Barn Find 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger WeFixIt
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- Out of the barn and into Bill's shop to begin working on the '71 Dart Swinger. Plus, Bill fires up his 1931 Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Finally, Bill shows us a rare car hidden under a tarp.
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The shop is cool. Everything about it and the collection accumulated over time. Its a passion & he is devoted to it. A real gentleman.
Nice lathe also.
One of the things that stuck out to me while listening to Old Bill and his buddies is nobody swears! It's right nice to hear real men talk without swearing. Also, I read some of the other posts and you know what? I don't care if Old Bill is wrong about the "factory primer" or that he made me nervous, too, using that razor blade, I'm just amazed at what a fine gentleman he is and so forth and so on. Neat guy.
You are so correct about Bill and his brother and friends - spot on, sir!!
With all honesty Old school people are very polite
He sounds like Milton in Office Space.
Bill seems like kind of a prick to me...
As an Serb, i am proud to see an Yugo Convertible in such a good state! If i ever come to America, i must come here and see this!
Loved the way he started the old Harley. Thanks for the tour.
Brings back memories, when I was 18 in 1994 I had a 71 Dart Swinger with a 318, the owner had painted blue over the original plum crazy paint. I was driving it and in the process of restoring it when a kid on a bike pulled out in front of me and I ended up putting it on it's driver's side. I was able to drive it but it did damage to the underneath and I couldn't afford to fix it in place and redo it so I sold it, the guy I sold it to hopefully was able to bring it back. Was a lot of fun to drive and went like a bat out of hell even with just the 318. Mine also had the build sheet under the back seat too, mine had an all black interior.
thanks for the update, loved the tires on the old Harley..
That " Yellow primer " is body fill primer. I use it a lot when I repaint older cars as it helps to fill in pits to make it real smooth.
The brown package tray speaker shelf being the brown is a giveaway. Thanks for showing it but my bet is that it was a proper old restoration, but seriously doubt Dodge ever used velvaseal primer
Can’t wait to follow this!! I love the old molars and have had road runners and barracudas but love the darts also
Good job guys
MOPAR's
The music choice when we meet the Yugo is the best. Nice shows, keep them coming!
Beautiful car sir. Thank you for the video
Nice video; these opportunities with old cars are what we all want but can't all find so you are letting us in on something pretty cool.
Amen brother!
i cant stop starring at this car.
That Yugo brings back memories, I had a yellow convertible and absolutely loved it
Well done keep up up the great work you all are making great progress can’t wait to see it back on the road again
that little convertible looks amazing a a little car
That old HOG sounded AWESOME !
Cool, just love old Mopar cars, got one myself. :)
Bills got a dream life
Good progress
You guys are so lucky you found that, that is one of the fastest old cars in the world
Pull it apart in a couple days send it to media blasting and keep track of the parts. it's around 1,500 bucks and fresh metal to start with.
Can't wait to see it drive!
really nice car! good for you!!
Very nice find. Wish I could find something like that someday when have the cash. Used to have a gorgeous chevelle I messed up and sold it when needed some money to a buddy w option to buy back. Except less than a week later he totalled it;( . Some day again I'll have another.
Real good bones on that car very nice
It will be amazing once it's Finnished
Very cool car guys!
Ok I'm really looking forward to the finish out come of Bill's 1971 dodge if you can keep us updated would really appreciated thank you.
Great Video ! Thumbs Up Liked !
Your car appears to be originally brown. Hood scoops, trunk spoiler and rear stripe was a 1970 thing only. The rear stripes were tape and not paint. The stamped holes on the undersides of the trunk was a carry over from 1970 and probably ended when the 1970 supply ran out. I have Dusters like that and noticed it. When they repainted the engine compartment they painted over the wiring harness and hood latch and spring. Other wise someone probably did a complete restoration on it at one time in it's life. Still a good find! I have two 1970 Swinger 340's. One in Panther Pink.
Jerry, you don't need to put any teasers at the start of your videos. If you do nothing for the rest of the video but shoot the breeze with these old goats we're just gonna enjoy listening anyway. Some of us don't have our elders around anymore to keep learnin' us so we'll hang out with you guys. Everyone else has suddenly gone plumb crazy anyway.
Thanks for that input. I need more comments about what people like to see. Mostly, I'm trying to tell an interesting story with a good ending.
The original color looks to be GK6 Dk. Bronze. You can see it on the rear speaker shelf, plus in the previous video the paint code (GK6) is visible on the fender tag at 24:53.
I think on the last video of this car,it showed him pressure washing the door panel,I would bet that he pressure washed the back seat and unknowingly got that build sheet in a little worse condition , plus he said it sat outside for at least 7 years, with no back window for some time,but in his defense, I wouldn’t have known about the build sheet if not for mr jerry mentioning it
This is awesome
that last secret car you showed you can have. I wouldn't care if it was the only one ever made!! lol
I feel the same way about Corvettes.
