1970 Plymouth Duster vs Chevrolet Nova Dealer Promo Film

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@uraswami8077 10 ай бұрын

The Duster 340 taillights are what got me off of the Chevy bandwagon and onto the Mopars. Because the taillights are all I got to see when I got smoked by one on Great SW Parkway in Grand Prairie, Texas in 1975. That 340 was a giant killer.

@tomjefferson2024 10 ай бұрын

I like the Duster Better Myself. The Rust Issues are Easy to Prevent. I like the 340.

@buck546 10 ай бұрын

I'm sold, I'll take the duster in lemon twist yellow, black interior, 340 package and four speed trans. Oh, but make that at the 1970s price please.

@The_Temple 10 ай бұрын

Old man had a slant-6 duster back in the day … drove it for over 20 years

@RoadRunnergarage8570 10 ай бұрын

Those Slant 6s would run forever... And could he hopped up too!!

@alanwood5857 10 ай бұрын

Duster 340 is hard to beat, had one, could beat a 396 Nova from the neigbourhood.

@RoadRunnergarage8570 10 ай бұрын

The Duster 340s had a habit of beating several Big Block Muscle Cars...

@RandyTheWildHorse 10 ай бұрын

I wish I was back in 1970 so I can get a Plymouth Duster with a 340 V8

@alanfitzgeraldsr2201 10 ай бұрын

I bought a new Duster in 71, I loved it and it was a slant 6 with a three speed on the floor and I traded it in on a 75 360. DUSTER. The best two cars I owned.

@jasoncarpp7742 10 ай бұрын

Although I was way too young at the time to drive a car, I remember cars like this. My older brother had a Plymouth Duster. I cannot remember what year his was.

@plymouthdie-castreplicas 10 ай бұрын

Duster "pocket rocket" 340 is a muscle car killer!😎

@captaindew3106 10 ай бұрын

my dad bought a 1970 Duster 318 in 1978 for $350 in Lawrenceburg TN. all clean with factory Limelight Green no stripe no trim only damage is had was the front left fender got push in and the driver door striker got broke off from the 1st owner from St. Louis IL. that the car was made in Cal. on February 20th,1970 it was the first Mopar I ever know and got me into the car hobby since I was born in 1989 and my dad sold the car in 2001 with 455,000 miles on the o.g engine all that was replace was the rear end from a 1974 Gold Duster slant 6 model with 4 1/2 inch bolt pattern wheels he change the front drum into a disc brakes from the 1974 G.D in 1997 after he park the 1970 Duster into the wood in 1991 and pull it out in 1997 with no rust no rot just all clean back in 1978 a guy came to him at a shop he use to work at driving a 1977 Dodge Aspen with a 225 and a A833 O/D 4speed trans and he wanted my dad to trade the Duster A233 3speed manual trans for it and my dad Duster went up to about 30 MPG on regular with the O/D trans.

@steves9905 10 ай бұрын

oh man...would love a duster 340

@pmafterdark 10 ай бұрын

I'll take a Duster 340 to go!

@5610winston 10 ай бұрын

I saw no mention of horsepower ratings of the base 198 cube slant six or the optional 225, or of the Nova six. No mention that the Nova three-speed was fully synchronized (optional on Valiant/Duster), or the Duster's three-speed Torqueflite versus the two-speed "slip and slide with Powerglide".

@rickschwartz2447 10 ай бұрын

they always had great cars

@OldDood 10 ай бұрын

I remember a school mate of mine that got a Duster for his senior year in High School. It looked cool. However, I would still take a Nova hands down over a Plymouth any day. The Chevy Nova was just a better built car all around.

@edwardpate6128 10 ай бұрын

Actually both great cars, I'll have one of each!

@barrycuda3769 10 ай бұрын

I'd probably go for the Duster ,its a good looking car with a a great engine and transmission, but I like the Nova as well ,and I tend to prefer cars that have framed side windows.

@mavision6525 10 ай бұрын

Duster all the way.

@BradThePitts 10 ай бұрын

The Duster had tortion bars for its front suspension. If you lived in the rust belt, the torsion bars would rust out from the frame in less than a decade.

@michaeltutty1540 10 ай бұрын

I live in Ontario, Canada. Nobody I knew had any issue with torsion bar failure in all the many years of use.

