Phase 1 : The car was salvaged from the junkyard and put back on the street as a driver. Running gear at this time was the orginal 318/904 with an 8-1/4 axle and 3.23 gears. The car was originally a 3x green hard top with rallye gages, buckets, AC, and hidden headlights. It was sold new at Dishman Dodge in Spokane WA, and I still have all of the original owners paperwork. Amazingly, one of my friends had owned this car years back and still had all the original papers tucked away!
This is what it looked like back in 1994 about one month after I bought it. It had been painted taxi-cab lime green (literally - the same paint placed on local taxis) which I scraped off with a razor blade. It had been laid on with zero prep. It ran good except for a locked up axle. Overall it didnt look so good, but was actually pretty sound. It only needed two small patches behind the tires and a new deck lid. One door had been replaced in the past, a I put a bulge hood on it. Junkyard price - $600:
Here it is all primered up, block sanded and jambed out. Starting to look much better. Color is a factory Dodge color from 1972: Super Blue:
Done. I had been tracking, and at this point I had $1350 total into the car. This car became my daily driver and served me well until 2003. People from the Seattle area may remember it parked at the South Transfer Station dump everyday in Georgetown. I ran up 150k on the original engine, though oil pressure was low, it was still going strong when Phase 2 of the rebuild came about.