Oh my god look what I found in my garage while who could believe it and it was there the whole time
Remember the comedian, talking about a Yugo trying to enter onto the Interstate, back in 1972...lmao!
I would say those spots on the rear deck are from hail damaged that someone has shrunk back up again . Living where I do it's not unusual to find hail damage .To shrink them back up is often as simple as applying heat with a hairdrier and applying dry ice . You can burn the paint with the hairdrier ,hence the primer spots. A few years ago you could still vinyl top kits from various upholstery wholesalers and i wouldn't be surprised if a kit for that car is still available. Yugo , you go push when stop .In Cyrillic it was originally called the Застава Корал. They built over 790,000 of them and it was none other than Malcom Bricklin who sold them in the USA ,I think he managed to off load 140,000 roughly over several years.Thats a rare car now and would probably excite the odd ball commy car collector nuts out there. Mechanical parts are easy because they are actually a Fiat 127 reskinned.
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The yellow primer looks like Glasurit high build catalyzed primer we used in the early 90's when I was painting in a dealer shop. I agree with previous comments, that the car was originally the bronze color shown on her package shelf. Just a few seconds prior to that in the video, it's is also evident on the seat mount structure on the drivers floor panel
Gary Kerkstra
should put some larger washers over them holes catching both layers of metal on the deck spoiler... yes paint them orange too
It'll be a nice car when finished but as several people have noted, it's not originally an orange car. There are MORE Mopars of this era now that are painted High-Impact colors like Vitamin C, Lemon Twist and the ever popular Sassy Grass green, than there EVER were originally. The yellow bondo is in a location where there was NEVER bondo originally.
If you look at enough A-bodies, you learn quickly that every single square inch besides the upper door frames,dash frame and steering column is body color, in this case K6 bronze. In fact, it's been repainted at least twice because of all the weird off-white paint. The trunk is painted body color, underhood is painted body color...you get the idea. No harm in it not being original, but now you can build it the way you want without being bound to orange. Good luck and have fun.
One Gorgeous Dodge Dart
Yugo means = "You Go, cause I can't!" LMAO
Very light body design even with a 318 it would smoke tires. Wish I still had mine.
I bought a 70 dart gt back in 83 in valley Park mo. for
$ 100 . Just a 318-2v but it had factory hi back seats,ac ,ps, pb
It had a freeze plug pushed out by flex plate and the ol Man was moving. The ash tray in dash was never used and the rest of the car was
"darn" near perfect, I drove it for 80 k . Great car!
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Had to be a swinger in 70. They stop making the GT in 69
I love the 70 dart over all the dodges. I had a 70 340 car I sold in 90 . You can see the new owner with it after he restored it. Look up 1970 340 4speed swinger. Blue. I miss my car but going to a good home makes it all well
YUGO convertibles.....??? and you have more than one? Antique Harleys to Yugo ragtops,You're one diversified guy Bill.Looks to me like the DART has been painted at least once. I doubt that mileage,probably more like 118 K...Very cool car though.Hope it brought you some good money. Thanks again Jerry!
Bill seems like a great guy. Wonder if he is an AMCA member, would like to see those old Harleys.
The build sheet isn't a big ticket item on this particular car. The GK6 bronze paint is the original color and I'd suspect this is an original 318 Swinger with air.
I'm thinking the same thing , no question a GK6 car .
I doubt anyone would have done that nice of a paint job to a Dart back in the day.
I bet the engine, paint, and spoiler was dealer installed.
Me and my dad (I’m 14) are building a 70 dart and we’re gonna compound boost it and I can already see how it’s gonna look when we’re done. we’ve been working on it for 2 years now.
Real cool stuf
my brother worked for malcolm bricklin th man that imported yugos, malcolm moved his company World Motors to a small town called Meeker Colorado.the company headquarters was located on a huge property up the white river from the town and the road was littered with broke down yugos. if you worked for bricklin he would sell you a yugo for a very low price like 1999.00which was about a thousand less than retail. interestingly bricklin originally built the bricklin ford and was the first to import subaru and also developed a super car called the Vector.
what about a Vector today? How collectible?
Factory used Green dip primer, then red, and gray primer or black and gray primer. Never yellow. Also the factory never painted under vinyl roofs. Trunk was painted body color originally. The only Mopar with a factory speckle finish in the trunk were the C-Bodies. A Dart is an A-Body. The Dart looks like a restoration that was half completed more than an original car.
I don't think hood scoops, rear spoiler, and bumble bee stripe was available on the 318 version. I know for sure the rear spoiler was added (which I would remove.) Love the Harley!
