Survivor! This Two Owner 1970 Dodge Dart Is A Slant Six Powered Street Machine (With Original Paint) 

What a neat little car. A body and a slant. The combo that just keeps giving. Its the energizer bunny of automobiles. That Dart will still be doing 0-60 in 20 seconds long after the BMW has been turned into a Civic and 2 Kia Rio's.

For their time the were hard to beat for a inexpensive reliable commuter car 👍🇺🇸

4 doors just mean you have more friends, or in my case, the potential for friends! That's a beautiful survivor. My car has more red primer showing than the original gold paint now, my wife hates, which makes me like it more 🤣

Cool little car! I used to only look at a 4 door as a good dog house donor but have learned to appreciate them nowadays, great to see one original and saved!👍

This looks exactly like the car my Grandma drove for my entire childhood and then went to college with my Uncle, I always thought the hood mounted turn indicators were a great idea nice find!

Great little family car! Pile in the wife and kids and drive around looking at Christmas lights!!!!!

What a beautiful car. Well worth some attention.

Good reliable cars. Had two of them back in the '70's.

The front looks like my old 71 Dodge Dart Swinger!

So cool! Love the aging original paint. I think I’ll keep mine the same way. Lots of dings and dents and stories along the way.

4 door or not, that's a sweet little ride! Love it!

Always enjoy your day! You’re always finding an old Mopar that most people would run away from.🤔👍❤️

I had a 72 dodge dart with a slant 6 I loved it and she always started Loved that car , That was in the 80s

Giday, Thankyou for the great content, again. Nice ol unit... Cheers from Australia..

I have 2 1971 Darts in the same color combo, definitely need to hurry up on my restoration

Had a '71 that was nearly identical. Had a 225 with a 3 on the tree. I sure miss that car.

I loved my gold ‘69 4 door Dart with its slant 6 and Torqueflight. It still had points but I kept that engine so well tuned that as soon as any one of the six pistons hit TDC it was running, just set the choke and bump the key in the morning and you were on your way. In all the years I had it I never had a lick of trouble with it. I even drove it home from Vermont to NJ after spinning out on ice and slamming the right front fender into a guard rail three times. It spun around and hit the same place on the same fender three times but nothing else got touched other than the headlight bezel. I pulled the fender out of the tire, unplugged the flaming headlight and carried on. Found another fender in the junkyard when I got home and it was none the worse for wear. I think it was even the same gold color. Truly a magical car!

Awesome survivor! Reminds me of my 1970 Duster I bought in 79. Slant six and same color.

I drove a 69 Valiant 4-door about 7 years. I've had several 2-door Darts but the 4-door Valiant was actually better for a daily driver. The shorter doors were better in tight parking lots and the door hinges lasted much longer. It was also nice not to have to get out to let people into the back seat.

Neat more-door Dart with a cool history!

Love it. Classic nothing granny car. But that’s why it’s cool. It has survived this long and will double that. Simple analog everything. 😎

The Australian 225 slant six is a real goer in this country,the Dodge Dart 69 model looks like our VE Valiants.Shame you guys never got a hold of the Hemi 245/265 six cylinders,some of the fastest production cars of their times with the E49 Valiant Chargers.I love your stuff Jamie,particulary your tech hints.Nothing sexier than a '69 Coronet RT.

I miss finding and driving these cars

The Dodge cursive script is missing from the center of the hood. Very nice original car

I would really love to own this Dart.

If they still built them, I would buy one.

I had the same model and color with power steering, power brakes, factory A/C and automatic . The car on a good day gave 12mpg (gas back then was 28 cents per gallon) and the 0 to 60 time was somewhere before noon. Ordered the car August 1969 received October 69 put 35000 miles in 4 years traded for an ordered 1973 Chevy Caprice with all the options. Good times!!!

Jaime, when I drive the "Wonder" beige Valiant (from the Tulalip Reservation- now here in NC with me) around, people look, point, ask questions, take photos. Have a '17 GT350 and it doesn't get much attention as the '76 Valiant.

Bruno's slobber on the window agrees... Valiants are great...

