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Nice work as usual!

Exactly, haha it will be hard to find something as cool.

For a while after the crash I was not sure if I was going to fix the car and I didn't know much about wheel repair, I assumed the two damaged wheels were scrap so I sent one to Ireland to serve as my garden hose holder for the past two years. After learning that repairing wheels is normal I...

Shortly after visiting the guy doing the repair the car was done! It is now no longer a crashed car which is exciting, its "just" missing some parts. I think he did a fantastic job, the new blue 68 fender fits like a glove and it looks more or less original with the rolled sheetmetal the...

A little more progress on the repair. When I was in Sweden over Christmas I went to visit the guy who was straightening the car, luckily this was only 1.5 hours away. Both frame rails needed some repair from the wheels moving back but most damage was on the passenger side, as you can see the...

Great work as usual. What speedometer cable did you use? Does silver sport have one that works with the original instruments? I assume an adapter to change the gearing will be needed later on.

Just read the whole thread, super clean work, thanks for documenting! I have saved a lot of photos for reference when I do the same swap.

The straightening of the car has begun! The car was transported to the guy who is doing the job a couple of weeks ago and he has made some progress which is very exciting to see. So far the dent on the left frame rail has been fixed, next up is the right side where most of the damage is. When...

Thank you. No matter what the car is for the k member and LCA welding is a great mod, almost no cost and makes a big difference. That's good to know about the sheetmetal, so far I have a 68 passenger side fender and hope to reuse the drivers side, for the bumper we will have to see, there are...

It does make progress very slow. When its running I hope to bring it to Ireland where it might become the only Dodge Dart in the country, there are almost no American classics here. Thanks! The steering wheel is a Grant challenger 860.

Have you noticed much difference in terms of steering feedback, maybe small bumps and divots in the road feel different?

Unfortunately at this point the progress will slow down for a while. I have the car in Sweden but live full time in Ireland which means I have a very limited amount of time to work on it. Before wrapping up for this summer I received the Borgerson power steering box from Peter Bergman...

Great work! Will be following.

Very cool project, great work! Will there be any problems registering it/making it road legal? Don't know how it works in the US.

Just a small bit of work done today. I welded a temporary piece of metal to the floor under the driveshaft just to stop it from scraping on the ground when being transported. After sitting for years the car picked up a lot of dust and graffiti so I brought it outside and washed it for the...

Super information thank you! Ill start looking into B body brakes. The spindles, brakes and wheels make sense to do at the same time.

The parts are now installed and the car is finally a roller again. It feels good and is a bit of a milepost after the car has been sitting wrecked for three years! I have a few more small prep jobs to do, then the car is ready to be transported to the guy who is going to straighten the car. I...

The old ball joints are just temporary while getting the car straightened. But it turns out that one was too bad even for just rolling the car up on to a trailer and transporting it to the chassis jig.!

I got started on the assembly of the front suspension and ran into one more issue. The passenger lower ball joint was way worse than I thought, it easily pops out of its seat. The plan is to replace both lower ball joints but I have not ordered them yet. In Europe its not as simple in the US, if...

Just a little bit of progress today. The SPC upper control arms that I wanted only come with a big ball joint so the tapered holes in the spindles need to be enlarged. I bought a 7° reamer and got the job done little by little making sure not to go too far. The reamer cost the equivalent of...

With the k member done I finally got to start assembling things. I have ordered most parts from Peter Bergman, some parts got held up with shipping but the most important stuff to get the wheels on the car has arrived: -SPC adjustable upper control arms (replacing stock ones with Moog offset...

So the 67 K member idler mount issue was a surprise that delayed things and took much longer than expected. In the end the jig was scrapped and I got help from my dads friend who is very experienced and has built many cars. We spent a lot of time measuring and making small adjustments in order...

To move the idler arm mount I built a jig on the old k member very similar to what someone else on this forum had done before. But when it was transferred something was definitely wrong, the idler arm mount sat way too high on the new k member, it is tacked on in the last photo and the...

Yes this has now been done, the 67 is probably quite a lot more flimsy than the later ones. Thanks you! It will be a slow repair but eventually it will be back on the road.

The first parts I got ahold of was a new k-member and lower control arms, they were super rusty but cleaned up well with sandblasting. The next step was weld over all the seams and box some areas off. I did the exact same thing with the old k-member on page 2 so there is no need to go into much...

Thank you! I appreciate it. I have been sourcing a few parts over the last year so most of the major components are finally on hand.

Damage report: A year ago I had a friend (retired crash repair guy) look at the car and take some measurements. He found that the car was not bent out of shape that badly, about 5mm out of tolerance, the passenger side needs to be pulled down if I remember correctly. The car did not hit a wall...

Thank you. Yes all things considered a sticky throttle at the wrong time could do a lot of harm. The wheel going back has done most of the damage to the car itself. Thanks. The thick rear bar was too stiff for the thin factory bar on the front. The car rolled more in the front than in rear...

So after many years it’s finally time to resurrect this project and give an update on what has happened. In 2018 after putting the car back together it chronically overheated, I tried everything and eventually gave up and let it sit. In 2020 a friend of a family members friend was given the car...

Only found this thread now. Really fantastic built, I will be following.