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Looking good! Being from Missouri, my project cars always start with replacing the floors.... it would be awesome to start with something rust free.

Yes! We moved in April. I had a 1 car garage at the old house that couldn't fit my toolbox. Having the 3 car garage makes things a lot easier.

Here's one of my helpers removing parts before pulling the motor.

Thanks! I've had lots of help. Here is how it sits now while I collect parts over the winter.

Ok.... I know I haven't posted any real updates since 2015, so here goes... All the heavy body work is finished. The driver side lower quarter panel was replaced with a 73 style patch so that the marker light will match. I wonder if anyone will ever notice that my 74 has the marker lights in...

Nice! Someone's gotta save em! From what I've seen most would have turned our darts into parts cars.

We've made a little more progress on the bodywork, but I don't have any good pics to share. Since everyone likes pics, I thought I would show a little bit of what the future holds for the dart...

Thanks for the words of encouragement guys! Since I have the 73 style marker light hole on the new panel, and I need to replace the lower section on the other side, I'll just keep the 73 location...

I took off work Friday and Monday, so that I could work harder than I do at work, to get some of this rusty metal replaced! Me and my Dad spent 4 days working on the car pretty much non stop. The first 2 pics show how short the quarter panel was. Extending and fitting the quarter panel...

The first thing I did in the spring was take a wire wheel and scraper to the trunk to see if I could get away with just patching the bad parts. Turns out it was all to rusted to save. All of the rust shown above will be replaced by this:

Last year I got as far as cutting out the old quarter panel before I had to stop for the winter. I also realized how poor of a fit the AMD quarter panel was. Actually, I'm not convinced that it actually is an AMD quarter panel. The seller (Tamraz on E-bay) told me it fit years 72-76, and this...

Lately I've been thinking about adding a megasquirt fuel injected turbo setup to my slant. That will be a few years away after I finish the body work. The way I see it our later year cars will never be worth much, so why not make it what you want it. If it were a hemi Cuda that would be a...

Lookin' good so far! I'm also working on a very rusty 74 swinger and I'm taking the same approach. I know it will never really be worth much, so I'm fixing it the way I want it without keeping it original. When I first started I wanted to keep everything period correct, but now I think it will...

Man, I wish my 74 swinger was that clean when I started on it. Nice car!

The car runs much better with the super six. I can now start it consistently when I want to work on it! The passenger door on the car was in too bad of shape to use the lines as a reference for putting in the new quarter panel, so I got a better door from a FABO member. I still need to work...

Subscribed! I just spent over an hour reading your build in detail. Keep up the awesome work. This kind of thing makes me want to get out work on my Dart. I also like the charcoal and black stripe scheme.

Wow! It's hard to believe it's been 2 years since I have made any real progress on my car. I've been back at it in the past few weeks and hope to keep the momentum going! The carb I had on the car was junk, so I am working on swapping it out with a super six set-up and a mopar performance 6...

It's coming along slowly... I'm lucky if I get to spend an hour a week on it. The rust on the roof has been dealt with and I'm working on filling and smoothing out the roof seams. I'm hoping that I will have the roof finished and painted soon so I can put the windows and interior back in before...

The dash is almost ready to go back in! I still need to get a cover for the dash pad and a pair of defroster vents.

I got the cheaper ones from Rockauto.com. They took some trimming to make fit, but for the price, I really can't complain. You could also check with member Crackedback, he sometimes sells factory floorpans from parts cars.

I was thinking about welding in a patch panel but then I would almost have to find a new dash frame to cut the panel from. I don't think I could have replaced the curved part without using a replacement from an actual dash frame.

It's been way too long since I have had anything to update and have been showing serious symptoms Dart withdrawal... The past few months have been hectic! Since my current job was getting me nowhere, I spent all summer unsuccessfully searching for a new one. When it came time to register for...

Nice!

Subscribed! I'm also working on a 74 swinger and just finished up the floor pans not too long ago. http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/showthread.php?t=145813

Nice car! I wish my parents would have let me get a cool first car. I got stuck with a 93 4 door Dodge Shadow with a 2.5L four banger.

I'll have to check that stuff out later from my computer. My phone won't run flash so the website doesn't come up right...

I think I will try some 36 grit to see how much more of the rust I can remove before using a rust converter.

Here is what the car looks like after about 5 days of sanding with 80 grit. The top is almost down to bare rust/metal. It's pitted pretty bad in spots but there is no rust through except for a few small spots in the pillars that will have to be fixed. I'm going to post this question in the...

Well, my car is no longer worthy of a guest appearance for an episode of the Flintstones. But on a positive note, the floor pans are finished! After welding in the new metal, we used permatex rust treatment on all of the areas with surface rust, then re-sealed all of the seams and covered...

Well, after seeing all the damage that a vinyl roof can do to the top of a car in the mid west, I have decided to not put a vinyl top back on the car. A lot of the rust holes have been fixed, but there is a lot of pitting on the whole roof that can't really be sanded out. Has anyone else ever...