Hey Davin, quick slant six tip: there are two threaded bosses on the cylinder head, between the valve cover and the intake manifold. They are tapped 3/8-16, and they are for lifting the engine evenly and balanced. Use the front one for just the motor, use the front and rear for motor and trans. Those engineers were looking out for ya. Can't wait to see this one!
As a young man, I had no love for the early 60's Darts and Lancers, I thought they were exceedingly ugly. As I've gotten older, I'm still on the fence about the sedans or coupes, but the wagons are appealing to me. Can't wait to follow the build of this Lancer, and as always, Redline Rebuilds is one of the very best RUclips offerings available.
Being a native of northern Michigan my entire life, its fun going through a lot of your videos and seeing places that i have been and shops that i also patronize. Not a dodge guy, but those slant 6's were like gm's little iron duke un-killable
I'm sitting here watching the beginning of this and trying to remember who had one of these when I was a kid! All of a sudden, it hit me and I remembered. The local "Cat Lady" had one of these cars when I was just a young'un, In my high school years , I worked for a grocery store where our Cat Lady shopped . She would drive up to the closest spot to the front door and wait. Someone would spot her in the parking lot and send out someone to pick up her shopping list. Guess what was always on the list?🤣🤣 A fairly large percentage of the time, she usually had a few cats with her. After finding a place to place her groceries, she would always ask you for a can of cat food and then proceed to feed the cats before she paid the bill. She would then throw the empty can somewhere in the car. It seems that she had been this eccentric since she bought the car. So by the time my dealings with our cat lady, the car had become filled with assorted things, with empty cat food cans being the prevalent item. Sell no matter how cool you guys may make this vehicle, it will always be the Cat Lady Station Wagon to me!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In a RUclips landscape where a lot of automotive channels are going through tough times, I'm glad to see Hagerty sticking to the mission statement. Car content for car people. 😎
I like it. Looks pretty straight. The paint definitely needs helps. The best thing is, it was kept in a barn out of the weather. Huge bonus.. Typing this at the start of the clip ;)
You know, watching the Olympics is great but watching Davin and The Hagerty Team is just better. Another awesome project to take part in. This is going to be great!!
My uncle had a 62 Lancer with a slant six and a three sped stick. My dad worked at NASA as the contract administrator of the garage. In 1974, they had some Dodges and Plymouths with slant sixes, I believe they were the 225 cui version with over 300,000 miles on them. The bodies finally rusted away. That engine is almost indestructible.
I am at the 12:12 time stamp. I am thinking what a nice old car this is. Hoping you keep the original colors as that copper gold just flat out looks good on that car.
Proof men work on cars w/o gloves too. (I feel for the dealership mechanics in Florida. What's worse, grease dirt on the mits or prune hands everyday?)
Gorgeous. Haha. A trusting soul holding an ancient plug wire while cranking the engine. A bit of porous insulation, and you're doing a dance around the garage. Been there :-).
Love it! If I'm not mistaken, those are Ford Fairmont wheel covers on that thing. When I was a kid, people were still driving cars like this. Even when I was little, I was amazed at how weird-looking that the early 1960s Mopar vehicles were.
My dad bought a 1963 Dart with the same motor, former Oregon State motor pool car. I couldn't kill that motor, unlike the flathead six that was in his previous car, a 1959 Plymouth Savoy.
Hello Gentlemen: I'm Australian, living in Australia. In the early 1960's cars very similar to this were sold by Chrysler with the Valiant name. They had real class and were built to last. I will follow this project with great interest. Thank you.
Take very good care with that fan. I had the Slant 6 replaced with a clean Jasper Remanufacture. Used old fan. I still have the place on the hood where it flew through when it broke! Cranked up my old D100 today and took her over a big mountain pass. No drama. Great truck.
I bought a ‘63 Valiant Signet 100 4-door in 1973 for $85. It had a 170ci slant six and push button Torque Flite transmission. Not fast, but as close to indestructible as any car I ever drove. The engine in mine was painted red, I think the blue paint on your Lancer engine indicates an engine swap has been done. Looking forward to seeing this project work it’s way to completion!😁
Plymouth and Chrysler engines were usually painted blue. Dodge engines were red. I owned several Plymouth (70 383 Cuda, 74 Satellite RoadRunner 400, 77 Chrysler Cordoba 400, and a 80 Cordoba LS 360) over the years and the engines were always blue. So this engine must have come from a Plymouth or Chrysler.