@HowardJrFord 10 ай бұрын

@@michaeltutty1540torsion bars don't rust . On some A bodies the torsion bar crossmember would rust near the torsion bar anchors after 10ish years on salted roads . But they could often be welded . The A bodies were the only mopars that had that issue .

@8092DJ 4 ай бұрын

@@HowardJrFordyou have no clue!

@brylcreemy 10 ай бұрын

“I’ll answer that in a moment, but first…” Umm, no. I asked a direct question, please answer it first. (Because I won’t be able to process a darn thing you say while my mind is holding on to the question and wondering why the heck you didn’t just answer me before going into the sales pitch)

@andreg4460 20 күн бұрын

It's interesting that they were pushing those flip-out vent windows as superior to the roll-down back windows that the Nova had. I always thought the roll-down rear window would have been more desirable. But maybe once you got moving, the flip-out vent actually did give better ventilation? Maybe that gives some validation to those '78-87 GM RWD intermediate sedans and wagons with the stationary rear door windows and flip out vents, that people still gripe about to this day.

@5610winston 10 ай бұрын

One of the history teachers at my high school had a Duster. He spent more time doing battle with Chrysler over the horrendous quality than on his duties as a teacher. The final straw was when the electrical system spontaneously combusted while the car was parked overnight in a shed wth the school's maintenance truck and lawn equipment. After exhaustive investigation Chrysler traded what was left of the Duster for a new "Dart Sport", the identical car with Dodge badges.

@scrambler69-xk3kv 10 ай бұрын

I owned a Dart Swinger a Valiant, a Volare', and a Diplomat. All slant sixes and all just solid reliable cars. And even when sitting outside on those brutal cold northeast winters, they ALWAYS started.

@RoadRunnergarage8570 10 ай бұрын

I built the 1/25 scale AMT 71 Duster 340 and MPC 1/25 Scale 76 Dart Hang 10 as well as a handful of 68-72 Nova model kits-( Revell 69 Nova SS350,Revell 69 Nova Yenko 427 and AMT 72 Nova SS350)....

@RoadRunnergarage8570 10 ай бұрын

As well as an AMT 1/25 scale 70 Dart Swinger Richard Petty Dirt Racing Car and Revell 1/25 scale 68 Dart GTS 440...

@RoadRunnergarage8570 10 ай бұрын

Also a handful of 62-67 Novas-( 1/25 scale AMT 63 Nova Wagon,1/25 scale AMT 66 Nova SS327 and 1/25 scale 66 Nova SS Pro Street)..

@RoadRunnergarage8570 7 ай бұрын

I just built the MPC 71 Demon 340.. Awesome kit!!

@D64-g8l 7 ай бұрын

I've had both but I prefer the Duster and that is why I have had 3 Dusters and have kept one of the three which I will never part with .

@leeduke9518 10 ай бұрын

Now see this is a more realistic comparison than the duster to the Maverick and Vega

@bobdavis3357 8 ай бұрын

I prefer the 402 ci Chevy Nova SS. But the 340 Wedge Duster I would prefer overall, with a stick.

@funnycity6671 10 ай бұрын

That lady 😍!!

@AnthonyEvelyn 7 ай бұрын

That Duster with a 340 V8 was hard to beat. If it were four door sedans I'd take the Nova over a Valiant.

@erickriebel4366 9 ай бұрын

I had a 1971 duster in high school and I can tell you a 340 Duster what blow the doors off of SS Nova

@bighank796 10 ай бұрын

I prefer the nova,but the duster is cool too. Especially worh a 318 or 340. Even a 318 with a 3 speed would be ok

@8092DJ 4 ай бұрын

With*

@patrickmcgoldrick8234 2 ай бұрын

I am a Chevy person,but I would rather have a Duster with a 318,than a 307 Nova any day of the week,better gas mileage, smoother running,and odds are after 50,000 plus miles you wouldn't have a flat cam lobe or a noisy lifter.

@MacI-1970 10 ай бұрын

1970, when cars were cars, NOT computers on wheels.

