The seller of this 1970 Dodge Dart bought a Corvette and now one of them has to go. Sooooooo… you can find this Dart here on eBay in Camden-Wyoming, Delaware. The current bid price is $2,550 and there is no reserve. It would be a steal at that price but there’s still over a day left on the auction.
Anyone who lived through the 1970s knows that just about everything was green in those days. “Hey, we need a new refrigerator, what color should we get?” “Duh, avocado green, of course, why would I want a burnt orange or harvest gold refrigerator?!” “I could use some new Hagar slacks, I wonder what color I should get?” “Uhhhhh.. is there another choice? Green.” At least three of our cars were green inside and out in the 70s, all GM products, but Chrysler was no slouch in the green car department.
I can’t get enough of this color green, but that’s just me. The seller says that this Dart had been repainted before they bought it and overall it looks great to me, but they mention that it isn’t perfect. Some rust is rearing its ugly head “down low” and also on the driver’s floor and an area in the trunk. The seller drove this Dart for a year before getting their Corvette and it’s been sitting for the last three years, but it starts and runs fine.
The interior is also green, as you probably expected, and it isn’t perfect but it looks better than I expected it to look. This is a fourth-generation Dart and they were given a refresh in 1970. They say that the underside has no horrible areas of rotting metal, which I’m not sure gives the utmost confidence to a prospective buyer, or maybe it does, given the Dart’s propensity to rust underneath.
The engine decodes to being a 225 slant-six 1-barrel which would have had around 145 hp. This car also has AC and the seller says that even though the car has been sitting for about three years, it starts and runs fine. What would you pay for this 1970 Dart?
I think a solid third of Chrysler corp cars were painted this shade of green back then. Someone in my town recently bought a new Charger in this color. Such a throw back to the 60’s and 70’s. Looks fantastic, It always catches my eye!
A seemingly lo-buck paint job, on an otherwise intact body, with possible floor pan issues. A good starting point, if it doesn’t exceed $3,500; especially if a V-8 conversion is planned. However, I might consider just hopping the “leaning Tower of Power” if the components could be sourced economically! GLWTA! :-)
I completely agree. This would make a great daily driver, without trashing it. Take care of it and it just might last quite a while. This is what I call a practical car. I would love to have it and the first thing I would address is the floor pan. Then, seat covers. After that, maybe a closer engine inspection and just take it from there. Delaware isn’t that far from me. I’ve been looking for a good, practical car just for putting around.
People always wonder why –people let cars rot to the ground. Look no further. This car would be worth fixing up and the price is reasonable. Let,s see how long it last? These were very good cars. The slant six was a good -tough–easy on gas motor. Wished it was closer. A friend of mine (my boss at the time) bought a new one and had it serviced and asked me if I would bring it to him. We were putting in a shaft mines above Philipi,W.Va. The car was in Summersville, W.Va. at LeRose Motors. His brother and I picked it up and seen the gas gauge was sitting on empty. We had about 150 miles to go and between us. We had about $10. We put about $5 of gas in it and took off. We drove all the way and their was still a little gas in it when we got their.They were very good on gas. That was in 1974. Sure wished we could go back to them days. That was when we could get good gas. Not this trash ETHANOL GARBAGE.. Its the main reason people have trouble with their vehicles now days.
Kitt Energy #1? Located at the intersection of US50 and US250? That’s a fur piece from Summersville and you did it back when US19 was a 2 lane adventure.
This car is just up the road. Might have to check it out
If you get this one, keep an eye in the rearview for large, ugly semi trucks- the slant six is no match for them!
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, at least 5 times ! 😂
To bad Dennis Weaver never had a gun. Some bad truckers out their give the good truckers a bad name and it just like everyone else. Try leave early to avoid a accident buy getting in a hurry..This lttle Dodge will run all day on the interstate at 70 mph and they are comfortale–dependable cars and easy on gas. Check that vinlyn roof real good for swelling–it sweating and causing rust problems. Good luck.
Great movie, stupid premise. Even with a six, that car could have gotten away easily. Handles very well. Hit a hundred and leave that semi in the dust.
Love these. And this presents itself on the outside just the way I like it. Poverty caps with white letters. Good deal for someone.
Richard Rawlings loves green/green and more green so he might be interested.
Oh screw Ass Monkey Garage! He’ll just ruin it. Just like the original 67ish Dart they found in San Diego a few seasons back. Car was a nice unrestored unmolested example and they ruined it by stripping it and cutting it up to turn it into a drag car (to race the guys from Road Kill). And how about the nice 71 Challenger that they put a modern drivetrain in from a new Challenger.
“Duel” was cool.
Every time an 18 wheeler pulls up behind me anywhere it makes me think of that movie.
A frightening percentage of today’s drivers have not only never heard or seen Duel, they don’t speak or read English either. All they know is what the dispatcher and the GPS tells them. A few weeks ago one of them drove a loaded car carrier through the over height warning system at the Fort Pitt Tunnel and jammed a brand new Ram pickup into the tunnel roof. The pickup broke in half.
Dave, you are correct. The companies go for the cheapest drivers available, and the roads are far more dangerous then they once were. We have immigrants who a year or two back didn’t even know how to drive, now they command 80, 000 pounds down our public roads. Here in Wisconsin a few winters back, two Somali drivers, a week apart, drove their semis into a local lake. Nothing against Somalis, but they used to live in the desert, how are they supposed to have any respect for snow covered Midwestern roads? I miss the owner operator days where common sense and experience made us all safer. So many semi against car incidents today, very few turn out well for the poor occupants of the cars.
Wish I had gotten my Grandmothers when she passed. A ‘74 with the blue metallic paint, white vinyl top. 318 under the hood. Less than 6000 miles and was garage kept. My aunt sold it in 1994 for…$500. No idea what came if it.
Even in the nineties, that was a give away price. Reminds me of when my grandfather died in 1955. Grandma wanted off the farm so bad, she sold all 150 acres for ten bucks and acre, thats right, the whole farm for 1500 dollars. I was too young to protest, but man oh man, what I wouldn’t give to have it back. Mind you, only 40 was tillable, and even that was steep fields that Dad mostly used horses on to work as it was dangerous to have a tractor. The rest was three sides of steep wooded bluffs. The driveway was a winding treacherous almost mile long path that lead to a house built over an old log cabin with no electricity. In 1955 it was worthless, but today, well, it is in the heart of world famous, Buffalo County Wisconsin, home to the largest white tail bucks in North America. That land is worth a small fortune and my family never saw any of the build up in value, all because Dad didn’t want to farm 40 acres with his make shift mules and Grandma wanted to move to town and have a real toilet. The farm is owned now by a hunting club from Chicago. A half dozen rich guys who forked over half a million for it. They come up for ten days in November and the rest of the year it sits empty. The point is, I think we all have family stories like this. Wish you could have got the dart, they were great cars with a 318.
Am I color blind or is the front seat blue with green interior? Convert this to Chrysler Electronic ignition and come up with fuel injection and you would have a real runner!!!!!!
Sold! $3201.00
Would’ve made a nice 340 clone, even 383,change the trani, rear gear exhaust, and color, buckets and console, all black, would be sinister, w A/C