Just about everybody remembers the Dodge Ramcharger. The huge two-door SUV arrived for the 1974 mannequin 12 months and would stay in manufacturing for US patrons by the early Nineteen Nineties. What you could not know is that Plymouth additionally had a model of the off-roader: The Trail Duster. That’s the main target of this new video from Dead Dodge Garage on YouTube.

When we are saying model, we imply the Trail Duster was principally a Ramcharger with a special badge. The our bodies had been the identical, a lot in order that even a eager eye could be hard-pressed to identify the variations. Badges determine this explicit 1978 mannequin as a Trail Duster Sport, which incorporates fake wooden trim as a result of hey, it was the ’70s. Of higher curiosity is the 400 cubic-inch (6.5-liter) V8 below the hood, topped with an aftermarket Edelbrock four-barrel carburetor.

The Trail Duster was not too long ago present in Washington, the place it had been sitting for 16 years. The video paperwork the trials and tribulations of bringing the forgotten Dodge again to life, which is rarely a simple job for one thing with decade-old gasoline within the tank. However, with some fuel-line patches and a rebuilt distributor, the previous Plymouth’s engine does certainly hearth up. It’s unclear if a full restoration is within the SUV’s future, however the present proprietor is no less than having some enjoyable with it for now.

Whereas the Ramcharger stayed in manufacturing by the early Nineteen Nineties, Plymouth dropped the Trail Duster on the finish of the first-generation run in 1981. It’s believed roughly 36,000 had been made, which does not precisely make it uncommon. But unfold out over a six-year manufacturing run, it is not almost as widespread as its Dodge stablemate.