Vehicle Description
Fully Restored, Dodge Dart M Code Tribute. The 440/375 HP V8 engine
was built to stock specs. Correct 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. Factory vinyl top and factory tach car. The factory
exhaust manifolds are present and extremely hard to find, their
value is anywhere from $5000-$6000 a set, if you could even find
them. They were only produced for one year and specifically for
these cars. The torque box is also unique to big block cars which
it has. The car also has a big block A body radiator, also very
rare. The indicated 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 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, and then all of a
sudden Chrysler started building them. This car has 500 miles since
it was restored in 2021. Comes with the Build Sheet and the Visual
inspection report from Dave Wise. From Motor Trend, Barry Kluczyk
Author March 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".
