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Nice looking truck.

I can't argue with you too much on that one. I've got into this kick of building movie and tv show cars that I like. I'm doing the '68 fast back GT for Bullitt along with the '68 Charger for the hit men. So I covered both your worlds there .... lol.

I have a Kodak that works really well, but I want to upgrade to the Cannon Rebel EOS DSLR. They run around $550 or so.

It's possible that they are late year builds and just used the new hood cause the old ones were discontinued and they ran out. Happens all the time, but it does not make it a correct piece for the truck. For instance in my real car garage I have a Charger that has a blower motor and heater assembly for the rear defrost. That car should have had electric rear defrost, it's even in the broch, but I am sure they had left over parts and use them up. For another instance, there are FOUR known 4 dr. 426 Hemi cars in '64. They were never available, but they do exist. Mopar screwed up all the time,so I wont say it's not possible to get some factory screw ups, it's just not correct for the model year and if you check the numbers, they will confirm that.

They screwed those ads up all the time. I've got several that are screwed up that I was using to write a book with. I've owend several trucks over the years. I've got a '68 D330 and a '70 D300 car hauler that we use to tow our race cars with. Still have an '85 4x4 as well. I bet I never get rid of that one. Only owned one step side though. Never owned a quad light '79 cause I just don't like the look. A friend of mine has both a quad light '79 and the single light '80 and '81. He put a 440 in the '81 step side. Will just light the tires at will even in high gear. He did it one night on a bridge in town just to prove it would do it. Bad truck for sure. Don't like these new ones as much as the old ones though. They just aint as tough.

I like the black and gold Mitsubishi 50 in there. Neat little truck with a 5 spd and 2.6 4 banger. The Mikuni carbs on those things sucked though. Almost $800 dealer price for one of those and you could never get a rebuilt carb to work on those things. Years later they finally put a Holley/Webber design on them.

Yep, I'm afraid so. Some of those pics in that ad are last years models. No '80's truck every had quad lights. And in some of the smaller pics are some real old king cab wrecker shots and plow truck shots. They really messed that ad up. I guess they thought no one would notice.

I'd loose the cats on the exhaust too. I don't think they had them just yet. I think they came out in '78.

Notice that the 1980 truck is the first year for the plastic grill too.

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That's incorrect. I worked for Mopar for 6 years. The quad lights was a one year only model and there was no upper or lower level to it. If you bought a '79, you got quad lights no matter what trim level you bought with the truck. No if you like you could put a quad light set up in any year truck from '72 to '93 cause all this stuff will swap, but it wont make it right for the yeat vehicle you have.

Yep, as long as you put in the dual headlights instead of the quads. The step side beds are all the same from '72 to when ever the last year they used them. Only step side I ever owned was a '78 Trail Duster 4x4.

Welcome,anytime. They went with the flat hoods on 80 and up, but that would be a dual headlight only, not a quad. So, who ever told you 79 was only off by one year. '80 was kinda a make over year for the body. So if you use the quad lights, you are pretty much stuck with a scalloped hood to make it look correct. The body is pretty much unchanged from '72 to '79 and all panels will change up till '93 if you put the right pieces together to make it look right. 1994 was the first year for the swoopy fenders. Some say it was taken from the Studebaker trucks and I have actually seen a pic of both trucks side by side, so they may be right after all. I do know the '94 up trucks are more areo though.

The flat hood is wrong for a '79, it should use the scalloped hood. '79 was the only model year for a Dodge truck with 4 headlights. All other years have two headlights. I'm working on a LRE truck right now. Where can I find some of these kits and decals? Would love to build a Warlock to go with my LRE. I have a prebuilt 4x4 step side coming in the mail right now that I want to strip down and rebuild when it gets here.

Nice old school circle track car you got there.

And I think we have a winner folks ... lol

I'm sure you have more connections than I have. You know, those 5 stars kinda look like some old 308 Ferrari type wheels. Maybe a kit bashing??

Once you go Mopar, you'll never go back. Everything else is all slow and boring after you been with a Mopar. And yes, there's a help group. http://www.moparperformancechat.forumotion.net lol

Hope you find some wheels for it. Those things should go in the garbage can. Looks like something from a low rider jumpin car. lol

You have to use super glue type glue on resin. Glues with cyanoacrylate in it. Don't breath the dust when you sand it. Use a good priner before painting too. I'm sure others with more exp. with it than me will add more to this.

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White wire goes to outlet. Black wire goes to one side of dimmer. Take black wire from dimmer to other side of outlet. Greens ground so they just have to match up somewhere.

I'd pass on the compressed air cans. You can get a small Campbell Hausefeld air compressor with a 2.5 gallon tank from Lowes for less than $100 and it includes hoses, regs, acc. and a dang nail gun. Then just plug in a cheap water trap by the same brand as the compressor and hook up a cheap air brush. I have a big compressor in my shop, but I am tired of having to climb over stuff to turn the regulator down, so I am going Friday to pick up one of these and I'm going to build me a new paint booth too with a paper and charcoal air filter set up.

I'd just get the paint code of your car and take it to a local paint mixer for car paints and have them mix you up a quart and then spray it. Quart will be wayyy to much, but I don't think my local guys will mix less than a quart. If you do that, it will have to match then.

Yeah, that's just my luck. I always have to go the extra distance ... lol.