72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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In doing this 74 duster my customer would like to eliminate the 74 filler piece between the rear bumper and the body. My thought was can we install a 72 duster bumper on a 74 if we use 72 style brackets? I know have seen 74 dusters without that filler strip as well as without the bumper guards.
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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You can but then you would need to use 72 1/4's or make up metal and do bodywork to your 74 1/4's. Ron The quarters are the same 72-76 though. not sure what you are referring to.
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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thanks steve. I knew I had seen others before. any pics by chance?
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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You can but then you would need to use 72 1/4's or make up metal and do bodywork to your 74 1/4's. Ron The quarters are the same 72-76 though. not sure what you are referring to. No they aren't, 70-72 1/4's at the very end curve and slide under the side of the bumper. 73 and up just stop and fold so the flexible bumper filler can be attached and fill up all that space. Did this modification 20+ years ago on my 74 Dart Sport when I eliminated the extended bumpers. Ron
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I did just that on the '74 I had. It had the shocks, so the brackets weren't an exact fit. I fabbed essentially a huge washer and bolted through it and the rear body panel. So if we stand at the side of your 1/4 panel where it meets the side of the bumper you would have an opening which is incorrect. Ron
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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It's clear as day what I'm trying to convey to you, you can see it on my Dart Sport and this black Duster. If you choose to ignore what I'm saying you'll only have it looking partially right. Ron http://www.autometaldirect.com/amd-...2-76-duster-73-76-dart-sport-p-1056.htmlSo AMD is wrong in listing the 72-76 full quarters for dusters and dart sports? I get what you are saying but must not be a very big issue? Since you are trying so hard to be right why does AMD show the 1/4's to be 72-76 for a Duster and 73-76 for a dart Sport??? Same exact 1/4 panel whether Dodge or Plymouth! Also they use a picture for a 72 Duster/Dart Sport that explains exactly what I'm trying to help you with but you don't want to see it?????? There is right/correct and there is wrong/partial/backyard type work. Which would you rather be driving??? Ron
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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Anyone have a pic of metal work that is needed?
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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It's clear as day what I'm trying to convey to you, you can see it on my Dart Sport and this black Duster. If you choose to ignore what I'm saying you'll only have it looking partially right. Ron http://www.autometaldirect.com/amd-...2-76-duster-73-76-dart-sport-p-1056.htmlSo AMD is wrong in listing the 72-76 full quarters for dusters and dart sports? I get what you are saying but must not be a very big issue? Since you are trying so hard to be right why does AMD show the 1/4's to be 72-76 for a Duster and 73-76 for a dart Sport??? Same exact 1/4 panel whether Dodge or Plymouth! Also they use a picture for a 72 Duster/Dart Sport that explains exactly what I'm trying to help you with but you don't want to see it?????? There is right/correct and there is wrong/partial/backyard type work. Which would you rather be driving??? Ron Dude not sure what I am doing but in no way trying to crap on what you are saying. Sorry to upset you. I am just trying to ask the question. Yes I do see what you are saying and had seen what you are saying. I am just throwing it out there what AMD lists the quarters as. Obviously that is the only difference between the years. Funny AMD lists the trunk drop offs as the same from 70 up but obviously there is needed reshaping. When I installed the drop offs on this car from AMD and put the NOS quarters on it I really didn't have to do anything to make the quarters fit the drop offs and the NOS quarters don't have the extended piece of metal like you show in the picture. Again not trying to crap on your post but just throwing it all out there what info I have seen and trying to get the most out of my original question. Have a great weekend corey
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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as seen in these pics. again just trying to educate myself as best as possible as I know people have done this before. Pics show qrt in NOS red oxide primer. I stripped that off and put black PPG DP90LV epoxy on them before I final installed them.
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Re: 72 duster rear bumper on a 74 duster?
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some one must really love that year of duster with all the work you did. my gosh!! Yes the owner does. It was his high school car he bought when he was 15 when the car was a couple years old. He dated his would be wife in it.. He back in the mid 80's before our great searching by internet tracked the car down. He knew the car was traded into a dealership in Howard SD. He knew the last portion of the VIN. Went and talked with the dealership and asked them if they remember selling a yellow 74 duster. They naturally did not recall it. HE asked to look through the sales books and looked at every 74 duster they ever sold until he came across it. Sure enough as soon as they seen who bought it they remembered it right away as the buyer spun the tires leaving the lot and threw a rock into the show room window busting it out. He learned the buyer lived in Mitchell SD so he went there going through the white pages calling everyone with that last name as that was all he had to go on. Sure enough located the owner's relative that said they remember the car and that they worked at the truck stop. Went there and talked with them. They told him they gave it to a local mechanic shop cause the bill against the car they could not afford. He called that shop and sure enough they still had it and were willing to sell it for what they had against it which was 600 bucks. He bought it back and kept it all these years. At the same time he was a mechanic at the dealership my dad and him worked at in Sioux Falls. Chrysler was selling off a bunch of old sheet metal so he bought quarters,door skins,fenders,hood,upper radiator tie bar and front stone guard thinking someday he would like to fix it up. Fast forward to 2019. He has an AAR cuda that is all original except for a repaint in the 80's. He asked me about restoring the Cuda. My reply was no it was to original and nice. SO his wife said if we aren't going to do the cuda then do the duster. He told her it would be easier to clone the car than fix it up and her reply was if you clone it I don't want to know. Needless to say I am making him one heck of a deal since I have memories back when he got it crawling around in it when I would go spend saturday's with dad when he was working at the shop. I would never do this for just anyone and no way the car will ever be sold out of his family.
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