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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SFRT - Frenchy on November 06, 2007, 02:38:47 PM
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I was looking for parts for my 1972 Dodge Monaco. I checked with the usuall suspects : YearOne, NPD, Classic Industrie ... but they don't have catalogs for the big irons like they do for Chevy, just the Mopar muscle cars.
Anyone know of a company that deals with old Dodges?
(http://www.dodgepolara.com/gallery/photos/472.1.JPEG)
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Anyone know of a company that deals with old Dodges?
Here's a place to start, old Bob here can probably find you the part you need
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/scrapyard.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHgESZ2goSw
just because I ran acrossed it...
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Originally posted by Airscrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHgESZ2goSw
just because I ran acrossed it...
:rofl Those reclining seats were a big hit back then too!
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Found a couple parts here http://www.carjunky.com/dodge~monaco~parts.html not much but they are there...
What part(s) do you need? I might be able to find them at work but older parts are increasingly harder to come by.
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looks like it's in pretty good shape frenchy.
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http://www.texasacres.com/ might have something.
http://www.tonysparts.com/
also try asking around the bb's of slantsix.org
I'll try and get a bunch of other links for you tommorow.
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Link (http://www2.partstrain.com/v5/products.php?N=0&Ntt=DODGE+MONACO+1972+)
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
(http://www.dodgepolara.com/gallery/photos/472.1.JPEG)
:cool: :aok
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Looks pretty damn clean :aok
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Think about trying to find others for parts and parting them out, Ebay what you dont need.
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
I was looking for parts for my 1972 Dodge Monaco. I checked with the usuall suspects : YearOne, NPD, Classic Industrie ... but they don't have catalogs for the big irons like they do for Chevy, just the Mopar muscle cars.
Anyone know of a company that deals with old Dodges?
(http://www.dodgepolara.com/gallery/photos/472.1.JPEG)
How does it drive? Like a 60s muscle car or more boaty?
Whats wrong with it?
Whats it got in it?
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I'm sorry guys, I'm on the road so I'm not home. This Monaco is not mine, I posted this picture so people know what a 72 Monaco looks like.
Mine has the same color/top combo, but a 4 door. The paint is faded, but the no major rust spots, and only a dent or 2. The body is straight. The chromes are not pitted. The interrior smells like dead body, the apolstry has the usuall tear on the driver seat. The dash is all cracked by the sun.
Being a Monaco, car is fully loaded with AC/power windows/power seats/cruise control/engine pre-heater. Available for that year was the 318, 360, 383 2bb, 383 4bb, 440. This car has a 360 engine, 2 barel carb, 727 trany. I like it for the little 360 as it will be my daily driver, our road trip car. I drove it from Sun Valley to Salt Lake City, 300 miles @ 70 MPH on 3/4 tank. The thing runs on 85 octane. The trany does not shift into reverse, the engine is covered in grease, and the suspensions are inexistent. Brakes are awsome.
I'll get the trany rebuilt locally or by a new one from YearOne for $600, depending on local rebuilding costs. The I'll take the 360 out and rebuild it to what it is now, no perf parts so I keep the cost way down as well as the fuel consumption. While the engine is out I'll repaint the engine compartment, front suspension.
That will give me a fun daily driver for $3,000. I'll resell my 2005 Taurus with 25,000 miles to get out of my ridiculous 25% APR.
After the sale, I'll change bushings/shocks/springs, then as time permit body/paint. Finally as money permits, fix AC and get someone to recover the seats, maybe recover the dash if I canot find a new one.
That's the evil master plan, a big old school reliable familly car of little value for airport parking and familly road trips, and the firebird for weekend goofing around/races.
Thank you for those links. I've spent the last 2 days online looking. My best bet is to keep screening Ebay daily. I'll post pictures of the parts I'm looking for. From the top of my head, a dash, the Heater/AC controler and new tail lights like those ones:
(http://www.dodgepolara.com/gallery/photos/472.4.JPEG)
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Dont forget the ever useful JC Whitney catalog. I havent seen one for awhile but they used to have all sorts of stuff like carpet kits and door seals, even suspension parts. As far as parts go dont forget to look for Polaras (same car different trim) and I think the Plymouth Fury is the same car under the skin.
http://www.allpar.com/model/rwdbodies.html
The C body may date from 1961 or 1962 in the Chrysler models and the Dodge Custom 880, though Chrysler considers the C body to have begun in 1965 with the unit-body construction.
Allpar staff note: Many have made a good case for including the late Imperial as a C-body as well. For more on the controversy, click here.
Plymouth Fury (1965-74) VIP (1966-69) Gran Fury (1975-77*)
Dodge Custom 880 (1965) Polara (1965-73) Monaco (1965-76)**
Royal Monaco 1975-76
Chrysler 300 (1965-71) Newport, New Yorker, Imperial All 1974-75
dont forget to check craigslist for local cars that might be available for parting out.
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You might get lucky and find the heater controls are used by another model, I think junk yards have books that can tell you.
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Ahhh, sorry to hear about the 2bb 360. I had a 75 Grand Fury with 38000 miles on it a while back with that engine. Great car, great shape but that engine just didn't go anywhere.
I'll take back my 73 Pontiac Laurentien with the 4bb, 350. There wasn't anything that could take me! Then again I never bit off more than I could chew either, but that never happened very often.
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thank again for the links, ideas folks.
Motoroil, the little V8 is perfect for the daily driver/road trip use of this car. I don't quite see the use of a monsterished HP BB on a 5000lb daily driver. If i want to "take on someone", I'll drive the Firebird with the 455:)
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Originally posted by Airscrew
Here's a place to start, old Bob here can probably find you the part you need
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t92/Airscrew/scrapyard.jpg)
:rofl
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I was young back when I had the Pontiac and had a lot less fear. Not that the 360 is bad, it seems to suit your purpose just fine. I just never liked it is all. I've driven better Sunday driver type engines.
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
thank again for the links, ideas folks.
Motoroil, the little V8 is perfect for the daily driver/road trip use of this car. I don't quite see the use of a monsterished HP BB on a 5000lb daily driver. If i want to "take on someone", I'll drive the Firebird with the 455:)
Like this one?
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/874_1170275501_swredfirebird1.jpg)
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Close enought, mine's a Formula (hood scoops) , this one's a Trans Am (Shaker hood). Great lookign trantran, the oversize chrome rims is so ghetto's yesterday, need black rims with chrome dish :)
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/82_1139030258_hellomom.jpg)
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I agree the rims are a bit much, I'd rather use the stock rims like you have on your car, but alas it aint mine so I dont have much say in the matter :lol