Clean 68 4dr B5 Dart in my new neighborhood

Wife and I moved from a border city of Detroit (Detroit, UGH! I wont say anymore) TO AN ISLAND (that takes a $10 ferry ride every day to get home) an hour north of Detroit. I've been seeing this clean 4dr 69 Dart everywhere around my new neighborhood. Most recently parked at a McDonalds. Probably some young guy working there. How refreshing. I can actually eat at a McDonalds out in this new area. Look like a bunch of 4.0 students that smile and the "lights are on". Our whole family stopped eating any fast food in the Detroit Metro area for the last 5 years. The filth at those places is mind numbing. But back to the car. Very cool!

Paint looks super glossy. Bet it has been repainted at some point? Looks nice anyways.

It's a cutey, looks unusually nice for a MI car, maybe belongs to a fastidious older person ?

Agree on country vs city folk, for the most part: kids up here are generally more alert & engaged than what I've experienced in big cities.
I think traditional parenting and time spent in conversation with one's kids is hugely wise.
Just came back from a Cars & Coffee, and a younger man asked his daughters, who were maybe 4 & 5, what the 1st rule at a car show was.
They answered "don't touch !" with smiles and giggles.
They were all so well-behaved that I let the girls into my Road Runner to pretend they were driving; Dad took photos.

Wow what a cool Dart! Wonder if it's a slanty with three-on-tree

Always nice to see someone using something like that and not hiding it away

I agree with Topside; you can almost guarantee the engaged, articulate and polite ones come from a two parent family. That structure is so important.

I'd drive that!

Theres a local facebook like social page called NextDoor that the locals in the new neighborhood use. There are MANY young people on there looking for work; odd jobs, yard clean up, dog walking. These would be teens that might be too young for even fast food places. Kinda SHOCKING. Cause all the kids in my old "hood", upper middle class that bordered Detroit, dont think they should have to work till AFTER COLLEGE. In fact many of the enabler parents around there let the kids become professional students till 30's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the heck would they be able to function in any work enviorment if they havent worked at all in the first HALF of their lives?

My current shop is 1 mile north of the Detroit border (dangerous bordering on deadly now and thats not because of the buildings or the trees or the birds - did yoiu see my July 4th guy shooting a handgun in my parking lot video?). I've been looking for a larger building. I've kinda made my mind up to look out in the new area. Hire a few rural kids (young men) that fish and know how to repair a John Deere. I have one 22yo worker like that. He actually VACUUMS his area of the shop at the end of the day!!!!! And I don't even tell him, but I do thank him.

Sort of on the same topic of work; I have an Uncle that use to farm grapes for wine in South America. A VERY hard worker and disciplined man. When I was a kid and he'd visit us, he'd always feel the callouses on my hands lol. And I had them from mowing lawns, shoveling, and other hard work to earn money starting at about 12 years old. Now I know why he would feel my hands!

I hope thats a restored car being used as a summer toy and not a granny fresh original being driven year round by a kid, if its the latter keep an eye on the scrap yards, impound lots or for sale. Primo candidate to turn into a 2dr post. I also made the move from the city to a small country town, I don't like that everything closes by 8pm (even the bar!), no cabs, no food delivery - but the peace and quiet is second to none.

That's not B5. B5 or more correctly EB5 didn't come out till 1969. That's QQ1.

My wife was raised largely by her dad after her mom left when she was 4. She's a wonderful wife, mom, teacher, and person. My brother in law is raising my niece and nephew on his own since my sister passed 4 years ago. Both honor students, play multiple sports, both can play multiple musical instruments, both do volunteer work. One of my closest friends is raising his 8 year old son on his own, and has been since his son was an infant. The son is also an honor student, competes in boxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and is an extraordinarily polite and well mannered boy. But please, go on...

4 doors, dog dish hubcaps..... would be a perfect fun sleeper car.

Definitely are great single parents out there. BUT, when we look at a large sample, the breakdown of the family and children from a single parent household have been shown to struggle greatly more than two parent households. Nobody can say "every single" anything. Things happen. Divorces, deaths, many sad events. It's tough so whenever possible a mom and dad will have a much better time raising kids if they have the help of one another. I'm sure no single parent would deny that some help would've been nice.

Nice car, hope the driver has other transportation for winter.

Remember similar distaste for Detroit proper 25 years ago, I (wrongly) always thought you'd leave back then.

One would think there would be decent industrial property available in Marysville/Romeo/Almont/New Haven and so on,
and you're sure positioned better for those areas now.

Hope to see you at the Nats and buy a few things.

I agree, hope it's not a Winter driver, and from the condition of the car I bet it's not. Hopefully owner has an old Camaro to drive in Winter

[quote=Dart 500]I hope thats a restored car being used as a summer toy and not a granny fresh original.

Growing up in my town in the late 80s a mint B5 69 dart 2dr started showing up up town with a young blonde girl driving it that was a granny original, about a month later one of the rear 1/4s was destroyed.