ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
10/2/08 11:36 a.m.

http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/863354495.html

looks legit.. Not me.. but DAMN what a deal.. If he'll take a $2k honda or something it's a challenge mobile.

Travis_K
Travis_K Reader
10/2/08 11:37 a.m.

That has got to be a scam. No question about it.

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
10/2/08 11:39 a.m.

I dunno how you would scam on a trade unless phisihing for email addy's

but the ad says summerville for location and not charleston..so he has to be somewhat familiar with the area

John Brown
John Brown GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/2/08 11:40 a.m.

I could be Al Bundy!

psteav
psteav GRM+ Memberand New Reader
10/2/08 11:46 a.m.

No kidding. If that's a legit 340 car, it's worth at least four times what he wants to trade for. Even it it's not a 340 car, just stickers and an air cleaner on a 318, it's still worth quite a bit more.

And Al drove a Dart Swinger.

NYG95GA
NYG95GA Dork
10/2/08 11:56 a.m.

I wonder if he'd take a '75 Duster with a slant 6..

spitfirebill
spitfirebill HalfDork
10/2/08 12:12 p.m.
psteav wrote: And Al drove a Dart Swinger.

nope. He drove a Dodge Dart , but it really was the equivilent Plymouth. It had the wrong roof line for a Swinger.

psteav
psteav GRM+ Memberand New Reader
10/2/08 12:34 p.m.

Upon further examination, I am wrong. That's a Duster, half-vinyl roof and all.

But Al referred to it as "Dodge"...and I could have sworn it had the notchback roof, but I remembered wrong, I guess...

http://www.dodgepedia.org/2008/03/dodge-on-tv-al-bundy-edition/

billy3esq
billy3esq Dork
10/2/08 5:22 p.m.

I don't know what Al Bundy drove, but in the early 70s, "Swinger" was an option package/trim level on the Dart that included vinyl roof and rallye wheels and likely other things. My dad had a '73 two-door. I don't know if you could get the package on a sedan or not.

psteav
psteav GRM+ Memberand New Reader
10/2/08 5:35 p.m.

Swinger was not available on the Dart Sport/Demon (Dodge's versions of the fastback A-body), IIRC.

rmarkc
rmarkc New Reader
10/2/08 6:30 p.m.

I love MWC and have every episode on disc (thank you bittorremt) but I always wondered about the Duster/Dodge duality. The Demon kind of explains it but were they available with vinal roof? And I thought they had a body-colored rear bumper.

psteav
psteav GRM+ Memberand New Reader
10/2/08 7:16 p.m.

No body colored rear bumper on the demon-the later fastback (Dart Sport) had an aluminum panel between the taillights. I don't think you could get body color bumpers on the Duster or Demon-I'm pretty sure even the strippo models had chrome bumpers. My '73 Duster was strippo (PS, A/C, and Vinyl Roof) but it still had chrome bumpers.

Come to think of it, it was originally Al-Bundy Bronze with a white vinyl roof too...

Back on topic, if this is legit, someone here should snap it up.

snibborddot
snibborddot New Reader
10/2/08 7:30 p.m.

Doesn't matter anyway , it seems to have been deleted .

John Brown
John Brown GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/3/08 7:07 a.m.

I thought Al always referred to it as "A Duster" but Peg called it "A Dodge".

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