Hyper_pak
Old School Chrysler Fan
I figured there could not be two of those!
Reed is a good Dude.
Are dart sports mostly gone
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Reed is a good Dude.
i i have a late 1975 dart lite that i would like find a good body (everything is there, but the body is rough) in arizona, i already have the feather duster(may 11,2024 mecum auction) a friend in the club has a nice dart sport(hang 10, with the surf board)
Hyper_pak
Old School Chrysler Fan
Hey LeRoy, there was a solid body just a few miles from you for sale last month!
I am always looking thru the FB Marketplace for sale ads. Habit I can not break! I even had 3 cars listed and a million likes, but.......
What is interesting is how in last couple days I see 3 Dart Sports advertised!!!! I always see Dusters, an occasional Demon and hardly ever Dart Sports!!!! Of course, too many $ for a parts car, and way too rough to be worthy for a builder of their price! and always 500 mi away. That huge pine that destroyed my 1 T. does not help!
I do see poor projects getting cheaper,,, and few are selling.
Maybe the talking heads that say our economy is NOT so good are correct!
Us "little guys" are hurting from inflation and high cc debt interest!!
What is interesting is how in last couple days I see 3 Dart Sports advertised!!!! I always see Dusters, an occasional Demon and hardly ever Dart Sports!!!! Of course, too many $ for a parts car, and way too rough to be worthy for a builder of their price! and always 500 mi away. That huge pine that destroyed my 1 T. does not help!
I do see poor projects getting cheaper,,, and few are selling.
Maybe the talking heads that say our economy is NOT so good are correct!
Us "little guys" are hurting from inflation and high cc debt interest!!
give me the address and i will look at it, as if i need another car..thanks
like_A_pike
that's not factory
I think his channel deserves a bump anyway! Not sure if he is a member here but lots of footage of his sport in original decor I think. You’ll recognize another A bodies member on his Mopar club racing team in last year’s videos too.
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Hyper_pak
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Mine!
Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
And the cost of doing a restoration has gone way up in the last few years.
That doesn't help matters when selling a project car...
My opinion is that projects are still overpriced, they have come down some here. Only projects that sell are the seldom seen decent ones that are not stupid priced and decent cars. Stupid as in rusty 69 satelittes or very rusty 68 chargers or pretty rusty slant dusters. 99% are over priced. Cars taken apart and rollers o pones that won't run, or non \titled cars are hard sell.
where was the car that was near me last month south phoenix?
middleagecrisis
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I live in Seguin and go by John’s several times a year. His a-body stuff is pretty well picked over, but I still like to walk the yard and take a trip down memory lane.
Hyper_pak
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7033 S. 47th Street, Phoenix.
Hyper_pak
Old School Chrysler Fan
Man, I was beat. Thank God it was not AZ hot that day. And you get an idea how buried that "Jewel" was.YOU are fired!! Sittin down on the job AGAIN!!!!!
Buried to the rocker sills.
I just have a hand winch on my old 35 yr. old trailer, but I have my wife crank it!!!!!!
A good Mopar bud tried to give me a used electric winch, way back about 2000, but I was not old and still full of piss and vinegar, and declined. Hand winches were good exercise!!!
A good Mopar bud tried to give me a used electric winch, way back about 2000, but I was not old and still full of piss and vinegar, and declined. Hand winches were good exercise!!!
DionR
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Don't overlook 4 doors for buckets. Some of them had a set of buckets that didn't fold and a buddy seat and looked like a high back bench seat.
I have (I think?) buckets out of a '75 Valiant Brougham in my '74, which confuses me now because the '75 should have had a shorter slide on one side due to the catalytic converter and I don't remember having to swap one. Either way, the only other trick is you need a latch to make it fold forward.
Seat latches for buckets out of a 4 door
And remove the little bracket that prevents it from tipping forward. I had a set from a 74 Dart Special Edition 4 door in my 1970 Dart.
Here you go, this is the ‘74 Dart Sport that’s not too far from me listed for sale. Allegedly a “hang ten” edition with a 318. Insane asking price. If anyone wants the actual link you can PM me, but I wouldn’t bother with this one.
But they are out there!
But they are out there!
1 of 50? Prove it! Here we have trailer park dwellers thinking they struck gold ?
There is no 318 A body project in that condition that is worth that kind of money. The "Hang Ten" was purely a tape stripe and weird colored interior package.
When finished, that car may be worth the asking price.
There is no 318 A body project in that condition that is worth that kind of money. The "Hang Ten" was purely a tape stripe and weird colored interior package.
When finished, that car may be worth the asking price.
Dartnut
Don't hate me because i'm beautiful
Don't forget the fold down rear seat and console automatic to add to it...
Yep, nailed it. I dunno what the production numbers were on that but 1 of 50 it isn't. Even if it was it's not desirable year or package really. The only picture provided from 30' away, in which you can clearly see rust in the bottom of the quarter and rocker really sells it too!
I think if it was well restored it would be worth quite bit more than that, but you'd still have more into the restoration than you'd get for the car by a long ways.
Okay, to some people, the car may be worth more than $12,000 when finished. I pushed back against what I thought was an inflated advertised asking price.
I've owned a lot of A body cars. The overwhelming majority were low value parts cars. The Hang Ten was a gimmick to sell more cars based entirely on appearance. I can appreciate that there is some value to that but it isn't like a 340 or 360 model or a convertible where performance or a dramatic style difference separated it from the traditional, more sedate models.
The Dart Lite/Feather Duster was another model that some attach a sense of increased value to. The Spirit of 76 was yet another.
I know a guy that is into the 1972-78 D and W series trucks. He attaches some level of importance to the same thing....the tape stripe and gimmick models that Dodge built. The True Spirit, the Warlock, even one or two others. Personally, I see them as stuff even a dealer could have done to standard vehicles. My Dad sold new cars from 1969 to 1995. I remember in 1978 he worked at a Chevy dealership and there was a shortage of Camaro Z28s and the demand for them was high. The dealership had an outside vendor come in and apply tape stripes and wheels on standard 305 and 350 Camaros, calling them Z27s!
I have a 1976 Dart Lite out back. Aside from the aluminum parts they had for reduced weight, there is nothing special about this car. People will talk about how great it is but nobody is willing to pay a premium for it over a regular Dart Sport.
I've owned a lot of A body cars. The overwhelming majority were low value parts cars. The Hang Ten was a gimmick to sell more cars based entirely on appearance. I can appreciate that there is some value to that but it isn't like a 340 or 360 model or a convertible where performance or a dramatic style difference separated it from the traditional, more sedate models.
The Dart Lite/Feather Duster was another model that some attach a sense of increased value to. The Spirit of 76 was yet another.
I know a guy that is into the 1972-78 D and W series trucks. He attaches some level of importance to the same thing....the tape stripe and gimmick models that Dodge built. The True Spirit, the Warlock, even one or two others. Personally, I see them as stuff even a dealer could have done to standard vehicles. My Dad sold new cars from 1969 to 1995. I remember in 1978 he worked at a Chevy dealership and there was a shortage of Camaro Z28s and the demand for them was high. The dealership had an outside vendor come in and apply tape stripes and wheels on standard 305 and 350 Camaros, calling them Z27s!
I have a 1976 Dart Lite out back. Aside from the aluminum parts they had for reduced weight, there is nothing special about this car. People will talk about how great it is but nobody is willing to pay a premium for it over a regular Dart Sport.
SOLD !
When do you want to come and get it? It will need a bit of work to be roadworthy.....
When do you want to come and get it? It will need a bit of work to be roadworthy.....
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