1967½ Dodge Dart GT Restoration
Just bought the car today in Canmore, Alberta. The drive was from 9 am to 7 pm so I'm pretty tired right now, because of that there won't be a whole lot of information here for now.
The Rundown
I turned 16 in January this year, after saving everything last year so i could buy myself a truck i had finally decided that it is time to get a Dart after wanting one since i was 10. I had been looking at the car for about a month, in that short period of time I managed to pull together a good amount of cash for the car on top of my original fund for a dart. I first looked at a 1968 Dart, the car was all there, right down to the factory door ding guards, but it had too much cancer to be worth it. I then found this car, the guy started at $4500 and then proceeded to drop down to $1500 which was a very reasonable price for an entirely rust free car. I had planned to go down to look at it the week before however my grandpa had just driven back from the US so I took the risk of the car selling by letting him rest. We finally go down and when we get there it is snowing pretty heavily which made viewing the car quite a challenge, combined with slush it wasn't the driest either.
I looked over the entire car, not a single spot of rust which is unheard of in Canada, but it is a original US car but for how long I do not know. From visual inspection it appears that the car may have been hit in the front at one point, pretty much a minor fender bender though and has since then gotten rust free front fenders and a hood. Walking to the drivers side the door was all smashed but otherwise the inside was great and the window crank worked fine but the door has got to go.
On to the back it appears that the bumper was mashed in but that's it, everything around it is in great condition and the only problem I have is from the lack of tail lights.
Finally the passengers side, it seems that because of the fender bender that the inner quarter was knocked out of place ever so slightly and because of that the fender sits too far back, preventing the door from opening. The passenger side read quarter is also rust free however upon closer inspection there is a big scrape along it and I am having a really hard time deciding if I should replace it or fix it. I will be using a hemi hold scoop on the car.
The interior is in awesome condition, so well that both the drivers and passengers seat have no rips in them but still need to be replaced. The dash is phenomenal in the car, I havent ever seen one so nice. The headliner and carpet had been ripped out from the owner before the current one, the floors are also rust free with only some minor surface rust. Wierd thing about the floor is that it looks as if it had been a console car at one point but the hole was patched or something and remained a column shift. The whole interior is there, all the little trim pieces and panels.
The engine compartment isn't anything special, the car is a sort of rare 1967 GT with a 225 slant 6, the engine was missing the cylinder head. I don't really care, the whole thing will be removed and sold for scrap metal unless someone would like anything in particular from it pretty much every single part from the engine is $10 and shipping is at your expense. I will be swapping in a stock forged internal 440 with a motor plate to begin with then I will run eagle H beam rods and edelbrock victor max wedge heads, everything elce hasn't been decided on yet. As for the transmission and rear end I will be using a Turbo 400 with a manual valve body and a Ford 9" in place of the wimpy 7 1/4.
In the picture is my cousin who will be helping out a bunch with the car.
I call the car the 1967 and a half because I will be cloning the outside to be a 1968 and the inside to be a 1967, might throw some 1969 parts in there somewhere.
That's all for now, have to hit the sack.
Just bought the car today in Canmore, Alberta. The drive was from 9 am to 7 pm so I'm pretty tired right now, because of that there won't be a whole lot of information here for now.
The Rundown
I turned 16 in January this year, after saving everything last year so i could buy myself a truck i had finally decided that it is time to get a Dart after wanting one since i was 10. I had been looking at the car for about a month, in that short period of time I managed to pull together a good amount of cash for the car on top of my original fund for a dart. I first looked at a 1968 Dart, the car was all there, right down to the factory door ding guards, but it had too much cancer to be worth it. I then found this car, the guy started at $4500 and then proceeded to drop down to $1500 which was a very reasonable price for an entirely rust free car. I had planned to go down to look at it the week before however my grandpa had just driven back from the US so I took the risk of the car selling by letting him rest. We finally go down and when we get there it is snowing pretty heavily which made viewing the car quite a challenge, combined with slush it wasn't the driest either.
I looked over the entire car, not a single spot of rust which is unheard of in Canada, but it is a original US car but for how long I do not know. From visual inspection it appears that the car may have been hit in the front at one point, pretty much a minor fender bender though and has since then gotten rust free front fenders and a hood. Walking to the drivers side the door was all smashed but otherwise the inside was great and the window crank worked fine but the door has got to go.
On to the back it appears that the bumper was mashed in but that's it, everything around it is in great condition and the only problem I have is from the lack of tail lights.
Finally the passengers side, it seems that because of the fender bender that the inner quarter was knocked out of place ever so slightly and because of that the fender sits too far back, preventing the door from opening. The passenger side read quarter is also rust free however upon closer inspection there is a big scrape along it and I am having a really hard time deciding if I should replace it or fix it. I will be using a hemi hold scoop on the car.
The interior is in awesome condition, so well that both the drivers and passengers seat have no rips in them but still need to be replaced. The dash is phenomenal in the car, I havent ever seen one so nice. The headliner and carpet had been ripped out from the owner before the current one, the floors are also rust free with only some minor surface rust. Wierd thing about the floor is that it looks as if it had been a console car at one point but the hole was patched or something and remained a column shift. The whole interior is there, all the little trim pieces and panels.
The engine compartment isn't anything special, the car is a sort of rare 1967 GT with a 225 slant 6, the engine was missing the cylinder head. I don't really care, the whole thing will be removed and sold for scrap metal unless someone would like anything in particular from it pretty much every single part from the engine is $10 and shipping is at your expense. I will be swapping in a stock forged internal 440 with a motor plate to begin with then I will run eagle H beam rods and edelbrock victor max wedge heads, everything elce hasn't been decided on yet. As for the transmission and rear end I will be using a Turbo 400 with a manual valve body and a Ford 9" in place of the wimpy 7 1/4.
In the picture is my cousin who will be helping out a bunch with the car.
I call the car the 1967 and a half because I will be cloning the outside to be a 1968 and the inside to be a 1967, might throw some 1969 parts in there somewhere.
That's all for now, have to hit the sack.