Yeah the switches can double as coat hangers lol . I didnt search for any other #'s. Trans isn't original. The floor pans and trunk are very solid . If i do end up getting it im gonna bathe it in mystery oil and see if it'll fire up .
?s about 1968 Dart GTS 383 4 speed car
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Unless it was 1000.00 I think you dodged a bullet.
He had it listed @ $7500 . There was a bay full of parts , a couple suregrip pigs , new in box aluminum eddy rpm heads n intake , several 440's , a pallet of a body 4 speeds . No way to confirm condition on any of the parts . I offered him 6k for the car and enough of the parts lying around to build another driveline for it . Im not in a hurry to jump into another project. Im just excited because im in the last 7 month stretch of a 14 year child support payment of $763 a month and looking forward to be able to do something nice for myself now.
The 68 383 GTS has always been a favorite of mine . 20 years ago I found a triple black 4speed car rust free solid original completely intact with the only flaw being a cracked windshield. Had 4 mouths to feed + me so family 1st now time for cars ...
Frank Mopar
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That would be true. My brother bought a 68 vert in 1970. Still has it. All number matching. Cowl, trunk, engine and trans all match
MrCab
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I remember being told in the mid 1970s that the 1969 Mopar B bodies had the Vin and or sequence numbers stamp in 19 different places along with the dash tag, fender tag, stamp on the front the inner left door post, upside down on the radiator core support, on the floorboard of the front passenger seat, on the package tray behind the rear seat in front of the rear window, on the driver side of the upper trunk lip under the trunk rubber seal and some others I'm not remembering now the sequence number is the digits after the 5 or 6 digits Identifying the car make, model year and so on. I hope that I wasn't mislead back then.
And the BH housing
MrCab
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Not on the bellhousing, (on 1968 only, I believe) where hand stamp on the rear of the block behind the driver side cylinder head and on the passenger side lower ear on the bottom of the block, the machine surface the oil pan bolts onto by the lower passenger side 7/16 bell housing bolt hole.
Steve is correctamundo. 68 was the first year for that, so you should be able to tell.
That car was way too far gone to not have the original drive train. You did good by missing that one.
Sanspans
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i would die to have a 68 with a 383 and 4 speed. my grandfather bought one for me when i was about a year old. he wanted to fix it up since he had a 69 dart gts with a 340. i was about 12 when he died. i haven't seen the car since. all i remember is that it was a heavily modded 68 for street racing. personally i would have made it all original to make it look like it came off the factory floor. I've since then have been saving up to get another that's just a roller. but i do want it to have the 383 4 speed vin to keep the car original. i'm still so young so i have my whole life ahead of me to get one. right now i'm looking for a older 63 - 66 dodge dart or Plymouth valiant to have as a daily driver.
Who was selling the bodies? Make a great start of a race car.
I used to see those ads in Mopar magazines towards the end of the print era. Ill have to dig a couple out and see who it was. Wouldnt surprise me if it was someone we all know ( or knew ).
Thanks.
How could you enjoy it if you died?
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