Trailduster Going Insane In the Field!!!

How does it do it? how does the engine hold together after having a crazy knock for months and months and months. it has no air filter, and didn't seem to run as well when all the mud was being sucked into the engine, but, it still rocked. and once it all dried out, it ran perfect again. i think i'll drive that thing today!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Plymouth
• Trailduster
• 1975
• 74
• 76
• 77
• 78
• 79
• 80
• wheeling
• four
• mudding
• muddin
• mud
• romp
• beat
• mopar
• 318
• v8
• dodge
• ramcharger

[tterrag7991]

Damn that looks fun. You guys are lucky

[tommartyn]

@tterrag7991

Thanks man, it is a blast :)

[douglas262]

I would like to find where you live and kick your ass for abusing that truck man. You must've been born into a chevy family because us REAL mopar enthusiasts dont treat our vehicles like that. God help that poor trailduster.

[tterrag7991]

@tommartyn I need to get my 74 cj5 running and my 47 cj2a out on the trails again

[tommartyn]

@cheese2507

The ramchargers/traidusters are shorter then the shortest shortbed trucks they had available, and there is no bed really, its all part of the body. From 74-80 the whole top came off, all the way up to the windshield, and from 81-93 the tops didn't come off at all. The chevy's and gmc's were different.

The ramcharger removable top is a heavy all steel (except for the liftgate above the tailgate) beast. Not a camper shell, its designed to honestly look like part of the truck.

[cheese2507]

@tommartyn From what I can tell they were short-cab trucks with no back glass and a custom camper shell that in the early years covered the cab and cargo area and in later years the rear passenger/cargo area. Enter the redesigned K5 Blazer in 1992 with no removable top, then the Tahoe in 95 which screwed the whole thing up by collapsing the 2 door market.

[tommartyn]

@cheese2507

well... when they were sold back in the day, they were classified as station wagon's i believe. Though of course they are just short trucks with no bed, and a convertable cap. SUV is a way newer term. 90's and up. This beast is a 75.

They haven't built these things since 81. 81-93 was a newer body style, and not nearly as cool. don't have removable tops... and the styling is texas style or something...

I sold this to a guy who's going to fix it up. He was happy.

[cheese2507]

@tommartyn That's what they are classified as. I have always wanted one, but because I'm in college, that is not going to happen for a while. They don't build them anymore, and every time one goes to the scrap yard, there is one less out there to buy.

[tommartyn]

@cheese2507

I don't think i've ever heard anybody refere to a Trailduster or Ramcharger as an SUV before. Around here they're for sale all the time. We use them hard, because thats literally what these beasts were made for. They were purely manufactured for the purpose of people to buy them and have fun with them off road style. They aren't useful like a truck and they aren't good on fuel like a car. This is what they are about. And they are amazing at it.

[cheese2507]

I can never find any old 2 door SUVs for sale. I don't know why you people abuse them.