I love how Duran Duran is playing in the background
Dan The Man it’s a British band sadly not around anymore
Dan The Man what do you mean?
Boy that 31 was easily a 70k+ motorcycle heck in that condition its possible at auction maybe 100+k you never know now days what some of those old bikes will do
The back trunk was in hail storm, and suffered hail damage, that is why the black paint was there covering up the yellow body filler.
Yellow primer...80’s
Not a muscle car.
But a cool 2 door.
The Demon 340 was the muscle car Dodge A body for 71.
Jerry should know that.
Yep K200 primer
I am fairly sure that the primed spots on the deck lid is a repair due to the deck lid
stiffening frame adheasive would strip the primer and leave bare metal at the glue
points and condensation would form, allowing the metal to pit rust through the skin
from the underside. It was a common problem with all manufacturers and the
condensation. That is the reason the deck lid insulation panel is on the floor
of the trunk and the underside of the deck lid has fresh paint, I hope they treated
the underside surface with Phosforic acid and then primed.
How do you double the value of a Yugo fill it up with fuel
Oh sh**!, DUEL all over again.
Please update if he gets the car going
the last Yugo Cabrio!
That is one eclectic collector to have Yugos...jeez.
It stays; you go.
You just press the underside up on the seat and the build sheet will come out, no problem.
Amazing there is no rust after sitting outside for 7 years. If that was in Ireland, it would last a year :)
Looks like a fairly well done tribute car, copy of a Dodge Demon but didn't take it all the way with a 340 and badging. I had a 73 Plymouth Gold Duster with factory 318 that I built into a drag car, I was dumb for selling it.
Vinny Ambrose
I find it funny how people from the time of these cars know nothing about them. The original color is the brown you see where the rear speakers are. The spoiler "Though admitted it is an add on" is the wrong one for a 1971 and the trunk lids all had the inner metal stamped for a spoiler after 1969 till 1974 I believe.
Lol I have two 1970 Dodge Dart swingers 225 slant 6 two doors ... one purple one blue one is my boys car when he is 16 he is 8 now and the second dad will make a baby super bee in cream yellow with a wicked 340 with a six pack that’s tucked up under my work bench I bought it from a junk yard in 81...
There's this hidden place outside of Bolivar Missouri called gears and stuff you can find any body late model car you want
I live near Bolivar Mo, know anyone looking for a 1936 Ford fordor, 95% original, flathead V-8, Evans speed shop gunned aluminium heads, all tools, survivor class car. Runs great.
It's been restored before , clearly ! Rear deck and floors look to be factory brown.
It's a sport, so yeah I'm pretty sure it came with the scoops & spoiler, back then you could order it anyway u wanted.
lol not.
You can spray the build sheet with hairspray and then let it dry it'll come out in one piece then I've used this method numerous times.
That is the best advice I've heard in a long long time.
Still had the jack retention spring.
Yellow hides imperfections very well it makes sense to use yellow primer on many cars.
BMW did it all throughout into the 80's before they changed to a pinkinsh/purple primer.
This car has already been restored at least once. The under hood pad and the jacking instructions are reproductions. The seat covers are reproductions. It has obviously been painted and eventually wrecked. I bet it looked nice back in the day. It's a $1000-$1500 car. If he can get the paint right and by the way make the entire trunk and the rear tray match the body, it might bring $10K.
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You take the seat apart to get the buildsheet out when it's that brittle.
Since it is a basic model tear it down put 440 in it keep the Orange paint and make the whole thing real clean and bad ass
Caleb Creswell right idea. The best comment on here.
All that yellow paint. At first I thought it was a yellow car but the fender tag denotes GK6 for dark bronze poly kind of a rust color metallic. And I would say the top was replaced,yellow paint under top. And that quarter, hello
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I'm sure this cars been reprimed and repainted, then the left quarter rear, was damaged and replaced. Whoever started it probably didn't have the money to finish it. You can get the vinyl replaced, it was factory vinyl. The rear spoiler was a factory option though the cutouts were there for some reason. Bumpers will be hard to find.
What do you call a convertible Yugo with dual exhaust?
A wheelbarrow
Good one !
I will use it again.
I thought the rear windscreen heater was a good joke 'to keep your hands warm while your pushing it..'
also worthy material.
eric roang you go no where
Him working with that razor blade made me cringe!
who cares its just an old dodge that got wiped out in the rear corner.
@@andythrasher5789 sheesh, i wasnt worried about the damn dodge!
I almost had to shut it off LMAO! I cut my finger with one of those blades just out of HS when I was using it like that. NEVER again. Still hurts 38 years later when it gets cold outside.
Same
The razor blade and the straight up paint thinner on his hands...if you listen closely you can actually hear the cancer cells exploding!
Hail .. back of the car may have been exsposed to hail !
