74 Dart Sport Restoration

This car was given to me when my grandfather passed away when I was 9 years old. Being too young to take care of it my father had used it to commute to work in the summers to keep it running. When I had turned 15 we had outfitted the factory 318 with a new cam and 4bbl intake to get it moving a little quicker than stock form. Over the coming years after I had modified the drive train with new gear sets and a 727 trans and in 2009 I decided to build a 408 stroker. This was a very budget build and I had managed to squeak out 320 HP at the tires but it wasn't long until the body was showing its age and in 2014 I decided it was time to restore the Dart. It took me 3 summers (I'm from MN) of working on this in the driveway of my dads house to fully tear it down to a shell and build it up to the car it is today. Along with my dads help I had done all the sheetmetal work, body work and paint, I went through the engine and drive train all over while adding some performance as well. The engine needed a new cam shaft after wiping out a lobe so I had ported my stock 360 iron heads enough so that with the new cam it managed to push out 475 hp at the crank. After all was done it is a fun little car to rip around town and I get a lot of thumbs up while cruising around.