zane was halfway looking for another car, he loved the dart i sold him, but he wanted a two door with a better body/interior. When we started looking for a project for zane we whent over everything. One was a 79 dodge warlock that looked prommising from 30 ft away but was a bondo bucket that didnt have a rust free panel on it. It did however have a 340, so naturally the owner wanted twice as much as it was worth. we went through to many peoples houses and farms hoping for somthing promising but came up with too much work and too much price tag.
then came one day. I was at work, i worked at a gas station at the time. and drove my duster to work everyday. Alot of truck drivers talked to me about my car, and mopars they used to have and ones they had for sale ect.... somtimes it was hard to tell if they really had a mopar or not an were feeding me full of crap. anyway, one day a man had stoped to get gas and noticed my duster. He struck up a conversation with me and had told me that a friend of a friend had an old dodge dart. He said he was trying to sell it and it was only 65 miles away.
I quickly called zane and we were on our way the next weekend. Zanes dad even whent along for the trip.
Zane had called the guy with the "old dodge dart" and gotten a little information about it, basicly that it was a 73 dodge dart swinger that he had bought from the origional owner who lived only a few blocks away. The car only had 83k miles on it.
When zane saw it he knew it was his.
The car was origionally a 73 dodge dart swinger, tan on tan, 318 with a 904 torque flite tranmission. delux interior, power disc brakes with 4.5 inch bolt pattern wheels. I was exacltly what zane wanted. When the car was brand new, the oner put glass pack mufflers on it. When the car was about 15 years old the origional owner had repainted the car, he was growing tired of the tan exterior color and opted for a burnt bronz mettalic paint, they did doorjambs, trunk, about everyting except for the engine bay.
anyway. the price was a litte too much than zane could afford, and zane didnt like "dealing" with people down in price. but the owner must of seen that zane was in high school and couldnt quite swing it. The owner did somthing that most wouldnt do and knocked 2k dollars off his asking price so that it was exactly what zane could afford. :cheers:
Zane couldnt quit smiling, the car was driven all the way back from the oners house with no problems that a new fuel filter couldnt fix. The 318 purred and you could tell the car didnt have a lot miles on it.
