away ......
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Oct. 29, 2010 8:35 p.m. triumph5 HalfDork
In reply to novaderrik: Been thinking about that; I think me and a buddy are going to look at it this weekend.
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Oct. 29, 2010 8:41 p.m. slantvaliant Dork
I'd drive it! But then, I already drive a ten-year-older version of it.
Although I'd be wary of anyone who referred to a 225 as a "3.7" ...
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Oct. 29, 2010 9:08 p.m. jimbob_racing HalfDork
Brings back memories of a 1975 Valiant four door that I had. All bad. Rust, rust and more rust. Would have run forever except the leaf springs came up through the rusty trunk floor. Now if it was a Duster, I'd be on my way right now....
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Oct. 29, 2010 9:21 p.m. Cotton Dork
914Driver wrote:
Aw crap, it's only two hours away ......
I think you have the same affliction I do..
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Oct. 29, 2010 9:22 p.m. triumph5 HalfDork
the rear springs in my MAZDA Protege are about to come through the top of the rusted shock towers, and the rest of the MAZDA'S suspension is dissolving into rust, soooo. Odd, the body looks great, no rust anywhere. Sway-bar ends have rusted off....
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Oct. 29, 2010 10:56 p.m. Streetwiseguy HalfDork
Not good 1974, not good now. There are a whole lotta better ways to waste a kilobuck.
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Oct. 30, 2010 8:17 a.m. MedicineMan Reader
Thats in pretty good shape. My first car was a 74 scamp (same car but a 2 door). Thinking back it was a decent car had some rust, but it always needed tinkering...or a transmission, or a rear end...Oh well it turned me into the gearhead I am today...Besides I got it in '99 and lived with it for about 10 years so it does take a little to keep something that old on the road.
Good simple car though...I cant say that I would want another one...IIRC these old a bodies won car of the year back in 72 or 73 from car and driver or something...
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Oct. 30, 2010 2:53 p.m. integraguy Dork
In 1976 I bought a very similar car (a '69 Valiant Signet 2 door with the 6 and automatic) same color combo, ALMOST, as mine had white seats that LOOKED like buckets but were really one person bench seats. As hard as I tried, I could not kill that car. My 7 year old Valiant cost LESS than what is being asked for this one.
Right now CLs in my general area have 4 or 5 of these in various trims, 6 and V8s. There's a really nice "Grandma owned/driven" example of a '72 4 door about 2 hours away. The memory of the life-less power steering and grabby 4 wheel drum brakes keep me from going to look closely at any I run across.
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Oct. 30, 2010 4:00 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director
I would totally drive that. It's even the right color. If anything, it needs some dog dish hubcaps.
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Oct. 31, 2010 1:59 p.m. M030 HalfDork
Streetwiseguy wrote:
Not good 1974, not good now. There are a whole lotta better ways to waste a kilobuck.
+1
And it's what used to be described as "no sale green"
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Oct. 31, 2010 2:26 p.m. Knurled HalfDork
Hey, I like that color green.
I am sooooorely tempted by that car. I'd be afraid to drive it, though. A-bodies are super rare around these parts.
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Oct. 31, 2010 2:48 p.m. ZOO Dork
I want this. A four-door resto-rod in the raw. Doesn't the Slant 6 take to boost like GRMers to a cheap Mopar?
