BBS8. The rarest 1968 Dodge Dart on the planet? Purchased for $1,000. Will it run?

This video covers one of the car projects in the works here at Burnout and Break Stuff.

This is a 1968 Dodge, Dart GT, convertible. According to Galen’s Tag Service (GTS), there were only 26, Dart GT, convertibles, sold with the 318, four speed option.

The broadcast sheet indicates code, 691- Sold car/expedite and code B20- Scheduled Build Date- Monday, November 20, 1967. Seventeen days later, on December 07, 1967, a fifty-two year old, Bernadette P. Dodds, would leave Mark Motors Dodge, Inc. Dealer #438, of Gladstone, Oregon, in her newly purchased car. The power of Mass Production!

The Dart changed owners three times from 1974 to 1976. On October 25, 1982, Rick Slebos purchased it from a newspaper advertisement with “slight body damage”, for $1,000. Under Rick’s care, the “slight body damage”, passenger quarter panel, was repaired, not replaced, and the whole car repainted. The 318 would get a rebuild and clutch replacement. The front seat covers were replaced along with a new convertible top and boot.

19 years later, on April 06, 2002, Eric Mathews purchased the Dart with “slight body damage” for $4,500, at The Portland Swap Meet. This time, “slight body damage”, meant the passenger, front fender. No worries. The car came with many replacement parts, including a passenger, front fender, from a 1968 Dart.

In 2004, a leaking carburetor gasket diluted the oil, claiming the original 318, on a roadtrip to Deadwood, Oregon. On August 09, 2005, with a $4,600 repair bill, the Dart would once again return to the street. This time, with a slightly modified, low mileage 318, from a “Spirit of 76”, 1/2 ton Dodge truck.

2014 brought serious life changes for Eric. On July 17, 2016, I purchased the Dart for $1,000. We signed a document agreeing that I would hold the car until August 31, 2017. Sadly, he never returned.

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