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guzzimike

guzzimike

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Hello all...we have a 1968 Dodge Dart GT. The Dart originally had a 273 V8..

We bought this car in 2005 with the intent of having a Family (Father / Son) Project completed for our son's Senior Year in High School (2007). The idea was to just pull the 273 out and fit a 360...but things sorta snowballed and before we knew it, we had talked ourselves into stuffing a Big Block in there...:smile:

It took us about a year and a half to get it done, all work except for the Bodywork & Paint and the exhaust system was done in our garage at home.

We managed to finish the Dart the summer before his Senior Year...

So now it has a 383 B-block, Schummy Tri-Ys, 727, 3.91 Sure Grip, '73 Duster Disc Brakes, Cragar SS wheels, and all the many other things necessary to make a big block work in an Daily Driver A-Body... 8)



http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/DartGT010107008.jpg?t=1247747020

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/DartGT010107002.jpg?t=1247747064
 
Welcome guzzimike father and son builds are the best.
Jump on in and enjoy, Nize 68 GT=P~
 
Welcome Mike. Car looks great. I have seen you on BBD too. Glad you could make it to another great A body site.
 
Sorry but if I would have had that car at his age I would have never made it to the ripe old age of 39.LOL Very nice looking car...Jim
 
Thanx for the Welcome, Guys...

A couple more pics..

I installed this dual snorkel Ram-Air system not too long ago. The idea was not so much as to get the so-called "Ram Air Effect" ( after all, that only kicks in at +130 MPH...:roll:) but more so as to get Cool Air induction into the Carburator..

This system allows the Carb to breathe Cooler, Outside Air as opposed to feeding on the Hot Air found inside the engine compartment..

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/MomAuntTinaandUncleJohnny002.jpg?t=1247761283

Another shot of the Dart

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/DartGT010107010.jpg?t=1247762234


And the obligatory "Before" and "After" pics of my son Josh and his Dart..8)

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/4578870e.jpg?t=1247762298

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/blndyhb/DartGT010107015.jpg?t=1247762374
 
AWESOME!!!!

One suggestion...IMHO...put a stripe on the back....breaks up all that RED!!!!

Looks great! Son looks really happy! Cool.
 
68383GTS said:
Sorry but if I would have had that car at his age I would have never made it to the ripe old age of 39.LOL Very nice looking car...Jim
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Aha..! But there was method to my madness, Jim..

The boy was going to get a car for School because we live about 7 Miles from the School and Mom and I both worked..So, it was either a Jap 4 cyl Tin Can or an American Muscle Car. And my wife and I Knew that whatever car he'd get, he'd race. After all, he's a Teenage boy and that's what teenage boys do...

So, with that in mind, there was no way I was gonna let him have a 2000 Lbs, DOHC, Turbo'd 200HP Japanese 'Fast and Furious' Fart-Can Mobile..

< Not a month goes by that we don't see in the News about some teens that were road racing those Jap Cars down some Residential Tracts at 130 and how they lost it "Drifting" around a turn...No Thanx. >

OTOH, this Day-Glo Orange pumpkin is a total Cop Magnet. It has dual Flowmasters, so it also sounds as LOUD as it looks..

No way was the boy going to be messing around too much, because the Police would know in a minute who was what...

And on the outside chance that he did get a wild hair up his arse, it would be for a very short period of time, in a Straight Line.

Also, with the price of fuel where it was, the Dart had a self-limiting travel radius of about 20 Miles.

No Road-Trips for the boy in That car, not even if his Buds kicked in with Gas Money...:-D

Bottom line, my son graduated High School with not a single trafic ticket or any car-generated hooliganism of any sort, so I tend to think that "the method" worked well enough...8)



BTW, back when I was in High School in the early to mid '70s, I had a 1967 Camaro SS, 4-Speed, 4.11 Posi. And Yes, I did get in trouble a few times, but those were different times, if ya know what I mean..
 
Welcome to FABO Mike and Josh from a fellow Orange County Mopar owner. You're gonna have fun here!
Nice looking Dart, same color as my original '69 340 Swinger I stupidly sold years ago.
 
Dfnsmn34 said:
AWESOME!!!!

One suggestion...IMHO...put a stripe on the back....breaks up all that RED!!!!

Looks great! Son looks really happy! Cool.
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Dude..I Sooooo want to run a Satin Black '68 Bumble Bee Stripe on the Dart...But I've been out-voted by the Wife and Son...

Waddaya gonna do...
 
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