Transforming A '72 Dodge Dart From Lawn Ornament To Pavement Pounder - Detroit Muscle S10, E7 

Who wants to buy a 440

They are out there, you just gotta look.

They are out there somewhere. Only fewer and fewer ordinary people can afford them.

@@Pracaupodstaw Yep, that's why you gotta look outside the box for projects now, The HOT new build out here in Arizona are the Smog/Malaise Era cars from 73-85 because there plentiful and cheap often still running and driving for under a 3 grand. I daily drive a 73 Buick Regal that I bought for $1200 right after I got here and drove it home and then put another 5 k ish into, I just bought a 76 Cutlass for $2200 That I'm going to build into a weekend car.

@@TheREALOC1972 Interesting. It is an option. I would obviously prefer a car from the 60s (possibly 50s or even 40s), but you know, the budget does not always allow you to fully realize your dreams. u, in Central Europe, an American muscle or pony is always a pearl or even a diamond - regardless of the decade of production.

@@Pracaupodstaw it's just in Central Europe where's that's a problem, I have 8k ish in my Regal you can't even look at a roller of most older muscle cars for that and that's just the start, 8k and mine is done.....

I agree with the "boring 350 Chevy" build but there's a reason people do them by the dozens, they made the 350 for 50 years and never really changed much, there's millions upon millions of them which means they are dirt cheap, the 350 gives you the best bang for your buck.

Or worse.... Another LS swap..

I was wondering about that also. My roommate bought the first 360 Duster straight off of the showroom floor. We would go street racing against the locals on the weekends. 😉

@@Darknamja yeah, I had a full load 1974 Dart Sport with the 360 as well. For 1973 Chrysler muscle cars had the 340. The 360 had an externally balanced crank and the 340 had an internally balanced crank.

I like Tommy too but I've been a customer of Rock Auto for several years. My neighbor turned me onto them when I first moved to Florida in 2010. he was building a 96 S-10 and just about every part on that truck he got from Rock Auto, he was a parts guy at a GM Dealership for years though so he certainly knew what he was doing when it came to parts.

That;s still cheap as hell they, I mean a Basic bitch Kia Rio cost you 17k and a basic bitch Hyundai Elantra is 20k..... a basic bitch 2023 V6 Mustang is 32k.... a basic bitch 2023 Malibu is 25k.... 22k is a STEAL for an actual muscle car with a 340 V8 in it.....

That's something that only takes a couple minutes plus doesn't need to be done until you get inspected. In alot of states it will pass inspection as long as the crack doesn't obscure the drivers vision and this one doesn't.

a beveled file does the same thing.....

First off it's Disc Brakes... and 2nd, not right off the flip when your doing a budget daily driver, Disc Brakes is literally very very very low on the "must do" list because the drum brakes still work. You gotta get the car running and driving long before you do a disc brake conversion. It needed alot of engine work, new fluids, new gaskets, a completely new fuel system and brakes that work, it also needed cleaned up and will need a paint job LONG before it needs disc brakes. Disc brakes is an "upgrade" and not something that is needed right off the bat when you can use that 2-3 grand on other things.

I bought one in 2004 when I came back from Iraq for $1200, mine had a 318 also but it was a 4 door though but I didn't mind. I just wanted something to ticker on and take the wife and kids to cruises and car shows on the weekend. it was green on green on green. It was in phenomial shape when I bought it I didn't have to much to it. cleaned and rebuilt the carb and basically cleaned it up, painted everything that was supposed to be black black again repainted the block corporate blue, and the intake and valve covers silver and of course new gaskets all around. It was a great little car, I even took it to San Antonio from Central Missouri for a Army leadership course, AM radio only on the way down but I fixed that quickly while I was in San Antonio, went bought a cheap little AM/FM Radio and cd player while I was there because just having an Am radio I didn't get a damn thing on the radio for most of the drive and 14 hours in almost complete silence sucked. Got divorced in 2007 but I kept that car until 2014 because I loved it so much.

wash it.......

@@TheREALOC1972 haha, stupid. I was serious