Sorry to say, but the old man has no idea what he is talking about. The yellow primer is not factory, factory primer was a dark red color. Also, the paint code is GK6 which was shown in the last video of the car. You can clearly see that color is still on the package tray. The rear spoiler was not even an available option in 1971 on a Dart built for U.S. spec. It also has a 1972 quarter panel that has been installed on the drivers side as you can see that the marker light is no right for a 71. Another note. The seats upholstery is not "original" to the car, as the front headrests are not present, or even the bezels. They have been recovered at some point. All in all, this is an older restoration, and then was wrecked. Just hate to see misinformation being told as fact.
Yep, I agree, he's not as knowledgeable as he thinks. And the jacking instruction decal is way too nice. They typically shrink and wrinkle over time, as they were paper. This is an order restoration.
The rear spoiler is also missing the underside brackets to support the wing, they were not bolted to the outer skin. I owned a 71 , and added the scoops, the factory hoods on these cars and other mopars of this vintage all have the cutouts for the scoops and wings In the bracing even though they didn't all come with them. Nice solid looking car though.
It was mentioned in the last video that THEY KNOW the spoiler was an add on.
Where not all hood and deck lids pre-punched at the factory? I gave my brother a Dart Sport hood scoop which he bolted on his 75 Dart swinger because the indentation where already in the underside in 1981.
no not in the dart or duster but the swinger it came on all them and with 2 hood scoops. but they only came in black no matter what color the car is. and they also came with a 225 slant 6 or 318. no 340 or 360 was ever put in a swinger. oh and all my dusters and demons ALL had a yellow primer on them but i want to say it looked more like body filler than primer really.
i can never find them any more, all the time end up with rusted junk yard finds
He didn’t want to remove the build sheet on camera because it will show what the car really is.
That is a factory looking 340 dart with a factory 318 engine if that makes sense...I think that is a dart sizzler...I know for a fact that a Plymouth duster with the same option is called a twister and I think for a dart it's called a sizzler
They never made a Dart Sizzle. They did make a Demon Sizzler tho. Those all came with a 225 or 318.
Should have taken the build sheet out before you pressure washed the seats LOL !!!
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A friend of mine's father sold yougo' s at his dealership. According to sales they sold 141,000 plus in the U.S. I think that's more than 76.
Patrick - I believe the production number reference is to convertibles.
What do you call a Yugo with a Sunroof ...... A dumpster
Mine had a 340 with a three speed in the floor.
I call BS that it's original paint on that car. You can clearly see overspray paint on the rubber washer hose
The rubber bumpers for the hood and the spring and hood latch should not be painted the same color as the
car. In the trunk, the hinge was partially painted and the trunk area was a different color than the rest of the car.
It should be the same color in the trunk as the outside of the car. There is also overspray in the wheel wells
when it was painted orange. The floor pan and package tray is also a different color.
I thought the color extending under the void in the sides looked pretty convincing..
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It was that bronze colour dodge had back then. There is a video showing the original paint code, don't recall what it was, something like grk or gkr or?
GK6 was the paint code for that swinger.
Where’s the next episode?
Did they ever finished?
Yes
Why take the build sheet out? It doesn't look like you can read anything on it anyway.
Ink on build sheets tend to run when you hit them with a pressure washer.
If it's a Swinger that engine should be a high output 340. Look it up on the Dodge website for Swingers. Dodge made the 340 just for the dart swingers.
Not correct. They made thousands of Dart Swingers in 1971. All 2 door Darts were called Swingers, and came with either the 225 slant six, or a 318 2 barrel V8. Also in 1971 there were about 20 340 Dart Swingers built, but only sold in Canada.
Might let him know that the inside of that trunk is supposed to be body color. Someone has sprayed GM speckle trunk paint in there at some point in its life.
Okay, we'll check that out.
Not a bad car hopefully u have someone who can fix. It for u hopefully it wont be u 😆
where can i buy this sweet ride?
I thought yellow primer was a sealing primer, my dodge of a few years before that time had a red primer but sometimes manufacturers did run out briefly and used a differnt type of primer depending on where it was assembled..Like the Harley my dad had one a few years younger with a sidecar and a reverse. I would be suspect of those being original seats being vinyl but hey anything's possible. I think people push these "barn finds" a bit much esp when some of them don't tell you how much they had to pay .Or when they found something they bothered the hell out of the owners which I had experience in. I owned a 66 mustang 2+2 fastback and had two guys bothering the hell out of me for years. Whether this cars an earlier restoration or not I don't know but I am wondering if that is a 340, not a 318. Basically the same engine just a different bore and stroke. Seems like that hood and the spoiler would have come with a 340 not a 318. If it makes the old guy happy all that matters. Gives him something to do it's all good.