70 Duster

Plymouth had massive success in 1968 with their awesome Road Runner car, but they didn’t stop there and the 70 Duster was born. That’s how the Duster 340, which was intended as a budget car, had emerged in the 1970s. Designing the formula for this unique model wasn’t a hard job to do. It was rather a platform which was easy to produce (we’re talking in our case about the new fastback body Valiant) which was also paired by a very powerful engine for that time, and that is the Mopar 340 CID four-barrel V8.

This new model had more space inside, and when it came to weight, it was also lighter than previous models like the 340 Cuda. At that time the price for this muscle car was around 2500 dollars and it was one of the cheapest cars that Plymouth’s Rapid Transit System had to offer. Also to top things off, the price wasn’t its only advantage. It was also one of the first cars which had front disc brakes featured as a standard.

The amazing 340 V8 has a long history and it had proven itself many times in the past, and it was used for the propelling of the earlier generation of Barracuda and also the giant killer Darts up to mid fourteen second ETS running nearly at 100 miles per hour. When compared to the awesome 440 Six pack the camshaft timing was a little less radical than that of it and it also used a Carter AVS four barrel. Even though it was actually rated to be able to produce 275 BHP, more and more people who were highly skilled mechanics, said that it actually performed closer to 325 BHP.

The 1970 Duster’s engine featured a heavy duty manual gearbox with three speeds or you could also choose to go with the Torque Flite or the four speed one. The axle was a 3.23:1 and it was the standard, the gears were 3.91:1 and 3.55:1 and if you were not too low on cash, for an extra buck you could’ve had the Sure Grip limited slip diff.