Show your slant 6 a body!

[memike]

Wow!! Very nizzze indeed 47Dodge100, I wish my car would look that
nice with a tint job, I drive mine allot but I seen one just like my 66 Valiant with tint and it took away from the look, but yours looks very neat.

The first 66 is not mine, the second one is my 66 Sedan I call Victoria, I don't like the tint look at all on mine .. wish it looked as good as yours does with a tint :cheers:

I wonder what mine would look like with a lighter tint... hum

 

[57dodged100]

Victoria looks good the way she is. I look forward to getting a closer look at her this weekend on Indy.

 

[memike]

Victoria looks good the way she is. I look forward to getting a closer look at her this weekend on Indy.

Sorry but 8 hours with out a/c Victoria will be staying home ops: I will be taking the easy
and cool ride to Indy.. I am bringing my banner 2darts and many surprised me with so you can sign it for me

 

[Zuluman]

I wanted a conservative result, where the biggest hint that the car is different comes from the wheels/tyres, which anyone can change.

The car is conservative in nature and I wanted to keep that image whilst modifying the mechanicals ; 4 wheel Willwood disc brakes, rack & pinion steering, coil-over suspension on all 4 corners and, of course, a tuned engine. The interior mods are more obvious ; individual front seats, floor shifter and parking brake, leather, alcantara roof lining, and instruments with inverted colours (black on white rather than white on black).

I'm looking forward to participating in the show season in Europe this summer.

 

[grassy]

Zuluman,

How did you move your parking brake to the floor ?

Pics of your car would be nice.

ian.

 

[Zuluman]

grassy, you have very sharp eyes ! Lokar produces a kit for a floor-mounted parking brake. It's available through Summit Racing. The boot is made of the same leather on the dash cover (replacing the original black vinyl).

I've never liked the American style of parking brake, with the foot pedal or the handle to the left of and below the steering wheel. Since I got rid of the bench front seat, I could put the parking brake on the floor.

 

[SavoyPlaza]

There are some fantastic cars in this thread!

Here is my humble addition, my '75 sedan "Dartie".
I've been her caretaker since 2005 and plan on keeping her as long as I live.

Here we are at the Atlanta Speedway, April 2007


Here she is in my yard last August when the odometer rolled over to 00000:


I've taken many road trips with her, and when all my other rides break down, she's always ready to go.

Back in 2008, I was having to go from Macon, GA to Nashville, TN just about every other weekend, putting about 800 miles on Dartie each trip.
The best MPG I got was 28, all interstate with the AC going full blast.

She's a slant 6, automatic, with dealer-added AC, 101900 miles.
Pete

 

[ABQDart116]

My 70 4 door slant sled. Bought it for $1200, just finally laid down paint a few weeks ago after 6 months or so of ownership.


1970 4 door

Picking it up after paint job Enamel Sherwin Williams 39686 Bright Green

After plastidip'ing the hood and blacking out the front grill/facia. How she currently sits

 

[57dodged100]

My 70 4 door slant sled. Bought it for $1200, just finally laid down paint a few weeks ago after 6 months or so of ownership.

I think it looks great with the blacked out hood. :headbang:

 

[Bill Dedman]

I think it looks great with the blacked out hood. :headbang:

X-2!!!:blob:

 

[Zuluman]

SavoyPlaza (or Pete), nice original vehicle (we call this "dans son jus"). I call my Valiant 4-dr "Betty" (my Triumph TR7 Sprint 16V cabriolet is called "Sparky" and my daily driver, an Opel Astra GTC Panoramique, is called "Oscar", but no name yet for the Moskvitch 412 sedan that I'm transforning into a coupé). My car has 22,696 (km) showing but given that the carte verte (insurance) was still valid and the Swiss road tax vignette was only 1 year out of date I believe the car has been driven at least 100K or 200K km more.

It would be interesting to race at Atlanta Speedway one day..

Zuluman

 

[Zuluman]

Bold choice of colour, ABQDart116. What wheels/tyres are you planning to install ? Mine are American Racing Salt Flat 7x17-s in the front and 10x18-s in the rear, with Pirelli PZero tyres (285R17/40-s). Any engine/drivetrain modifications ? Zuluman

 

[grassy]

......Triumph TR7 Sprint 16V cabriolet

Zuluman

I have been around Brit cars for most of my life so you stumped me with this one. So I looked it up on google and in North America, we called them convertibles . You name is much classier for such an interesting car..

After TR bought out MG, we were supposed to get the MG B GT with the Buick aluminum block V8 but we got the TR7 instead...the powers that be in the corp vastly underestimated what would sell and we know the rest of the story here..

Ian

 

[grassy]

grassy, you have very sharp eyes ! Lokar produces a kit for a floor-mounted parking brake. It's available through Summit Racing. The boot is made of the same leather on the dash cover (replacing the original black vinyl).

I've never liked the American style of parking brake, with the foot pedal or the handle to the left of and below the steering wheel. Since I got rid of the bench front seat, I could put the parking brake on the floor.

