Cool post.

My pa had one, mid 60's as I recall.

He drove it to his job at the steel mill located on the Fox river in Green Bay every day and used it to haul dry portland spill home in the trunk from the concrete plant next to his. We stored the portland cement in 50 gal sealed drums until he had enough to pour a 2.5 stall DEEP detached garage at our house. The garage was built using mostly reclaimed wood from tear down work he picked up on weekends. Ditto for the 2nd story pop-top he put on our house. Hell, I spent a whole summer pulling nails from hardwood flooring we pulled out of an old schoolhouse gym floor.

By the time he finished with it, that poor Dart's ass was damn near dragging the ground from all the hardened concrete we never seemed to be able to completely remove. I think before he sold it, we chipped concrete out of the trunk for a whole weekend with a BFH and cold chisel.

P.S. It had the push button on the dash auto trans. Did they all?