Reignited love affair with a swinger
New to the forum**
BACKSTORY: In high school(1998ish) my first car was a 72 dodge dart /6 4door gold paint with a **** brown vinyl top. I paid 300 for it, and it was ugly as hell but it was mine. I loved that 4 door turd but eventually I blew the /6 and ended up giving it away when I left for the army.
Since then i kicked around the idea of buying another..etc etc life fam and work came first though.
Fast forward many yrs and many projects later, i started skimming ads again and tossing around the idea of picking one up. But apparently since moving to so. cal the price of the dart seemed to double over night. A car I could get for $1000 a year ago, are going for 5-$8000 now.
Late last year, I got home after working a 17 hr shift dump myself into bed and the next thing I know the wife's waking me up With WAY too much enthusiasm. Her brother has been a mechanic for a long time happened across a guy that was broke down(grenaded ring and pinion) and moving out of state soon and didnt want to hassle with trying to repair the car amidst his moving plans. He called my wife as soon as he saw it..
A 74' dart swinger 2door (318ci very very healthy to say the least)
The guy says he wants 1500$. My brother in law hands him the cash right there
THEN calls my wife to tell her about my new car:D
Apparently this was his way of repaying me for a truck that I bought him a few yrs back.
Pics at the time of pick up: its been about 1yr since this were taken but i figured id start with the back story. I didn't see the actual car in person untill 6 months after it was bought, and FINALLY got it back home last week in So. Cal
more to follow.. thanks
New to the forum**
BACKSTORY: In high school(1998ish) my first car was a 72 dodge dart /6 4door gold paint with a **** brown vinyl top. I paid 300 for it, and it was ugly as hell but it was mine. I loved that 4 door turd but eventually I blew the /6 and ended up giving it away when I left for the army.
Since then i kicked around the idea of buying another..etc etc life fam and work came first though.
Fast forward many yrs and many projects later, i started skimming ads again and tossing around the idea of picking one up. But apparently since moving to so. cal the price of the dart seemed to double over night. A car I could get for $1000 a year ago, are going for 5-$8000 now.
Late last year, I got home after working a 17 hr shift dump myself into bed and the next thing I know the wife's waking me up With WAY too much enthusiasm. Her brother has been a mechanic for a long time happened across a guy that was broke down(grenaded ring and pinion) and moving out of state soon and didnt want to hassle with trying to repair the car amidst his moving plans. He called my wife as soon as he saw it..
A 74' dart swinger 2door (318ci very very healthy to say the least)
The guy says he wants 1500$. My brother in law hands him the cash right there
THEN calls my wife to tell her about my new car:D
Apparently this was his way of repaying me for a truck that I bought him a few yrs back.
Pics at the time of pick up: its been about 1yr since this were taken but i figured id start with the back story. I didn't see the actual car in person untill 6 months after it was bought, and FINALLY got it back home last week in So. Cal
more to follow.. thanks