I had the Plymouth version of this wagon. I used it as a beater to and from my shop. Fixed it up a little and sold it for $200 more than I paid for it, to an Edison lineman as his beater for work. Good car. I wish I had it now to tinker with. I called it my Jetson's car. HAHA
That car has been updated. The electronic ignition (box on the driver's side firewall, next to the ballast resistor that also shouldn't be there) wasn't introduced until 1973.
@@HagertyIf the timing varies back and forth on with a timing light, change the Morse type Cam chain for a Rollmaster, should still be the same catalog number as the 440. The gear on the cam is phenolic teeth over an aluminium core, the teeth fracture off and fall in to the sump, leading the to cam and ignition timing to float around. If you're really game, fit 198 rods in to a 225 to make it more effcient.
Ditto. The fan had six blades and the motor was corporate blue, I suspect it should have been red. My 64 225 has a four blade fan, no fan shroud and is red…..
@@jodaddysdodgegarage3533 The red painted blocks should be the early single barrel carb and offcially 8.2:1 compression (really, 8:1), the later blue ones were sold Down Under with two barrel in the late '60's, but also have 8.4:1 claimed compression, this is before the 2bbl became available in the US. Nomenclature for the first there digits of the engine numbers in Australia, is VC3/VE3/VF3 for the red ones, VC4/VE4/VF4 for low comp automatic. VE7/VF7 for high comp manual, VE8/VF8 for high comp auto. VC's look like '66 Plymouth Valiants, VE and VF models look like Dodge Darts from 67 and 68. There was also the V7F spec "Pacer" in Australia, which is higher again compression, with revised cylinder head ports and chamber, and while the VF3 had 145hp claimed, VF7 had 165hp, the unofficial number on the V7F is 195hp. So the 2bbl V7F had more power then the '60/'61 170 HyperPak, but less then the 225 HyperPak, with the HyperPak being the dealer-fitted Cam, manifolds, carb etc kit that had the long long inlet and 4bbl Cater 3083.
The good old slant six! I had a couple of those, the 225ci version. The first one in a 73 Duster, and then a 79 D100 short/wide pickup with a three on the tree. They were pretty much indestructible. I think the only thing I ever had to fix was a water pump on the truck at about 200,000 miles after it froze when I was living in Minot North Dakota. You could probably just have thrown that new battery in and cleaned out the gas tank and fixed the brakes and called it a driver. But it will be interesting to see you do the rebuild. You know that there are some nice hop-up parts available, right? Even some factory high performance packages were offered back in the day. You could put a 4 barrel and headers on and have a nice sleeper wagon.
Had a 1962 Lancer (bought 1967) with the 170ci 6cyl and 3 on the tree, was one of the best cars I've owned great on gas when gas was 23 cents per gallon. With a set of Firestone Town and Country snow tires it could go through snow like a tank. Really miss the Lancer.😎
Absolutely LOVE that Lancer wagon...must not be a Michigan car, there's still a body on it! My '62 Valiant that I bought in '65 had already been bondoed, and after the first winter all the bondo fell out, and I replaced the holes with a fiberglass boat repair kit from Montgomery Wards, followed by spray cans of Dupli-Color. By '67 there was nothing from the windows down, and I sold it and got a new V.W. The drivetrain was still great...I loved that car! Been looking for one in driveable shape for 10 years, and even with Hemmings have not found one. (That I can afford)
Please keep this project at the top of your priority list and keep the reports coming. I hope you are able to turn the body into a top level resto mod, at a Kindig-It calibre.
I see a 1970s vintage electronic ignition system on this engine (a common retrofit). The blue paint on the engine looks like a similar vintage engine, but the valve cover is wrong. Still a single master cylinder. I would have liked to see it run and come up to temp (maybe drive around the yard) using the gas tank for fuel before you ripped it apart.
Wow I had some studded snow tires on the hand me down 62 Valiant. I live in West Michigan. I drove that car for quite awhile. It had 3 on the tree and I later got a 4 speed out of a junk yard from a newer valiant and installed it. Then when I went to Community College, in the auto tech class I built a 225 with lots of speed parts. Bored it out 100 thousandths and all kinds of stuff. Isky, Clifford intake, Holley, Jahns, Mopar speed parts, Melling pump, etc.
I am so happy to see another redline rebuild! It seems like it's been too long since the last one. Even though I primarily like European sports cars, I still love to see Davin and his friends rebuild this American engines.
Those slant six's are known to be bullet proof. The fact that it started up so easily is testament to that. The best homage you can pay to that is not rebuild it. Replace some of the seals and oil pan, clean the carb, and just clean it and put it back in. It will be fine.
