Sorry for the long post - but this is a long story.
About 13 years ago, wanting something like my old '69 340 Swinger that I stupidly sold back in the late 1980s, I bought a '69 Dart 270 on eBay. It was an unfinished project that the previous owner had tired of. It was advertised as having fresh paint, a 380-horse 360 crate motor, refreshed 727 and 8.75 rearend. If I remember correctly I paid about $4500 for the entire car and arranged shipment from Oregon to SoCal.
When I received the car I found the paint was, in fact, a fresh Maaco orange-color paint job (the closest Maaco had to GoMango), the 360 had never been fired. The PO had put a Holley 770 Street Avenger carb on the M1 single plane intake, a set of unknown headers and a new Mopar electronic ignition. The 727 looked clean but I couldn't verify what was inside and the 8.75 is a B-body rearend with a 489 pig with Sure Grip and 3.23 gears. Inside the car was a complete 3" exhaust sitting in the backseat. On the front floor was a NIB B&M Megashifter and a complete set of new Autometer guages (for a planned Rocky Mountain Dash that he never purchased). I thought I did pretty good with the buy.
Not being a fan of orange and remembering my old R4 Charger Red 340 Swinger with a white butt stripe, I made plans to strip the car down to a rolling shell and have the paint blasted. With the paint removed I found the PO hadn't been exactly truthful about the car "never been in an accident" and ended up having the rear passenger side fender replaced with a new skin by "paint shop #3" (I said this is a long story).
I sold the M1 intake and have a new Eddy RPM Air-Gap dual plane and 750DP Quick Fuel with annular boosters to go on top.
I also sold the front bench seat - it's now in New Zealand.
Wanting the best of both worlds, a quick street fighter and reliable freeway flyer, I sold the 727 and had a 200-4R with reverse-pattern manual shift and a lockup 2800-rpm stall converter built. I also purchased 4.30:1 gears for the street and occasional strip part of this build. The .67 OD of the 200-4R will give me the equivalent of 2.88 final drive on the freeway.
OK, that's enough for the first chapter. More later.
About 13 years ago, wanting something like my old '69 340 Swinger that I stupidly sold back in the late 1980s, I bought a '69 Dart 270 on eBay. It was an unfinished project that the previous owner had tired of. It was advertised as having fresh paint, a 380-horse 360 crate motor, refreshed 727 and 8.75 rearend. If I remember correctly I paid about $4500 for the entire car and arranged shipment from Oregon to SoCal.
When I received the car I found the paint was, in fact, a fresh Maaco orange-color paint job (the closest Maaco had to GoMango), the 360 had never been fired. The PO had put a Holley 770 Street Avenger carb on the M1 single plane intake, a set of unknown headers and a new Mopar electronic ignition. The 727 looked clean but I couldn't verify what was inside and the 8.75 is a B-body rearend with a 489 pig with Sure Grip and 3.23 gears. Inside the car was a complete 3" exhaust sitting in the backseat. On the front floor was a NIB B&M Megashifter and a complete set of new Autometer guages (for a planned Rocky Mountain Dash that he never purchased). I thought I did pretty good with the buy.
Not being a fan of orange and remembering my old R4 Charger Red 340 Swinger with a white butt stripe, I made plans to strip the car down to a rolling shell and have the paint blasted. With the paint removed I found the PO hadn't been exactly truthful about the car "never been in an accident" and ended up having the rear passenger side fender replaced with a new skin by "paint shop #3" (I said this is a long story).
I sold the M1 intake and have a new Eddy RPM Air-Gap dual plane and 750DP Quick Fuel with annular boosters to go on top.
I also sold the front bench seat - it's now in New Zealand.
Wanting the best of both worlds, a quick street fighter and reliable freeway flyer, I sold the 727 and had a 200-4R with reverse-pattern manual shift and a lockup 2800-rpm stall converter built. I also purchased 4.30:1 gears for the street and occasional strip part of this build. The .67 OD of the 200-4R will give me the equivalent of 2.88 final drive on the freeway.
OK, that's enough for the first chapter. More later.
