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Brad Richmond's 1979 Adventurer Dodge Truck in Canada
Brad located this 1979 Dodge Adventurer in Sherwood Park, Alberta Canada and purchased it in the spring of 2009. It was in fairly decent restoring condition, requiring a new passenger door, windshield, interior upgrades and fresh paint. The truck came with a Factory Dodge Canopy Topper; a very rare find. It has a 360 cubic inch engine with a Thermoquad 4 bbl, 727 automatic, with 3.91 gears in the differential. This truck also has Factory dual gas tanks.
Brad swapped out the original white spoked rims for a set of Chrysler chrome wrapped in the Long Trail BF Goodrich 15 inch 10.50/31. After hanging the rust free replacement door, he had the entire truck sanded and painted back to original design and code. The only rust on the truck was under the sliding rear window and that was replaced with new metal. Brad had the topper painted to match the body and tinted the topper windows. This truck came with Factory undercoating which probably speaks to the remarkable condition of the body. It is his understanding from the previous owner that this truck was always stored away for the winter. After completion of paint, Brad had a local company redo the pinstriping to factory specs.
Brad replaced the bench seat with high back buckets and console from a '79 Ramcharger. The seats and door panels were re-fabricated at a local upholstery shop. The sound system is a Sony indash with a 10 CD stacker in the console. Speakers include (2) 3 inch in the original dash location and (2) 6x9 in speaker boxes behind the console. Very nice sound. The truck had 128,450 km's (80,280 miles) and now prior to storage for this year has 135, 000 km's (84,375 miles).
The old exhaust was replaced with a 3 inch Magnaflow system. Future upgrades will be some graphic images of 2 Bighorn Rams (smashing their heads together) on the back Canopy window. Dodge had that logo for the "Ram Tough" truck logo's. Brad has not been able to locate an original "Ram Tough" logo so he might have a graphic artist fabricating the design for him. Prior to next summer, Brad plans to have all of the gaskets and seals replaced. He may also (not yet determined) replace the 727 with a 904 overdrive. All work will be completed prior to next seasons car shows.
Brad lives in Innisfail, Alberta Canada and takes his truck to the local shows and plan on doing more trips in the future.
Good Luck in the shows Brad! Let us know how you do.
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AFTER PICTURES
The interior door panels have the pull strap. Historically the end plastic pieces crack and eventually break. As they are more than 30 years old now. Brad had these pieces made of steel and then had them chromed.
To learn more about Brad's 1979 Dodge Adventurer you can email him at:
sbr4habs@shaw.ca
Are you proud of your Dodge truck or car? Want to show it off? Please email me a pic along with a description of your vehicle and I will add it to the Gallery.
Joe Leonard 2009-10-18