This should be fun !! Like the car, but they don't normally last long here in Michigan (unless its an area that didn't get salt, only sand, or nothing, lol). First car was a '65 4 Dr Coroner (top back of the ft fender wheels were square, held scrap & rotted thru...). Prior owner was the safety director of a local DuPont plant, car came with 4 at/snow tires, in the trunk were 4 more with studs. That slant 6 had enough low end to run the 2 tracks. In '78 had a 74 Duster that I got a 2bbl intake, split header for duals, & match ported them both. Didn't run bad, lol. 78-80 there was a guy from Otsego, who ran at Martin / US-131, in a '62 Valiant, slant 6 & 4sp, (that was, supposedly, built from Direct Connections catalog!) That was turning 11 sec passes !! Great fun to see! Wonder if this one might get tickled up, not just stock...? Thanx !
As another commenter noted the distributor has a reluctor and magnetic sensor as can be seen in the last shot - meaning electronic ignition. The way the engine ran when it was started this is one build I would have NOT wanted to see the engine rebuilt. My suspicion is that it is a much later 225 that might very well be in decent condition. I wish there was a compression/leak down test and a run of the engine to see if there was anything cracked. So..., in this case I actually hope you do find a reason to have pulled the engine because otherwise it might not have been necessary. Those early 60's Lancer/Valiants are some of the last rounded over, elevated hood cars before everything went flat & square. I've always wanted one. Even dashed up to Santa Barbara to see one but like most every car there it had excessive rust from the salt air. This one looks in great shape for its age. All the best with the build.
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Awesome American-made products that we're stoked to have in our shop!
Redline rebuild and Barn find hunters are my two favorite Hagerty productions. Both of these are pure pleasure to watch.
Thanks for watching!
Amen to that! Best of the best.
Agreed!!
Would love to have one of these wagons.
Redline Rebuild and Davin are the reasons I am subscribed to Hagerty. More Davin!
@@lbh002 same here
I've been with Hagerty for over 20 yrs with Hot Rods
Me too
225 slant 6 is a great motor!
Hey Davin, quick slant six tip: there are two threaded bosses on the cylinder head, between the valve cover and the intake manifold. They are tapped 3/8-16, and they are for lifting the engine evenly and balanced. Use the front one for just the motor, use the front and rear for motor and trans. Those engineers were looking out for ya. Can't wait to see this one!
And leave the manifolds in place when lifting, and the motor will hang square to the mounts :)
As a young man, I had no love for the early 60's Darts and Lancers, I thought they were exceedingly ugly. As I've gotten older, I'm still on the fence about the sedans or coupes, but the wagons are appealing to me. Can't wait to follow the build of this Lancer, and as always, Redline Rebuilds is one of the very best RUclips offerings available.
This era of cars have so much style. Amazing
Being a native of northern Michigan my entire life, its fun going through a lot of your videos and seeing places that i have been and shops that i also patronize.
Not a dodge guy, but those slant 6's were like gm's little iron duke un-killable
I'm sitting here watching the beginning of this and trying to remember who had one of these when I was a kid! All of a sudden, it hit me and I remembered.
The local "Cat Lady" had one of these cars when I was just a young'un, In my high school years , I worked for a grocery store where our Cat Lady shopped . She would drive up to the closest spot to the front door and wait. Someone would spot her in the parking lot and send out someone to pick up her shopping list. Guess what was always on the list?🤣🤣
A fairly large percentage of the time, she usually had a few cats with her. After finding a place to place her groceries, she would always ask you for a can of cat food and then proceed to feed the cats before she paid the bill. She would then throw the empty can somewhere in the car.
It seems that she had been this eccentric since she bought the car. So by the time my dealings with our cat lady, the car had become filled with assorted things, with empty cat food cans being the prevalent item.
Sell no matter how cool you guys may make this vehicle, it will always be the Cat Lady Station Wagon to me!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe we’ll have to name in something in honor of your Cat Lady experience! 😂
So, can you share with us a description of the odor? Did you ever get close enough to her or the car?
@@joshuagibson2520ok weirdo.
The Cat Mobile! Without the smell! Lol
Beautiful wagon!!!!
In a RUclips landscape where a lot of automotive channels are going through tough times, I'm glad to see Hagerty sticking to the mission statement. Car content for car people. 😎
I like it. Looks pretty straight. The paint definitely needs helps. The best thing is, it was kept in a barn out of the weather. Huge bonus.. Typing this at the start of the clip ;)
Really enjoy watching videos of restoring all types of cars from all eras, looking forward to this one.
