1971 Dodge Dart Swinger

I just came across a 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger. It was a factory 318 904 8 3/4 rear car with 3.23 gears. It now has decent paint(dark silver) and a 1969 340 w/ rebuilt "J" heads, 69 727 trans, Hooker headers, MSD, aluminum intake, ladder bars, coil over shocks, racing bucket seat, no interior, stock wheel wells, fuel cell with spare tire well removed and flat bottomed, stock dash with wasted stock dash pad. No visible rust except for pencil sized hole on the passenger floorboard and a few pin holes in a very small area on the driver's side where the heel rests when driving. The car needs a battery box, hold down and a battery. Car belongs to a mechanic and he has a 98 Neon R/T and an SRT-4. It has been sitting in a barn for 8 years covered with dust. He washed it for me and it looks decent. Will have to redo brake system from sitting and probably rebuild the carb. He was asking $3500 and I offered him $2,500.00 and he came back with $3,000.00. What do you guys and gals think? By the way, the steel hood has the ugliest homemade hood scoop that I ever saw. I had to talk him down just because of that. Should I pass on $3,000., try to get him down to my $2,500.00 or go for it??

i think the question is, do you want it ? if you are asking what its worth , we would need pics, but it sounds like a good deal.

just my 2 cents......sounds like a pretty good deal to me @ $3K, especially if the 340 is salvagable. I pretty much started with the same thing, you can see my photos in members gallery. Although mine was pretty pristene to begin with, sounds like you got a good start at least for a strip car. I have a stock steel hood, all the seats, underdash heat and AC and I live in Central Illinois, if you do this and have any interest.

I would like to get it, but I am not sure if it would be cost effective to try to put the interior back to stock, put in a new spare tire well, new gas tank, 340 exhaust manifolds, etc. The engine is good to go, and the transmission was freshened up before he parked it. On the other hand, I don't need another Drag car, but that wouldn't take much to get it ready for the strip. I guess a third option would to purchase it and then use the dirty "F" word and flip it so that I can put some more money into fixing up my Shelby Dakota???

aengineguy said:

just my 2 cents......sounds like a pretty good deal to me @ $3K, especially if the 340 is salvagable. I pretty much started with the same thing, you can see my photos in members gallery. Although mine was pretty pristene to begin with, sounds like you got a good start at least for a strip car. I have a stock steel hood, all the seats, underdash heat and AC and I live in Central Illinois, if you do this and have any interest.

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The 340 is suppose to be ready to go. He is a mechanic and he told me where he works. He seems like a straight shooter. The vinyl top was removed and the seams filled and the entire car repainted (on top). If I do get it, I will certainly be interested in talking to you about your parts.

73AbodEE said:

i think the question is, do you want it ? if you are asking what its worth , we would need pics, but it sounds like a good deal.

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Thank you.