#1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger VIN: LM23HOR242969 Only the 1970 dodge dart swingers with the 340 engine had the rally pac gauges (only 933 had the three-speed Manuel), and 700 were plumb crazy.This is a numbers matching swinger 340 CI V-8 - 275...

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340

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As always, once Plymouth dealers had something, Dodge dealers wanted it (and vice-versa) - and this was particularly true of the 1970 Plymouth Duster. Plymouth had created the A-body Duster on a shoestring $15M budget, money originally allocated to refreshing the Valiant sedans (the coupe and conv. were given to the Barracuda in 1967). The purpose being to hold on to the buyers who wanted smaller muscle cars like the ‘60s Barracuda as it grew into the larger 1970 E-body ‘Cuda/Challenger twins. - The Duster wasn’t part of Chrysler’s long term plans, but it was also very cheap to create - which is probably why it made it to production. It was a new body on top of the existing Valiant platform - the wheelbase, fenders and hood, doors, wheel track, and rear overhang were retained. But within the confines of what could be changed junior designer Neil Walling, working under Milt Antonick, went to town on a fastback with a totally new rear end and quarter panels. - Aimed at the semi-fastback Chevy Nova, the Duster quickly proved very popular, not only as a 340-powered muscle car, but all through its range down to the slant six economy models - ~217K were sold for 1970. Dodge had scaled back the Dart GTS as the Challenger arrived. In 1970 the performance Dart was the Swinger 340, replacing the 383 GTS; and Dodge was stunned by the Duster’s volume. When the division’s chief, Bob McCurry, asked for a Duster of his own, he got one - the #DodgeDemon. - In return for Dodge getting the Demon, Plymouth got a version of Dodge’s hardtop Dart Coupe; which also sold very well as the Plymouth Valiant Scamp. Anchored by the striped, scooped, and rapid Demon 340, the Dodge did okay, but never as well as the Duster. After just two years and, supposedly, complaints from “religious groups,” prompted a name change to “Dart Sport” for 1973. - Keen eyed observers will note something different about this particular Demon, however - the roofline looks off. That’s because somebody chopped this ’71 Demon 340 into a nice El Camino-style pickup (this is an old photo, and there’s no shot of the bed, sadly). Neither Dodge nor Plymouth ever got a U.S.-production “ute” until the 80s Rampage/Scamp. https://www.instagram.com/oldmotors/p/BxaI_RsFygZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=j44truu252y5

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For Sale: The Dodge Dart Swinger 340 Concept Car From 1969

For Sale: The Dodge Dart Swinger 340 Concept Car From 1969 #cardesign #musclecar #v8 #dodgedart #dodgedartswinger #conceptcar #classiccar #vintagecar #car #cars #alexanderbrothers

This is the original Dodge Dart Swinger 340 concept car that was first shown to the world at the 1969 Chicago Auto Show, it was a precursor to the upcoming 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger production car with many styling elements making it onto the final vehicle. This concept car was off the radar for many years, only resurfacing when it was acquired by Steven Juliano and given a careful restoration back…

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340...

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DODGE DART SWINGER 340   1970

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger 340 Clone (Wellsville, Ny) $14,900 obo

You are looking at a beautifully built up Dart, The Red exterior is stunning and it pairs very nicely with the black vinyl interior. Powered by a nicely modified 340 v8 and an automatic transmission with a reverse manual valve body, the engine has only 3 passes on the strip so you can rest assured knowing that you'll have performance and reliability for years to come. Performance modifications include but are not limited to headers, a high-rise manifold and electronic ignition. This has no rust and it is very clean inside and out. The tires have excellent tread and there are slicks on the rear. Extra parts are included. The car has been meticulously maintained and garage kept throughout its life. Records and receipts are available upon request. All reasonable offers will be considered.

