This poor Dart....

I know the history of this car. This was a factory prototype which started as an April Fool's joke and actually got out of hand. At the time, the "Dart Sport" name was already kicking around the engineering and sales offices, and some goon drew up a joke drawing illustrating development of the new "Dart Short."

The late night shifts of the prototyping shops mistakenly got hold of it and pretty soon there was a clay model, and things from there just went from bad to worse.

All you need to realize to understand this nonsense is to look at some of the REAL abortions that Ma came out with earlier, the doggy with it's tongue out 880 series, or the only -a- mother could love some of the 61/ 62 beauties.

(I've always thought 71 RR's were pretty dammed ugly, but I realise that's a personal bias.)