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Just where do you find a complete 340 engine? As I said in the last installment, I didn’t. I had to piece one together. This was not my preferred method and made the final cost of the engine higher than if I had been able find a complete core. I had asked everybody I knew and everybody they...

Those were sweet cars, weren't they? They were simple, fast, and good looking. Here in NE GA, it really was a Chevy stronghold back then. There were a decent number of Roadrunners and few GTXs around, but very few 340 cars. This was nice, they never knew what hit em. :-) Brian

Finding a complete 340 proved to be a difficult task, in fact, I never did. The usual reply to queries related to finding one would include something about a 360 and how plentiful they were. I would be reminded that you start out with more cubes which means cheaper power and more low end torque...

Fraudian slip. :)

All the while I was working on the dash in the evenings, the good weather Saturdays were spent on the body. A few quick comments on the basic body (the rolling chassis with all removable pieces off the body) as it arrived from the previous owner. The body had been taken down to the bare...

I supose that a timeline would make a whole lot of sense, glad I thought of it. O:) I bought the car in early July, 2005. Began actually working on it about 2 weeks later (3rd week of July.) Began work on the dash and would continue until early September. At the same time, on weekends, I...

Saturday morning arrived and it was time to start, but where and with what? A wise fellow had once told me that he had always picked one thing and stayed on it till it was completely done, then moved on to the next thing until it was all done. Made sense to me. I decided that on weekends I...

Well, after a good night’s sleep, my disappointment with a less than perfect car got back in focus a little better. The thing is forty years old – get a grip! Being Sunday morning, we headed off to church and, upon arriving back at home, I began to consider the best course of action for getting...

The next morning, with coffee cup in hand, I went to get better acquainted with the Mopar erecter kit I had just bought. The thing that had really sold me on this car, the main body, was as good in the light of day has it had appeared to be a couple of nights before. A couple of slight dings...

The first thing I discovered was impatience and a lack of forethought creates many future problems. I had had the idea that I would like to build another Dart for some time. Nothing concrete or urgent, just something I would like to do “someday”. I wasn’t looking for a new project but one...

Howdy Folks, I would like to use this thread to recount some of the many things that I have learned thus far in my build. I fully understand that many of the things I have learned may not be the only or even the best way to approach the various aspects of restoring/ building an A-Body Mopar...

Howdy folks, Uploaded a few pictures of the progress on the dart in my Photo Garage. Hope to send up some descriptions of what has happened so far -- sorta inspired by Capt Kirk. :-) Brian