Bought 66 Dart
That Sounds Like A Hard Piece To Find!that,s A Gt Right??i Like All The Small Chrome Pieces.do You Think I Could Clone Mine To A Gt??
Mine is a GT. It would be possible to clone a GT. Mechanically, there's nothing to differentiate a GT from a Dart 270. Although the Rallye Pack was promoted with the GT in mind, I didn't find anything in the literature that made it a GT only item. The /6 and V-8 use the same K-member.
My car was also a 273 4-bbl car with a 904, disk brakes, and factory A/C. The rear axle was a 7ΒΌ. The single exhaust essentially consisted of two resonators which make a great sound track for a sortie of spirited driving. It's not offensive enough to drown out the dealer installed AM/FM in my car. The torsion bar rear cross member had only a single dip on the driver's side in it to allow the exhaust pipe to go under it. You can put duals on an early A-body, but be prepared for some 3rd world routing on it.
Bucket seats were standard on the GT, but the console was an option. I figure that the console was optional because a 3-speed manual column shifter was standard. The GT and 270 had chromed plastic armrest bases front and rear. The rear pads had ash trays in them. (There was a total of 4 ashtrays and one lighter in my car.)
The exterior appearance stuff may be a bit more difficult. Someone who is making a race car out of a GT may want to ditch the "basket handles" on the top. Note that the chrome outlines a canopy vinyl roof on Toolmanmike's car where mine was not equipped with one. The front chrome "spears" along the top of the front fenders and doors was also unique to the GT. The loopy GT insignia, I think, is available in repro.
The 66 Dart GT shared bucket seats with the B-body cars. IMO, the 66 Dart GT had the most attractive interior of the A-bodies. The seating is beautiful.
If you have a 4-speed car, they originally came with Inland shifters. They were much less precise and durable that the Hursts they replaced, but they did have a reverse lockout and came up in the middle of the console.
IMO, I think if I were starting with a non-GT, the interior would be worth cloning. If I'm putting a V-8 with a mild cam in it, I'd enjoy the exhaust note of the 4-bbl exhaust. Putting the holes and posts in place for all of the GT exterior trim would drive me nuts, so I'd pass on that. I would spring for the bright wheel well lips and rocker panel moulding.