Neglected Survivor 1973 Dart Swinger Walk Around And Revival - Will It Run?
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2022
- Our shop neighbors just bought this mostly intact vintage Mopar A Body with the hopes of turning it into a nice, driver quality classic cruiser. Our job is to go over the car and try to get it's mighty 225 Slant Six humming down the road again.
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Remember when we used to pass these up because 700 bucks was too much?
I’m not even a mopar guy and I’d DD one of these! They just get cooler as time passes
In 2006 I got my 71 valiant 318.
Drove it home running, good battery and all.
He was asking $450
But I only brought $400.
My brother bought me a quart of oil at the gas station and immediately lost the bottle cap down inside the oil cap.
One of the best cars I ever had.
…. Until the amp
Gauge shorted and fried all the wires behind the dash. …
Then it was a nightmare for a teenager.
But that 318….
I have zero doubts it’s still running strong😂❤❤❤
My dawg, I’m 20 years old & mexican , grinding hard to get out the hood, I can’t be 30 with nothing to show for so i smoke weed on my youtube channel 😭
I paid $200 for mine. Admittedly, it was an Aussie '70 Pacer hardtop, so it had the 245 hemi straight 6 and 3-speed stick on the floor...but it's basically the same bodywork, only with the vertical rear treatment like the '69 Dart and a different grille and lights. Then I sold it for $350, and I've kicked myself about that ever since.
Ive got a 73 dart sport cloned to a 70 duster project car. Packed to the gills with extra parts in WI for 1500
89% of todays people think,,,"what a piece of Junk" the 11% of the other people think,,, "Childhood, memories ,and nostalgia" , great rescue Uncle Tony,,
Then there are people like me who see a money pit.
@@tarstarkusz ..Then people like me who think its cool but needs a 70-72 front clip and a hot 340 or 360!
I am definitely in the 11 percent! Survivors like this one are hard to come by.
@@01trsmar Amen on both. 73 and up front caps are so ugly on Dodge and Plymouth. 70 & 71 are great . World of difference.
89% are idiots
Old school pride in workmanship, a good practice that seems to be in short supply in our society today. Thank You Uncle Tony and Aunt Kathy!
Really solid car for being 50 yrs old..can't wait to see how she runs.those slants are GREAT engines!
Holy shit... Never thought I'd see the day when UTG did a "revival"... Make way for the O.G., the revival world just stepped up...
Cool old car. I dont care if your an old tough guy with a chain wallet or a young guy with a man bun and a beanie hat. I like when people just start driving these old machines. For everyone of these cars thats resurrected Its sends a middle finger about the manufacturers pushing the over priced, over complex, and over rated monstrosities they are building. And I like it.
A couple of weeks ago I saved a 83 El Camino from the crusher. Cali car too, solid!!!!! Got Three out of 5 motorcycles winterized Saturday So I pushed it in the shop. Haven't lite it off yet but a modified prybar and an electric drill to the oil pump drive says I have Oil pressure. 🤞🤞🤞
Love cowboy Cadillacs!
Love those slab-sided A-bodies, especially with that concave rear glass; they have aged particularly well.
Another malady of certain Mopars w/rotted passenger side floors is faulty draining from the A/C condenser: while in motion, the condenser drain is too close to the firewall, leading to air pressure blowing moisture back against the firewall and the sealing material, which was often an open-cell foam layer.
From the firewall entry point, moisture would drain down and puddle under the passenger side carpet, eventually causing the floor panel to rust through if the water wasn't drained regularly.
I was fortunate to discover that situation in my L-body Omni before it had caused damage, and after cleaning and drying it out, I fixed the condenser drain tube sealing problem with a simple wad of florist's clay.
Red an black look good it would polish up Fix the rust an blend it in . Change all the fluids . Fit some white letter tyres extractor an split it in to twin system Maybe a 350 Holley with a big air filter 🇦🇺👍🏻
I work at a NAPA store, and there's a young guy who comes in for parts for his '75 Plymouth Valiant with a '72 or '73 "leaning tower of power" under the hood. We can get him a LOT of the parts he needs.