Please give our friend Scott a call at 215-783-5152

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Rapid Transit Caravan Muscle Car Collection Heads For Auction

By Dave Ashton

Mecum will be hosting a rather special auction this May in Indianapolis featuring the Juliano collection. The Plymouths in question are custom show cars from the Rapid Transit Caravan which were used as part of the marketing for the Rapid Transit System. The collection also includes 4 original Shelby Cobras, a Cheetah race car, a Plymouth Barracuda and a Dodge Dart Swinger concept car.

Juliano amassed the collection over 30 years, which also includes plenty of automotive art. Although a modified ‘Cuda was eventually out of reach to complete the collection and with Steven Juliano battling pancreatic cancer through the 2000s, the vehicles going to auction are still amazingly creative examples of their time.

The Rapid Transit Caravan was conceived to promote the Rapid Transit System at Plymouth, who hired Harry Bradley(GM and Hot Wheels designer) and Bob Larivee to hook up customizers to make the cars more youth inspired. The Rapid Transit Caravan travelled the US visiting Plymouth dealers and car shows, showing the complete package of the Rapid Transit System from high-performance parts, racing information, the cars and accessories.

Once the promotional tour of the caravan had ended, the vehicles used fell into obscurity, mainly because they were not factory correct. However, Juliano after a meeting with Ed Meyer, started to track down and collect these obscure vehicles and slowly over time started to bring back interest into these custom cars. The car is also rarely been shown in public with two out of the three been shown at Carlisle a few years ago and all three at Muscle Cars and Corvette Nationals last year for the first time in public.

The other vehicles in the auction consist of a 1964 Shelby 289 Cobra Roadster CSX2416, a 1967 Shelby 427 S/C Cobra Roadster CSX3042, a 1966 Shelby 427 Cobra Roadster CSX3173, 1965 Shelby Factory Stage III 289 Cobra Dragonsnake CSX2427, a 1963 Cheetah Race Car No. 4 of 11 built, 1969 Plymouth Barracuda Mod Top 340 CI, 1 of 937 produced and a 1969 Dodge Dart Swinger Concept Car.

1971 Plymouth Road Runner Rapid Transit, LOT R254 Job 169 and Serial No. 100016 pilot plant construction Engine: 383 CI Transmission: Automatic Color: Orange Candy-over-Pearl with White Pearl break-line Built by Chuck Miller of Styline Custom Known as the as the ‘Chicken Head’ for the Road Runner side marker lights Front end molded and extended over six inches Hand-formed rear roll pan with concealed Red, Green and amber tail lenses Ram Air induction scoops Molded aerodynamic rear spoiler Deck lid recessed over 4 inches Bucket seats and center console Custom Black pan wheel covers OEM Interior Miles: 1,300

1971 Plymouth Hemi Road Runner Rapid Transit, LOT R255 Engine: 426 CI. /425 HP Transmission: Torqueflite Automatic Color: Candy Gold with Pearl White roof Dana 60 4.10 rear axle 150 MPH speedometer Road Runner horn button on 3-spoke steering wheel Enlarged air scoops Flat Black deck lid and hood Oversized Road Runner birds painted into the body Rear wheel wells enlarged and flared out 4 inches Molded rear spoiler Bucket seats and center console 9 inch square Cibie headlights and plastic honeycomb grille One-piece tail lens Shaved handles Ansen Sprint wheels Bodywork by Roman’s Chariot Shop in Cleveland, Ohio Restored by Ken Heckett in 2000 Miles: 1,700

1970 Plymouth Duster Rapid Transit Engine: LA-series 340 CI. small block/275 HP, 4-barrel carburetor Transmission: 4-Speed Color: Green Interior: White and Black bucket seat interior Built by Byron Grenfel twice in 1970 and restyled in 1971 Dual exhaust with custom through-bumper exit Functional brake air intakes 3.90 rear axle Power brakes with front discs Stewart Warner tachometer and auxiliary gauges Solid State radio Color-keyed mirrors Dual fuel fillers American Racing slotted Dragmaster wheels Upper front-grille Duster psychedelic lettering Custom headlamp enclosers Custom OE-lensed tail lamps green and yellow custom striping Signed glovebox by Grenfel and RTS Show Promotions Manager Bob Larivee

Find out more here https://www.mecum.com/auctions/indianapolis-2019/collections/steven-juliano-estate-collection/

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1971 Dodge Dart: Destiny and Determination

After a 22-year journey, Bill Hartman finally has the big-block Dart he’s always wanted.

