1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto

1972 Canadian H-Code 340 Dart Swinger Special Resto - Finally started!

Hemiorangeswinger said
Nice progress so far! That is a pretty clean looking car, I gotta come check it out one of these days.

I've been looking forward to you starting a thread on this car!!

I noticed a lot of 70's cars had the underside painted white, I was wondering why that was the "in thing" to do back then? All the pics of my dads friends cars from the 70's including his was painted white underneath.

Thanks Randy, not getting any younger so I need to get after it. Even though I was a young turk with a muscle car near the end of the days of airbrushing and crazy fab work, usually fiberglass, and white undercarriage and shackles and airshocks etc. it seemed cool at the time and we mostly got these ideas from the muscle car magazines of the day, I think I still have a box of those mags stashed somewhere.

340duster said
Randy - I never liked the white painted undersides, but a lot of cars were done that way. Most cars back then were jacked up with shackles and air shocks. Most also had N50 or M50 tires on 10" wide cragar S/s's that stuck way past the wheel wells. When you came up behind a car that was all "jacked up" all you saw was the fuel tank and the rear end, so I guess why not paint them white! Red brake drums were cool too..

Danny - Great start on the car. I will be in Sherwood Park this weekend (both my kids are playing in a soccer tournament there on Saturday and Sunday), if you are around maybe we could grab a coffee. If we could pry Randy away from his Dart, maybe he could join us too. I will know my weekend schedule on Wednesday.

Rod

I'm going to be around this weekend Rod, I have to help my brother haul something with my truck Saturday morning but I should be home by 10:30 and will be home the rest of the weekend. Maybe you can convince Randy to slip out at a particular time, I was going to ask Randy again if I could borrow his template for cutting the proper hole in the floor for the shifter, Randy can I borrow your template? I want to check out Randy's beast that he's almost tamed!! Pm me when you know more and I can send you a google map of how to get here, it not to hard to find.