{"id":37327,"date":"2014-08-20T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=37327"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:38:22","slug":"dodge-d-dart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/dodge-d-dart\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge D-Dart"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was 19 I drove a 1966 Dart across the states – from Santa Cruz California to Boston, Massachusetts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re not really sure wether one can retrospectively be arrested a few decades after an admission for which there is no evidence. Put it this way -I wasn’t the most responsible driver.<\/p>\n

The car was owned by a mate who needed it brought to Beantown where he was about to study. I leapt at the chance – and made it without, miraculously, a scratch.<\/p>\n

The Dart was the simplest, funnest, most compact American car you could imagine – still with the presence, power and angles of a proper yank – but manageable and less thirsty than the usual land-boats pumped out by Detroit. The one I drove looked almost exactly like the one below.<\/p>\n

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This was no Pinto – no child of the oil crisis and the blip of American confidence that came with Vietnam. When I see the shape it’s like a repository of my youthful memories. But that’s a whole other story. Worthy of a memoir rather than a simple blog post.<\/p>\n

This D-Dart is something else, though – D\/Dart, a special drag racing edition that was classed in the D\/Stock class and featured a 273 with larger Holley carb, headers, hotter cam, and manual choke.<\/p>\n

It would be fun, eh?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t