Today’s Nice Price or No Dice Duster is about as Mad-Maxican a automotive as you would need. Let’s see if we will discover any magnificence within the price ticket for this post-apocalyptic Powerstroke-powered beast.
In The World According to Garp, the titular character decides to purchase a home after witnessing a small airplane crash into it, assuring his spouse they are going to be protected residing there because it’s been “pre-disastered.” Not all older BMWs are disasters ready to occur, and actually, the 2000 BMW Z3 2.8 we checked out yesterday had undergone such intensive upkeep and substitute work that, like Garp’s home, it would show a protected buy. A $9,500 asking made it a relative cut price as nicely, no less than as evidenced by the 64 % Nice Price win you all awarded the automotive.
Hey, do you want package deal offers? You know, journeys which might be described as “all-inclusive” or, whenever you have been a child, getting a Garanimals outfit that additionally included underwear and socks.
Today’s 1974 Plymouth Duster 4X4 is a type of package deal offers because it comes not simply with the Duster physique but in addition with (attempt to sustain, now) a Nineties Ford pickup body, a 2001 7.3 Powerstroke turbo diesel V8, and a set of bolt-up monster wheels from a Humvee. Additionally, there’s additionally a roof rack-mounted spare for some higher physique train ought to the automotive undergo a flat, serape seat covers sprucing up the cabin, and a decal on the automotive’s ass that’s each misogynistic and disparaging of individuals with weight points. We gained’t acknowledge that final side any additional.
According to the advert, this mad melange of mechanical mischief remarkably comes with a clear title. What that title claims the automobile to be — a Plymouth, Ford, or alien species of unknown origin — goes undisclosed. The vendor does declare to have a folder filled with gross sales receipts and photos from the automotive’s construct. We can solely hope that a type of photos is of the builder looming over the completed mashup throughout a lightning storm, laughing manically, “It’s alive!”
OK, so somebody constructed this monster, clearly not with society’s betterment in thoughts, however with the purpose of realizing some form of outlandish private imaginative and prescient — or maybe a vendetta — thus bringing to actuality one thing distinctive and with the singular objective of inflicting mud-flinging mayhem. Is that one thing we might all get behind?
I don’t find out about you, however I sort of prefer it. I imply, it’s not one thing I’d decide up the kiddos in after faculty on the each day, however I might see it being a hoot and a half off-road. It appears to have pretty respectable method and departure angles, and the massive 7.3 Ford turbo diesel is rock-solid sufficient a motor to make sure the Duster will get you again to base with none butt-puckering mechanical points.
The advert doesn’t present any extra specs, however primarily based on the pedal rely, we will assume the transmission to be an automated. That’s shifted by a ridiculously lengthy floor-mounted shifter that appears like one thing Rob Zombie makes use of to scratch between his toes. Behind that may be a extra conventional size lever for the switch case. The entrance locking hubs for the 4WD seem like of the get-out-and-do-the-twist handbook selection.
One good contact is the welded-up hood that now opens clamshell-like with the fenders connected like some form of nightmare Triumph Spitfire. One factor that most likely must be added earlier than heading out for off-roading shenanigans is a few form of frame-mounted roll-over cage within the cabin. Well, that and shaving off six inches or so from that goofy windshield visor.
I’m not going to bore you with particulars like the standard of the bodywork or the automotive’s mileage since we’re method off the farm with this automotive for something like that, even to matter. Most of you made your determination in regards to the Plymouth’s destiny whenever you first laid your peepers on the lede picture. If you’ve since made it this far within the story, kudos to your tenacity and iron will.
I’ll ask yet another factor of you this advantageous Friday, and that’s to vote and touch upon this automotive and its $13,500 price ticket. I do know you’ve obtained it in you. What do you assume, is that value an affordable quantity to ask for thus loopy a automotive? Or does that make this a Duster for which you’d by no means settle?
You resolve!
Grand Island, Nebraska, Craigslist, or go right here if the advert disappears.
H/T to Sintek for the hookup!
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