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The street behind my Massachusetts house in 1977, with brother Dave on the hood of my uncle's Plymouth Duster. What a great car; we all took turns driving it. Those were the days. 4x5 Ektachrome. View full size.
As someone who owns an identical Plymouth Scamp, I'll be recreating this picture when I pull the car out of storage this summer for sure.
I'll take Dave, thanks - you can have the Duster!
back then a sheet of ektachrome was about a dollar a sheet and development was 1 dollar also,,,pretty expensive for the time...i shot the film very sparingly..lucky i got so good with exposures from a luna pro light meter on incident mode,,mostly shot black and whit that i developed myself in my dads basement with the windows taped over with black cloth and i washed my film in the bathroom..not digital....
Sure reminds me of a young Patrick Duffy.
Back then I worked in a camera store and would have killed for a 4x5 camera, and a darkroom to process large format color film. Did you "roll your own"?
You have just given me a man to dream about tonight!
Oh, my. Is he busy these days?
About time we got some hot Shorpy pin-ups for us gals!!
Obviously a stand-in for Dick Shawn in the film "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"
I DID have a Duster (don't remember if it was the first year or not). Mine did not come with a hunk on the hood. Only a husband in the driver's seat occasionally. both husband and Duster are gone. Thanks for the memories - good ones!
I'm betting the photographer is just as cute.
The car is not a Duster. It's a 1970-72 Plymouth Valiant -- either a two-door coupe ("Scamp") or four-door sedan. The windshield is a dead giveaway; do an image search on Plymouth Duster and you'll immediately see the rounded corners of the Duster windshield vs. the square corners of the Valiant item.
I loved my 1969 Dart 340, but by 1979, the Dart was using Chrysler's notorious 'lean burn' system and had become undrivable.
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