1967½ Dodge Dart GT Restoration

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Just bought the car today in Canmore, Alberta. The drive was from 9 am to 7 pm so I'm pretty tired right now, because of that there won't be a whole lot of information here for now.

The Rundown

I turned 16 in January this year, after saving everything last year so i could buy myself a truck i had finally decided that it is time to get a Dart after wanting one since i was 10. I had been looking at the car for about a month, in that short period of time I managed to pull together a good amount of cash for the car on top of my original fund for a dart. I first looked at a 1968 Dart, the car was all there, right down to the factory door ding guards, but it had too much cancer to be worth it. I then found this car, the guy started at $4500 and then proceeded to drop down to $1500 which was a very reasonable price for an entirely rust free car. I had planned to go down to look at it the week before however my grandpa had just driven back from the US so I took the risk of the car selling by letting him rest. We finally go down and when we get there it is snowing pretty heavily which made viewing the car quite a challenge, combined with slush it wasn't the driest either.

I looked over the entire car, not a single spot of rust which is unheard of in Canada, but it is a original US car but for how long I do not know. From visual inspection it appears that the car may have been hit in the front at one point, pretty much a minor fender bender though and has since then gotten rust free front fenders and a hood. Walking to the drivers side the door was all smashed but otherwise the inside was great and the window crank worked fine but the door has got to go.

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On to the back it appears that the bumper was mashed in but that's it, everything around it is in great condition and the only problem I have is from the lack of tail lights.

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Finally the passengers side, it seems that because of the fender bender that the inner quarter was knocked out of place ever so slightly and because of that the fender sits too far back, preventing the door from opening. The passenger side read quarter is also rust free however upon closer inspection there is a big scrape along it and I am having a really hard time deciding if I should replace it or fix it. I will be using a hemi hold scoop on the car.

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The interior is in awesome condition, so well that both the drivers and passengers seat have no rips in them but still need to be replaced. The dash is phenomenal in the car, I havent ever seen one so nice. The headliner and carpet had been ripped out from the owner before the current one, the floors are also rust free with only some minor surface rust. Wierd thing about the floor is that it looks as if it had been a console car at one point but the hole was patched or something and remained a column shift. The whole interior is there, all the little trim pieces and panels.

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The engine compartment isn't anything special, the car is a sort of rare 1967 GT with a 225 slant 6, the engine was missing the cylinder head. I don't really care, the whole thing will be removed and sold for scrap metal unless someone would like anything in particular from it pretty much every single part from the engine is $10 and shipping is at your expense. I will be swapping in a stock forged internal 440 with a motor plate to begin with then I will run eagle H beam rods and edelbrock victor max wedge heads, everything elce hasn't been decided on yet. As for the transmission and rear end I will be using a Turbo 400 with a manual valve body and a Ford 9" in place of the wimpy 7 1/4.

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In the picture is my cousin who will be helping out a bunch with the car.

I call the car the 1967 and a half because I will be cloning the outside to be a 1968 and the inside to be a 1967, might throw some 1969 parts in there somewhere.
That's all for now, have to hit the sack.
 
Cool car-- looks very nice to start. sounds like you have a good plan.
As for the crease in the p/s 1/4-- don't replace good metal, work the crease out.
Good luck & nice way to introduce your project! Lawrence
 
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Date Listed 05-May-12
Last Edited 02-Jun-12
Price $60.00
Address Ice Pond Dr, Colchester, Subd. C, NS B2N, Canada
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Dodge Dart-Mopar parts ,Body Interior Trim and Mechanical.
I have quite a few parts body parts for Dart 67-68-69 plus interior and trim parts,also have mechanical parts rear ends 8 3/4 741 with 3.91 posi- & 489 with 3.23 single traction ,complete rebuilt 440 Engine & 727 tran misc other parts.
2- doors - 2-hoods- both quarter panels,grills & besles tail lights- door panels- sun visors . Just send me your list the more parts you want the better the deal.
Complete 440 rebuilt motor with 727 bib block transmission & matching converter.
 
Check this ad out , from Halifax Nova Scotia #362173786 has 67 Dart parts tail lights , nice grilles ect. on KIJIJI Halifax
 
I agree on the 1/4 work it out if ya can,nothing worse that having to replace those,unless yo get full ones and the body man knowsssssssssssssss what he is doing.First thing before going ahead,and I hope you look very good, check out the hole undercarriage for damage from those minor accidents something could be out of wrack.Good luck looking forward to see this come together.
 
Dis regard the first post , i wish there was i simple way to delete an ad on here , connot do any thing with it . Sorry
 
Welcome aboard from Ontario! Leave that 1/4 panel on there way easier to fix the crease than to replace a panel. Just my opinion a 440 might be a ton of work to put in that, you can get schumaker engine mounts to swap to a small block v8...might be a lot easier and you would have it on the road quicker. There are lots of great members with great advice on here. Enjoy!
 
I'm dead set on going with a 440, my dad has done 2 cars before me so I have a lot of help from him available. If I'm going to put the time into making a car, it's going to have a gnarly engine in it.
Here is the 1968 Coronet that he put a 547 Keith Black with B1 heads in, heads are home made and are 2 and a half diameter (huge and stupid loud even with mufflers).

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And the 1969 Barracuda he made, Twin Turbo all aluminum 540, runs high sixes at 213mph.

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So you can see that I have a boatload of experience on tap.

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Can someone post pictures of the 1967, 1968, and 1969 Dart trunk finishing panels for gt models, having a hard time with google.
 
Nice dude! I'm 18 in July and looked for 3 years for a 1967-69 dart and never found a decent one! I'm jealous! Built a truck instead and there's a resto thread I just started on the dart wagon we have...
 
Gotta love those old rams, I bought one last year and that has been my DD.

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Might cummins swap it in the winter.
 
I wonder too lol.

I think it is because of no marker lights with a 1968 grille. Of course, someone could have put that grille on. W.E. I like the 1968 grille better.
 
his line at the bottom of the post.
I call the car the 1967 and a half because I will be cloning the outside to be a 1968 and the inside to be a 1967, might throw some 1969 parts in there somewhere.

Lawrence
 
I cleaned the seatbelts and a bunch of other interior parts, car can't go inside until dads car is all together. No pictures of all the other stuff at the moment
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Still waiting on my dads car and some other suff.
My seat belt recoil is all piled up, any one know how to fix them? I turned them too far

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Nice car to start with. Seems decent and you can do alot without loading in so much monet. Talking about Canmore, me and my family were close to move there for 6 month 4 years ago. I still miss out that opertunity. Good luck with the car.
 
I'm in the process of building the rotisserie for the car, so no real progress for a while.
Does anyone know if the front end from a 1967-1969 cuda will completely transfer to a dart, if I can't get the current one lined up pretty well then I'm going to chop the whole front from a cuda parts car I have and weld that on.

I'm really considering doing a 426 Hemi build, I have a 1966 426 hemi block with mains lying around, a single cylinder head, and a billet 4.750 stroke crank (anyone want to buy or trade), and eagle H beams. There is a local ad that is selling some cheap hemi parts near me that I'm considering.
 
Car is inside now, going to have it completely disassembled in no time.

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Does anyone know how much a completely stripped down dart weighs?
 
Hmm, seems to be a problem here.

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Ah, that's better

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Nice of that slant six to make room for the big block.

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