1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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I have owned this car for 34 years this coming June 28th, and it has been down for the last 18 years now. I gave up on it 8 years ago due to frustration over vendors/service providers that either screwed thing up or didn't provide good service. Now that I have time on my hands I decided it was time to bring the old girl out of the dungeon and get back to it. Of course most things are as I left them and some things have gotten worse. I am still taking two steps forward and one step back, but by God I am gonna finish it this time! Hope that I can get through all the pitfalls this time and finally get it back out on the street where it belongs!
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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One of the last pictures I took before putting it away in the spring of 2004.
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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It was my daily driver from 1978 to 1986, except for about a year in 1979 when I hit a telephone pole, but that is another story! I "restored" it after that using Sherman and Associates terrible patch panel quarters and late model inner fenders, then put a 69 Road Runner engine in it after I cracked the original block. I painted the engine Chrysler Blue and put an Offy dual quad under hood manifold with new Carter 500's! I have very few pictures of when I got it, I was the third owner but the second owner got in for money owed to him when a friend went into the service, I paid $740 for it! He was a Ford guy and had a Mustang with a 427 Cammer in it, up to that point I had never seen one of those engines! He didn't want no damn Dodge cluttering up his driveway. When I bought the car it had a GT SPORT stripe on one side and a DART SWINGER stripe on the other. I asked him if it had been wrecked and he said his friend told him it came that way new! The build date is 3-29-69 which is a Friday. I always figured that the car was started on a Friday and finished on a Monday and the guy installing the stripes had a wild weekend and just put whatever stripe was laying around on the other side! Anyway, I had a huge dilemma when I put the stripe on but decided to fix the factory error. I have some real bad pics of both sides, and after I put some parts cars fenders and doors on it after it was wrecked.
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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Me and the wife at the 1983 Street Machine Nats in Springfield, Illinois... Had to remove the 14X7 Cragars in the rear after I replaced the quarters with cheater panels and the "baseball bat" roll of the wheel wells was gone...
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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That's good to hear Jim, let me know if you need any help. This is the last time I saw it. For perspective Ryan
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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Thanks guys, I will need to take some recent pics after the 8" of snow we got last night melts... Here is a pic in 1982 before the first "resto".
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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A couple of pics on the rotisserie. The floors, trunk, roof, firewall, decklid, and three frame rails are the originals. one front frame rail and the quarters are from DVAP, bought around 1990. Every piece of the front end is NOS including the fenders, hood, inner fenders, and all 4 pieces of the core support. I learned quickly that NOS parts are far from correct though!
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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Factory front torque boxes!
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Re: 1969 Dart GTS 383 4-speed may finally get finished!
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Difference between Race Hemi Orange and Street Hemi Orange, my engine is on the right...
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