This is Indi. She's a 1974 Plymouth Valiant. My best friend who owns the car tells me Indy is also a Scamp but I have no idea what the difference is between a regular Valiant and the Scamp so if anyone knows feel free to tell me. She looks great for her age, but is in need of much work before she reaches the state of perfection and beauty we strive to give her.
-UPDATE - OCT 13 2009
The fuel and temperature gauges have stopped working. I don't know if the gauges have just flat out failed, if its the circuit board behind the gauges, or if the little silver voltage reducer screwed to the back of those gauges has died. Thoughts anyone?
She won't go 75 for longer than about 45 minutes. At that point she starts making strange sounds and loses power, and you have to really baby her and drop down to about 55mph. Shitty on a long trip. Thoughts here would be welcome also.
Indi finally got the tune-up she's been dying for: upgraded spark plugs, wires, cap, rotor, fuel filter, oil filter, oil change... and a bath lol She's running better than ever and has more (and much more stable) power across the board. Now she just needs an exhause and to fix whatever that high speed problem is.
this is indi in her native montana setting. sadly she doesnt live here anymore but we're working on that constantly.
ah the back end. few back ends are as pretty as this but i can name a few lol
indi in the snow. even though she doesn't much like snow.
So the idea here is (and believe me many many pictures are to follow) to restore Indy to a near stock state of being. I would do alot more than my Lady is going to do but being as its not my car I dont have much of a say. So here's the current list of what we're thinking:
-Full Suspension all the way around
And i dont mean lowering. This car scrapes enough as it is. What we're after here is to replace the stock (yes stock. as in from 1974) suspension with newer, nicer, better, and most importantly, HIGHER. Inclusive of leaf springs.
-Upgrade the rubber
Indi's current tires are super cheap and suck bad.
-Replace all belts and hoses
-Replace Front brake rotors and switch rear end from drum to disk.
-Full sound system. The stock radio got cut out of the dash ages ago so we may as well do things up right. I'm thinking a 6 or 8 inch sub in each door next to a 6.5in 2 way. Not sure whats in the back deck probably 5's or 6's but we'll replace those too because i dont even know if they work. They when I convince her to clean out her truck, I will then attempt to talk her into putting 2 12's in there. It IS a big trunk after all.
-Carb rebuild. She's never had one so my guess is she needs one.
-Complete and utter destruction. As soon as my Lady gets a new car, we're going to garage Indy, strip everything, pull the drivetrain, and send her off to be sandblasted, bodyworked and painted from top to bottom. Sadly the vinyl top is staying. Ive tried to talk her out of it.
-Transition from automatic to manual transmission. I dont even want to know what this is going to cost or how much work its going to be.
-New windows. I hope. The originals are 10,000 years old and all scratched up. I'd like to switch them to either new glass or lexan if possible.
-New Exhaust. This too is original and doesn't exist AT ALL after the catalytic converter. Ill talk my Lady into a new header if i can do it. that alone should reduce weight by about 200 pounds. lol
-Possible drivetrain swap. She mentions on and off she wants to switch from the 225 to the 318 but I'm not sure exactly how serious she is about it.
That's most of the list. As you can tell we're pretty much starting over with the car but it will all be well worth it when we get to the finish line.