Very nice survivor.... thanks

This car takes me back to my childhood!! Family had one!! 😊

Glad she kept it original

I had a '72 Dart nearly identical to this one (slant 6, drum brakes, "Amber Sherwood" paint). Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And yes, mine had the same paint runs in the same spot.

I pass by all the souped up Camaros, Chevelles and Mustangs at a car show to find the original Mopars like this one!!

Definitely would own one of these, who cares if it's a 4 door. Fun car!

Survivor cars, love em!

Nice Dart!

Glad you respect her

Cool old rig!

I always saw Dart/Valiant as being the best and most honest American cars available - whatever the year.

great car and thankfully in good hands ......

Yes, I knew that slant sixes leak oil like a sponge :⁠-⁠) Daily drive means daily dip stick check. I would have never believed those cars would be classic. The Custom trim stuff is too cool!

That Dodge Dart is , absolutely 💯 MINT !! All of the original panels , Are Still in great condition too !!

Another fine video. Nice to see one as a daily driver.

Had a few 70’s darts way back. They were cheap and plentiful. The tow 2 doors I owned had the slant 6, and I had a 4 door with the 318. Would love to have a 2 door 318 Dart now, but good examples are bringing high dollar

Cool car 👍

I'm sure you would be shocked if I didn't have a 1970 Dart story. In 1994 I bought a one owner '70 Dart Swinger. I didn't meet the owner, because she had passed away. She did however leave clues that she was a whole lotta Rosie. The driver's side of the bench seat was permanently crushed, and I found a business card in the glove box from a clothing boutique for large women. Anyway, it was that factory Damn Green inside and out, like the Dart in this video. It had a 318/904 combo and was completely rust-free. I daily drove it for 10 years, and even delivered pizzas with it! I installed 360 heads, a four barrel carb, dual exhaust, and a performance cam. People got their pizzas real fast!

That is a really sweet dart. Little carpet sound insulation would be absolutely mint

Nice old Dart. That is a concern, all that extra metal, where there should normally be holes surrounded by a brown/orange crusty substance. Down here in Oz, 69 was the last year of left hand threads on wheel studs. In 70, they went to all R/H thread, the same time the (marketing exercise) "Hemi" 6 replaced the slant 6, so a one year only with all R/H studs and 4" PCD wheels. 71 saw the 4.5" become standard. We didn't get the Dart/Valiant twins, just the Valiant, 62-66 on 106", 67-70 on the 108" wheelbase. But our 69/70 Valiant 2 door hardtop was built using a lot of 67-69 Dart sheet metal and the 111" wheelbase.

Great episode....loved it!

Groovy man ❤

Lol half washed hood is priceless.

I love these cars. My mom had a 72 and a 74 The smells , sounds and colours…ugh so nostalgic. This really brings me back ❤

Ah the memories... I recognized the foot squirt pedal for the windshield washer. One thing you can do if you are a stupid 16 year old version of me is drive at 100 mph past Richmond Park at 2 am and pull the hand brake to see how far you could leave a skid mark on the road. Then of course dad makes you replace the D shaped tire...Valiants can survive anything...

The little old lady across the street from me growing up, had one same color, nice shape for the age.

Ahh yes, the memories of spooning the front drums on my old belvedere

I had almost this exact car... '70 Dart... lime green... but mine had the 318 in it. Power steering but not power brakes... no A/C... pretty basic. It was my great grandmother's... I kinda got it when she stopped driving in her mid 80s. SUPER light power steering and super heavy (non-power) brakes. It was a hoot to drive.

