67DodgeDart360
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1969 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 Sold at Mecum today for $40,000. What’s your thoughts on the price? Check out the video below.
1969 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 Sold at Mecum today for $40,000
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416stroker
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A friend of mine has that same color combo with the Vinyl top in a 1969 GTS 383 4sp car. Beautiful car.
There is a member here that works for Mecum i believe and may give an accurate description?
67DodgeDart360
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I thought it would have at lease sold for 50k. Looks like a beautiful car.
That's a lot of money but I sold a nice 68 dart 6 cyl car to a friend. He installed 318, new interior, paint, etc. Does all the paint and body along with his Dad. Told me that he ended up well over 30k. I just don't know if one could do a quality job on a bona fide swinger 340 for 40k.
No reserve right off the hop and no details(that I heard), so $40k is about right from what i saw. Resale red too...
gzig5
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Seriously? For a single color paint job and maybe a tail stripe on a small car? That's crazy, IMO.
True. These days it would be hard to buy a car and restore it nicely for $40k even doing most of the work yourself. However, that is not how cars are valued in the market place.
HemiSSDart
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I was there and inspected it thoroughly. It was a perfumed pig. Inner fenders and trunk spare tire well looked like they were welded by frankenstein, no effort to grind the welds down. Wrong engine color, grille painted wrong, GT/GTS dash bezels, no fender tag but there were huge holes drilled in the inner fender for one. Aftermarket radiator, Borgeson power steering box with the pump mounted at the bottom of the engine looked funky. Somebody did a nice paint job over questionable bodywork, I'm sure they spent a lot of money on but overpriced in my opinion...
Is the car supposed to be a restoration? If it is, it has the wrong type paint. They were never that shiny. Purdy car, though.
abodyjoe
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where at the bottom of the engine? on 70 thats where they go.. driver side and low. maybe they used a 70-up timing cover and pulley set up or soemthing?
HemiSSDart
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At today's prices, no one in their right mind restores a dart for resale with profit in mind, only for the love of owning the car. This one is way overpriced even if it would have been picture perfect.
He got a good price for it. You could consider that a steal if you were looking at a B body or an E. That discrepancy seems ridiculous to me so a decent E body is going for 80 grand + and a nice 340 h code Dart 40 g seems about right.
I just reread your post and you make a lot of good points no doubt. No fender tag that is a big hit for me.
abodyjoe
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like i said, on a 70-up it goes there... looks like he used the 69-down timing cover and water pump and some kind of adapter set up to run a saginaw pump. propbly because of the borgenson box...
mopowers
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Since someone actually bought it at that price, I'd say that it wasn't overpriced.
Sold for less than Hagarty told me to insure mine for..... 
hemifiedbird
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Even not done correctly, You sure wouldn't build it for 40. Not In Canada
HemiSSDart
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Even with a Borgeson box it is still in the wrong location for a 69. The mounts aren't even close to correct, looked homemade to me...
abodyjoe
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no **** thats not where a 69 goes which is why said, its probably a kit to run a saginaw pump that the box needs... its not a 69 box either..
Does the Burgeon box hurt the car's value?
abodyjoe
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depends on the crowd you are trying to sell it to.. a stock type of crowd, yes hurts value. a person that couldn't care less about numbers matching and looking stock, it may help value.
mopowers
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Looks like it's got aftermarket adjustable strut rods too. How dare he. Oh no, the sky is falling...
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