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My name is Nick, I am 18 years old and I own a 68 Dart. Her name is Louise.
About 6 years ago I was 12 at the time) one of my dad's friends told us about a 69 Dart sitting in this guys driveway, so we hop in my dads GTS and drive over. Before we even got to the driveway, we look at eachother and say thats a 68!
Before even knocking on the guys door, I was all over the car. I wasn't going to leave without that dang Dart. I let me dad know how bad I had wanted it.
Knock on the guys door, he wasn't too anxious to sell it. He had owned it for about 12 years. He then looked out and saw my dads GTS and wanted to look the whole thing over. My dad kindly explained to him how much time and money he had into his GTS.
So David (the previous owner) says "Well, I'll sell it, but I need atleast $200" SOLD!
She started out as a 318/904 GT bucket seats, console car. Original UU1 light blue w/ blue interior.
Over the course of the next couple years, my dad and I went all over collecting parts. Alot of great local guys helped me out too.
One guy gave me a FREE blue console, as well as sold me original 68 BLUE GTS door panels for $80! Now tell me where you will find SUPER NICE blue GTS door panels for that price...
I was driving her out in Vegas when I was 15. Had a 340 in and was still being completed. I raced a couple races that year (2007) Just a bone stock 340 and ran mid 14's.
Winter of 2007 came and the 340 got a cam upgrade. Mild 340 w/ J-heads and a holley 650 DP, headers, full exhaust. I raced all of 2008 with the 340 and made a fast past of 13.76.
Winter of 2008 came, and the 340 was sold. In comes the 440 out of my dads GTS. All of 2009 it went between 12.20s and 12.50s.
Mild 440, Lunati cam, schumacher headers 2 1/2" exhaust, Chrome tips, Holley 650 DP, Holley dominator intake, 8 3/4" w/ 3:55's.
Winter of 2009 came and went. Early 2010, new headers are int he picture. The story behind them is they are Herb McCandliss' personal headers he had on one of his personal cars. I don't know if this true or not. But I'd like to find out from Herb maybe one day!
They are 2" tubes, 3" collectors, flow into 3" tubes back to super 44's, which go into 2 1/2" to my chrome tips. New converter, and she runs high 11s all day long through the exhaust.
Oh yea, maybe some of you guys remember at Mopars at the strip in 2008, I was the kid who scattered a 727 in the burnout box in 1st round elim on Sunday. Good times!
Probably bored you all half to death, so heres some pictures...
3rd picture is when I won the 2008 HS drags on May 1st, yes, only 2 months after blowing up my transmission.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiZzbV5pr7A"]YouTube- 68 Dart 11 sec pass[/ame]
Hope I didn't take up too much space! And I hope I didn't bore the heck out of you guys with my long story!
Well, I may as well give it a shot..
My name is Nick, I am 18 years old and I own a 68 Dart. Her name is Louise.
About 6 years ago I was 12 at the time) one of my dad's friends told us about a 69 Dart sitting in this guys driveway, so we hop in my dads GTS and drive over. Before we even got to the driveway, we look at eachother and say thats a 68!
Before even knocking on the guys door, I was all over the car. I wasn't going to leave without that dang Dart. I let me dad know how bad I had wanted it.
Knock on the guys door, he wasn't too anxious to sell it. He had owned it for about 12 years. He then looked out and saw my dads GTS and wanted to look the whole thing over. My dad kindly explained to him how much time and money he had into his GTS.
So David (the previous owner) says "Well, I'll sell it, but I need atleast $200" SOLD!
She started out as a 318/904 GT bucket seats, console car. Original UU1 light blue w/ blue interior.
Over the course of the next couple years, my dad and I went all over collecting parts. Alot of great local guys helped me out too.
One guy gave me a FREE blue console, as well as sold me original 68 BLUE GTS door panels for $80! Now tell me where you will find SUPER NICE blue GTS door panels for that price...
I was driving her out in Vegas when I was 15. Had a 340 in and was still being completed. I raced a couple races that year (2007) Just a bone stock 340 and ran mid 14's.
Winter of 2007 came and the 340 got a cam upgrade. Mild 340 w/ J-heads and a holley 650 DP, headers, full exhaust. I raced all of 2008 with the 340 and made a fast past of 13.76.
Winter of 2008 came, and the 340 was sold. In comes the 440 out of my dads GTS. All of 2009 it went between 12.20s and 12.50s.
Mild 440, Lunati cam, schumacher headers 2 1/2" exhaust, Chrome tips, Holley 650 DP, Holley dominator intake, 8 3/4" w/ 3:55's.
Winter of 2009 came and went. Early 2010, new headers are int he picture. The story behind them is they are Herb McCandliss' personal headers he had on one of his personal cars. I don't know if this true or not. But I'd like to find out from Herb maybe one day!
They are 2" tubes, 3" collectors, flow into 3" tubes back to super 44's, which go into 2 1/2" to my chrome tips. New converter, and she runs high 11s all day long through the exhaust.
Oh yea, maybe some of you guys remember at Mopars at the strip in 2008, I was the kid who scattered a 727 in the burnout box in 1st round elim on Sunday. Good times!
Probably bored you all half to death, so heres some pictures...
3rd picture is when I won the 2008 HS drags on May 1st, yes, only 2 months after blowing up my transmission.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiZzbV5pr7A"]YouTube- 68 Dart 11 sec pass[/ame]
Hope I didn't take up too much space! And I hope I didn't bore the heck out of you guys with my long story!