I think the parking brake under the dash is equal to "three on the tree" which was in vogue in the 50s and 60s..

This sounds like a Christmas present for the kids..

ian.

 

[grassy]

Just before we pulled the /6..

The house with the red car in the driveway is restoring a '70 GTX

 

[Zuluman]

grassy, the whole story of the UK auto industry is of one tragedy after another beginning in the late 1960-s. Both MG and Triumph were part of British Leyland, which was the product of a merger between British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motor Corp (a maker of buses) in 1968. MG had 3 owners after 1935 and was part of BMH at the time of the merger. Triumph was bought by Standard in 1945 and became part of Leyland in 1960. Because Leyland was the leading partner in the 1968 merger then it favoured Triumph over MG. There was a plan to build a badge-engineered version of the TR7, which fortunately never saw the light of day.

 

[Zuluman]

But my TR7 is special. It has the 16v Sprint engine and has 140hp and also rear disc brakes and not the 105hp and rear drums of the 8v. Mine is quite rare. I know of only 1 other 16v cabriolet in France.

 

[Zuluman]

By the way, MGB-s, including the GT, were available with V8-s for a time. There was a specialist, Kevin Costello, who made V8 conversions at first and then the factory took over with a less powerful version. Both used the Buick-based 3.5l Rover V8.

 

[grassy]

By the way, MGB-s, including the GT, were available with V8-s for a time. There was a specialist, Kevin Costello, who made V8 conversions at first and then the factory took over with a less powerful version. Both used the Buick-based 3.5l Rover V8.

You are correct. The costello rocked. He did 'verts as well..don't think the factory did...you are right...tr was the dominating force in BL when the tr7 was substituted for the mg b gt v8...unfortunately, tr did not have the following like the MG. I think the year was '74 but my memory is hazy.

My guess is that you car was a European export only ?

My sister and I both had '71 'bgts...mine was a north american import..hers was from Antigua..then imported into Canada by a service man. The shape was the same but we had major differences in carbs, glass, seats, and one..you would have never know they were the same year.. i suspect it was duue to safty standards and parts bin manufacturing

ian

 

[ABQDart116]

Bold choice of colour, ABQDart116. What wheels/tyres are you planning to install ? Mine are American Racing Salt Flat 7x17-s in the front and 10x18-s in the rear, with Pirelli PZero tyres (285R17/40-s). Any engine/drivetrain modifications ? Zuluman

Yeah, I wanted to go flat black with kind of a hot rod influence, small pinstriping on the trunk and a red rear stripe. The wife gave it the ixnay since of the 17 vehicles including my sportbike they've all been black. She went through about 18 pages of google pictures of darts and fell in love with the green. I knew I could pull it off on a four door if I had the right amount of black around the car.

My rear stripe will be ordered sometime this week, permitting I find one I can trust to be as close to the original one that came on the 2 doors. For wheels I've been toying around with the idea of either a 'tuner style' or a simple chrome torque thrust. I'm still up in the air, gotta pick and choose my battles as money permits ya know.

Those salt flats look awesome, vintage style and the flat really sets them apart. I'm still new to having so few offset options and since I will likely be running trans-dapt wheel adapters to get me 5x4.5", my options are somewhat limited.

If I go tuner wheels I'd like to go with something with mesh spokes and a lime green pinstripe, something like this but with mesh'd spokes not star pattern and as much lip as I can fit.

I will likely wrap 'em in Falken FK452s 255/40/17, again this is permitting i can fit them without too much issue. No modifications to the drivetrain or engine yet. Wife want's it to be 'pretty' before I can make it sit right and scare passengers lol.

 

[Zuluman]

ABYDart116, your choice of wheels would look good, in my opinion and complement the car very well, just as you've done with the grill. The green insets are well thought out.

One thing though, I'd recommend not using wheel adapters. The offset will be wrong and this will affect the handling adversely, and also put huge stresses on the suspension components (especially the front), which can lead to failure. This is especially crucial if you've chosen to retain the original torsion bar front suspension.

I spent hours getting my measurements right so that I could have a wheel/tyre combination that integrated well with the 4 link rear suspension and the dual A-arms in the front.

 

[Zuluman]

grassy (Ian), my TR7 is purchased in Switzerland, not far from where I live. It's in the UK at the moment having the engine fettled. Cars can be surprisingly different. The rear windscreens for the Valiant/Dart are different between the coupé and the berline. The coupé has a less steep slope so the glass is longer. Also the glass is different between the 1974 berline and the 1975. Mine actually has the 1974 rear windscreen, which is slightly smaller than the 1975 version for some reason, although the "look" is the same.

 

[Lacer62]

why dont i see anyone with a lacer????????

 

[Bill Dedman]

why dont i see anyone with a lacer????????

I've never seen one.

Now, if you mean a LANCER, there are lots of them on FABO... Just put LANCER (don't leave out the N) in the search engine and I'm sure there will be many...

 

[bigus1949]

74 swinger