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Hello, I'm guessing this is where I should post this. This is Sue, the wife Matt may have mentioned on occasion. I am so sad to tell you that Slantsick passed away suddenly on January 28. He was the sweetest, most interesting person I have ever known, my heart and soul for almost 14 years, my...

Yup- the variety store my wife managed a couple years back carried it.. I don't drink wine, but she brought me back one of the empty cartons. I think they're pushing it some calling the protruberances on the rear of a second-gen Valiant "fins"- still cool, though.

Only 5? Impossible. But, going with my gut- '57 DeSoto '61 Valiant '66 Barracuda '69 Dart Aussie Valiant ute

Damn, beat me to it. :-D I'd go with a white vinyl top.

Not me- but then, my mom had it's twin (except for the wheels of course) when I was a kid- great car. Probably where my love for wagons started.

Depends who you ask, I guess- I owned a '70 and a '73 Dart, both slant 6, both 4 door. That's a good thing to me, but lots of people seem to disagree. Closest thing I've owned that fits the bill was a two-tone grey '82 Fairmont 2-door sedan w/ the 2.3 four-cylinder- what a dog.

Probably because they're awesome. The '66-'67 B-bodies are among the most handsome Mopes ever built, and wagons are inherently cool as all hell, so this is a win-win.

Assuming it's as solid underneath as what we can see, you'd be stealing it for anything under a grand, IMO- especially if it runs & drives. Here in New England, I'd be comfortable paying 2 for an A-body in that kind of shape.

While I must admit a fondness for the giant chrome frisbee caps you described- my parents had an '84 Ram B350 van w/ those same caps for years and years... steelies and dogdishes is always the right answer. I'd leave them the color they are, too.

That's a '72 Fury- one of my favorite C-bodies.

Don't worry- that hurricane will have to spend the day before it gets to you chewing up the Maine coast.. all that Massachusetts-owned beachfront property oughta satisfy it. If not, a platoon of amateur Maine humorist-historians (anybody over 25, in other words) will hop in our rusty '78...

It's not just a MI thing, it's a ME thing too.. I bought a '73 Dart when I was 17 that had worse quarters than that- and this was in 1993. Left to my own devices I probably would've just goobered the hell out of it with bondo, but my mom's cousin (he owned a '70 Swinger 340 at the time) came up...

Keep a close eye on your GF for "side effects".. :-D

I find doing bodywork and (especially) paint to be a very effective "bucket of cold water" poured over my natural inclination to perfectionism. I just don't have the skills (or disipline) to do as nice a job as I want to, so I end up with paint runs covering glops of bondo by the time I'm done...

Sounds like two problems to me, a bad bulb and/or ground in the blinker, and a bad voltage regulator.

Rest assured, I meant no offense.. there's a healthy dollop of French-Canadian in my bloodline, on both sides- including the dyed-in-the-wool Yankee grandpa I originally heard this joke (and many others) from. Hell, you wanna talk conflicted- my wife is from *gasp* Massachusetts.

Ha! Up here in Maine, that's a classic "dumb Frenchman" joke.. haven't heard it since my grandfather passed away.

Be careful, dude- the mantis can be deadly.

Obviously, the only way to settle this debate is for you to post a pic of the shorts in question... :love7:

It may well bolt on, it may even latch.. but, "fit"? No. The lines of the two cars are quite different when it comes to the shape of the nose.

I was just about to dispatch the team of St Bernards with kegs of Schlitz and 20w50 to find you and your "lesser half".. I need my fix of four-door Dart posts; it's been almost a month. Hope you keep in touch- we do miss you guys.

Well, generally I'd say I'm against "remakes", especially of movies that were about as good as they could be in their time. And I'm a huge John Wayne fan. But, this is a Coen brothers movie (Raising Arizona, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou, etc.), so you can rest easy it's not gonna be some...

Love this song. "Come On Eileen" may have been the only "hit" from Dexy's- I think it was used in a John Hughes movie or something -but that whole album (Too-Rye-Ay) is fantastic. Likewise, Men At Work ("Who Can It Be Now?"/"Down Under") got thought of as something of a novelty band, but...

"Service"? "Resale"? :sign5: She should get more "service" than she does, but we're not selling her under any circumstances.. when this truck finally gives up the ghost in a non-repairable way, she's welcome to quietly rot away in the front yard until she completely disintegrates- I'm not gonna...

Another sign that I'm old, I guess- I've never heard that term.. we just call 'em "rollbacks"- the result of a rollback is a nice "J strip". And I did put in the transmission explosion disclaimer... It's best to practice this maneuver in a vehicle you don't care about, like a GM product that's...

Wait for rain. Or snow- both my slant 6 Darts spun the tires like a sunovabitch in the snow. Powerbraking works- the throttle on my '73 used to stick sometimes when I was running around town; by the time the light went green the brake pedal would snap up like it'd been fired from a gun and...

Why am I not surprised in the least that it's green? Awesome score. Mind if I ask what you paid? Just curious how the price compares to what I was quoted at the junkyard on the one I found. ($120, plus pulling it, stripping it, and shipping it- seemed steep to me, but whadda I know..)

Kind of a long shot, but I know a few of you guys own /owned Ford trucks in the same age-range as mine, so maybe one of you guys has experienced something similiar.. OK- basically, a few months ago I glanced down at the F150's odo, which read 261,8xx. A week later, it read 261,6xx. I figured I...

Good point.. of course, the natives were "savages" while us white guys were supposed to be "civilized".. It's in our very nature as primates, though- even chimpanzees and gorillas engage in "politics" within their own societies, often with bloody results. A couple more books to get aggravated...

Ha! First thing I thought of, too.. When I bought my first Dart, I thought that hornring on the 3-spoke wheel was the coolest thing ever- until that February, driving around at night with no heater.. I'd probably make a shop clock out of it. In any case, if I saw that wheel at a yardsale for 5...