This web site is dedicated to the underrated, underappreciated Dodge Dart GTS. This includes model years 1967-1968 and 1969! The "SMALL" Mopar Muscle Car from the 60's. The GTS shared the same A-body platform as the 67-68-69 Plymouth Barracuda on a 111" wheelbase. The first year GTS came equipped ONLY with the 383 Four Barrel for 1967. This was followed in 1968 with the purpose built, high winding HIGH PERFORMANCE 340 Four Barrel as the standard powerplant with the 383 Four Barrel as an option. This Registry does not include the S/S Hemi Dart as they were not based on the GTS. In 1969, the "M" code 440 GTS was introduced along with the 340 and 383's! The GTS was the top of the line for the Dart line. The GTS was only available for those three years. Also, 67-68-69 were the only years that the Dart had the 383 and 440 engines available.
What the GTS Registry would like is some information from you! This is to create a data base for all GTS owners. Hopefully the GTS Registry will be able to trace the origins of the '68 grill center piece, the '69 headrests, and the infamous "Recall Rims". Does your GTS have them?? Original?? What color was your 340 block in 1969?? Blue or turquoise?? Burning questions that we have all asked ourselves. Right?? The GTS Registry was created to help answer those questions. Regardless if your GTS is a project car, a rotisierre restoration, a pro-street modified car, a "barn fresh" find, or a full-out race car, the GTS Registry is here to bring all GTS owners together to help share information.
This registry will be divided into two major sections. The first will be dedicated to the 1967 and 1968 GTS. The second section will be for the 1969 GTS. Hopefully you will find this registry informative. Also featured is a "Reference" section with helpful photos and part numbers, a "Lost and Found" section, and a very informative section regarding the 1969 440 "M" code GTS.
Due to concerns from fellow GTS owners, the last three digits of your VIN will NOT be displayed on this website! However, please include the ENTIRE VIN in your email so your GTS can placed in the proper production order. Once again, the GTS Registry will NOT display the last three numbers of your VIN. You will still be able to see in what order your GTS was made.
Recently, there have been concerns by GTS owners not wishing to share their personal info with the GTS Registry. There is nothing to be afraid of. This is not a scheme to gather and/or distribute personal or GTS information. I do NOT share this information with any other data base. If you don't want to show your first name or location, that is fine. I really just want to get your GTS's information. I prefer a more personal approach to gathering and displaying the history of our GTS. I did not want this to be another dull "registry" that only lists the partial VIN in a list of partial VINs. How boring.
Without the devoted owners, the GTS would be nothing special. The owner history of the car makes it interesting. There have been some great friendships started via the GTS Registry, so PLEASE don't sell yourself short by not wanting to include your GTS in the Registry. We are in this hobby together to have fun and share our experiences with other GTS owners.
How to REGISTER your GTS?!?!?
That's simple. I ask you to email me with your GTS information. Please include the following:
1) Year
2) Engine/trans
3) Rear gear
4) Original body color/current color
5) If vinyl or convertible top: what color
6) Original type interior and color/current color
7) Stripe color? Type or stripe delete?
8) Your first name
9) Your general geographic location
10) Your VIN-including the sequencial number.
11) Build date ( if known )
12) Is is original/restored? Customized? Pro-street? Race only??
13) Any special options from the factory?
14) Any "history" on your car?? Special memories??
Also, if you have any pictures of your GTS that you would like to share, please include it in your email! As long as there is available storage space, the GTS Registry would like to help "show off" your A-body mopar to the world!
We would only like to hear from CURRENT GTS owners. Info on former cars, or the one you know is for sale on the other side of town is NOT valid info for the data base. Please let the GTS Registry know!
Once I get your email and update the site with your info, you will become a GTS Registry Member!!! Your "GTS Number" will be based upon the order in which I receive your info. You will have your "GTS Number" listed immmediately after your VIN placement! If you have more than one GTS listed, you will recieve a different number for each car!
Upon updating the GTS Registry with your info, I personally email back to every GTS owner about their GTS's listing. Please check your "Junk Mail" or "Spam" box to see if your email server dropped the response email in there.
To Register Your GTS:
Answer the questions shown above, and then email it to the GTS Registry using the link banner below:
Currently, there are 523 cars registered for the three (3) model years combined!!
Here are the GTS Registry entries for the two most recent months:
Let's get those projects finished and get that GTS of yours back on the road!
