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hey it's Freiburger here at the Dulcich’s dog farm where the collection of garbage
just keeps on giving here's a vehicle that I don't think we've ever really
shown you before but you've probably seen it in a lot of backgrounds and it
would appear to be fairly worthless except for the fact that this is an
original 1970 Dodge Dart swinger 340 four-speed car now what makes that
special of course is that's the high-performance model that they made
that year and they were not that common they didn't do it again in 1971
of course the 340 dart came out in 1968 68 and 69 had sort of more the squared
off profile on them whereas the 70 had some extensions on the front of the
fenders here and it had a plastic grill across the front and honestly that is
the key reason why the thing sits here just like this is because neither
Dulcich nor I are really into the 70 model he ended up picking this thing up
for 800 bucks like I don't know more than 20 years ago could be almost 30
years ago and fun fact to know and tell the first story he ever did for me as a
freelancer when I was the editor of car craft magazine was in filling these
holes right here with lead and so that was done I would say 1997 ish he just
filled those three holes the lead for that story and it's probably the last
time he's touched this car you know what's interesting about these is that
in 1968 Dodge came out with the Hurst Super Stock Hemi dart it was a factory
sold dart that was intended for NHRA Superstock competition with a 426 Hemi
in it and that was a 1968 model NHRA liked to see the racers update the body
style so that it seemed like new cars were racing all the time and actually
when dodge was involved in sponsorship they like that too so everything about
this car from here to that front fender that I showed you is identical to a 68
or 69 and so you saw a lot of those factory Hemi darts ended up with this
much of the rear tail section welded on from a 1970 model and with these
extensions added to sort of add that sloping 70 rear style
I remember Chrysler Power magazine was a title that I was involved with early in
my career and they had a factory Hemi dart that had been converted like that
so you can see this thing oh looks like it was factory f8 green which I never
realized before now I've never opened the door on this thing those are not the
original buckets in it that is the original dash and steering column but
pretty far gone Steve does have the numbers matching 340 engine out of this
thing and he also has the numbers matching 4-speed which he got all
rebuilt at passing performance and I'm going to show you something really cool
that I just spotted in the back here among a bunch of packing peanuts check
that out factory rally - ooh with the factory
tach in the middle I'm not going to wipe that dirt off and
scratch that up but that is a factory tach in a factory rally - I am going to
be putting that inside so that is the story on the 340 swinger that's been
sitting here and the thing is I think if I could talk dulcich into selling any
one of his cars this would be it if you have any interest in paying him real
money for this email me it's the guys at Roadkill.com
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