68 Dart restoration in Russia

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Lovely car! Have you checked for any build sheets in the seats? May shine some light on the vin. Shot in the dark though
where to look exactly? all the seats where renewed and nothing was there unfortunately.
 
You definitely want to put the dash frame back in before installing your windshield though.

Are you going to put the mopar rallye wheels back on? Or are you going with a more modern set of wheels? BTW the pix of your red K5 Blazer look great. Those are great looking trucks.

This is not necessarily true at all. Several of us........and I believe I got this idea from Redfish......installed the dash fastener clips upside down, and used shorter screws, so that we can install/ remove the dash frame WITHOUT having the windshield out.

Only reason it was done this way originally was for speed / ease on the assy line

Awesome build. Seems to me just HAVING a Mopar in Russia is pretty cool!!
 
regarding gauges, lots of us have aftermarket gauges under the dash, including a mechanical (as opposed to electrical) oil pressure gauge, voltmeter, I even prefer to put an ammeter under dash and attach the original wires.
 
Speaking of mechanical gages. I purchased 2 gages from Jegs. 2&5/8" Mechanical oil pressure, and 2&5/8 mechanical water temp. Will mount under the dash in a home made gage panel mount I made from aircraft aluminum. That's the 2 most important gages IMHO. Temp and pressure.

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I bet it was a pilot production car. Those were never meant to get away from the factory. Incomplete vins, used for testing, or for new car advert pix, and brochures. A few have made it into the hands of private owners. They are pre production cars and are supposed to get destroyed after use. So when one "gets away" it's a pretty rare sight to see, and valuable.

I almost purchased a 1988 dodge Daytona Shelby Z it was a pilot production car. Had full vin. One data plate had all the codes, second data plate only said 1988 C1 PILOT on it. Vin Sequence numbers were 000001.

This car could also been a Switzerland made car possibly. They made A bodies there too. I heard they had impossibly short vins. This might account for the different rivets used that aren't "rosette" rivets.

Maybe somebody else on here can chime in with more information on the Switzerland built cars, and pilot production cars.

No, this Dart was not built in Switzerland, but in the Netherlands - in a plant in Rotterdam.
These Mopars have got those short VINs.
 
thanks a lot! finally I know where from my car! any idea how to read the VIN?

BTW, what I have on a rear window, looks like it's from Rotterdam! wondering if they have a historical club or something.

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The sticker has no connection to a historical car club, but it is an old original decal, which proves, that Your Dart ran in the Netherlands - it says:

'I care about children - I drive carefully'
 
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