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!
this is pure, unadulterated hot rodding: big motor – little car – go fast cheap!
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.
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.
Seems like a lot for an unfinished not-GTS project, and has a reserve. Pass.
Those plug wires are giving me a headache.. urgh