Bill Hartman grew up immersed in all things Mopar, because his father was the service manager at Springfield Dodge in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in the 1960s and 1970s. The family always had a shiny new loaner car in the driveway so Bill was exposed to a wide variety of different Chrysler products throughout his childhood, but it was actually his brother-in-law, not his dad, who got him hooked on muscle cars. “My father was predominantly a light-footed driver,” he recalls, “so my first hammer-down ride came at age 12 in my brother in-law’s 1968 440-powered GTX. I had helped him install new motor mounts and Lakewood Traction Action bars on the GTX. We stopped by a shop in South Philly to have one of the motor mounts shaved, and I was standing behind the GTX when my brother-in-law moved it in order to let another car exit the garage. He hammered it and black-tracked away from me. That was it! After seeing the GTX rip down the street like that I was hooked!”

Following high school, Bill joined the U.S. Air Force and spent the next 24 years wrenching on KC-135 Stratotankers, C-130 Hercules and B-1B Bombers in support of our nation’s freedom. In the early 1980s, while stationed at Altus Air Force Base in the small farming community of Altus, Oklahoma, he spotted a clean 1971 Buick GS 455 on a used car lot. “While some might consider this a momentary lapse in judgment given my strict Mopar upbringing, I couldn’t walk away from the GS sitting there on the lot just begging to be bought.”

The Buick was fun, but not surprisingly, it was only a detour in Bill’s journey to find the right Chrysler product. Fast-forward to June of 1997 in Abilene, Texas, where he was stationed at Dyess Air Force Base. A small ad in the local paper for a 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger project car caught his attention. “The car was rough,” he recalls, “with just an engine core and transmission sitting in the framerails, driveshaft, and steering column in the trunk, trashed seats, boxes of parts sitting beside it, no exhaust, a ’74ish front bumper, a junk rear end in the car, and so on.”

It took a few visits to look at the car before vivid memories of another Dart from decades earlier compelled him to pull the trigger. “The inspiration that kept calling me back to look at the Dart stemmed not only from my family’s Mopar ties, but a vivid memory from my high school cruising days in the 1970s on MacDade Boulevard in Delaware County, and a revered 1970 B5 Blue Swinger that was upgraded from its former 340 to become a 440 big-block Dart. Those words spoke loudly in terms of street credit in those days, and hearing all the chatter about it has stuck with me to this day.”

The first thing Bill and his wife, Diane, did after getting the Dart home was evict a family of rats living inside it. They then gutted the interior to get rid of the odor the unwanted rodents left behind, and began accumulating parts for the planned resurrection. While deployed to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama in 2000, Bill stumbled across a 1971 Dodge Demon in a salvage yard. “It was literally just the shell and framerails sitting on the ground with only one removable aspect remaining — the perfectly straight front bumper and its mounts that I needed!” He also needed a Dodge emblem for the deck lid, which wasn’t being reproduced at the time, and managed to find that at a salvage yard in Roswell, New Mexico, while there doing some certification at the Bombardier Flight Test Center. He later bought an entire front grille assembly from an internet auction site. “The parts were in Dwight, Kansas, and ironically, at the time of purchase, we had what was to be our final military assignment in hand and were preparing to relocate from Abilene to Wichita, Kansas, so rather than ship the fragile grille and risk breakage, the seller was kind enough to hold on to it for a few months until we moved there, and I could make the 120-mile trek north to fetch the grille.”

In 2003, the still-disassembled car and growing parts collection went with them to that new assignment at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. Three years later Bill retired from the Air Force and spent the next several years at GE Engine Services supervising overhaul of CFM-56 and CF-34 TurboFan Jet Engines and at Bombardier’s Flight Test Center as a project engineer, helping facilitate certification tests on newly designed Bombardier aircraft.

