We don’t know much about this thing, but it is in Brian’s neck of the woods, so maybe we can convince him to go check it out. After all, it’s not very often that you find a Plymouth Scamp that has been converted to rear wheel drive and has a 360 and a 4 speed in it. BangShifter Tom Marsh sent us the link to the Craigslist Ad and said, “This would be a great project to pick up on.”, and we can’t argue with him on that. These cars were originally based on the Dodge Omni platform which also gave way to the Daytona of the early ’80s.
We’d like it to sit a bit lower, and it could certainly use a few tweaks, but overall this thing could be a riot and a half. We’d totally thrash it like a rented mule.
The ad tells us nothing but the fact that it has been converted to rear wheel drive and is powered by the 360 4-speed combo. We’re going to make some assumptions based on the photos. Check them out below.
The rear axle looks to be a Mopar 8 3/4. Since these came with a leaf spring rear suspension, we’re making the assumption that swapping in the axle wasn’t the hardest part of the conversion.
Stock these things came with a Strut front suspension. It appears from the one photo with the hood open that the strut towers are still there at some level. Or at least the tops of them. It looks like someone has converted the stock front suspension to use a shock and spring. We’d like a better look to be sure on exactly what’s been done and how well. The spring spacer in the photo doesn’t make use happy.
must be nice to live where something like this can be legal–not in California
Is that an Accel Super coil? Do they still make those? The mismatched wheels takes me back to the 60’s Cool & Retro!!!
I’ve always wnated one of those Rampage’s. This one would rock!
I’ve got an old, mid ’90s iirc, Mopar Performance catalog that listed a K car RWD conversion subframe kit. I’m guessing this car uses something similar.
Yes I remember that catalog. That kit would be worth a pretty penny now. Who knows this car could be the new Ram rage!
The guy with the RWD converted Hemi Daytona explained it to me the best: the Mopar Performance RWD kit is basically a throw-together mix of Caravan and Dakota parts with a custom K-frame that would need tweaking to make work properly, and it was only set up for LA blocks. A lot of people in the Mopar community have derided the actual kit as much as they have praised Mopar Performance for actually selling a RWD conversion kit in the first place.
I wanted the stock car kit you could get from direct connection for my mirada
OOOh, nearly forgot about the Kit Car setup. Yes…
That looks like a stock Mustang II front suspension