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Around this time I came to the conclusion that the freshly recored '68 340 A body rad Mark had wasn't going to work with the '91 timing cover, so I took a trip to see my friend Nigel Mills at National Moparts, dig around the yard and found an early timing cover, brought it home, cleaned it up...

I started cleaning up parts for it, installed the fresh cam and lifters, timed it and installed the new double roller, drilled, tapped and plugged the AIR holes I'm the heads, then put the heads on. Around that time the new bumpers and door handles showed up.

Upon inspection I found a damaged ring land on two pistons, so new pistons, I got the machine shop to remove the old slugs, put the ARP studs in and resize the rods, then I took em to work and used our bearing oven to heat the rods and assemble the new pistons, the brought em home and assembled...

The machinist called me and let me know the block cleaned up and was still standard, as was the crank, the original #308 heads received a 3 angle valve job and new stem seals in addition to a quick skim. Now was time to start collecting up parts.

While the car was at the bodyshop I began the drivetrain, Mark wanted a Roller LA 360, he ended up bringing me a '91 360 from a 1 ton D series truck, upon teardown it became evident that maintenance was seriously lacking and I ended up finding it was actually stuck, so I let it soak for a few...

Bodywork continued, we're going with "Swinger" wheels and dog dishes.

We painted the front half of the structure and then began fitting panels.

More new sheet metal and some colour, the car is going back to its original green, we seam sealed it with SEM DTM.

Next the car got a coat inside and out and underneath with PPG CRE-321 Epoxy and body work began...a new trunk filler panel was sourced from AMD via National Moparts in Beaverton ontario.

From there we decided the best plan of action was to grt the car media blasted to remove the old epoxy and any filler...not surprisingly we found more rust.. While it was out bodywork on the panels began

Finished my part of it and then took it to my friends Bodyshop.

More rad support and inner structure repairs

I also had to replace the door strikers and started repairing the inner fenders

Next I moved to a few more areas of rust, at one point around the early 80s a frame rail was replaced on the drivers side at that time the only one available from he dealer was for a 70s Dart, so I made a patch for each side and welded it in. Mark wanted his Dart to be a 4 speed, so I...

With the Dart here in my shop, I began picking away at some of the sheetmetal. Overall the car is very solid for a Canadian car, but it does suffer from the usual rot, a lot of little spots. So I began cutting, forming, fitting and welding to repair that rust.

I used to do the local swapmeets until my sources of parts dried up. Best I ever did was Moparfest in 2018. Best score was two truck loads of parts for $200, and amongst it was a '69 426 street hemi block and a '75 440 short block.....and no, I'm not BSing, it's still mind boggling and a...

Figured I'd share my friends '68 Dart 270 that I'm restoring for him. Pull up a seat, this'll be a long one. Mark and I have been close friends for well over a decade and a half, in that time he's seen me evolve in my skills in restoration and as a mechanic. About 2 years ago he asked me if...

Here's some pictures, I was moving cars around a few months back... I slowly acquired my "keepers" and have been collecting up everything they need before attacking each one. The '52 is a street rod project of sorts, I bought it after someone had a failed rat rod project with it, the cab and...

A friend suggested I join, my names Nick, I've been around Mopar's most of my life and have owned quite a few, mind you primarily C bodies and trucks, I'm a career journeyman Automotive and truck and coach mechanic here in Ontario, Canada. Self taught welder, bodyman and painter. My experience...