1971 Blue Plymouth Duster
by John Telfer
Title
1971 Blue Plymouth Duster
Artist
John Telfer
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Last year I was lucky enough to attend one of the largest Classic Car Shows on Long Island, which is held on the south shore of Long Island in Point Lookout right on the beach. While the weather was a bit warm the breeze coming off of the ocean made it very easy to walk around and enjoy the show. As a big fan of the Classic Muscle Cars of the late '60's and early '70's I was very excited when I stumbled across this beautiful 1971 Plymouth Duster with the dual exhaust headers on the hood, with a nice black pin stripe running from the hood over the roof and onto the rear trunk. The black pin striped mixed in perfectly with the beautiful color of blue that made this car look like it had just come off the assembly line. The car had an additional pin striping on each side of the car with the word DUSTER in white painted on the black pin stripe at the front panels of the car. The grill gave this muscle car that muscle car look with the narrow horizontal look and vertical metal clips inside the grill. Beautiful two door with plenty of room in the inside.
For more on this 1971 Plymouth Duster please feel free to read below;
The Duster was a success for Plymouth, so much so that in 1971 Dodge requested and received their own version, the Demon. In response, Plymouth was given a version of the Dodge Dart Swinger 2-door hardtop named the Plymouth Valiant Scamp.
For 1971, only small changes were made to the Duster. The "Valiant" fender badges and "Plymouth" grille logotype were deleted. A new trim package was released, called the Duster Twister. The Twister package presented the appearance of the Duster 340, but came only with the base I6 or 318 V8. The Twister's appearance package included special side stripes that mimicked the Duster 340 Wedge stripes, a matte-black hood and the 340's special shark-tooth grille. A nonfunctional dual hood scoop and rear spoiler appearance package was available, as were high-back bucket seats and dual exhaust.
A new electronic "breakerless" ignition became optional on the 340 V8 late in 1971 model year. In 1971, 186,478 Plymouth Dusters were built, with 12,886 being the higher horsepower 340 cubic inch fastback models.
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February 14th, 2020
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