Might have to sell my 70 340 Swinger (long)

[gts340]

Well, as some of you may know, I have been moving and selling off a lot of my cars and parts lately. A family farm property where I kept a lot of it is on the block right now. I've been slowly selling off some parts and cars over the past year or so in anticipation of this. Over the past four days I've sold a truck and two cars and scrapped another parts car plus some other crap down there trying to clean up 80 years of farm scrap. I'm dead tired tonight. My last haul for the day was my 70 sublime 340 3 speed Swinger. I bought the car for some of the parts about 4 years ago. When I got it home I thought it was too cool, too rare and it was restorable so I stuffed it in storage. Ironically I moved it to another farm of a family member (why didn't I get so lucky?) but I only have limited time to store the car there. I have room at home for the car but don't really feel like tripping over a non-op car right now with everything else going on in life. I have two other cars that need a restoration and the GSS could stand to be brought into this century as well so this car lands dead last on my to-do list. The car needs all the bolt-on panels as well as 1/4's and a trunk floor, the 340 has shrunk to a 318 and it smells bad. The good side is that it's one of 955 340 3 speed cars, one of 923 FJ5 cars and combined it's a pretty rare combo. It has a few neat features like rear defogger and trunk light and neato 70's Chicago street racer traction bars welded on. It also, and I couldn't believe it myself, has an UNCUT and unbroken gauge bezel!

It's not for sale, this isn't a for sale ad, but I would like to know what you guys would do if you were me. Store it for someday, try to sell it to someone who would restore it or part it out and use the goodies on something else that requires less work?

 

[Keith Mopar]

It's to bad it's forcing to get rid of some stuff. It always seem to happen, junk to day and you throw it out, and before you know it you are looking to buy the same stuff you just tossed. I had my wifes Grand mothers double car garage right full of stuff, and when she passed I ended up throwing most of what I had saved.
Keep what you can I say!! And put that car back on the road, or let someone in the family or good friend have a deal on it so it dosn't end up as scrap.

 

[jamesdart]

ahhh sell it. TO ME. gotta do what ya gotta do. im not real big into the factory numbers stuff, i like to build them into the car i would have ordered if i was around then, so to me it wouldnt be a big thing to buy another. of coarse id miss my 69 i have now. i ran into a jam with a 67 impala my dad left me and i had to sell it earlier this year due to lack of storage and too many projects. it was something we worked on together andi really wanted to keep it. in fact i tried to sell one of my darts to keep that old chevy.

 

[Burntorange70]

I would say keep it or if you can't sell it.* I would hate to see a 340 Dart get parted out.* There is getting to be less and less of theme as that happens.

 

[sharpie]

I'd sell it. If you have three restorations to be done, you know you'll never get to this one. It needs at least $10k in bodywork if you do it yourself, too. That's not worth it, IMO.

 

[gts340]

Thanks for the comments and opinions guys, keep them coming. Parting the car would be a LAST resort, It's worth restoring.