Some 10 years after buying the Dart, Bill finally had the time to work on it in earnest. First, the car went to Autobody Connection in Rose Hill, Kansas, where Vern Hammond’s team “transformed its outer appearance from barn find to barn stormer.” Though originally B5 blue, the Dart was painted black early on. Bill knew he wanted to return it to blue, but was indecisive regarding the exact shade. After much debate, he opted for 2003 PT Cruiser Electric Blue Pearl for the body and 2002 PT Cruiser Bright White for the tail stripe. Besides doing a masterful job with the body and paintwork, Autobody Connection also did the work needed to install a full complement of Auto Meter gauges in the dash and an RCI 15-gallon fuel cell.

After getting the car back from Autobody Connection, Bill spent the next four years putting it all back together with mostly stock parts, and in September 2011 he started the newly rebuilt 440 for the first time. It roared to life and put an ear-to-ear grin on Bill’s face, but the joy was short-lived as he discovered the 727 automatic, which had come with the car and was represented to be in excellent working condition, was in fact fried inside. After he and his wife pushed the Dart back into their garage, he removed the transmission and turned it over to friend Mark Wise, who expertly rebuilt it.

Following reinstallation of the 727, the Hartmans enjoyed their reborn Dart very much, driving it to many shows and cruises in the Wichita area. The following year, Bill noticed the engine wasn’t quite as peppy as it used to be and traced the problem to some worn lobes on its Mopar Performance cam. “With problems come opportunities to upgrade,” he reasons, “so a Comp Cams Retrofit Hydraulic Roller Cam, Comp Roller Rockers, and Howard Hydraulic Rollers were installed in place of the stock parts.”

In 2016, Bill made another significant upgrade to his engine’s performance. “I had been closely following Andy Finkbeiner’s finely detailed dyno assessments sorting out a new line of Trick Flow Specialties Aluminum Cylinder Heads at his business, AR Engineering. After concluding these are a great set of heads, Santa, in the form of my wife, Diane, was gracious enough to drop a pair of the Trick Flow Specialties PowerPort 240 heads down the chimney for Christmas, and the Dart’s long-standing breathing problems were eviscerated once and for all. Trick Flow’s new line of aluminum cylinder heads were designed specifically for big-block Mopar’s and hands down were indeed a great power adder!”

With the engine running great and making the level of power he wanted, Bill turned his attention to the car’s brakes. In 2018, he replaced the OEM setup using a Wilwood disc brake conversion kit that put four-piston calipers and 11-inch steel rotors on all four corners. Never one to sit still for long, the next project on his radar screen is installation of a six-point rollbar and RCI five-point harness. Both of these safety upgrades will be done in preparation for some much-anticipated drag racing.

The Hartman’s 22-year odyssey with their Dart Swinger has had many challenges, but the hard work and determination has paid off. The car is a wonderful reminder of Bill’s childhood growing up surrounded by Chryslers, courtesy of his father’s job at Springfield Dodge, and his teenage years hanging with all of his car buddies. They continue driving it to local shows and cruises, and get a great deal of enjoyment from sharing the car with others. “With Darts having sported fairly high production numbers in the early 1970s, the car starts a lot of conversations at car shows with people whose parents had Darts, or it was their first car, and those who had 340 Darts, or Demons, etc. Many key in on the Swinger emblems and the trademark sunflower accenting the “i” and how well that fit the ’70s era. The Dart is a trip to drive and gets its fair share of attention with lots of waves, thumbs up, picture grabs, and gas station conversations.”

