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Craigslist Find: A Bad Ass 1978 Dodge Muscle Truck, with Video


Craigslist Find: A Bad Ass 1978 Dodge Muscle Truck, with Video

Many times our Craigslist picks highlight some godawful wrecks or lampoon some big pile of mechanical grossness, but this week that is not the case. We found a totally awesome Dodge truck for sale in the Carolinas that runs low 7s in the eighth-mile and gets cruised as well.

It’s not a hack job by any stretch, at least judging by the photos. It’s a ’78 wearing a ’72 Dodge nose. It has a pretty mean 440ci Chrysler wedge that packs 12.8 to 1 compression and is backed by a 727 trans with a 3,500-rpm stall converter stuck to the front of it. The seller claims that the truck has gone 7.17 in the eighth-mile. His math says 11.30 or so in the quarter-mile. That’s plenty fun!

We’d love to roll up to the ice cream stand in this ground pounder. It seems that Chevy and Ford trucks from this era are growing on trees, but the handsome Dodges don’t get the same amount of love, that makes this one all the more cool!

At $7,900, the price is even damn reasonable.

Click here to see the Craigslist ad for the bad ass Dodge truck

 

 

1978 Dodge Muscle truck 


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