I had a love/hate relationship with my 1971 Swinger. Factory FE5 Rallye Red car, Black vinyl top, black & white interior. Sounds good until I get to the Slant 6 engine. The first engine lasted only 2 weeks before it put the #2 rod through the block. Got me home on 5 cylinders and no oil pressure though. Bought a used Slant for $200 and had the car back in one piece in a weekend. I tried everything.... replaced the timing chain, converted to electronic ignition, even converted to a Super Six setup with two-barrel carb and custom-fabbed dual snorkel air cleaner. The car still travelled at the speed of smell. I live in a fairly mountainous area and I could use the temperature gauge as an altimeter. Anytime I wanted to go anywhere, it was like the Pike's Peak Hill Climb challenge. Except I was doing it at 35 mph the whole way. Stomping on it would surely incite passing gear, but all that would do is make noise and make the engine heat up faster. By the time I'd reach the summit, the gauge would be pegged on the H. I felt like Dennis Weaver in "Duel" anytime I took a trip. Let that one go, too. Bought for $400, got all the lights, gauges, etc working again. Put a stereo in it, did some dirty bodywork and backyard paintjob.... sold it for $1500. I might have kept it, but this was the early 2000's before any reproduction sheet metal existed for the A-body and the car needed everything: floors, quarters, trunk extensions, inner fenders.... you name it. I'm the king of kitty-hair fiberglass so I made it presentable but it never would've won any kind of OE Judging. And surely, nothing shy of a rare earth magnet would've stuck to it. Of course, to replace the car today would cost me $35,000 and one of my favorite body parts. Oh, and the grille is off a '71. '70 had silver vertical ribs on the grille, '71 had black. Also the Hood badge is missing.

Great car!! The front end looks a little 1971-ish. ;-)

My ‘71 Swinger has two horns, but in a different location, and I had wondered if that was normal. Love Darts (and Valiants)- great video!

Beautiful car

My grandparents had one, with a 318. Love these darts.

Evocative! My first car was a slant 74 Valiant sedan in the same sexy color as the recent 74 Dart. Brings back memories like forgetting to add oil until it was practically empty or getting blasted when I opened a hot radiator. Ah youth.

Nice old Dart! It very much reminds me of the 67 Coronet 4dr I once had. It was about the most bare-bones Coronet you could buy, slant 6, rubber floor mats, dog dish caps, and very little chrome trim. It did have an automatic though, so I guess that was a step up from a 3 speed manual. I bought it in 1987 so it was 20 years old at the time, but it was very clean. An elderly couple had it and had passed on and their family sold it to me. The ash trays had never even been used. I gave it a good cleaning and a wax job and it looked almost new. It had 3.91:1 gears so it didn't get the best mileage on the highway, but damn I loved that thing. Then I sold it to a friend, who later sold it to someone else, and the rest of the story is too depressing so let's just say I wish I had never sold it.

Had that same car, color and all. I put a hitch, and the bbd carb on it to pull my fishing boat. In 2000, I let my boy drive it, and fixed it after he hit a nice doe. I ran out of steam after he hit a 12pt buck, 2 months later. Darn kids. Love the slants. My daily is an 82 miser shortbed.

Nice ride

Ha, I saw the Tousley Motor Sports trailer in the background. I live right near where their old location that was in White Bear Lake MN and used to buy many dirt bikes from them. So random a old Tousley Sports trailer would wind up across the country in a video.

My grandmother had a 1968 Dodge Dart. No power steering, no power brakes, slant six. It was just about bullet proof. But it felt like driving a car built in 1948. It wandered, the brakes were marginal and it was about 3 1/2 turns from lock to lock.

And my brother is the 2nd owner of his 71 340 cuda!

Wrong body and wrong year but it takes me back to my interim car, a '73 Swinger, in that green or very close, with green interior, /6 and 904 transmission. It was overall in really nice shape when I bought it but when I moved and had to leave cars behind, my uncle could only store one of them; '71 Challenger (first car!) or '73 Swinger (bought when the Challenger rusted out too many freeze plugs). Challenger won, Swinger got sold cheap to a coworker... sigh. Wish I had it and every other Mopar our family owned still. But there was just no way to do that. I like 4 doors just as much as 2 doors. And Wagons more than two doors. Hardtops over sedans. But I would happily keep a car like this, green and all.

In my home town, a cab companies fleet was made up of Darts and Swingers.They still had many of them on the road in the mid 90’s when they retired the last of them. The last 2 had more than 200,000 miles on them.

I had a slew of these A bodies back in the 70s and 80s. 225ci to 360ci and everything in between. There is something charming about a Dart with a Slant Six. But not the electrical system. Voltage regulators and ignition resisters are my bane!

