No, I’m not going to start CC Classifieds (On $econd thought…). Stephanie and I took the day off yesterday (it was sunny!) so I’m going to be a bit late with today’s new CC (more time for Cluing). In the meantime, I’ll let you peruse this nice Swinger for sale a few blocks from my house.
A proper A Body CC will be storming this way very soon. And it won’t be the last one; given how many there are around, it’s an endlessly recurring theme here.
Not much info from the sign, but it looks like a fairly clean car. No rust, that’s for sure.
Are you ready to swing?
I had a ’71 Scamp, almost the same color but in infinitely worse shape even thought it was almost 25 years ago. I get nostalgic when I see one, but I think at the time I really wanted a car that could be hot started without removing the air cleaner housing and poking a screwdriver down the carburetor while someone else cranked it over. I learned a lot about driving without brakes, with loose balljoints, or with one tie rod. I did like the pillarless hardtop and flow through floor vent doors, which was good as the A/C was dead by the time I got it. My mom decided to help me get a new car after seeing a fireball shoot fifteen feet in the air from the carburetor while I had my hand holding the throttle open. Sometimes I still feel defensive of the Scamp, even though the reality is that it had less than 100K miles, the back axle snapped, the heater core had gone years earlier, the A/C flooded the interior with condensation even before it lost the fight, hubcaps sailed every time I went around a corner, the suspension was mostly a memory, and it was better at getting places than it was at getting back. Had room for lots of friends though, and beer wiped right off the vinyl seats.
A brown or avocado green Dart was the official car of every burnt-out industrial town in Massachusetts during the early 80’s.
The tail on those cars would make Sir Mix A Lot one very happy man..
The Duster/Demon were really my cup of tea. My friend picked up a ’72 /6 powered Duster from its original owner back in high school. He swapped on a 2bbl and a header, it wasn’t “fast” but it would scoot and we had a blast for a few years tooling around in it.
I don’t know Paul if you start a CC Classifieds then this will turn from a support group to an enabling group. 😛
I drove a 70-something Dart Custom for a while back in the 80s. My most enduring memory?: how much of a pain in the ass it was to squeegee that damned concave back window.
One of my older brother’s friends had one of these with a 340 4bbl & Torqueflite. Not your normal street sweeper, but it was rather effective. Nobody ever expected that little green car to blow their doors off.
It’s interesting to see these cars now, once they were as common as dandelions in spring. I can honestly say the last time I saw a Swinger was about 15 years ago when I lived in Atlanta.