{"id":61052,"date":"2022-04-14T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=61052"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:38","slug":"a-swing-and-a-hit-with-this-dart-swinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/gallery\/2022\/04\/a-swing-and-a-hit-with-this-dart-swinger.html","title":{"rendered":"A Swing and a Hit With This Dart Swinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After reading the story \u201cToo\nFar Gone<\/a>\u201d on DodgeGarage and noticing the link at the end of the article\nasking for readers to share their stories, George Fischer decided to write us\nabout his project and we are so glad he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George lives in Central New York and has always been a bit of a project guy and a self-proclaimed jack-of-all-trades. He has a love of all classic Mopar\u00ae<\/sub> vehicles, but the 1970 340 Dodge Dart Swinger has always held a special place in his heart. He fell in love with the car when his sister started dating a guy who owned one and even though George was only 5 years old at the time, he knew a badass car when he saw one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2016 \u2026 the search begins. \u201cI wanted to have a go at something I could do myself. I\u2019m a sort of jack-of-all-trades, wrenching on stuff since I was little, but never had the time to go all-in. Turns out there weren\u2019t a lot of 340s to be had in the northeast, or maybe I didn\u2019t know where to look. Wound up settling on this little beauty, a Slant-Six in Boston that was solid but needed some love,\u201d says George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It had been purchased by the previous owner back in 2000 as a project car, but he never got around to doing anything with it except stripping a bunch of parts off it. Not exactly the 340 George wanted, but he didn\u2019t want a finished car and the options were limited. \u201cI got the little Six up and running in a hot minute, then decided I better re-gasket the engine otherwise it was going to be a leak-fest. POV: this thing was the meanest sounding six-cylinder I\u2019d ever heard!\u201d exclaimed George.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward a few years and a friend from school George hadn\u2019t seen in years heard he bought a project car and wanted to see it. This friend\u2019s father owned a body and frame shop in their hometown throughout their childhood and while the frame shop was long gone, his love for cars remained intact. George says, \u201cSince he has lots of experience and was looking for something to do, the original idea of getting her running, throwing on some paint, and driving the hell outta her went bye-bye. I think I remember him saying, ‘if you pull the motor, you might as well pull and restore the k-frame,’ yada, yada, yada, and it just snowballed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n