The Death Mobile

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Do you happen to have the vin handy? I think you bought one of my old cars. Are the valve covers two different colors?

If its a 318, you wont kill it and you wont be going very fast. However it more than likely has a 904 in it rather than a 727. If it does have the 727 your motor swap choice is really easy. 383BB. You can find them in junkyards or at swap meets for less than 300 bucks for a long block. Rebuild it and chunk it in there.

Also, exhaust? headers, dump, done.

If you have any questions about anything pertaining to these cars I grew up racing and building old Mopars with my uncles. Ask away.
 
I love the Death Mobile in front of the white picket fence!!

Here's your blueprint.

 
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Nope, Valve covers are original. Don't look like they've ever been taken off. The rear windows are bracketted into place, and the interior panels have never been removed. It's blue with blue interior, and has AC.

Right now I'm running into an electrical issue that should be an easy fix (relays are slow, right turnsignal off the brakelights will work) All the fluids are clean, even the brake fluid. After a jumpstart, it starts right up.

Rot isn't even too bad. Nothing on the "frame' but the floors are gone. I will be keeping an eye out for something like a 340 4bbl, weiend blower and something in a manual transmission. the auto is fine and works, but I feel so stupid driving one. I dunno yet.

Other than that, the steering is loose but the whole car is running pretty well. Taillights look like a matter of just lenses.
 
I'm thinking more like Desert Terror car. The lights will be replaced with the 9001 adaptor housings, which allow drilling and mounting of red LEDs. But the police here FROWN on it. Maybe not so much because I'm not a kid with a mazda. The tails, still thinking about that one. I dunno if I'm going to replace everything with the universal trailer lights, or just repair the lights that are in there. Those taillights were REALLY dim and frankly, not safe.
 
The rear windows are bracketted into place, and the interior panels have never been removed. It's blue with blue interior, and has AC.
Thats a factory race car from Plymouth.

You have no idea what you just stumbled upon.

If it truly is what I think it is, the A/C setup should not have been installed from the factory. There should be a radio delete plate in the dash and you should have a special set of gauges.
 
Nah, we're not that good. It's not a roadrunner (Different grille) and the AC is fully factory. There is a huge rectangular speedo, and no other gauges to speak of (Temp, fuel, Alternator). Column shifting auto. I would be more akin to say the rear windows were deleted.

If I'm not mistaken, the "factory race cars" or even "dealer race cars" would have started with the roadrunner, gone into bucket seats, LSD and perhaps different springs up front and in the rear. a 318 could be found in one, but not an automatic, and the front of the car is loaded with automatic transmission support systems.

This car is nothing special.
 
I keep telling Steve that this car SCREAMS Pedophile. Tinted windows, sitting outside of a school, would seal the deal.
 
Naa.

I was wondering today, can you get a gallon of rustoleum hard hat.. In flat black? Roller paint job ftmfw.

And for the record, if you removed the tail lights completely, and put in one round red light and one round amber light in each hole, it'd be awesome.
 
Naa.

I was wondering today, can you get a gallon of rustoleum hard hat.. In flat black? Roller paint job ftmfw.

And for the record, if you removed the tail lights completely, and put in one round red light and one round amber light in each hole, it'd be awesome.

This is completely the plan. I'm going to size up the lights - I need something that sorta sits behind the chrome, to give it an "evil scowl" from the back. Removing the factory lights, and just bracketting up a red and an amber to fit in is what I have in mind. And then chrome housed tractor lights mounted under the bumper (sorta like fangs) for reverse lights. Up front, replacing the amber turnsignals with amber foglights and swapping out the relay, and then a set of round chrome housing lights inside the grille. I wanna put fangs under the front too, but not sure how yet. Maybe just a chrome piece, maybe taped off foglights. Not sure.

Police style pushbar, bumperettes in the back or a pipe welded across the back for extra... ordinance. I'm also bouncing around the idea of a roof bar with two offroading lights on it. I'll see where it goes.

Oh, and I'm still looking for the Mad Max style roof spoiler - I wanted it for my Vega too. Looks like an F body wing that's been sized and tacked on.
 
Nah, we're not that good. It's not a roadrunner (Different grille) and the AC is fully factory. There is a huge rectangular speedo, and no other gauges to speak of (Temp, fuel, Alternator). Column shifting auto. I would be more akin to say the rear windows were deleted.

If I'm not mistaken, the "factory race cars" or even "dealer race cars" would have started with the roadrunner, gone into bucket seats, LSD and perhaps different springs up front and in the rear. a 318 could be found in one, but not an automatic, and the front of the car is loaded with automatic transmission support systems.

This car is nothing special.
The bench weighs less, the "brackets" have to come from Mopar, the speedo is normal, but the temp, fuel, alt, should be the only others, column shift is normal especially if its a 727, and the springs never changed.

The only thing thats got me is the AC... it shouldn't be there, but it doesn't mean it wasn't added as an option.

Satellites could have been strippers as well, but they are extremely uncommon.

318 4bbl and 727 with probably tall gears as it would have been a circle track car.
 
Apparently the AC in the Mopar is rare enough, The rear windows is something that no one has actually seen, but no one doubts it's authenticity. "It's a delete... but why would you want to?!"
 
The bench weighs less, the "brackets" have to come from Mopar,

When I get the chance to do something about it, I'll have to show you the floors. It's worse than Fred Flintstones car. The back has some aluminum house siding to keep people's feet in, the front has the rubber mat and nothing else. The trunk allows for complete access to the passenger side leaf spring.

When I get the chance, I'll fab up an entire floor for both sides - prolly from some sheet steel. At that point I'll have a chance to mount up whatever I want for seats / transmission tunnel. The steel on the firewall around the MC is completely rotted out, so I'll have to remove all of that at some point and there I can install the 3 pedals to prepare for a trans swap.

Depends on if I can get a good price on an engine / trans.
 
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