Millions of the 225 slant 6 were put in cars in Mexico and Auto Zone doesn't even have a mechanical fuel pump listed in their system for the car.
Not only did we clean and paint the valve covers, we also straightened out the mounting surface ant hit the bolt holes with a ball peen hammer to reset the holes. I bought a 72 fury just like that. Same color. Owned it for 6 hrs before I wrecked it. Never even registered it. Lol.
Always wanted to own a Dart. I like the clean lines and the design overall.
Always liked the 71 Dart Swinger
Cheap old man car junk.....
Must be a gen x
How much for sale?
I love the fact that you appreciate the vinyl top so much! I recently saw a detailer use mink oil to restore one . Good luck getting it on the road.
Great tip, Nick Bonvino!
Thanks!
If the vinyl roof wasn't applied properly water could get underneath it and cause the roof to rust out. This one looks good, though. These cars were known to rust out like many others built in the same era. Dodge and Plymouth built the Dart and Valiant better in the 1960s and the engines weren't burdened with excessive weight and emissions controls. By the mid 1970s a lot of them were ordered with air conditioning which added even more weight to the front end.
Yup I remember I always painted my tins even trans pans. Do you remember fender covers ? For use while working on cars. They seem to have gone away too.
My little brother's first car was a '72 Dart... triple green, two door, slant six A904 and a 7-1/4 axle. He bought it from the original owner (old lady) for $400 buck's in 1984. It ran really well.. I think it had only 40k on the clock at the time he got it.
Oh please, please say it had the ubiquitous hard-plastic diamond print seat covers in it!
As a kid in the 70s, I was occasionally driven around town on errands in a few of mom's friends' cars - and when they were Valiants or Darts, they all sported those hardened, yellowing seat covers.
@@felisconcolor1112 Nope..no covers. Just the factory green vinyl bench seats, which were like new when he got the car.
73 dart swinger with the good ole slant six holly one barrel was my first car back in 1978. I miss that old girl !
I think I'm in love with this car! Grew up around GMs and Fords, so it's really been this channel that's shown me just how great mopars are- especially the A-body. They really are fantastic vehicles. I have some used car buying guides from the late 70s and they always highly recommend Darts and Valiants. This is exactly the sort of one I'd like to find for myself: original, honest, and just in need of a little love! Hope she keeps the slant.
Did you watch the video??? and Tony is a "he" for now....🤣
@@will7its she, referring to the car....
@@Sedan57Chevy That's no longer allowed. Too sexist.....
Well prepare to cry:
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One of the nifty quirks regarding Mopars - and why their engineers were outstanding in their solutions - is the humble door lock and ignition key. In GMs and Fords the single-sided keys were inserted teeth down, while Chrysler products all turned the teeth up. This reversal of direction means Mopar lock cylinder pins were facing down, which allowed microscopic debris to fall out of the mechanism, instead of gathering crud and eventually becoming rough in their operation.
I had one for 15 years sweet cruiser sounds good with 6x9’s in the parcel shelf.
The Swinger has a way about it!
As a service technician back when, I would always clean and paint the components that were removed. Customers like to see something for their money.
Correct. I worked as a dealership tech & saw the occasional unscrupulous tech that would clean & paint ONLY (never doing the work that the customer paid for.
What a gem , I hope the car is in your hands for a while , if so can’t wait to see the repair videos . Cheers
I'm excited to see you do this project. Looking forward to the next episodes.
Looks like it's got a lot of potential!!
Nice car!!!! Those A/C compressors & clutch's were awesome... Durable, great performance and the clutch's seldom if ever slipped...The 225 slant 6 is perfect for this car !!! What a gem!!! Clean this car up , take photos and list it.... Get a lonely cell-phone to handle the incoming traffic and watch the people line-up to get ahold of this one... They just don't make them like this anymore...
