Help starting a new Swinger porject please!

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I'm just in the begining stages of searching for 1970 Dart Swinger to start a mild project. Not quite sure which route I want to take yet, ending up with a decent restore, or a Pro Street, but either way I would like something that's streetable so I could drive and work as I go. I'm even looking at drag cars that might be easy to convert to Pro Street.

This is a new experiance for me, so any suggestions are welcome, thanks!
Paul
 
Rules of thumb for actually getting to drive the car in your lifetime:

1.The more complete the car, the better. You don’t want to get overwhelmed.

2.If you don’t want or can’t do bodywork find the best body you can live with.
That is the most time consuming part of the “project.”

3. Don’t go for bling bling. Pick a year/model that spare parts are easiest to find.
(Example it is easer to find spare instrument clusters for later A bodies than earlier. I have a box full of them a spare gages for the 72-76 cars. The square ones.).

4. Remember, small block cars already have the v-8 K frame and you don’t need non-mopar engine mounts but there is no reason not to convert a slant car. They might be cheaper and they deserve saving.

5. Front disk are a big plus. (see 3 above)

All this particularly applies if you would like to drive the car to work, have fun everyday and not wait for car shows to take your baby out and fellowship with the “lawn chair crowd”.
(Think "Flying Green Brick)
 
I'm presently doing a 70 Swinger, which I thought would be a fairly short term project. As I started to work on it, the more I wanted to do to it. An estimated one year effort will probably turn into more. My point being, you want to be satisfied with the end result, (if it ever ends, lol). ADRIVER had some good points building your car. Good luck on finding a Swinger. Howard
 
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