Wow, I have just acquired my old 68 Dart 270 that I sold about 5 yrs ago to a guy that just had to have it. The car had a 440, CPPA 2"under chassis headers, RPM intake, Carter 750, 509 purple cam, 727, w/ 3500 stall, 8 3/4 w/ 4.56 out of a early B-body, totally rebuilt front end, and frame connecters.
At the time I built it the quarters were rusted out pretty bad & I didnt have the money to buy new quarters so I cut the fenders out and mini tubbed it. It doesnt look to bad but I may fix the wheel well/fenders back the right way now.
The car was in pretty decite shape when I sold it, and was a more than a blast to drive around town.
Now it has a blown engine, seems the guy ran it low on oil while he was driving it on the interstate (smart) and it spun # 6 rod bearing. It also has a little damage to the passenger side. The guy was cheating on his wife and well she took a (hammer?) to the car. She beat the pass rear quarter, front fender and busted the passenger side rear window & the windshield.
I saw this damage about a month ago and for some reason I thought it was alot worse than it really is. I guess I was in shock to see my old friend had been beat on.
Anyway I was working on my 67 Dart convertible when the guy called me up and asked me if I wanted to by the car back from him. I told him that times are tough right now and I wish I could but I cant afford it. I told him that I might trade the convertible for it and well now I have my old friend back w/ all of the parts that went with it. As for the 67 Dart convertible I will probally get it back in the future.
I was building another 68 Dart as a Pro Street car but it needs alot of work still so I'm going to pull the narrowed rear out of it and install it in this car. It has a set of 29.50x13.50 slicks on it which should look awesome under the car.
I have a 500ci Stroker that I think might make around 600hp to put in it. The engine has a Crowe racing 950cfm carb, Edelbrock Performer RPM 88cc heads & intake manifold, Compcams roller rockers/lifters, .660 lift in/ex, Dur@ 50 255in 263ex, RPM brand nitride 4"150 crank, RPM 6"760 H beam rods, SRP pistons, that w/ the 88cc heads will be about 10.5-1 so I can use pump gas.
One thing that I do remeber is it was a b**ch to get to the plugs and wires because of the headers & inner fenders. There is a little rust on the inner fenders now so the are going to come out to make thing a little easier as far as being friendly under the hood.
I have almost all of the parts to build one hell of a Pro Street car now.
The only thing that I need now is a 12 point cage, and a coil over conversion set.
Has any one tried the Jegs or compitition enginering cages? I'm thinking of buying one of those kits.
Heres some photos of my old friend ready to be brought back to life.
At the time I built it the quarters were rusted out pretty bad & I didnt have the money to buy new quarters so I cut the fenders out and mini tubbed it. It doesnt look to bad but I may fix the wheel well/fenders back the right way now.
The car was in pretty decite shape when I sold it, and was a more than a blast to drive around town.
Now it has a blown engine, seems the guy ran it low on oil while he was driving it on the interstate (smart) and it spun # 6 rod bearing. It also has a little damage to the passenger side. The guy was cheating on his wife and well she took a (hammer?) to the car. She beat the pass rear quarter, front fender and busted the passenger side rear window & the windshield.
I saw this damage about a month ago and for some reason I thought it was alot worse than it really is. I guess I was in shock to see my old friend had been beat on.
Anyway I was working on my 67 Dart convertible when the guy called me up and asked me if I wanted to by the car back from him. I told him that times are tough right now and I wish I could but I cant afford it. I told him that I might trade the convertible for it and well now I have my old friend back w/ all of the parts that went with it. As for the 67 Dart convertible I will probally get it back in the future.
I was building another 68 Dart as a Pro Street car but it needs alot of work still so I'm going to pull the narrowed rear out of it and install it in this car. It has a set of 29.50x13.50 slicks on it which should look awesome under the car.
I have a 500ci Stroker that I think might make around 600hp to put in it. The engine has a Crowe racing 950cfm carb, Edelbrock Performer RPM 88cc heads & intake manifold, Compcams roller rockers/lifters, .660 lift in/ex, Dur@ 50 255in 263ex, RPM brand nitride 4"150 crank, RPM 6"760 H beam rods, SRP pistons, that w/ the 88cc heads will be about 10.5-1 so I can use pump gas.
One thing that I do remeber is it was a b**ch to get to the plugs and wires because of the headers & inner fenders. There is a little rust on the inner fenders now so the are going to come out to make thing a little easier as far as being friendly under the hood.
I have almost all of the parts to build one hell of a Pro Street car now.
The only thing that I need now is a 12 point cage, and a coil over conversion set.
Has any one tried the Jegs or compitition enginering cages? I'm thinking of buying one of those kits.
Heres some photos of my old friend ready to be brought back to life.