Amazing how much that Swinger looks like a Dodge Aspen or the Aspen looks like a Swinger. And dead on about the A/C stuff. The fittings can't be found anywhere. The front seal in the compressor is probably trash, they all are. But man what a find. Laying odds someone would probably try to sell it for around $10K, because it's old and fairly complete. Where it used to be you could buy it for maybe $500.00 at the most.
I wish you would buy this from the owner and give it the Uncle Tony Treatment it Deserves 👍
Thank you for showing the dash like that. Lots of flashbacks to my first car when i was 16. Great times, Lots of Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd.
Dont forget flattening out the area around the bolt holes, always stretched due to over tightening.
That would be great for the power tour, you don't get much more reliable than a slanted six.
Putting this back on the road is WAY greener than any electric car on the market today. 🤟😎
Reminds me of my grandfather.
I also remember chucking my 67 Mustang AC components
Uncle Tony always see the positive side of these old mopars!
😎 🤓 💯 🤓 😎
I dailied one of these as an outside salesman in college (in 2017). It was a 1974 Swinger $700. Had been sitting for about 6 years. Changed the oil, gassed her up, and I went on my way! It had a torque converter shudder that would feel like the car was gonna fall apart at highway speeds at the end of the day when it was good and hot, I’d been bopping here and there for 6 hours in the summer heat. I put a tube of this Dr X Stop Shudder stuff in and sure as heck it fixed it!
Awesome! A great aunt of mine who drove one of those in the 1980’s and 90’s until she passed.
Just like my dad's 72 demon we bought, everything is there, no rot, no splices, wiring harness looks excellent, exactly like you want to find them
A good friend (woman) had one in the later 70's and went to college in a terrible area. We taught how to take the coil wire off so it wouldn't be stolen. She ran that car for years after. I love the looks too.
When we're in high school we painted our valve covers. When I was in the field we would clean all parts removed. I still to this day paint a water pump if it's cast iron.
I used to have a ‘73 Dart Swinger. Mine had the optional power steering, power disc brakes, A/C, 318 engine, light package, moldings like this one but a different type front seat. I would really love to clean and polish this one. Btw if the quarter panels are rusted through on the bottom, the drop offs (trunk extensions) will be rusted as well, period.
Jack’s and toolboxes under the hood were factory options on most American trucks up until the mid 80’s. I like that set up it’s a good use of space
Back in the old days, the fuel tanks, chassis, rear axle, and spare tire took most of the trunk space, making it shallow and uneven usable spaces.
Memories! My high school ride was a '73 Swinger. Mine had a 318/904. It was beige with a white interior, and, the roof was in primer, because, the vinyl had been torn off.
Uncle Tony worries too much about the comment section know it alls. Those guys are always gonna yap about anything and everything. It's the only reason they even watch his videos. They think they know everything so they obsessively focus on someone like Tony who actually does have a vast amount of knowledge.
I’d love to have that . That car is going to clean up really well
My first car was a 1970 Dodge dart swinger two door red white vinyl top slant 6 19000 actual miles drove it for years manual breaks
Not only does Uncle amaze me with what he knows about autos and auto repair, he doubles the impact with how quickly he gets things done. That engine swap in the Miata alone would be a lifetime project for me assuming I could do it at all.
The only time my mother ever bought a new car was a 73 dodge dart, bright yellow. it was a complete POS, could not turn left across traffic from a stop (ie turn lane) without stalling. The suspension alternated between what felt like completely rigid, and sagging when 75 pound me opened the door and got in. The battery went dead overnight, it wouldnt start at -10c. it would start at -30, it would start at +30. Minus 10? might as well call a cab.
I know nowadays that this car was an anomaly, that they were decent cars, and the Slant 6 a brilliant motor, but my single mother was sold a lemon and then essentially ripped off by mechanics for five years until one day a neighbour heard about it, he was quite angry as I recall. Anyway, he spent an afternoon tinkering with it, I remember he hit the right front suspension with a sledgehammer at one point, gave me my first lessons about anything mechanical, and that Dart ran brilliantly until totalled by a hit and run in a parking lot in the eighties. By all the evidence, someone more or less ran it over with a very large vehicle, it happened in a place under construction, and I have always been certain someone thought it would be fun to run it over with a scraper. you could see the tireprints in the fender and hood, and the engine was ripped clean off the frame... Nobody was ever charged.
