My M-Code Dart GTS was listed on the Dart GTS registry (#8) as F8 green. I think that is F5 green and today I moved it out of storage and into the sunlight and I swear it looks like F5 green. Back in early spring of 1969 I was going to order a 383 Dart GTS in F5 green, went to my hometown Dodge dealer to pick up a brochure. I was also curious about a sidebar report I read in a 383 GTS test about Dodge may be putting a 440 in the GTS. I asked about it and got laughed out of the dealership by two sales guys saying that would never happen. Went home and my mom could see I was upset about something and when I told her about looking at a Dart she said that being second oldest of 7 kids why am I looking at a COMPACT car and I should get a bigger car. So down to the Plymouth dealer with my co-signing dad (I was 18) and ordered a '69 Road Runner HT, 383, Torqueflite, 3.91 in F5 green. So when I went full circle with finally getting this Dart GTS M-code that I originally wanted I thought for sure it was F5. Today when I finally got it out in bright sunlight and comparing it to a local friend's F8 Dart GTS M-Code I'm pretty sure my GTS is F5 like my original F5 Road Runner. What do you think are these two Dart's the same color? The Dart at the local cruise is for sure F8 as it has all of the documentation including a broadcast sheet and fender tag with F8 green on it. BTW my Dart is the one with the stripe delete, gas cap delete, side reflectors delete and the almost vinyl top deleted by age and a two-tone hood.

Looks dead on like my '69 Swinger F5.

Are the hood (fake scoops) inserts on the '69 Dart the same left and right?

They look the same but there is a left and right. You put the left on the right bulge and it will be backwards, I have seen it done a few times...

Jim would you have a right/passenger's side one still around? PM me if you do.

Mike

And Jim you were right with the F5 color for the M-code (above photo) in bright daylight


Mike

On my monitor they look like 2 different colors. with the pretty one being darker

I probably have half a dozen of them...

Just a question about fender well headers for an M-Code Cuda or Dart. If you have one that someone had cut the fender wells and you wanted to try a set of headers which headers would work with a completely stock engine with maybe a carburetor change or not? I think I'll repair the inner fenders as I have the pieces/parts to do that but just curious what was or is best used for fender well headers on a Cuda/Dart M-Code?

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Hmmmmmm, it seems this kind of performance should have put the '69 M-Code Dart 440 at second (NOT 20th) on the list of Fifty Fastest (actually quickest) Muscle Cars as reported in back in the day magazine test data. Quicker than the M-Code A12 Road Runner 3rd on the list and quicker than the TWO-SEAT SPORTSCAR Vette they shamelessly along with the TWO-SEAT SPORTSCAR Cobra put at the top of the list. There I vented, but I know the real reason for the 12.70/112, just making

With today's FAST bias ply tires it would be in the 10's...

What a cool chart! Thanks for sharing it!

Stripe delete big block Dart GTS thought it might be a 440 because he did own one (white?) but I think it's a 383 what say you J-RR ?

I traded that car to JohnRR for a 69 M-Code Dart GTS. This one is a 383 4-speed belonged to a longtime friend of mine before he died and I acquired it. One I should have kept...

Yes, 383 4 speed, factory 3.91's, 56kish original miles.

It's been 14.15 @98.7 with the only change from when I got it from Jim being a full mandrel bent dual exhaust to the rear bumper.

Here it is in action at Stanton in 06 JohnRR sleeping at the tree

Here I am cutting a better light and the 409 dual quad Impala I'm paired against finally figured out why he wasn't running his normal low 13's blows by me when I cut a better light this time around . JohnRR better light but gets smoked.

These were the only times I ran at Stanton , hope to get back out there for 2024.

I inspected a 69 Cuda barn find today, been in the barn for almost 40 years and out in a field before that. Here is a teaser photo, more to come!