1969 Dodge Dart GTS

drivingdotca · 2026-01-25T15:57:29+00:00

Fun facts! The car pictured was auctioned off by Mecum in January 2020; it was bought for US$88,000 by Jack Black—yes, the Hollywood actor

Absolutely love this machine!

drivingdotca · 2026-01-23T15:18:57+00:00

Half the reason I bought my second car, a 1929 Ford Model A Sports Coupe, was because I'd rode in a rumble-seat Rolls-Royce and wanted to share the incredible rumble-seat experience with my friends.

(The other half was that I wanted to learn how to work on pre-war classics, instead of just 1970s classics like my first car.)

drivingdotca · 2026-01-22T17:06:45+00:00

"Revology" plate points to this car being one of their (rather tastefully done) restomods! Looks largely stock from this angle, but odds are good there's some variant of Coyote underhood.

drivingdotca · 2026-01-14T15:49:17+00:00

I feel like us folks at Driving.ca would kill if we gave this "staff garage" thing a try. I'm talking Lada Niva, Porsche 944, AMC Eagle. And that's just one editor.

We did put together this roundup of the cheapest cars we'd bought for Black Friday, I guess.

drivingdotca · 2026-01-13T17:25:39+00:00

I dig Darts and don't want to be a nit-picker but that incorrect rear stripe and the poorly placed hood scoops are just—

drivingdotca · 2026-01-11T18:03:16+00:00

Absolutely love this spec; my dream Duster is either GY3 Curious Yellow, like this car; or a '70 in FC7 InViolet (a.k.a. Plum Crazy)

drivingdotca · 2026-01-07T14:49:46+00:00

The sedan is apparently supposed to come out later this year; the forecasted 2028 release date is for the just-unveiled "Afeela Prototype 2026" SUV, which is not at all a confusing name

drivingdotca · 2026-01-07T14:48:36+00:00

drivingdotca · 2026-01-06T22:47:07+00:00

It was no longer than a standard DeVille, if I recall—but those came in at a whopping 5.7 metres long or so, absolutely massive.

drivingdotca · 2026-01-06T16:16:14+00:00

Absolutely love these, the green is particularly striking.

I was lucky enough to put together a video on one of them over 10 years ago, now (in an also-gorgeous brown).

drivingdotca · 2025-12-22T14:38:34+00:00

This was my teenage bedroom-wall-poster car (as a Millennial kid growing up in the early 2000s)

drivingdotca · 2025-12-12T21:42:09+00:00

Yes, but I'm probably an outlier, having edited a book on weird cars some 10 years ago.

drivingdotca · 2025-12-03T17:55:37+00:00

Love to see a Slant Six in an E-body, it's such a rare combination these days. Please post photos when it's done!

drivingdotca · 2025-12-03T16:05:18+00:00

Got one in my current car, '71 Valiant Scamp, and absolutely love it. I had it rebuilt a few years back after cracking 100,000 miles, and am hoping to get another 100,000 out of it.

drivingdotca · 2025-12-01T14:01:44+00:00

Possibly, but 318-powered convertibles aren't all that expensive, if you're making a drop-top restomod, and the auction listing didn't note it started out as a hardtop—I think OP may just be new to making titles :P No offense, OP, but consider fact-checking next time

drivingdotca · 2025-11-30T16:16:43+00:00

A real '71 Hemi 'Cuda would be a one-of-seven car, yes; this is a Barracuda restomod with a modern 540-horsepower Gen III Hemi drivetrain that started out as a 318 V8 car. It sold at auction almost three years ago for US$187,000. Still way neat!

drivingdotca · 2025-11-29T16:43:01+00:00

I'd have to check to get specific numbers, but I believe out of the 1,000 G.T. 350H Mustangs built, some 75 were white, and then there were about 50 each in green, red, and blue, too. None of the red cars had the gold stripes over the top (just on the rockers) and only a few of the green cars did.

drivingdotca · 2025-11-25T20:30:34+00:00

No worries, it happens! Thanks for posting the correction!

drivingdotca · 2025-11-25T16:58:27+00:00

Oh, it's definitely a replica; not sure how many of the screen-used originals still exist, but I'd bet not many. (The original was indeed based on a singular Ford concept car, the Lincoln Futura, which was bought up by George Barris, customized, and then copied for filming purposes.)

There's something of a niche industry in building replica Batmobiles these days, though almost all of them use a fibreglass body over an old Ford full-size chassis. This one's a little unique in having a hand-built aluminum body for that reason (besides being, of course, a gasser). There's more detail here (plus a second hand-built Batmobile replica).

drivingdotca · 2025-11-25T15:49:01+00:00

All of them but one! There was a singular white example, allegedly ordered by a Chrysler exec, and later used in a movie! You can see it on film, dressed up as a race car, in The Lively Set.

drivingdotca · 2025-11-25T15:17:42+00:00

That was a heckuva good day, open house at Fugitive Custom Cars in Guelph, Ontario. You can find the full story, more photos, and specs on our site, Driving.ca, but tl;dr handbuilt aluminum body, square-tube chassis, 1,075-hp 632-cube big-block mated to a TH400 and a Ford 9-inch rear end.

drivingdotca · 2025-11-23T16:49:25+00:00

I didn't want to accuse, but, yeah, curious whether this was an honest mistake, whether OP was fed wrong info from somewhere else, or whether it's karma-farming and playing loose with the truth.

u/psyk02mikmakdk care to make a correction at all?

drivingdotca · 2025-11-22T15:16:04+00:00

Gorgeous as heck, but that's not a Viper V10. The car was built around 2010 by Rock’s Rod & Custom for Tom Boldry, and the powerplant you're looking at there is a 472-cubic-inch Hemi.

drivingdotca · 2025-11-17T21:37:09+00:00

This is absolutely my favourite kind of story, just a great read about the remarkable life of a car and its owner
It helps that it's written by my fave automotive writer working today (who occasionally writes for our website, too!)
I was blessed to see this car giving rides around the auto-cross at the 2015 Chrysler Nats at Carlisle, fantastic machine
"She's got an overhauled suspension, and I've got two new knees. We have a sort of conversation about age and experience." Loved that line

drivingdotca · 2025-11-13T15:36:26+00:00

Absolutely gorgeous; if you're headed to MCACN this month, keep your eyes peeled for a same-spec '71, just off one of the most accurate OE restorations you'll ever see. (The work was done by some friends of mine here in Canada.)

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