66 Dart "Sally"

I figure I will do the daily drivers before the project cars so....

This is my wife's year round daily driver 66 Dodge dart 270.

- Late model hydraulic cam 225 slant six

- Engine all rebuilt running synthetic oil

- 60 over

- new stock cam

- N.O.S. stock 1 bbl carb on factory intake

- Stock exhaust

- 904 3 speed auto

- 7 1/4 rear 

- Paint and body done last summer 

- Seats recovered

- 76 Dart front disk brakes installed

- Rebuilt front suspension

Future plans...

- Install cleaned and detailed 8 1/4 rear

- KYB shocks on all 4 corners

- Install the new stereo 

- New windshield and gasket

- Paint the wheels body color

- New tires with 3/4" white walls

- New hub caps as soon as she finds a set she likes.

The day we got "Sally" home from craigslist for $600. The valves were so far out of adjustment that a mile from the guys house the temp gauge spiked and there was barely enough power to go over 45 mph. Got her home, adjusted the valves and she ran great!

Factory 13" wheels.

All body work, sealer, primer and prep work was done in the driveway last summer with the help of friends Chris, Daryl, Caron,  Justin and Harley on the weekends and after work (my wife was driving the car to and from work during whole thing). My wife really wanted to help out but unfortunately this was going on right before her back surgery so she could barely move. 

Trukito

I finally caved in and created a stupid blog so now I am just trying to figure this shit out...

I will say right now that there won't be any instagramming, pin ups, rat rods, "kulture", "lifestyle", or any other rock-a-silly bullshit here!  As far as I am concerned the whole rat rod/pin up/rock-a-billy fad has fucking ruined car shows worse than Goodguys, goldchainers and pro-streeters ever did back in the 90's!

  This will be a place for my cars, rants, or any other gearhead related projects. If I go to a swapmeet, car show, help out on a buddies project or have an idea for one of my projects it will go here.  

Current projects...

My year round daily driver and the newest vehicle my wife and I own, my 69 Dodge D-100 SWB.

 - 60 over 225 slant six
- Clifford 268 cam
- Ported head, stock valves
- Offy 4bbl intake
- 500 cfm Eddy with mods
- HEI ignition
- GM "one wire" alt
- Clifford "shorty' headers
- Rebuilt Overdrive 4 speed
- 8 3/4" rear with 3.23 open (non-posi) gears. 
- Original Superior 500 gold flake steering wheel.
- 8mm gold flaked roof by Justin Vincent.
- 56 Olds hubcaps because I had them.


Future plans include...

- 3.91 gears to take full advantage of the overdrive.
- Motorcraft 2150 2bbl carb with vacuum advance and a adapter for the 4bbl intake. Better gas mileage and better performance on slants
- New dash, smoothed out with a 59 Oldsmobile gauge cluster. 
- Paint interior Gloss ivory.
- Gold vinyl tuck and roll headliner, dash pad, door panels and seat.
- Eventually redo bodywork and paint the truck gloss ivory.
- Yet to be decided custom tail lights, rear bumper and grill.
- 2006 Crown Vic front suspension. Look it up, here is one link.
- Bellflower exhaust tips.

This is my daily driver so i mess with it when i get the chance. Right now it is not super high on the list.

Here is what it looked like the day I got it home. Got it off craigslist from some gacked out motherfucker who was turning it into a rat rod. He bagged it by using a firestone load leveler kit and ran the shocks up through the bed. I am still finding shit 2 years later that he fucked up! The motor started knocking 2 blocks from his house and the granny geared 3 speed was hell on the freeway!

Stupid fucking clown shoes!

Fucking minitruckers!

And now!

And just to prove that I use it like a truck.

Loaded up going to the Monroe swapmeet last year..

2 weeks ago, picking up the 1962 394 olds and cast iron 1960 hydramatic trans for my 56 olds. 65 mph on the bump stops all the way home with no problems! No one will ever be able to say that this truck is not a daily driver!

I will do the rest of the projects later because I have a sinus infection and feel like shit right now!