Our family car was a 1962 Dart Wagon, great car!
You know, watching the Olympics is great but watching Davin and The Hagerty Team is just better. Another awesome project to take part in. This is going to be great!!
this rebuild can go a hundred different ways, from stock to shock. I can't wait.
Glad you're excited! We have some fun plans!
My uncle had a 62 Lancer with a slant six and a three sped stick. My dad worked at NASA as the contract administrator of the garage. In 1974, they had some Dodges and Plymouths with slant sixes, I believe they were the 225 cui version with over 300,000 miles on them. The bodies finally rusted away. That engine is almost indestructible.
I am at the 12:12 time stamp. I am thinking what a nice old car this is. Hoping you keep the original colors as that copper gold just flat out looks good on that car.
That's crazy. It's just like the Lancer project that we started on our channel back in March.
Great to see Dodges version of the Valiant getting some love, and a rare station wagon as well.
this is really what it is like working on cars. thanks and keep it as OEM as possible please!
Proof men work on cars w/o gloves too. (I feel for the dealership mechanics in Florida. What's worse, grease dirt on the mits or prune hands everyday?)
Man miss this series so much, please make more video's😍😍😍
Love your work Guy's👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Gorgeous. Haha. A trusting soul holding an ancient plug wire while cranking the engine. A bit of porous insulation, and you're doing a dance around the garage. Been there :-).
Sparky dance !
We’ve all been there! ⚡️😵⚡️
No gloves, No glasses, jack stands, pumping fuel into exhaust manifold while running.
Loved how back window rolled down
Love it! If I'm not mistaken, those are Ford Fairmont wheel covers on that thing. When I was a kid, people were still driving cars like this. Even when I was little, I was amazed at how weird-looking that the early 1960s Mopar vehicles were.
A wagon project!!! Sweet!!!😎♥️
It's amazing these barn find beauties are still out there. I'm glad Hagerty got this one and not Bad Chad. This will be fun.
Triple 45mm DCOE Weber carbs work well with the slant 6. Along with other normal tuning bits. Fab looking car, very swoopy and sleek. 😊👍
Always thought these were ugly and I LOVE the look! Looking forward to this series!
My dad bought a 1963 Dart with the same motor, former Oregon State motor pool car. I couldn't kill that motor, unlike the flathead six that was in his previous car, a 1959 Plymouth Savoy.
Why can't I ever find old steel in that good of shape, dang.
Don't look too closely about how good of shape it's in! 😂
I've been waiting for another redline rebuild. This one should be interesting, because the car really looks to be in great condition.
Hello Gentlemen: I'm Australian, living in Australia. In the early 1960's cars very similar to this were sold by Chrysler with the Valiant name. They had real class and were built to last. I will follow this project with great interest. Thank you.
R and S series are rare now.
My 1961 Lancer Suburban restoration started in February. It will be a great series for me to follow along. 👍
That car looks familiar 😎
Take very good care with that fan. I had the Slant 6 replaced with a clean Jasper Remanufacture. Used old fan. I still have the place on the hood where it flew through when it broke! Cranked up my old D100 today and took her over a big mountain pass. No drama. Great truck.
What a beautiful design, I quikely fell love with it.
I bought a ‘63 Valiant Signet 100 4-door in 1973 for $85. It had a 170ci slant six and push button Torque Flite transmission. Not fast, but as close to indestructible as any car I ever drove. The engine in mine was painted red, I think the blue paint on your Lancer engine indicates an engine swap has been done. Looking forward to seeing this project work it’s way to completion!😁
Plymouth and Chrysler engines were usually painted blue. Dodge engines were red.
I owned several Plymouth (70 383 Cuda, 74 Satellite RoadRunner 400, 77 Chrysler Cordoba 400, and a 80 Cordoba LS 360) over the years and the engines were always blue.
So this engine must have come from a Plymouth or Chrysler.
Great find. This will be a great series. Thanks in advance men.
I wish I had the means to be able to do this. I love old cars. And its important that we save as many as possible.
Looking forward to this build!! I would love to see a full restomod build with this Lancer wagon. But keep the slant six.
6:36 We learned this battery cable problem when inheriting my father inlaw's Chevelle. Heart attack and 600 later, it's back lol
I love that car! Love the body lines on it! Can't wait to see what y'all do with it.
What a sweet little ride 👍👍
That is a time capsule of a Dodge wagon!