May 2012---May2012
LS23P8E172***: GTS#523: Dan M. from upstate New York sends in the latest GTS built for 1968 at the Los Angeles assembly plant on record here at the GTS Registry. How late??!? Built on Wednesday July 17, 1968!! That's about a week before the plants shut down for summer change-over to the new model year!! A couple weeks later, and this would have been an early build 1969!! To make it even stranger, Dan's GTS wasn't picked up off the lot at Arden Dodge (Sacramento) until MARCH of 1969! Probably by the time this GTS was shipped, the newer 1969's were already rolling out! Dan bought his first 1968 GTS in 1967 when he found that a new 1968 GTS was cheaper than a "older" 1967 Charger that he almost bought! That GTS was a 340 silver GTS that beat-up on the local SS 396 cars on a regular basis (no surprise). So this GTS is the closest to Dan's original 1968 GTS that he has found. His newest GTS is painted JJ1 Medium Gold with black and gold interior and black horizontal stripe. The 727 is shifted via a console shifter between the bucket seats and that drives a 3.23 gear. This is a fairly well optioned GTS. Options include the Dart Radio Group (AM radio, power steering, 3 speed wipers, electric winshield washer pump, and LH remote mnirror), A/C, fender top signals, tinted glass, frotn and rear safety belts AND shoulder belts (remember this was in 1968-shoulder belts and headrests were still optional).
April 2012---April 2012
No entries for April........no early bird GTSs out there?!?!?!
Now check out the ENTIRE listing on the two GTS Registry pages. Hopefully you own a GTS and now wish to register it here with the rest of the GTS Registry members!!
Now for some SPECIAL NEWS from the GTS Registry......
Some of you may remember Alan Miller running a 1967-1968 GTS Registry back in the late 1980's/early 1990's before the popularity of the internet. Alan has GRACIOUSLY sent the surviving archives from his Registry. I will be combining the two to see what it may bring! There is some really neat stuff that Alan has sent along. Just glancing thru the paperwork, I spotted a couple of entries in both Registries!!! The "shared" entries will be shown with a highlighted VIN. The remaining entries from Alan will be also shown in a separate section at the end of each Registry. That way we can keep track of some of the earlier VIN and maybe unite some current and past owners!
The GTS Registry has also been contacted by Patrick Dean who ran a 1969 GTS Registry during the same time period as the Miller Registry. The Dean Registry can be found on the 1969 GTS Registry page. The GTSs found in both the GTS Registry and the Dean Registry are highlighted in both. As a bonus, Mr. Dean also had a small 1969 340 Swinger Registry included with his GTS list. That is also shown on the 1969 GTS Registry page in honor of the our GTS high perfomance A-body cousin-the 340 Swinger. The Dean Registry also has 25 "M" code 440 GTS cars on the list!!
Make sure you check out both the 1967/1968 and the 1969 GTS Registry pages to see the Miller and Dean Registries!!
The 2009 edition of the Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Races was held on September 18 and 19, 2009 at the Mid-Michigan Motorplex just outside of Stanton, Michigan. Unlike the rain-out of 2008, this year's event was held under beautiful blue skies and temps in the 60's and 70's. 144 cars were entered for this year's rendition which was thought to be a GREAT turn out considering our nation's current economic situation. A number of new cars were present, along with the list of usual suspects pounding down the quarter mile.
Seven entrants qualified in the 11's! Five Chevrolets, one Plymouth, and one Pontiac! Now THAT is cookin'! The quickest of the weekend was Julie Pennington and her 1969 L-88 Corvette 427/430 running a 11.72 @ 120.51mph. The other end of the PSMCDR spectrum was Wes Alspaugh and his 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 390/300 turning a 16.06 @ 88.37 mph. Plus 142 cars in-between that offered up fender-to-fender racing for the fans.
I am sorry for having to piggy-back the PSMCDR 2009 photos on to my GTS Registry page, but Yahoo is changing their webhosting policies and I couldn't justify commiting to another webpage host for a year with all the set-up fees and monthly fees. Thanks to all the PSMCDR friends for your understanding and enduring the all-Dodge content of the GTS Registry above!
This year's "Cars of Note" included not one, but FOUR Cougar Eliminators, two 1969 Dodge Charger 500's with Hemis under the hoods, and a very special 1964 Studebaker Challenger with the dual quad 304 R4 powerplant. We also got to see a 1961 bubble top Pontiac Catalina Tri-powered 389/348 and a 1962 Grand Prix at this year's event.
There were a number of mechanical failures that prevented eight (8) cars from not making the shoot-outs on Saturday. We hope that these were minor problems easily resolved and hopefully we get to see you guys out there next year!
Here are the cars and drivers that pushed their cars too far on Friday:
Jim McCaun's 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2 289/289
Karl Riebel's 1961 Pontiac Catalina 389/348
Clark Lumsden's 1970 Buick GS455 455/360
Doug Chapkes' 1963 Studebaker Lark R2 289/289
Steve Abbosh's 1969 Plymouth GTX 440/375
Stan Palma's 1967 Ford Fairlane 427/425
Jim Keye's 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T 426/425
Rob Clary's 1969 Yenko Camaro 427/425
On with the photos (THANKS to Harold Remlinger for getting photos of all the pairings) and stats!! The winner of the "shoot-out" is signified with a (W) after their name. Also, the factory engine/horsepower combo for each car is listed. Click on the pair listing to see the photo of that shoot-out.
