Selling my Dart **updated**

The motor in the CJ is toast, so I just listed my Dart Sport for sale all down the west coast. I'm not trying to get anyone interested in it, just sitting here chain smoking, drinking, and hating myself.


I bought the car originally as a 73 Duster back when I was in the army and paid a whopping $500 for it. I was looking for a jeep at the time, but a rusted out basket case started out at $3500 at that time in Georgia.

The car sucked up all the abuse I could throw at it and was a blast to drive. My future wife and I spun it into a guard rail just west of Spokane one year when we were up here visiting from Austin, Tx.

We ended up buying a replacement Dart Sport body from a salvage yard in Texas and completely rebuilt the car from scratch in about a week back in '98. We built the 'new' body as a '71 Demon clone except for the brake panel. I wish we'd known about title brands at the time.

That car and I have been through a lot together. Driven across the continent a few times, towed a full-size International pick-up with a blown engine out of the mountains of north Idaho once, made a couple spring break runs to Florida while I was in the army, nearly died a couple times pushing it well past anything remotely resembling sane.

I got pulled over once, just outside of Marietta, Ga. The county cop clocked me at 146 in a 55. I should have gone straight to jail. It would have been huge trouble. I had just went on leave from the army and shouldn't have been off post yet, but I was already four hours down the road.

He came up to the window and said "You have exactly one chance to not go to jail tonight. You're going to tell me exactly how you got this thing to go this fast. I have one in my driveway." It was like a tech inspection on the side of the freeway.

When we got done, I looked at him and said "Kiss and tell, sir. How the hell did you pull up on my ass like that when I was doing almost 150?"

His car was the first year of the swoopy Caprice. We walked over to it and he pops the hood. CORVETTE across the valve covers and a wrist thick sway bar were the first things I saw. It turns out that the Georgia State Patrol had ordered the car as an interceptor and refused delivery for some reason. Marietta County picked it up and he ended up with it. He wouldn't tell me how fast he was going but it had to be in the 170mph range.

Anyway now it's on CL and I'm hoping to get enough for it to pick up a new motor for the CJ.

skål, my friend.




Edited by LesBerg - 24 July 2017 at 3:43am

Post the link here so we can check it out.

Don't let it go cheap.

Remember Shamu?

I've driven both of those models over the years. The later had a bench seat with no cage. Taught you to always wear your seat belt, especially going around corners.

48cj2a wrote: I'm guessing Chevrolet Impala 9C1 of 94-96

Thanks for the info and pics.

masscj2a wrote: I've driven both of those models over the years. The later had a bench seat with no cage. Taught you to always wear your seat belt, especially going around corners.

For the wife, I'd build her a flatfender with the even fire with a Turbo 350 using the Novak adapter.  If it was me, that is.  Seems to me that would be easier than trying to find a manual flywheel for the even fire.  

HAHAHA! If I tried to put a slushbox in a jeep for my wife, she'd beat me to death with it. She was disappointed when she found out that the 54 Greyhound bus we bought only had four gears..