1971 Dodge Dart Swinger Bill Hartman, Wichita, Kansas

ENGINE Type: 440-cid V-8 Bore x stroke: 4.320 (bore) x 3.750 (stroke) inches Block: Stock cast iron Rotating assembly: stock cast crank, stock connecting rods, stock aluminum pistons Compression: 9.0:1 Cylinder heads: Trick Flow Specialties PowerPort 240 aluminum heads Valves: Trick Flow, 2.190-inch intake;1.760-inch exhaust Valve Springs: PAC Racing dual springs Rocker Arms: Comp Cams Ultra Pro Magnum roller rocker arms; 1.5:1 ratio Push Rods: Smith Brothers custom push rods Valve Lifters: Howard’s hydraulic roller lifters Camshaft: Comp Cams Retro-Fit hydraulic roller, duration 283-degrees intake/303-degrees exhaust; 227 degrees intake/241 degrees exhaust at .050-inch lift; lift 0.513-inch intake/0.498-inch exhaust Machine work done by: Ed’s Automotive Machine and Supply (Abilene, Texas) Induction: Edelbrock Victor 440 intake manifold, Holley 850-cfm double pumper with mechanical secondaries Oiling system: stock oil pump and Milodon 7-quart deep oil pan Exhaust: Tube Technologies, Inc. headers with 1.75-inch primaries and 3-inch collectors, Dynomax Ultra Flow mufflers, 2.5-inch pipes with X-pipe Ignition: MSD Pro-Billet distributor, MSD Blaster coil, MSD Digit 6-Plus CD ignition controller, FireCore50 custom fit wires Cooling: Engineered Cooling Products 26-inch HD Cooling II aluminum radiator, 440 Source aluminum water pump housing, aluminum water pump, and billet aluminum water neck Fuel: 15-gallon RCI Racing fuel cell, Holley Blue electric fuel pump, Earl’s Performance Plumbing, Fram fuel filter Engine built by: owner Bill Hartman

DRIVETRAIN Transmission: 727 TorqueFlite three-speed automatic with B&M Transpak manual valvebody, built by Mark Wise in Wichita, Kansas Converter: Turbo Action S800 Series 11-inch torque converter, 3,000-stall Cooler: B&M SuperCooler Shifter: Hurst Pistol-Grip Quarter Stick, B&M shift cable with fire sleeve Driveshaft: Victory custom 3.25x.065 mild steel driveshaft with US Tool bolt-in drive shaft safety loop Rear End: Mopar 8 3/4 limited slip with 3.91:1 Mopar Performance gears Axles: OEM 29-spline

CHASSIS Front suspension: OEM stock, Competition Engineering 3-Way Adjustable Drag Shocks Rear suspension: Competition Engineering subframe connectors, mini-tubs, Mopar Performance leaf spring relocation kit, Mopar Performance super stock springs, Calvert Racing CalTracs, Competition Engineering 3-Way Adjustable Drag Shocks Steering: OEM fast-ratio manual box Front brakes: Wilwood forged Dynalite Pro Series 4-piston calipers, 11x 0.810 rotors Rear brakes: Wilwood forged Dynalite Pro Series 4-piston calipers, 11×0.810 rotors; Wilwood DynaPro low-profile rear parking brake kit Master Cylinder: Mopar Performance lightweight master cylinder, Wilwood proportioning valve, Hurst line lock

WHEELS & TIRES Wheels: 15×6 (front) and 15×10 (rear) Weld Racing Prostar Front Tires: 26×7.5×15 Mickey Thompson Sportsman Rear Tires: M&H Racemaster N50x15 Muscle Car D.O.T. drag

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My 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger

http://ift.tt/2xbyF3S 1971 Dodge Dart. The engine is a built 318. I don't know a whole lot about the engine because the people I bought the car off of knew nothing. What I can tell you is it has a fairly big cam and a dual plane intake off of a 340 and it is pretty damn fast. That being said, the engine almost has to be ported. This car is a 4 speed manual (a833) and has the rear end from a 1970s charger. Full, excellent working posi track. As of now the car has long tube headers. The body has some bondo in it but I have two used quarter panels and a roof. Brand new floor and brand new front suspension. New clutch. I was wondering what you guys thought the car was worth and would also love to hear just general comments on the car. Thanks guys

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1970 Dodge Dart Swinger ... 340 Six Pak