"wunderwagen wants a longer roof" (wunderwagen) 05/15/2015 at 11:49 • Filed to: None

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Is it wrong of me to want another Dart?

I love my 2013, but I think a ‘64-’66 wagon or sedan would be a nice companion. Maybe with a nice big Hemi up front and painted midnight blue metallic with silver/chrome trim. Maybe make that Hemi a 44o Six Pack because why not, go big or go home right? Slant Sixes kick ass too.

I love the look of the ‘64-’66 Darts, all generations look good but especially these and the generation following them.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 11:58

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I like this idea. I want to do something similar, but with a Ford Fairlane Wagon. A 66 or 67 then cut the B pillar out, and get a 2 door hardtop and take the b pillar and doors off it. Then use those to turn the wagon in to a sedan delivery. Then I need to convince my father to let me have the 427 SOHC he has hidden away.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 05/15/2015 at 12:13

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I too love the Fairlanes! Gorgeous cars and my grandfather had one when my mom was growing up. She says it was lovely. Only Ford in the family until my granddad started working for the local GM plant(I find it funny that I became a Mopar fan). Use that 427 for the right reasons, we need more sleeperish drag wagons.

Slant6 > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 12:37

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Oppo’s resident a-body Dart owner here.

AMA

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > Slant6 05/15/2015 at 12:55

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I was hoping you’d show up. If/when I do this, it won’t be for a couple years. I’m assuming you have a Slant Six in yours, how is it as an engine? Easy to maintain? Could I roast rear tires with it? What is your overall experience with the car?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 13:55

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You could always look for a 330 too.

Here’s my dad’s 64 Dodge 330 Police Car

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 05/15/2015 at 14:00

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That looks so cool. My basic goal would be to have a good looking, slightly modified, cruiser that can slay rear tires when I feel like it. Police car though, I can dig it. Those steelies rock.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 14:05

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He’s a full on psycho for restorations. He doesn’t modify anything visible. He’s the kind of guy that will dismiss a car for not having the right hose clamps.

Only performance bump is that he bored the 318 V8 60* over. It’s a slug and the Montego would ROAST IT. The only power over me it would have is the radio, lights and siren. Which are all original and all work. Seriously. You can’t tell in these pics, but it has 2 red strobes in the grille, and 2 in the rear window as well as of course the top light. It has 3 siren sounds.

He has a hidden CD player in the glovebox he wired up with a CD of police radio calls so when he parks it at a car show he opens the windows and lets it play so it sounds like the radio is on.

It’s immaculate, it really is. Oh and it only cost him 200 bucks when he bought it because of how destroyed it was, this is genuinely a car he saved from being scraped.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 05/15/2015 at 14:18

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Holy mother of god. I want to see it in person, that is ridiculously awesome. Can he teach me his ways of restoration? haha

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 14:48

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Hahaha, he could but he has been an ASE Master Mechanic for around 30 years. And he had a body shop do the body work/paint. He built the motor and did everything else mechanical except for the machine shop work on the block and heads, he has a tendency to shop out transmissions, not because he doesn’t know how to work on them - he frankly just hates them lol.

It’s a PUSH BUTTON trans too by the way, buttons on the left of the steering wheel on the dash.

Epic trophy win once, he went to an all emergency vehicle car show. They took pics on the way in, a picture of his car got put on the trophies (all of them)....and he won one.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 05/15/2015 at 15:34

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Your dad sounds badass. He has my respect for such a cool and clean restomod and his abilities.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 15:51

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oh, whoa, it’s not a mod. full restoration.

Those lights, sirens, radios are all 100% original to the car. It was a real police car. Not for the police department on the side, we just copied the correct 1964 paint scheme of our town we used to live in. #7 was our house number too, the police department only had 3 cars in 1964 haha.

He’s where I got my knowledge and love of cars from.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 05/15/2015 at 15:58

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Gotcha!

So is the push button trans an auto like modern ones?

That’s some thought put into a car, very original too.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 16:02

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Yeah he thought long and hard about all of it, yeah it’s pretty crazy it’s a push button auto trans. Bigger more mechanical buttons though.

I bought the Montego because when I was a kid he was a semi-pro dragster in a Ford Torino, I was looking for a Red Ford Torino when I found the sibling car Red Montego for a steal and jumped on it.

Sitting in this car when he started it/revved it up on the trailer in front of the house locked me into cars for life:

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 17:29

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It won’t be too sleeperish. The 427 is still NOS in the Ford crate, so it has the crazy high rise and dual quads. Would need a stretched tear drop hood at the very least. Probably no hood.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 05/15/2015 at 17:37

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It just got 10 times better haha.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 20:03

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Mini tubs, a 4 link, a T56 6 speed and the awesome 427.

I think the ‘shop truck’ motif is a bit over done, so just some nice gloss black base clear, a roof rack for my snowboard and longboards, and black steelies with center caps. Nothing bigger than 15”. and of course, where all the back glass wason sides will be filled in. But ill keep the magic tail gate. Double door might be a bit difficult.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 05/15/2015 at 20:29

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It just became the greatest Fairlane wagon.

Slant6 > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/15/2015 at 23:30

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It’s a dog of an engine. But dogs are awesome. Dogs are dependable and only really need food and water to keep going. It’s pretty torquey. I have the weaker rear end (I really should know the size) but I’m able to smoke any 13 inch tires my used tire store has in stock. One at a time though. I’m internally conflicted as to keep the 6 and put on a bigger carb, headers and maybe a turbo or just get a 440 out of a motor home. Fun cars. This video highlights how a-bodies can be what ever you want to build them to be. They make good drag cars, track cars, street cars, or stock daily drivers. I’d buy one sooner than later, prices are going up. I know this because I’ve been buying parts for it for 5 years.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > Slant6 05/16/2015 at 00:51

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I like the six but a V8 that can roast the rears and haul ass is pretty tempting. I’m sure you’re right about the prices, but currently I’m about two years from finishing college. So that means unless circumstances change, I’m not looking at an A-body until summer/fall 2017 so heres hoping prices aren’t ridiculous by then. I really like his idea of the throwing in a built SRT4 motor, power and lightness, but a V8 is just so much more satisfying I think. I think my build would be a daily drivable sleeper, roaring monster underneath a good looking and unassuming exterior. Here’s hoping I can at least get a slant six sedan or wagon to have and slowly work on until I can really do what I want.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wunderwagen wants a longer roof 05/22/2015 at 21:52

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Sedan. Do an LS swap. (Just kidding.)

It would be fun to have a slant-six and a four-speed and hop it up a wee bit. Nothing extreme, but something quick and torquey. That sample car you have up top is very handsome.

wunderwagen wants a longer roof > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/22/2015 at 23:07

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LS swap everything always.

The sedan is what I would prefer in this case, it is extremely handsome. A hopped up manual slant six would be fun. I just want to be able to do burnouts on command in an unassuming vehicle. I don’t know who designed the third gen but it is fantastic to look at.