This is the greatest car I have ever owned/driven; its like a go-cart for the road!
Needed a new fuel tank due to rust.
It is a 1972, so parts are kinda hard to find.
This car handles better than most new cars.
It has never failed me on starting and getting me around.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 11th November, 2004
One of the great ones!
Occasionally a resistor, and not much more. Inside the front seat and dashpad cracked, but most dusters do.
This car is still great, having been a 225 until 1983 and then upgraded to a 318 which came from a 72 duster. Now it has a cracked passenger side manifold which I'll fix this summer.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 26th July, 2003
Thank you I love this car!!
I also had a 72 Duster with Slant 6. Sold it at 93,000 miles. Sure wish I still had it now. It was such an easy car to work on.
Mine was a weird one with a power steering pump that was over sized for it. You could steer it with just one fingertip on the steering wheel.
I asked an automotive engineer about it and he said what had probably happened was the factory had run out of the correct sized power steering pump, but everything GM made was interchangeable, so a substitution had been made to keep the assembly line flowing. He guessed maybe only a few hundred had been made that way. He also said those kinds of substitutions are never done anymore in the modern age of computer tracked inventory.
The other quirk about my Duster was the speedometer read about 10 mph faster than actual, so you always felt like you were going faster than you really were. I never realized it until I got a two year 85 Olds Cutlass with a correct speedometer and found my commutes were faster. I don't know if it came from the factory that way or my Dad had figured a way to rig it so it would encourage me to be slower.
What got me thinking was the comment on the resistor. I learned to always carry a spare ballast resistor since it needed one every few years. I can't really even remember why, but vaguely I think it wouldn't start otherwise? Don't know. Maybe someone can remind me because I suspect this might keep me awake like trying to remember the words to a song I used to really like.
12th Nov 2004, 06:45
Well, you apparently don't get around much, only putting 21,000 miles on your car in 32 years of owning it?
That's less than 700 miles a year.