73 Dart "340" Sport is Home!

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Pale340

Pale340

Pale340
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After a long 28 years of dragging this car around throughout my Army career, it is finally home and ready to go back together. I bought this car in March 1993 and drove it until October 1993. It has been a rolling chassis since. Waiting for a permanent home to get restored. I have to thank Todd at Todd Rods, Inc. for the phenomenal work he did on getting this car back to its original glory. Once it is all back together it will go back to him for the white side, roof over, stripes. Now its home I can put it back together. I am very excited to hopefully be driving this car by next summer. I am just happy it is home.

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Pale340 said:
After a long 28 years of dragging this car around throughout my Army career, it is finally home and ready to go back together. I bought this car in March 1993 and drove it until October 1993. It has been a rolling chassis since. Waiting for a permanent home to get restored. I have to thank Todd at Todd Rods, Inc. for the phenomenal work he did on getting this car back to its original glory. Once it is all back together it will go back to him for the white side, roof over, stripes. Now its home I can put it back together. I am very excited to hopefully be driving this car by next summer. I am just happy it is home.

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The sporty guacamole!
 
Don't scratch it! Fender covers and blankets are your friends. Always liked the Dart Sport, twin brother of the Duster! 65'
 
Now, if you can just figure out where all the stuff is to put it back together, every last nut & bolt! Looks like it will be a sweet car!
 
It's beautiful, but then I'm prejudiced. Spent 4 years on mine, and got A LOT of info from the folks on this site. Good luck with yours!
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Pale340 said:
After a long 28 years of dragging this car around throughout my Army career, it is finally home and ready to go back together. I bought this car in March 1993 and drove it until October 1993. It has been a rolling chassis since. Waiting for a permanent home to get restored. I have to thank Todd at Todd Rods, Inc. for the phenomenal work he did on getting this car back to its original glory. Once it is all back together it will go back to him for the white side, roof over, stripes. Now its home I can put it back together. I am very excited to hopefully be driving this car by next summer. I am just happy it is home.

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I love that color almost as much as I love Y1 top banana yellow. In fact, I have a 73 Duster sitting in my shop with that color. Very cool.
 
Looks great. I'd be as nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs if I had to get it down off that nice body cart!!!!! :eek:
 
HemiDenny said:
what are your plans for the driveline?
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The numbers matching 340 has been bored 40 over, balanced, blueprinted, with stock heads, etc. I am getting it ready for the engine dyno. I will just be tuning the original carb and timing. More of a proof of everything is good to go run then tuning for more power, if that makes sense. The engine was done about 20 years ago so I want to ensure it runs right before placing into the car. I am using the original exhaust manifolds. The original 4 speed has been rebuilt along with the original 8 1/4 rear diff. I did add a sure grip unit and went back with new original 3.21 gears.
 
Pale340 said:
The numbers matching 340 has been bored 40 over, balanced, blueprinted, with stock heads, etc. I am getting it ready for the engine dyno. I will just be tuning the original carb and timing. More of a proof of everything is good to go run then tuning for more power, if that makes sense. The engine was done about 20 years ago so I want to ensure it runs right before placing into the car. I am using the original exhaust manifolds. The original 4 speed has been rebuilt along with the original 8 1/4 rear diff. I did add a sure grip unit and went back with new original 3.21 gears.
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for this beauty.....I like your thinking.

I do like your originality however back in the early 70's when we started hopping them up, we especially like the 8-3/4 differential not just for the strength but because most Mopar guys had at least two of pigs / punkins with our original 3:23's for the trips, 4:11's or 4:56's for around town. My buddy had a set of 5:13's but got a ticket on I-75 for going too slow driving the 60 mile trip to Findlay one weekend. We would swap them at the drop of the hat....in the driveway in about an hour.
 
Hey everyone. I figured I would show what I started with before I brought it home (the pictures above). I will try and post a few pics, over the next few weeks, of the process that got it to the point it is at in the pictures above. The first picture is from March 1993, not a good photo but the only one I have, when I brought it home. It had 151K miles on it here. I drove it until Oct of that year. It started smoking so I parked it. It has not ran since. The second picture we fast forward to about 5 years ago. This is how it was for most of my Army career. I pulled the engine in 1996. It was a rolling chassis from that point. The third picture is the day it went to the shop. That was about 3 years ago. I will post some progress pictures and explanations soon.

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