My Dad and I used to go out to the drag strip back home in Georgia all the time. When I was 14, I laid eyes on an original LO23 Hemi Dart, and I fell in love. As I got older, I started helping my dad in the garage and I still cherish those memories. Fast-forward to July 2020, I had the opportunity to buy the ‘68 Dart 270 that now sits in my garage. It started as an empty shell and my oldest daughter, Maddie, has been helping along the way. After a year of working on the car with some friends and the supervision of Maddie, we got it to drive under its own power to the local drag strip, made a couple 1/8-mile passes, and drove home. My hopes are to build a 10-second ¼-mile street car that can handle drag and drive style events. One day the Dart will be passed down to Maddie when I have to hang up my race gear.
It has a stock 5.9 Magnum swap from the junkyard, Calvert racing split monoleaf springs, Competition Engineering 3-way adjustable shocks, Holley Sniper EFI, Holley Hyperspark ignition system, Summit Racing long tube headers, homemade Cherry Bomb exhaust system, TCI Street fighter A727, Chrysler 8 3/4 rear end with 3.55 sure grip, M/T ET Streets, ‘64 Valiant manual steering gear box and steering column, and 340lph fuel pump with stainless braided fuel lines.
