I'm actually in the middle of restoring mine. It's the 1975 Dodge Dart Custom Sedan that my great-grandparents bought new. It later sat in my grandparents garage for most of my childhood and I would play in it every time I visited. When I was 14, it was given to me and we brought it home with only 36k miles on it by 1993 and a factory shine on it's garage kept paint. I learned to drive in the car, and drove it throughout highschool and through grad school. During this time, I (being a stupid teenager) decided to strip the cars paint and repaint it a number of times using rustoleum before finally taking an autobody class my senior year. I eventually swapped the slant 6 for a "built" 318 and upgraded the torsion bars, control arms, sway bars and performed a disk brake conversion along with replacing the 7 1/4" rear with an 8 1/4". But as luck would have it... a connecting rod let go 1 month after getting married. Before I had a chance to do anything, I took a job we had to move for, and it was left behind on family property. It's taken me 15 years to finally get it home... unfortunately, I had started another paint strip and it was left in bare primer the whole time... so as you can imagine there's quite a bit of repair work to do from surface rust and where leaves collected and rusted all the way through. Now I finally have a garage of my own and I don't have to rely on it for daily transport, so I get to take my time and do it properly. I realize it's a 75 4 door (originally slant 6) so it's about the least valuable A-body, but it's that one thing I can't let go of. It had a couple dings when I first got it, but still shined like new. After body shop class... But before disk brakes. I do NOT suggest taking a 4 wheel drum car up Pike Peak. After the engine swap and picked up some wheels from the donar car. It made it thru the wedding. The day I finally got it home after 15 years. Current condition. Thankfully it was a southern car, so the rockers and frame are pretty solid, it's mostly rust around the windshields and trunk lid where it collected leaves. The eventual plan is something along this line, though likely sticking to a Dart grill (modified an existing 3d model)
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