1966 Dart 270 Wagon

Beautiful wagon.
How about some pics of the interior?

 

Probably this weekend I'll shoot the pictures of my old interior. I removed the old AC and installed a larger compressor but less chrome inside. I'm a big guy and I basically use this vehicle to take friends fishing. Most my friends answer to the names like Big John. Someone you would take to a ball game without any concerns. I'm 6'-6" and everyone kind of leaves us alone. I appreciate your kind coments, thank you.
wagonsofsteelhighlandca

 

My name is pablo and I live in a little town in northern Spain, would like to show you my 3 year ago restored 1966 Dodge-Dart 270 SW. with its 225 ci. Slant Six, integrated air cond., pwr steering, tinted glass, pwr back window and 4 spd transmission with 2.93:1 gears, all original as well as the color & upholstery. I just added the mags and the GT wheel to it.

the Dodge-Dart was made in Spain by the truck manufacturer Barreiros in different versions, between 1965 and 1977.

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Well, seems like I have the spanish counterpart... I'd love to see pictures of yours!

Barreiros only built some 500 wagons like mine there, and only a few seem to have subsisted. Hardly half a dozen have been restored or kept in good condition nowdays. I know I shuold'nt say this..., but mine is the best, far as I know. Spain is a very small country compared to the US. and most everybody knows each other into theese matters here.

 

Beautiful, love the slant six!

 

Wow, that '66 Dart 270 is unique. Love the four-on-the-floor along with the roof line and quarter panels.

 

Beautiful wagon, Pablo. Your wagon looks identical to the U.S. wagons, as far as I can tell. In fact, I owned a 1965 Dart 270 2-door sedan at one time. It also had factory air conditioning, and the set-up for that looked identcal to yours - under the hood and in the car.

 

Beautiful car! You did a really clean job restoring her.

Pablo
The lighter colored upolstery with the darker steering column looks good. The power rear window is pretty cool too. You got my vote as the best I've seen. Here in America there's plenty of other type of wagons that will always draw more interest from others but I will always have my dart. I might change it's color or choose to personalize it in some small way. I think you made good choice and maybe this weekend I'll send off some more pictures. I appreciate you dropping me a line. Thanks Art

 

Yes Krash, Spanish Darts diverted from american models from 1968 onwards, until then, they only had somehow plussier seats w/ armrests, a little bit in the Citroën DS fashion, as the main difference, allthough 85% of the parts were of national production. It was a real fabriccation plant, rather than an assembly line like that big one Chrysler-international had in Geneve, Switzerland. They only made cars there with components that mostly came from american plants.

Here's the interior of the 1965 Dart 270 which was the initial model built, it's pretty much like yours must have been.
They only made 1,200 units of theese '65s, most of them painted in the spanish version of Mopar's "Ivory White", wich was slightly darker here. Most interiors were "Barracuda gold", just like american 270 Darts, but a few early cars came black inside, like mine: an ulmost-restored # 24 production serial model w/ air conditioning and leather seats... It was "state-of-the-art" in Spain back in '65. You could buy a flat in a rather-good neighborhood in downtown-Madrid for that kind of money then!
The inside pics are from another car, and those other two '65-wrecks I've been picking, will hopefully let me make one more good car out of them sometime. Right now I keep seven Spanish Dodge cars, I just love them... Well, mi wife just left me for that little problem, but I don't mind that much!.

 

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car it has some pretty cool pics of the Turbine car developed by Chrysler in 1963. I've been doing some research thanks to you. Sorry it took so long to get back to thank you!
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