Why the /6

heck my reply is I have it, so why not use it. it was the second or 3rd /6 that I got. my first one was a 66 dart convertible too!
Plus I have a go fast car if I want to "go fast" 70 challenger 44 6 pack. But it likes too many gas stations and is missing a particular piece of equipment for what I want to do now. I want to drive it a lot with the top down and air blowing over me. the challengers got a top that I can't remove. the dart /6 does, plus I can fix it up without the purist going through the roof every time I do something new on it like cup holders power converters built in the console. so I get dependability for long drives, a nice older classic,A CONVERTIBLE (big part for me) and maybe if I do it right better gas mileage than the 440

my first one was from Miami fL. ALSO weird since my newport had just been t boned visiting my mom in lakeland florida. I was much younger. a LOT dumber and lucky as heck in 1973 I bought a 66 dodge dart(cheap) from a guy visiting my mom for some design work she had to do for him. So I rode to his house with him lugging my tool kit I always carried to get the car running again. I don't remember when this thing was run last by the previous owner. but it got 17+ MPH and 2 quarts of oil for that 5 hour trip to my moms home. coming up gator alley from Miami. of course that was sitting on a padded milk crate(not my best idea it turns out. bought a lawn chair at a yard sale on the way home since I could hardly stand up after an hour or so of sitting on the milk crate.) the seat skins came with the car but were not attached to any seats and no top on it plus 8 or so large garbage bags worth of leaves pulled from it from sitting under a tree for 5 years(man that was fun believe it or not) I streamed leaves the whole way home and STILL pulled out 4 big contractor bags of leaves. I put the top on and used some seats from the junk yard,sealed up the oil leaks (valve cover gasket and drool tubes) changed the oil,replaced the belts and hoses, replaced the gas tank and rubber lines to get me home to Michigan. I drove that car for 4 years till I sold it and never did anything else to it except oil changes,brake shoes, shocks and tires.


The weirdest part is that THIS /6 convertible dart that I am now restoring was in the SAME general area! the same similar shape AND came with the replacement seat skins and top. Leaf's were free of charge too! but it did have seats bolted to the umm what you would once have called floorboards. I ended up driving it the last 15-20 miles home too since the trailer had a bearing seize up but not on a milk crate thank goodness , that would have killed my back now a days!:D