65Val
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Looks great! Any story(s) that go along with it? What are your plans for it? We need more pics!!! (We love pics here at FABO).
1967 Dart GT Convertible How Rare is it?
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Looks great! Any story(s) that go along with it? What are your plans for it? We need more pics!!! (We love pics here at FABO).
Exjouster
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My Dart GT used to be on display on the rack inside Quaker Steak and Lube in Clearwater FL. It was up on a service rack, and you could sit at the table underneath it and eat dinner, as we did often. It was up there for about 5 years. Turns out it was owned by a guy named Larry who runs the Thursday night cruise-in car shows there. He and I became friends, and I learned that he had restored the car for a close friend who enjoyed it for a few years before losing her battle with cancer. She left the car to him when she passed. He didn’t really want to drive it, so he had QSL put it up on display.
About 8 months ago, I went in one night and the car was gone! I found Larry and asked him what had happened to the car. He said that he decided to bring the car back home, and was probably going to put it up for sale. I knew I didn’t have anything remotely close to what the car was worth, but asked how much. He told me he would sell it for $16k. He was well aware that he could get 22-24 fairly easily, but he’s a good-hearted pastor who wasn’t out to fleece anyone. Well, I told him not to wait on me, but that I would see if I could pull something together, although We both knew I couldn’t afford squat.
I did, however, have a car that my wife and I had inherited from her dad. It was a beige 1965 Chevy Biscayne 2-door survivor car that had been a minor feature car in the movie “A Bronx Tale”. It had been my father-in-laws baby for 30+years. We didn’t drive it often. It was big, handled like the Queen Mary, and it carried a lot of memories of my father-in-law. My wife refused to drive it for fear of something happening to it and her then feeling responsible for damaging her dad’s prize possession. My mother-in-law wasn’t comfortable riding in it. The car had no AC, and we live in Florida. Add to this that I’m just not a Chevy guy. Well, we took the Chevy to a few cruise nights, and one night Larry half joked about taking the Chevy on a trade towards the Dart.
We all knew there was a disparity in book values. The Biscayne was worth 10-12k, the Dart 22-24k. Larry knew I loved that Dart though, and kept saying that it could be my wife’s convertible, to match my 67 Barracuda convertible. We joked back and forth for a few months, and the joking turned semi-serious. My wife wasn’t quite ready to let go of her dad’s legacy car yet. It was funny that despite him being a Chevy guy, my father-in-law had always joked with me about trading me his Chevy for my snazzy red convertible Barracuda.
Well, turns out I need to do some major dental overhauling this year. Extractions, bone grafts, implants....lots of pain and expensive to boot. Now I’m as twitchy about dentists as I am about clowns. My wife, saint that she is, made me a deal. Suck it up, promise to get the dental stuff done, and she’d give her blessing on trading the Biscayne towards the Dart. My mother-in-law, who now lives with us agreed. I called Larry, made the best offer I could afford. The Biscayne plus 4K. Larry said yes.
Larry had passed up several much better offers during this time. He had held onto the Dart, waiting for me to come up with something, because he knew I loved the car, and that it would go to a good home and be enjoyed.
I have replaced the radiator, hoses, and water pump, replaced the springs with new 2.5” lift springs, changed the rear differential to a 3.55, and new shocks all around this week. Still have to get the AC serviced and running.
Just waiting on my custom plate: 273V8
Cut it up put an LS in it and make it a convert ChevroDart funny car. Yeah. Do that.
GTS Registry
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14,566 with the 273-2bbl. /904 combo
LocuMob
Fluid Technician
Very nice car and story as well! Gotta ask, where did you get those flags?
Exjouster
Well-Known Member
Had them custom made! I now sell flags on eBay and Facebook. If interested, please send me a private message!
65Val
Average Length Member
That number is hardtops and convertibles, auto trans total.
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LocuMob
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Empty your inbox, and I'll send you a message!
Check the registry
There is no way to know "how many are left" unless someone kept tabs on all 3700 of them.
For extremely limited production, like 500 you can almost do it, but with thousands and thousands, no way.
I think it;s kind of funny to hear people speculate about how many of a certain model "are left"
Unless it's a Daytona or a BO Hemi Barracuda, etc there's simply no way to know.
For extremely limited production, like 500 you can almost do it, but with thousands and thousands, no way.
I think it;s kind of funny to hear people speculate about how many of a certain model "are left"
Unless it's a Daytona or a BO Hemi Barracuda, etc there's simply no way to know.
That is a handsome car. Im sure you’ll enjoy it
65Val
Average Length Member
229 383 4 speed '67 Dart GTS's were made, according to Galen, but there's no breakout for just converts.
67DartVert
New Member
I have always been curious about current numbers of 67 verts left. A few years ago I got my hands on 67 /6 vert that had been torn down in pieces and stored in a garage for about 27 years. I have done quite a bit in new and replacement parts but still needs more since I have decided to customize things like dash and center console.
65Val
Average Length Member
Not sure who would know as there is no registry that I know of.
67DartVert
New Member
Yeah I had figured that out
it is just always been something that I think about as this is my only project that had so few original production numbers as well as being a pain since some 67 parts a unique from the others in its generation. which makes it a huge pain to restore some areas.
LocuMob
Fluid Technician
I know if two or three that's I've seen around me over the years. There's a red one the next town over, and there used to be a blue one that showed up at Mopars in the Park in years past. They sure aren't plentiful.
Absolutely no way to know how many "are left" unless someone has tracked all 3400-ish cars.
Even a registry doesn't really help because that only shows the cars that the owner A- was aware of the registry and B- elected to have included.
Even a registry doesn't really help because that only shows the cars that the owner A- was aware of the registry and B- elected to have included.
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