Those wasps were scary looking!
I always painted water pumps when I replaced them also.still do
Hey here's something you'll remember from a long time ago on the floor nothing fixes the floor better than a stop sign
Nice car. Chrysler Corp.had some really durable vinyl tops in that era it seems.I had a '73 Dart Sport. The original half vinyl top was still in good shape into the mid 2000's, long after the painted adjacent half of top had begun to rust.
Here in the upper midwest. Vinyl roofs just don't survive. I have stripped quite a few off. Sanded the roof. And then sprayed either rock guard or undercoating on the roof. Put a clear coat on undercoating, or the direct sunlight will eat it up.
Sweet Survivor! Look forward to it's progress.
A friend of mine had a green 73 swinger 2 barrel slant 6 3 speed on floor car. He bought it from the original owner for $300 in 1996 and drove it for 2 or 3 years. Lots of cheap fun.
My 8th grade science teacher had that same car in avocado green, sometime in the early 90's. I'm sure he bought it new as it looked immaculate. Wherever you are Mr. Moriarty, I hope you and your Dodge Dart are doing well. That concave back glass always looked cool, kinda the opposite form of the late 70's Impala.
Real nice survivor. Yeah, she will run alright.
Always loved A bodies.
I bet with a hour's worth of clean n polish, it would look great!
Put the JJ guys on it!
My 1st car in 95ish was a 72 Valient Scamp
Pee Yellow with poo green top and interior
Loved it
This takes all the way me back to 1985. My first car was a '74. The car was free but it cost me $100 dollars for 4 new tires.
Great little swinger
NOTHING is cooler than a Dart Swinger, not even a Lamborghini Miura.
Brother had a green 73 with a 360 in it. It’s what got me into Mopars
My brother in law had a 74 2 dr 6cyl, I had a 70 2 dr 318. Both great daily drivers back in the mid 1980s and even back then they were relatively cheap.
Bought a 70 Swinger just like that one except for the beak nose on the front back in 74 or75 got it cheap because some kid hot rodded it up but didn't complete a bunch of things he started. It was a great car and it was quick. Wish I still had it but family came along and the money got tight.
Happy Motoring.
Cooter would be proud Tony = Tow truck/Wrecker . Nice Abody project
You are putting my 76 D100 to shame! Love it! MORE HATS PLEASE!
My first car was a ‘73 Dart Sport, orange, with a 340. Had headers, big Carter 4bbl, head job, Flowmaster exhaust, and all that jazz. I sure miss it, but I couldn’t afford to keep it at the time.
I would love to have that little gem! This car has so much potential! Nice find.
That could be a very sweet ride for somebody...looking forward to more vids on this one!
I was pretty shocked seeing this, it is almost 100% an identical twin to my 73 Swinger when I got it, only difference is it has A/C, mine didn't. They are WAYYYYY more fun when you swap the entire drive train for a mildly souped up 360, modified 904 trans, and 8 3/4 sure grip, all new suspension = HUGE SMILES.
Gorgeous! This is one car that I've always loved! When I was a kid, the concave back glass just drew me in, and the beak grill/front end just made me drool! I was just a little kid when these were new but one of the first cars I could identify from a parking lot away!
On the Mexican Spec 2 door Darts the had the rear roof legs go almost to the back of the car giving the rear window a more inset look. I have some on my Instagram page if you want to look at them.
I had a 1975 Dart Swinger 318 and A/C. It was Black over Silver with the Factory Road Wheels. Drove that car for a long time. Then Wisconsin Winters trashed it. It was a really sharp looking car. I always like this body style on the Dart. The only body style I liked better was the 1967-69 convertible. Had a 1969 Dart GTS 340 4-speed Convertible too. Should have kept that car. It was fun to drive.
