Bagott Motors Palouse, WA: 1965 Dodge Dart

[ray1970]

My first car was a 1970 Dart. The back seat was the size of a twin bed and was, ahem....., used as such many a time.

So you slept in the back seat?

[ray1970]

Gman, I think I found a video of you and your grandfather.

[Gman]

Yeah BG, we've tromped around in some of the same areas, but we're a few years apart. We moved from CA to Houston between 2nd and 3rd grade. I went to 3rd grade at Memorial Elementary when we lived in an apt. there. We then moved to Spring, TX. Northampton to be specific. This discussion led me to find our old house on Google maps (it's still there). The area around there looks nothing like it did back then.

I think the Dukes of Hazzard got the idea from us. We did it before the show existed.

[GilpinGuy]

So you slept in the back seat?

Sometimes, after getting dressed and having a smoke.

[OtterbatHellcat]

lol

[brutal]

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?

[BladesNBarrels]

Spring, TX was where I spent my early years.

Worked with a fellow from Spring, TX, when I was doing a job in the Woodlands.
He took me to Ma Goodson's for Chicken Fried Steak in Tomball. What a meal - "plate floppers" that covered the entire plate.
He had stories about hunkering down for a hurricane with no power, ice, etc. to keep his beer cold for 3 days - that seemed to be his worst complaint.
Told me that "I spent winters inside in Colorado to avoid the cold, and he spent summers inside to avoid the heat" - and added: "so what's your problem?", when I complained about the heat

[Great-Kazoo]

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?

That's a 63. The 65+ has regular lever on the column The 61--3 had an odd size hemi that was specific to those years.

[theGinsue]

My paternal grandfather had a Dart, it was all red. It may have been late 60's, but I was thinking early to mid 70's.

When Dodge came back out with the Dart a few years ago I remember thinking "That's an old mans car".

[wctriumph]

Neat. Thanks.