@JohnnyAloha69 10 ай бұрын

I had a similar 71 Demon 340 back in the late 70’s. In all honesty the duster and the nova were both pretty crappy cars. They both were uncomfortable, noisy rough cars that were lousy on gas and rusted out in no time. The Duster was a bit nicer looking and the 340 was quick and the other engines pretty reliable. The nova was a bit more solid feeling but the duster felt a little less drab inside. Duster rusted faster and worse than nova but both were weak on that front. The Nova felt more substantial but it cost more. Just for fun I like to translate these biased comparison films. They tell you just as much by what they don’t say… Translation of points mentioned… 1…duster is an inch shorter 2…grille is plastic versus metal on the Nova 3…Nova has functional quarter windows, Duster windows can’t go down 4…Nova has larger trunk 5…Duster has rust inducing rubber mat in trunk 6…Duster has uncomfortably low rear seat cushion 7…duster has less legroom 8…nova six has more power than duster 9…duster 340 is smaller and less powerful than Nova 350 or 396

@georgewilkinson1068 10 ай бұрын

Compelling argument.

@jacobmoses3712 10 ай бұрын

So on the 340, you had to pay extra for the 4 speed and the tachometer

@dcross6360 10 ай бұрын

So MUCH polyester!

@louislepage5111 2 ай бұрын

Duster was better looking car , but the Nova was a better built car , comes down too personal preference 😊

@jacobsteele7138 10 ай бұрын

I think im going to get a Duster and a black woman.

@dirtlump 10 ай бұрын

NOVA didn't sell real well down south in Mexico or in States with high Spanish primary language consumers.... very simply because nobody wanted a Car named "NO-VA" which is short in Spanish for "NO-GO" or "NO-VAmoose"

@mikeskidmore6754 10 ай бұрын

Ruster they all rusted away .

@eugenepiurkowski5439 10 ай бұрын

and..... have you ever seen a Nova? We watched them rust, too. :)

@mikeskidmore6754 10 ай бұрын

@@eugenepiurkowski5439 I have seen lots of Novas because owners stored them in the Winter and Persevered them Dusters were just Winter Beaters to drive and take to the scrap yard.

@eugenepiurkowski5439 10 ай бұрын

In my part of New England, both Novas and Dusters have disappeared except 340 Dusters at car shows. In the early 70s Dusters were VERY popular, certainly outsold Novas by a wide margin. Larger Chevys; Impalas and Chevelles took most of the Chevrolet market at that time. @@mikeskidmore6754

@TheSimonhammond 10 ай бұрын

So by that logic the Duster was better in Winter. 😅

@scrambler69-xk3kv 10 ай бұрын

My dad bought Chevies from 1959 to 1968, and despite washing waxing and being garage kept every time we got a new car it was because out current Chevy was rusted. Hell, the back bumper mounts rusted on our 1965 Bel Air to the point it fell off. Heard that Chrysler rusted crap all the time but you what they all rusted back then. I am 70 now so I remember.

@alexandremahler2hotm 10 ай бұрын

Duster❤ x nova🤮

@vernonslone8627 10 ай бұрын

Wish you could have gotten the 440 in the Duster ..... You could get a 427 in the Nova as a factory option....

@tccanny8309 10 ай бұрын

Not from the factory. The 70 Nova only had the 396 from the factory. And I think only Anderson and Yenko did the 427.

@vernonslone8627 10 ай бұрын

@@tccanny8309 A COPO option...

@blacktopandmangos 4 ай бұрын

A 440 Duster was indeed in the works, but never made it to production! I believe one prototype was completed or almost completed and the engineers were using early max wedge "RB" pieces for a dominant drag package! The program was squashed by brass. The mighty Al Kirshenbaum did an article about this car about 20 years ago but I dont remember what magazine. But I do believe that someone, somewhere got ahold of the project and completed it! The magazine article had photos and the car was KICKASS!!

@vernonslone8627 4 ай бұрын

@@tccanny8309 You could get COPO 427 Novas,,, you just needed the right salesman to get it...

@8092DJ 4 ай бұрын

The Duster only needed a small block to beat the big block Nova.

@Comet-hn3gm 6 ай бұрын

I will take the CHEVY any day. My friend bought the Duster. It's still sitting in his driveway not running, but rusting. I'm still driving the Nova, only needs paint. The Duster did look good. But so DID the Chick with the dude that didn't get the 340.......