Janet's 70 Dart Swinger

[Captain]

With friends now having it.....
Maybe they will let you drive it on your Anniversary's........Maybe even to the Drive In Theater for the Double Feature,......

[DanStokes]

I know this is weird but I'm sad to see it go! (I didn't have a horse in this race.....) I'm relieved that it'll have a good home.

Dan

[Dan Barlow]

That's kind of sad that you had the car you drove off married in all this time and now let it go . But I realize you can't keep everything .

[squirrel]

Janet's Dart found a new home....kind of a sad day here. Some folks we've known for 20 years bought it. They're serious Mopar people, so we know it will be well cared for.

40 years ago today, I met Janet and her Dart, when she drove my brother and his girlfriend (Janet's roommate) to the AHRA Winternationals, where I was racing my pickup truck, to watch. They broke up, but we hit it off....

a few years later:

[oletrux4evr]

try a piece of paperclip bent into a tight "U" shape and hung on the edge
of the hole, it takes up some slack and gives the screw something to bite
on. its worked countless times for me over the years anytime a sheetmetal
hole gets a little sloppy.

you may even need 2 or 3 pieces but it works for me.

Nice tip. thx.
End of hijack.

[fatguyzinc]

Re: Janet's 70 Dart Swinger
..... the screw holes in the metal dash are just worn out so I can't get them as tight as they need to be.....

try a piece of paperclip bent into a tight "U" shape and hung on the edge
of the hole, it takes up some slack and gives the screw something to bite
on. its worked countless times for me over the years anytime a sheetmetal
hole gets a little sloppy.

you may even need 2 or 3 pieces but it works for me.

[squirrel]

bump so I can find the thread....

[STINEY]

Huh.......always wondered what the underside of those was SUPPOSED to look like.

I need to move. Or quit looking at pictures of southwest cars. Moving sounds more fun.

[DanStokes]

It would be new to me! I mean, if she's tired of it, of course.

Dan

[squirrel]

335,000 miles on it...it's not new any more.

[Deaf Bob]

That's a NEW CAR! ... Nice car!

[DanStokes]

The floors are all wrong. There should be sheets of hanging iron oxide with carpet poking thru where your feet go. I worked on many of these in MI and I'm sure that's the way they were delivered from the factory.

(Lusting after your Bride's car right now).

Dan

[squirrel]

The rust bubble in the quarter behind the pass side rear wheel, is from when we accidentally left a gallon of milk in the trunk for a few days...that was 20 years ago. . Repaint happened in 1991, I think. Or 92? It had the original paint before that. On the whole car...no collision damage.

[68scott385]

just for that, I'm going to post some pics of the underside of this old Dart.

I double dog dare you.

[Deaf Bob]

just for that, I'm going to post some pics of the underside of this old Dart.

Please do! Wet weather here is HELL on undersides, but nowhere close to the rustbelt except on the coast..