The humor on Craigslist ranges from the long, draw-out diatribes that we sometimes find to this end of the scale which is the “let’s say it with a straight face” brand of automotive comedy. About 20 of you send us links to this ad, so thanks for all the tips. Like the ad, we’re going to keep this one short and sweet. As is stated below, the 1973 Duster does have “some major rust issues” but hey, these things are just hunks of metal, plastic, and rubber, right? (We’re not sure we have ever seen any car so disastrously rusted up. We’re not sure what means were used to remove this thing from the barn that it was in, but perhaps a dragon or a howitzer were employed to push it outside.
HERE THE LONE PHOTO FROM THE AD AND THE ACCOMPANYING SHORT AND SWEET TEXT –
Wow, its worse than the 69 Camaro that came out of that Oklahoma lake that was under water for 43 years.
Any words to discribe the car is a waste.
The funney part of the add is the picture and $1200.
I believe that pic was on Carsinbarns or some similar site. I remember seeing it years ago. Supposedly the car was stored in a damp concrete building and when they tried to pull the car out, it buckled.
Nice Patina on that Mopar.
AMD can’t even save this one.
But! But! It’s a 1-of-20,000 ’73 Gold Duster in FK8 green with the kinda rare half roof treatment and the extremely rare factory lightweight body panel kit! Someone MUST save it!
I don’t think even a kooky Mopar lover would spend $1200 on this one!! LOL
Just where is that car again? I’ll give him $12,000 for it. After all it’s a one of a kind. Of all the rust buckets I’ve seen over the years I’ve never seen one like this. 🙂
she’s gone back to mother nature! but i bet that slant six will start!
I’ll bet it will. Those were some tough engines.
Seeing this reminds me of something that happened back in the early 80’s. A neighbor of mine had two ’62 chevy Impala convertibles. They were both in rough shape but with the two I could have made one beautiful one. I ask the guy at least two times a year to sell them to me, but he would always say” Hell no , I’m going to make a nice one myself” This went on for a few years, about all he ever did, was stand around the cars and drink beer and talk about how nice they were going to be. So one day I saw the local scrapper there with his flatbed truck checking them out so I stopped. The guy had given the cars to the scrapper to get rid of them, and when the guy started winching them onto his truck they came completely apart. It was so bad there were shovels involved. I told the guy that owned them that if he would have sold them to me he would have 1. got some money out of them, and 2. he would have got to ride in one every now and then. People like him make me ill, but in the long run it’s their loss not ours.
When I was a 16 there was a boy in town that had a 56 Desoto Convertible just sitting next to his house. I kept asking him if he wanted to sell it and he kept saying no, that it was for his son when he got out of the Army. one day in 64 I was in town and there was a wrecker hooking up to the car.I stopped and asked about it and the guy had sold it to a junk yard. The car was still in real good shape. I would have given him a lot more than the $10 he got from the junk yard.
Typical Duster!
Bullshit!
Galen Govier sheet included. Numbers matching
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I have a crazy uncle who has had a 72 Chevelle and a 70 C10 short bed sitting in his side yard for almost as long as I have been alive. I started bugging him to sell me one or both of them when I turned 16. I’m now 40 and neither of them have budged an inch. The Chevelle is rusted so bad I can pick the body up off of the frame in the rear by myself, but he still says he’s going to fix it up someday… good luck with that.
I had a buddy in high school and his dad had a new yorker with a 440 that was in mint shape sitting on concrete next to their house and they rarely drove it. I was checking it out looking underneath I saw something strange on the frame I touched it and my finger went right thru the frame rail to the other side. I then grabbed the frame rail and easily pulled part of it rite off. Car had to be junked and the body floors and interior were near mint shape.