I totally agree with you. I would rather have a 1970-1973 Dodge Dart than a BMW.

Original is way cool! I never knew there should be a small piece of felt on the trunk bracket for the jack until I got my 71 Swinger with 30k miles, white top, green car, multi-green interior, slant, great driver.

Cool old grocery getter 👍

My first car was a 1975 Dart with an 8-Track shuttle deck. All of $500.

Pretty sure that's a 1971 front grill so maybe that's what it is ..... Great car looks amazing

Your so right I rather have the dart than any bmw. Great video

I may have said this before but when I came back from Iraq the 1st in 2004 my ex wife and I were looking for a car that just needed some TLC for a weekend fun car that we could take to cruise-ins and Cars and Coffee's with the kids plus I could use as driver when I had to go do Army things away from home. We found a 72 Dart 4 door, same color as this one but mine had a dark green vinyl top and a 318, it also had the original AM Radio, which didn't last long, a couple months after getting it and doing in depth tune-up including tires, fluids and gaskets I drove it from Central Missouri to San Antonio Texas, that's when the AM went bye bye, a 14 hour drive with little to no entertainment is not fun, I was there for 2 weeks teaching a class and one day 1 I went to Wal-mart and picked up a cheap $30 stereo and put that in so I would have some tunes on the way home. I drove it until 2016 when I moved out here to Northwestern Arizona and gave it to my niece for her first car. All in all it's one of my top 3 cars I ever had, I absolutely loved that car, I'd love to find another one.

I googled to see if i got the front end issue right. I did. I've had a couple of '70 swingers, and even though it's been awhile, I've had one around for several years of my life.

Had a blue one in Florida

WHAT'S the 5:40 difference anyone? My 1970 knowledge starts and ends with the Valiant, also my daily driver since fresh outta high school in 2000. Slant Six car as well. Got her garaged for the first time ever over the winter to do a full seal set and some MUCH needed TLC

Ooohhh, that nifty!!

4 doors were great party cars, you didn`t have to lean forward to let your buddies out to piss. And that green color was common enough to not draw the attention from the law. And the slant six was cheap on gas and super reliable. Don`t ask me how I know that, I heard it from a friend.

When I was sanding down my 1972 Charger, the driver's side sail paint just went "poof" into dust and I didn't see a hint of primer. The car had been repainted once, and they seemed to just scuff the factory paint a bit before priming and painting. Only spot on the car that did that.

Green bean needs a 440

What are the black squares in the turn signals? Almost reminds me of the batman fog lights my dad had on his Plymouth Acclaim.

I love it. I want it.

I'd love to have that, so clean! Rather than a BMW. '70, was the last year for engines to have full power.

Tousley? 11:18 Is that the same one as in DeBoss Garage in Canada?

Similar to a BMW, but the turn signals work

They must have made thousands just like that one, they were little old lady cars then tenager first cars with low miles.

Oh that car is just getting broke in it should provide many years of service. Plug as many oil leaks as possible and keep your eye on the dipstick

My 68 polara has super touchy drum breaks I assume it's a normal thing lol ?

Grill is black and not Argent silver. 71 grill

Don't the 70's always have a Dodge badge (in script) at the center of the hood as opposed to the 71 and up? My first mopar was a 71 Swinger 225/auto, white w/green vinyl top and green interior - got it from my uncle

I think the custom is for the four doors cuz my 72 is a custom as well

forgot about the left-threaded lug nuts on the left side... learned that one the hard way whilst taking off the snow tires... after I snapped off 2 or 3 lugnuts, my dad yelled at me... "you see that L on the end of the stud... that means they're left-hand threaded STUPID!" I was a 16 year old kid... what did I know...

What was this color called? My ant had a '72 Challenger this color. She thought it was called Sherwood Green Metallic, but I can't find any reliable Dodge paint code/name for it.

first car i drove was a k car reliant. My friend had a slant six dart four door that dart was superior in everyway except ac it was much faster which that's not a high bar more comfortable and I'm sure it's driving by every day where that reliant died to this day.