Definitely looking forward to the development of this project.^^
My Dad had a white Lancer wagon with a red interior. Well engineered cars.
I had the Plymouth version of this wagon. I used it as a beater to and from my shop. Fixed it up a little and sold it for $200 more than I paid for it, to an Edison lineman as his beater for work. Good car. I wish I had it now to tinker with. I called it my Jetson's car. HAHA
Man, they made some beautiful cars during the "space race" era.
I absolutely love this series!
That car has been updated. The electronic ignition (box on the driver's side firewall, next to the ballast resistor that also shouldn't be there) wasn't introduced until 1973.
There's a lot of things this car is hiding... and mostly not good things!
I saw that and figured that's why it had spark, because they normally don't!
@@HagertyIf the timing varies back and forth on with a timing light, change the Morse type Cam chain for a Rollmaster, should still be the same catalog number as the 440. The gear on the cam is phenolic teeth over an aluminium core, the teeth fracture off and fall in to the sump, leading the to cam and ignition timing to float around. If you're really game, fit 198 rods in to a 225 to make it more effcient.
Ditto. The fan had six blades and the motor was corporate blue, I suspect it should have been red. My 64 225 has a four blade fan, no fan shroud and is red…..
@@jodaddysdodgegarage3533 The red painted blocks should be the early single barrel carb and offcially 8.2:1 compression (really, 8:1), the later blue ones were sold Down Under with two barrel in the late '60's, but also have 8.4:1 claimed compression, this is before the 2bbl became available in the US.
Nomenclature for the first there digits of the engine numbers in Australia, is VC3/VE3/VF3 for the red ones, VC4/VE4/VF4 for low comp automatic. VE7/VF7 for high comp manual, VE8/VF8 for high comp auto. VC's look like '66 Plymouth Valiants, VE and VF models look like Dodge Darts from 67 and 68.
There was also the V7F spec "Pacer" in Australia, which is higher again compression, with revised cylinder head ports and chamber, and while the VF3 had 145hp claimed, VF7 had 165hp, the unofficial number on the V7F is 195hp.
So the 2bbl V7F had more power then the '60/'61 170 HyperPak, but less then the 225 HyperPak, with the HyperPak being the dealer-fitted Cam, manifolds, carb etc kit that had the long long inlet and 4bbl Cater 3083.
Good news everyone: Davin is still alive! Good to see you again with an unconventional project!
Now that is a wagon rarely seen. Would be awesome to put a 318 and 4sp auto in it.
It's a Slant Six, of course it's going to start and run.
The good old slant six! I had a couple of those, the 225ci version. The first one in a 73 Duster, and then a 79 D100 short/wide pickup with a three on the tree. They were pretty much indestructible. I think the only thing I ever had to fix was a water pump on the truck at about 200,000 miles after it froze when I was living in Minot North Dakota. You could probably just have thrown that new battery in and cleaned out the gas tank and fixed the brakes and called it a driver. But it will be interesting to see you do the rebuild. You know that there are some nice hop-up parts available, right? Even some factory high performance packages were offered back in the day. You could put a 4 barrel and headers on and have a nice sleeper wagon.
Favorite show. Period. I see Davin. I click.
Absolutely love, love, LOVE the styling of these Lancers, especially the wagon! Can't wait to see it progress!
I love these "will it run series"!!
My dad had a 1963 Valiant in 1970 when I was a kid and I loved it because of the cat eye lights on the back.
My grandfather had one of those back in the 1960s
Had a 1962 Lancer (bought 1967) with the 170ci 6cyl and 3 on the tree, was one of the best cars I've owned great on gas when gas was 23 cents per gallon. With a set of Firestone Town and Country snow tires it could go through snow like a tank. Really miss the Lancer.😎
You should have redone that blue 1959 Edsel!
Great video,have had Hagerty classic car insurance for years,I just subscribed
A beautiful classic.... be nice to see it worked up a touch 😊
Absolutely LOVE that Lancer wagon...must not be a Michigan car, there's still a body on it!
My '62 Valiant that I bought in '65 had already been bondoed, and after the first winter all the bondo fell out, and I replaced the holes with a fiberglass boat repair kit from Montgomery Wards, followed by spray cans of Dupli-Color. By '67 there was nothing from the windows down, and I sold it and got a new V.W. The drivetrain was still great...I loved that car!
Been looking for one in driveable shape for 10 years, and even with Hemmings have not found one. (That I can afford)
In high school in the 80s my buddy always had cars with slant 6 engines.they always ran great.
