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 SS Hemi Darts 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 had the 383 and 440 engines.
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 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. This is due to the lower production numbers for the 67-68 model years. Hopefullyyou 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, we would like to help "show off" your A-body mopar!
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 us know!
Once we 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 we 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!
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 445 cars registered for the three (3) model years combined!!
Here are GTS Registry entries for the two most recent months:
June 2009---June 2009
LS23H9B284***: GTS#445: Bill from Idaho owns this 1969 383 GTS that has a very intersting past. Bill picked up the GTS in 1987 anfter he found it in an alley with no engine/trans, inner fender wells torched out, no interior, a B-body Dana 60 under the trunk floor, and it was sporting some handmade fiberglas rear fender flares! Bill is starting to finally work on the GTS. It is painted with a green sealer to preserve the body. Under the hood Bill has a 440-6 pk with Hooker headers and a 727 TorqueFlite with a 4.10 gear in the Dana 60. This is an orignal F5 Medium Green car with F5 vinyl top and black bucket seat console interior. Bill is still undecided if he will restore his GTS to factory fresh, or continue with the hot rod theme.
LS23H8B246***: GTS#444: Bill G. from Pennsylvania owns this JJ1 Medium Gold 383 GTS. The GTS has a black bucket seat/console interior that houses the auto shifter for the 727 behind the 383. Exterior appointments include a black bumble bee stripe and Bill's GTS has the center grill piece. This is the THIRD JJ1 Medium Gold entry submitted in the past three weeks-see GTS #443 and GTS #441! These three cars have doubled the total number of previous JJ1 entries! Why are the GOLD cars now coming out of the woodwork?? Odd coincidence, but yet and intersesting side note.
May 2009---May 2009
LS23P8B260***: GTS#443: Don from Massachusetts owns this 1968 340 GTS. Don's GTS was originally JJ1 Medium Gold Metallic but is now sporting a flat black paint job. The 340 is backed by a column shifted 727 with bucket seats. Built on Tuesday, January 16, 1968, this GTS has factory A/C.
LS23H8B359***: GTS#442: Marcellus has restored his 1968 383 GTS twice. The first time was in the late 1980's after he purchased the car from a fellow in Alabama. This is a 383 with the 727 and a SG 3.23 gear. The car is QQ1 Bright Blue Metallic with black bucket seat console interior and a white bumble bee stripe. After completion the first time, Marcellus had won a number of car show trophies with his GTS (we're not surprised!). He had to restore the GTS a second time due to his living in southern Louisiana and Hurricane Katrina paid a visit and flooded out his car in 2005. By 2007 all the pieces were back together and Marcellus is once again enjoying his Dodge musclecar.
LS23P8B131***: GTS#441: Let's follow the trail that Kelly O's GTS took to end up with him in Ontario, Canada. Built in Hamtramck, Michigan, the car was originally sold in California. Then it went to Alberta. After that, the next move took it to Saskachewan, Canada. Kelly then trailered it to his home in Ontario. With all those moves, the GTS only has 56,000 original miles on the clock. It is 340 powered with a 727 and 3.73 gears. A 340-6 Pack induction system has been added and it is currently wearing a dark purple paint job. Kelly will be returning the car to its original JJ1 Medium Gold Metallic color. He should have it easy as this low mile GTS has perfect sheetmetal and floors and still retains its ORIGINAL interior in perfect condition as well.
LS23H9B415***: GTS#440: Dave H. from MN just picked up this 1969 383 4 speed GTS. Dave has owned a number of 340 GTS's and has owned a 440 M code GTS. Dave's new toy was built on Thursday June 12, 1969 towards the end of the '69 model year. This is a fairly well optioned GTS. Besides the all-important 383 4 speed combo, Dave's GTS was painted F8 Dark Green with a black bucket seat, console shifted interior, black vinyl top, and it is a V88 "stripe delete" car. Tinted windshield, power disc brakes, AM-FM radio, rocker and drip rail mouldings, deluxe seat belt package, and console tachometer. Dave will be doing a full resto on his "H" code GTS but with a body color change as this would be the third or fourth GTS he has owned that was F8 Dark Green!!
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!!
We have a NEW and IMPROVED message board for the GTS/GT/340Swinger/Dart owner. Anybody that had registered on the "old" Yahoo board needs to check out the new GTS Message Board!! It works a lot easier than the Yahoo board as far as posting and replying. There are also FOR SALE and WANTED forums for you to place your ad.
Just click on the link button below and join in now! It is free to join. NOTE:Please, please, PLEASE do NOT send in your GTS Registry Admission information/VIN to the message board. Please send that using the email link at the bottom of the page. I want to keep your information confidential.
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!!
There will be a reunion of ALL 440 "M" code A-bodies (that means the 440 GTS and the 440 'Cuda) at the Chryslers at Carlisle 2009. Here is the request for the "M" code owners from our good friend Dave Goodwin who is putting together the event within the event:
M Code Dart / 'Cuda Reunion
Chrysler's biggest engine in the smallest car!
We are working with owners, registries and web sites dedicated to 440-powered 1969 Darts and 'Cudas in an attempt to create the largest gathering ever of these lightweight street beasts. The first big block A-Bodies debuted in 1967 but in 1969 Chrysler decided to stuff their largest displacement engine in the lightest available bodies creating the M-Code Darts and 'Cudas. These cars were built in very limited numbers and it is estimated that only about 100 of each still exist. If you have a factory 440 Dart or 'Cuda you won't want to miss this! If you have a car finished or not email Dave at: E-MAIL DAVE HERE!!!!. for more info and a mailed invite/informational letter.
If you own a 440 A-body, please contact Dave at the above email and try to attend this historical gathering of 440 powered 'Cudas and GTS's!!