Love these Darts!!
The door striker breaking from the sheet metal on the drivers door seems to be common like you said. I had a 70 swinger that had been welded there. Hard to believe Chrysler didn’t discover that and correct it when they tested these cars. The four doors don’t seem to have this problem.
28 years ago, when I got my 56 Chevy which I still have, a good friend did the exact same thing when he changed the valve cover gasket.
Paint still looks new. Didn’t get charged for it.
Great mechanic and an even better friend.
I had 56 chevy
That is an absolute gold mine find
There is nothing better than original car 👍
Its wild how bad a red car can look and still be brought back to looking really good. That will buff out well
Love this type of content
hell yeah I would love to see more revivals if you can make it happen Tony or buy up old mopars or other classics that have been sitting and flip then to see how much you can make off of them! I really think that you would make a killing plus you can get more hoards of parts too!
Yah we always painted rocker covers. Very 👍
It's not too bad, depending on what he payed...lol, Love these revivals, can't wait to see where this one goes.
That old dart should clean up really nice, great score for the new owner.
Nice, I have a 74 and they are nice. The earlier ones look better but these are growing on me.
The door button gets stuck on the bottom, lift it upward to release! My first car, 74 duster, had that issue, and the re-welded latch post, and the rot in all the same places you mentioned, and the bubbled vinyl… loved it anyway.
They even got the optional Bee hive 😆
Love the swinger.
Nooo uncle tony dont buy up the 73 swingers thats my dream car I’ve wanted one for years now
Cleaning & painting the valve covers shows you did the work & it's a good visual for the customer. Funny thing? With a few sensible updates you can make an A-body a very respectable daily driver "Putt-putt" that functions very well
Diamond in her rough... We'll see where it goes. I have confidence in that rig. Cool car!
Hey its my car! Mine was dark green with green interior now its AMC "Big bad green". Guy at the paint store accidentally mixed that up instead of sublime like I wanted. Had a slant 6 now has a 440 with an 833 and an 8 3/4 rear. That swinger has almost all the trim thats very rare to see. Usually the chrome around the wheel well in the quarters and fenders are gone. It has the large spindles and front discs too👍
great vid thanks for this👍
I've been restoring my 73 Swinger for a couple of years now and seeing an interior that is mostly complete and isn't missing door cards and everything makes me a little jealous!
Nice little dodge! Can't wait to see what happens with it.
Man, changing the gaskets and painting the valve covers on my 318 was the first thing I did when I bought my first car, a 1969 Dart! Nice clean find there; most of them are totally rotten around here. Cheers from Canada!
That's my favorite Dart rear bumper right there!
I'd love to find a Dart like that!
Yeah baby. Slant six. I've heard you can build them out too !
Love to see a fellow 73 odge
These cars have become like gold
That is absolutely the opitimy of cool
Awesome Uncle Tony! I had a '73 with a 318 auto and what I think was a 2.91 rear (?). It was a great daily driver and got good gas mileage. I did Install a 4bbl manifold and carb (Carter) and dual exhaust with turbo mufflers and that actually made the mileage better if I kept my foot out of the carb! lol. Thanks for this video sir. 😎
I'm doing an Edelbrock intake & 4-bbl, better cam & duals on my 318 Valiant. Rear gear is a 2.76, 15" cop wheels with AMC "Volcano" centers & 60-series rubber.
I had a baby blue 72 swinger with a white vinyl top. It had all chrome trim all around. It ran great, it was a true grandmas car, low mileage and all. The only problems were the front end and torsion bar bushings ( it was an Arizona car). It also needed new valve cover gasket and front main seal.
I sold it at a double profit when I finished it. I moved on to a. 74 Dodge Demon after that.
I had a 74 valiant, same engine. Great car.
1973 Dodge swinger man that's a rare barnyard fine power steering manual brakes good air conditioning Uncle Tony take care of that car holla if you hear me