What a perfect project. I am looking for the surf boards now.
Can't wait to see the teardown and rebuild on this.
Please keep this project at the top of your priority list and keep the reports coming. I hope you are able to turn the body into a top level resto mod, at a Kindig-It calibre.
Funky looking wagon!
Glad you're back, Davin. RRU is the best show on Hagerty.
That’s a beautiful survivor worthy of restoration. Good stuff.
I love this series. Looking forward to the next video!
I love to have that wagon! I love all the Exner styled Mopars.
This station wagon is frigging awesome, I really remember them well as a kid.
Have fun trying to find parts for a push button torqueflite.
I see a 1970s vintage electronic ignition system on this engine (a common retrofit). The blue paint on the engine looks like a similar vintage engine, but the valve cover is wrong. Still a single master cylinder. I would have liked to see it run and come up to temp (maybe drive around the yard) using the gas tank for fuel before you ripped it apart.
Wow I had some studded snow tires on the hand me down 62 Valiant. I live in West Michigan. I drove that car for quite awhile. It had 3 on the tree and I later got a 4 speed out of a junk yard from a newer valiant and installed it. Then when I went to Community College, in the auto tech class I built a 225 with lots of speed parts. Bored it out 100 thousandths and all kinds of stuff. Isky, Clifford intake, Holley, Jahns, Mopar speed parts, Melling pump, etc.
Slant six = my favourite motor
Redline rebuilds are the best part of this channel. Definitely my favorite.
I am so happy to see another redline rebuild! It seems like it's been too long since the last one. Even though I primarily like European sports cars, I still love to see Davin and his friends rebuild this American engines.
Derek's drooling right now watching this.
I was really hoping this car would end up here!😊
Those slant six's are known to be bullet proof. The fact that it started up so easily is testament to that. The best homage you can pay to that is not rebuild it. Replace some of the seals and oil pan, clean the carb, and just clean it and put it back in. It will be fine.
I think you'll be happy and intrigued with our plans!
Darn Ole Mudd Dobs.❤. They can get into the darnedest places 😮.
This should be fun !! Like the car, but they don't normally last long here in Michigan (unless its an area that didn't get salt, only sand, or nothing, lol). First car was a '65 4 Dr Coroner (top back of the ft fender wheels were square, held scrap & rotted thru...). Prior owner was the safety director of a local DuPont plant, car came with 4 at/snow tires, in the trunk were 4 more with studs. That slant 6 had enough low end to run the 2 tracks. In '78 had a 74 Duster that I got a 2bbl intake, split header for duals, & match ported them both. Didn't run bad, lol. 78-80 there was a guy from Otsego, who ran at Martin / US-131, in a '62 Valiant, slant 6 & 4sp, (that was, supposedly, built from Direct Connections catalog!) That was turning 11 sec passes !! Great fun to see! Wonder if this one might get tickled up, not just stock...? Thanx !
Can’t wait brother wanna hear it run New
Can't wait to see that slant 6 on the dyno 😅
Davin is the best of Hagerty. This is excellent content.
Of course it will run....it's a slant 6! Got one meself in 65 dart
Good wagon content can't wait to see more....thanks🔧🔧👍
Redline rebuilds . . . yes!
Great will it run on the 1961 Lancer. Thanks for sharing! 💯👊👍
That’s a beautiful car, love the body lines
Ou jeeeeeee!!!!!!!! I have 1962 dodge lancer! Fabylous project!!!!!😅
Slant six are so simple, a few were aluminum blocks (probably rare) make good torque too. My 68 Charger had the 225 cu in. Great car & engine
Definitely a beautiful 1961 Dodge Lancer wagon.
As another commenter noted the distributor has a reluctor and magnetic sensor as can be seen in the last shot - meaning electronic ignition. The way the engine ran when it was started this is one build I would have NOT wanted to see the engine rebuilt. My suspicion is that it is a much later 225 that might very well be in decent condition. I wish there was a compression/leak down test and a run of the engine to see if there was anything cracked. So..., in this case I actually hope you do find a reason to have pulled the engine because otherwise it might not have been necessary.
Those early 60's Lancer/Valiants are some of the last rounded over, elevated hood cars before everything went flat & square. I've always wanted one. Even dashed up to Santa Barbara to see one but like most every car there it had excessive rust from the salt air. This one looks in great shape for its age. All the best with the build.
Another rebuild to follow!!!!
My Aunt had a red one push button transmission when I was a kid in the mid 60's