Brazil's rare barn find !

dustermaniac said

Wow!! Those are some great historical Mopars you got there!!! Very Cool! I noticed the master cylinder on the Dart has a rather large looking cap on the cover of the cylinder. Different from the ones in the states. Those vehicles are museum quality for sure and the fact that you have all the history on them makes them even more rare. I am jealous! What a great thread. Please post more pics as you uncover these and get them running and cleaned up. Thanks for the great pics. Beautiful cars.

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Hi, Dustermaniac !!

Yes, our brazilian Dart brakes are rather different from the original US models, and I heard a story from one of the engineers responsible in that area in those days, he said that it was necessary to improve all brake system using the Simca Esplanada previous model, and that's why even our wheels has different offsets too !!
We use larger & bigger brake drums and master cylinders...In the 1969 thru 1971 all models used drums in all wheels, and after that it was possible to have the car with the P/B system and front discs as an option till 1973 and mandatory from that year on, all developed for our local market because of the speed that the Dart could reach the Chrysler engineering decided to make more improvements on that matter....
Just try to figure out that th A-bodies were the sole option for Chrysler in our country, so the responsability was very high at those times...These Darts were very far away from the local competition back in the Seventies !!
Sure I'll share & post more pics & info about these great barn finds here, my friend !!
Thanks for all the kind words and let's keep up the funtastic work !!