Janet's 70 Dart Swinger

[antmnte]

Neat car and story,its great how you can keep stuff like that around outside for years
and it still be usable after that time.

[Monk]

Dart Swingers are cool

All kinds of possibilities here

[JOES66FURY]

I can't seem to get too excited about doing a whole bunch of work on the car at once, since it's just an old Dart.

SOME people would give their eye teeth for a car like that to do a "whole bunch" of work on....you're killing me....

I guess when you drive a blown bb 55 Chevy everyday all else becomes insignificant...

[Huskinhano]

Great story for a great car. Reminds me of a guy I worked with back in the late 70's with a 68 340 Dart. He had out run the local cops in it one night Sooo what are your plans for it?

[trukluvr]

Damn nice car Jim. I wish my junk looked and ran HALF that nice.

[squirrel]

mmm....registration....insurance....ready for the road again, after it gets a bath.

Another fun story: Janet took Nuclear Engineering in college, and her roommate called her car the Nukemobile because it's such a nice bright radioactive yellow.

so Janet had this painted on the car after we got it repainted in the early 90s

[squirrel]

I guess the first thing I get to fix is the heater core. Windows fogged up nicely on our first trip into town in the car in two years. Oops.

[TheSilverBuick]

D'oh! Just in time for winter

[squirrel]

I got the NORS heater core in the UPS last night, so I started working on it this morning. The heater isn't too bad to work on, only takes maybe half an hour to remove. I cleaned it up, replaced the core, and put it back together



THe old core was definitely leaking. I never replaced it in 30 years, but it looks like someone might have worked on it before 1981, a few things were funky.



I managed to bust off a cable bracket while trying to put the retaining clip back on it...but it also had signs of epoxy on it, so maybe I busted it a few years ago when I was working on getting the cables to work better?




as soon as the jb weld dries I can try again, hopefully more carefully this time.

[squirrel]

Heater works good now. The brakes....need some work. The rear shoes are not quite worn out, only about half way, so I'll let them go longer. Fronts are getting pretty thin, so I ordered them and wheel grease seals. The parts stores used to stock this stuff, now it's all overnight. Who'd a though late model cars like this would ever be old?

Maybe I'll get some brake pics tomorrow.