Looking at buying a 1968 Dart with 440

GTXperience said
Dave,

Matt sold his '68 recently and has some of his fiberglass pieces left (I know bumpers for sure). You should talk to him since he could bring them down since he will have a swap spot at the Fling.

I could use the fiberglass bumpers for sure. I will be giving you a call for sure. I want to get there around 8am for the swap meet.

crackedback said
Does it have a fender tag? If so take a picture of it, e-mail it to me, and I can decode it for you.

I used the decoder from mymopar.com. thx

Optik said
check the cam out too it didn't look like there was any assembly lube on it and with the way the oil is formulated nowadays its real easy to wipe out a cam, BTDT. in fact it probably wouldn't hurt to take apart the engine, check everything, and put it back together. that way your not relying on the unknown quality of someone else's work. just my $.02...

-tim

Yeah I'm going to pull the pull everything apart and reassemble it. I did not find any receipts for pistons or the overbore on the machine shop receipts. Leaves me to believe the original slugs are in there. If that is the case then I'm in for some more work and $$$ I am really hoping that there was some quality work done onthe engine.

flyboy01 said
Dave, it looks great. The rust is not so bad, nothing really tricky to fix. Speaking from experience though, have the whole thing media blasted, I bet there is a lot hiding under the paint you cant see. I think the rust in the 1/4 seams is common due to poor prep originally, so the seams started to rust out after a few years.

I'll be re-reading your posts again for sure. We have a soda blaster in town. So I plan to take it to him on a dolly and have him do the entire car. Screw paint stripping and sanding all that stuff. The $1000 is worth it by the time you spend all the money on sanding discs and stripper and not to mention the health risks...wink wink.flyboy I don't want any surprises nor the cleanup. I have a good amount of scrap metal that I kept from the Valiant parts car too.