This Big Block, Four Speed, Big Tire 1968 Dart Is BangShifty As Heck And Can Be Yours


This Big Block, Four Speed, Big Tire 1968 Dart Is BangShifty As Heck And Can Be Yours

Count me among the millions of people who fell in love with the famed “Cheap Thrills” Dart back in the day. It was a project that brought Freiburger into the limelight and had me waiting at the mailbox every month to read the story. If you remember, he had a pretty hammered Dart that he swung a Chrysler Imperial 440 into and went quick on the cheap. Since then, every time I see a late 1960s Dart, especially a red one, I cannot help myself but to stop and look. That’s how I found this ’68 model and it is jammed packed full of win!

The car is super clean, rot free, has a 383 with a four speed hooked to it, has massive rear tires, a narrowed axle, a roll cage, Porsche seats, and a generally mean vibe. The owner has a hemi he is selling separately from the car as he as planning on swinging a 426 under the hood but apparently never quite got to it.

We may skip the Hemi in this one and go with a big stroker RB engine with a tunnel ram on it, a pair of carbs rising through the center of the otherwise stock hood. The four speed has to stay for sure. That rear axle we mentioned is a narrowed Dana 60 with a spool and 4:10 ears. The spool may have to go for street driving because barking the thing around corners would likely get old quick.

I think the 1968 Darts are the best year of this body style. The four lights, two large and two small have a really clean look to them and the straightforward design of the rest of the car really makes it look fantastic with those huge rear tires.

This is a neat one. Buy it!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EBAY AD FOR THIS 1968 DART – COOL!

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5 thoughts on “This Big Block, Four Speed, Big Tire 1968 Dart Is BangShifty As Heck And Can Be Yours

  1. Matt Cramer

    Nice find. Wish I could get a better look at the engine compartment, but it looks like this one may have escaped the common mistake a lot of people make with big block A-bodies where they cut up the “inner fenders” to make the headers fit – without realizing they actually cut a big hole in their front frame rails.

  2. 69rrboy

    Interesting combo. A tubbed car with what looks to be a steel front clip, 4spd, and a front sway bar still hooked up.

    the factory 69 GTS hood is worth something even with the hood pin holes in it.

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