There is a real small rust spot on the left rear quarter panel, the gas gauge dosent work, and that's about it.
I got this car from an uncle. It has 34,144 orginal mailes on it, and it is 100% original. It still has the real spare tire.
The AC will freeze you out of the car, and this thing runs better than my everyday car.
That's pretty cool. I remember in the late 1980's these were a dime dozen, and you could still get them for $500 because nobody cared about them yet. People used to kind of scoff at them because they were "just a Roadrunner look-alike" but with gas prices today, it's much better to have the 318 than the 440 because at least you can afford to drive a cool-looking car. Man, now I wish I would have bought the 2 or 3 available examples I saw for a few hundred bucks!
The two-doors, maybe. The four-door sedans, not so much.
It would still be kind of fun to have a 4-door. I think they were all wrecked on episodes of "CHiPs", Dirty Harry, and '70s movies like Gator McCluskey. I haven't seen any '60s 4-door Mopar sedan in a long, long time. I did see a 1980 Plymouth Volare and a 1973 Charger on the road today, though...
The "Dukes of Hazzard" TV show used up a lot of the old sedans too, not to mention all the Chargers they destroyed.
Next time you watch an episode with a chase scene in it (which would be pretty much ANY one) notice that although the cops may be driving a Fury/Monaco sedan, when you see the cop car flying through the air to its final destruction, it's... an AMC Matador.
The show's producers must have figured anyone who watched it wouldn't notice the difference.
I remember when you could go to police auctions $500 plus and buy detective unmarked interceptors with 440;s before they downsized with Diplomats and 318's. Just getting the running drivetrains you were ahead.
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