LATE model Dart love. 73-6

I do not believe I called you any names, only said that yours was an ignorant comment given the shipping weight difference being only 105 lbs difference between a 67 2 door hardtop, and a 76 2 door hardtop, hardly extremes. however i will go by the dry shipping weights comparing apples to apples. If you dont want to thats your choice.

The 70s beak cars also used more aluminum. Such as aluminum on slant 6 intake manifolds, aluminum bell housings, aluminum cased 4 speed trannys. The mid to late 60s stuff used a lot of cast iron for these parts. I am using a late 70s aluminum cased A833, and mid 70s aluminum bell housing in my 67 notchback. Both improvements courtesy of the beak years.

I came of age driving in 1987. Most muscle was gone in my area succumbing to rust, and being junked by then. I was a B body fan at the time owning successive dodge chargers starting with a 68 383 model.

Additionally, you must have been living in a mopar rich environment then or can i assume correctly that you became driving age when these cars were new or near new

In 1968 dodge made a total of 171,772 dodge darts, with only 8,295 being the GTS package.

In 1969 dodge made 197,685 dodge darts, with only 6,285 being the GTS package.

These performance models are very small percentages of the dart production for these 2 years mentioned in the very heyday you are talking about, especially given the production capacities for these cars were close to 200,000 units in 1969. Most were garden variety cars with slanty sixes, or 318s

Then if using a division number of 50 for all 50 states and not taking into account canadian export, over seas export, or more being sold in certain states and less in other states, that means that roughly 165 1968 darts with the GTS package were sold per state, and only 125 1969 darts with the GTS package were sold per state. Again i am stating that i realize more were probably sold in some states than others, plus export cars. So although that number isnt accurate, its probably close.

The other reality was that when you fully equipped a dart with the GTS package it made it about as expensive to buy as a new super bee or road runner, which most people ended up doing. As such 68 RR sales numbered about 80,000 units attesting to the cars popularity.