The Dodge Dart was largely a mundane compact car for most of the 1960s. But there were a few notable exceptions, like a 1969 Dart Swinger 340 or the 1966 D/Dart. If you’ve never seen a D/Dart, that’s because only 50 were built for racing purposes so few of them likely still exist. Their 273 cubic inch V8 engines produced a minimum of one horse per cubic inch as delivered from the factory.

 

Stored for over 20 years, this vehicle is one of those rare muscle cars and is begging to be restored.......and so it is!

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The 1966 Dodge D/Dart would not have been ordered by your grandmother. Unless she was into drag racing in the mid-1960s. Chrysler took what was a nicely equipped Dart GT and stripped it of non-essential stuff to get the weight of the car down. Then they stuffed a tricked-out 273 V8 under the hood with a 4-speed manual transmission. The combination resulted in a small, light machine that had 275 horsepower being sent to the rear wheels. Dodge only built 50 examples and off to the drag strips they all supposedly went.