1965 DART GT 273 4BBL
A front sway bar was included with the rally suspension option. Heavy duty shocks were a separate option. See below. My non-S 65 Barracuda had the basic group, performance group, and the sport group, with the Commando 273 V8 and rally suspension including a factory front sway bar (basically, everything a Formula S had except for a tach, possibly HD shocks, and fourteen inch wheels).
Tach was, as far as I know, only available on Formula S cars.
The Ross Roy material I partially quote below says that 65 Barracudas had nine inch drum brakes (it also does not mention the Formula S package, so I'm thinking it was published very early in the model year). I've always thought that, while 64 Barracudas all had nine inch drums, all V8 Barracudas in 65 got ten inch drums, with disc brakes optional partway through the year. Perhaps it was not quite so simple as I thought, but my 65, which I've owned since 1968, originally had ten inch drums all around, along with 13 inch wheels.
Six cylinder cars w/o disc brakes kept nine inch drums into the seventies.
A front sway bar was included with the rally suspension option. Heavy duty shocks were a separate option. See below. My non-S 65 Barracuda had the basic group, performance group, and the sport group, with the Commando 273 V8 and rally suspension including a factory front sway bar (basically, everything a Formula S had except for a tach, possibly HD shocks, and fourteen inch wheels).
Tach was, as far as I know, only available on Formula S cars.
The Ross Roy material I partially quote below says that 65 Barracudas had nine inch drum brakes (it also does not mention the Formula S package, so I'm thinking it was published very early in the model year). I've always thought that, while 64 Barracudas all had nine inch drums, all V8 Barracudas in 65 got ten inch drums, with disc brakes optional partway through the year. Perhaps it was not quite so simple as I thought, but my 65, which I've owned since 1968, originally had ten inch drums all around, along with 13 inch wheels.
Six cylinder cars w/o disc brakes kept nine inch drums into the seventies.
