Vehicle Description
Fully Restored, numbers matching Dodge Dart M Code. The 440/375 HP
V8 engine was built to stock specs. Correct numbers matching 727
TorqueFlite 3spd automatic transmission. 640 M Code Darts were
built, and only 57 are in the registry currently known. Its likely
only around 100 exist on the road today. This car has its matching
numbers block and transmission which is very unusual for these
cars. It is a factory vinyl top car and factory tach car. The
factory exhaust manifolds are still present and extremely hard to
find, their value is anywhere from $5000-$6000 a set, if you could
find them. They were only produced for one year and specifically
for these cars. The torque box is also unique to these big block
cars which it still has. The car also retains its big block A body
radiator, also very rare. The scheduled build date was March 29th,
1969. We were told. the car was originally from North Carolina. All
M Codes were automatics, four-speeds were not an option for both
the Darts or Cuda's. Power steering and power brakes weren't
available either. The history of these M Codes started with Mr.
Norms asking Chrysler to put a big block in an A body, Chrysler
said it couldn't be done, so Mr. Norms turned around and did it
himself, then all of a sudden Chrysler started building them. 500
miles since restored in 2021. Comes with its original Build Sheet.
From Motor Trend, Barry Kluczyk Author Mar 22,2019. "As muscle car
historical narratives go, the one for the M-code, 440-powered 1969
Dodge Dart GTS is familiar: To keep up with increasingly quick
cross-town competitors in the Stock Eliminator classes, a larger,
nonproduction engine was shoehorned into the engine compartment.
The caveat, of course, was that the specialty model had to be built
in sufficient quantities to satisfy the sanctioning bodies, with
NHRA being the 800-pound gorilla wearing the tech inspection patch
on his jacket. To give credit where it's due, the 440-powered
compact Dart package was originally conceived and executed in 1968
by Chicago dealer Norman Kraus (Mr. Norm) and his Grand Spaulding
Dodge dealership. He was the Don Yenko of the Mopar world and had
already raised eyebrows and helped lower e.t. 's in 1967 when he
installed a 383 in a Dart and dubbed it the GSS, after the
factory's insistence it couldn't be done. When he proved the folks
in Highland Park wrong, they launched the Dart GTS with the same,
impossible-to-fit RB big-block. The next year, he doubled down with
the 440 in his Dart GSS, with at least 50 produced to make the cars
eligible for NHRA Super Stock competition. Again, Mother Mopar
followed suit and offered the factory-official, M-code, 440-powered
Dart GTS in 1969. Total GTS production for 1969 was 6,285 hardtops
and 417 convertibles. Only 640 of the hardtops were M-code
equipped".
