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1973 Dodge Dart: broadcast, sticker, receipt, manual, owner magazine, Dodge Club card, and more!
Oct 2, 2024
Dive deep into all the materials associated with this 1973 Dodge Dart! We have the broadcast sheet they used to make it; the price sticker and dealer receipt; the Dodge Club “how to enjoy your new car” magazine and card; owner’s manual; and more! A Chrysler literature exploration... #motales #dodge #dart #dodgedart #mopar #monroney #classiccars
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Hi, this is Motel's Dave and I'm here to walk you through a whole bunch of new vehicle paperwork from 1973 from Dodge
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Now, earlier on, we went over the price sticker for this car, but I didn't know that there was a whole bunch of extra material for it
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First of all, of course, we have this lovely business card from the dealership that sold it, which I don't think is still in business
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I'm pretty sure it isn't, in fact. And then, of course, you have the new owner's satisfaction
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survey and Chrysler has been giving these out for many, many years
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The one thing I discovered about these is that the company actually sent the original
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surveys off to your local friendly dealership, so if you had any complaints about them
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the dealership would know it, and yes, they would hold it against you
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I have to say that is not a good way to do things. These things should always be confidential, and you'll notice that nowhere do they
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promise it will be confidential. It's also quite small. So you only have, let's see, you've got a dealer prep rated here
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service department, sales department, one question for each. And then where did you come from
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Why did you buy? And that's pretty much it. You can write down your complaints here under comments
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Despite coming from the Dodge Owners Club. And you got a little membership card here with your name on it if you signed up
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Now I'm blocking off stuff here with these post-it notes. I hope that you don't mind
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Let's see, here you have the actual sales flip. So you can see that this car, according to this, the price was $3861
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$2,000 was presumably from a trade-in, and then the rest was paid in full, presumably cash or check
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Just like today, they charge you some goofy fees. There's $10 for the document fee
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for the document fee. And to be fair, that and the title transfer at $7
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Most of that money would go to the state, and some of it would go to pay the guy you had to wait online
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Dealer preparation is an odd thing to pay for, and they don't charge you that these days
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except that they do. They just call it something else. And $50, yeah, that's actually fairly cheap
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compared to some of the dealer fees that they charge now. So let's see
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On the back is the conditions. That's contract stuff. We'll put it away
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assuming that there's not that many lawyers in the audience. You got your warranty and limitation of liability
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Notice how small it is. So basically it's a one-year, 12,000 mile warranty, which was normal then
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They will replace any parts made by Chrysler on it. The tires have a separate warranty
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And it doesn't include if the odometer reading is altered, well, that's for obvious reasons
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If you don't follow ordinary maintenance, if you get into a crash abuse the car race or negligence somehow and any impact on you personally is not covered just the car which is pretty much the way it is now
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And there's your list of things that they require you to do
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What's kind of interesting is that you have this loss of engine oil, lubricant, anti-freezer, refrigerant here that is not covered
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And you know, you'd think it should be. A year-old car shouldn't lose any of that stuff
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for repair and I just threw this in here so that you can see what the old repair slips look like
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back when they were handwritten so parts on the left and services down the center prices on the
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right and that's how much you pay so in this case it's a full loob oil filter for 14 dollars
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that might seem like a lot when you adjust for inflation but they had to do a lot more work to
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lubricate these cars okay here here's another service ticket it is from year unspecified see and
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you've seen this already this is the original sales flip so this car because it was bought by ridge
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Dodge it was basically bought for inventory on spec and they ended up selling it off the lot and if we
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go back here you see that the sales price uh 374385 and we go back here and what was paid
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35 19 so the original buyer negotiated about $220 off the actual price no one
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wait. Here we go. So the original buyer paid 3459 and the dealership added in $60
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of sleazy fees. So that gets you at 3520 and it's still about $110, $120 less than the
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list price was. And then sales tax, state fee, and there you go. The consumer information guide
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and this thing was only done on a few cars in the 70s, and it was really kind of handy. I mean
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they gave you information about the braking, this is stopping distances, 185 feet with a light
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load. Can you imagine today? That's about 50 feet more than a typical car today. If the main
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brakes had a failure and you just use the emergency brake, 450 feet, because that's a mechanical
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brake only operating on the rear wheels. Now, it's really kind of cool about this, is when you go
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down here, you've got your passing speed. So a low speed pass, you start at 20 miles an hour
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and you can't go more than 35, how long does it take you to pass? And the answer is about 10 seconds in this slant six-powered Dodge Dart
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about 20 seconds to go from 50 to 80, but you're still passing a truck
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and you can't go faster than 80 miles an hour. So these numbers are not, as you might think
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20 to 35-mile acceleration. This is how long it takes to pass a slow-moving vehicle
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when you start out at 20 miles an hour and you stick to 35-mile
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an hour So it only really comparable to other cars where you can see this form which is pretty cool uh if you get the other cars forms If you have them send them in to me and I will start getting them ready for a comparison
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Now, here we have something that is rare to find, well, at least unusual to find in such good condition
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and it is the broadcast sheet, and this would have been attached to the car at the factory
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and it tells you the sequence number, the order number, the VIN is here
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I'm covering up the individual digits again. And here's where it gets interesting
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You can see exactly what you call spec out with. There's your axle, the light duty axle
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And it just keeps on going. Tires, trim, color, paint style, body paint, roof paint, stripe, if any, and so on
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Every part is detailed here. Well, not every part, but most of the parts that are different between different cars
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So your radiator, that would depend on your engine, whether you have
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had a tow package and whether you had air conditioning. The alternator again, did you have air conditioning
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You get a different alternator. Did you get a towing package, different alternator. Fleet package
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different alternators, and so on. Same with the fan and the fan shroud, if you had any, the battery
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These things, they all varied. And you just keep on going. And you see that there's a lot of different
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parts in here that all vary based on how the car was set up. They had numerous torsion bars
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And here you have the car height as well. So that would also vary depending on the options that you got
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Your springs, it's amazing how many things varied. And that's not even counting all the interior trim
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Suspension and steering. Export if it was Canada. Radios, power items, engine accessories
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Lift this up a bit. So some cars would have more of these filled out and checked, and some cars would have less
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And some of these items would be for cars that were... somewhat higher up on the totem pole than the humble valiant locking gas cap hood pins
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hood pins would be for challengers and such so that's your build sheet and again it's rare to find one
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in this good condition and usually they shove these into the glove compartment or they put it
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underneath the seat springs here's something that should be in the glove compartment of every new car
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how to enjoy your new car looks like it was scanned on a relatively inexpensive scammer and printed on an ink
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that printer. But this is the original magazine, so this is just the printing quality that they had
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And it had Brock Yates and Julie Jennings writing a lot of the material, or at least taking
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credit for the material. I don't know if they actually wrote any of this or not. But they talk about maintenance. And by the way, look at all that maintenance. You know
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a new car, you just don't have this many things that you have to work on on a regular basis
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starting at 4,000 miles, the 4,000 mile engine oil change. That is something new cars definitely have over old ones
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is that you don have to do stuff like PCV valves every year checking Orifice Spark Advance controls you know all this stuff is gone by the wayside just about so we go through the book planning for a long trip
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flushing out the coolant never use just plain water don't have to tell people that anymore i hope
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speedometer checks and rest stops what to wear towing from when your car breaks down
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packing so a lot of interesting bits and pieces to try to get customers to be happier with their cars
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And then finally, the owner's manual. And this, you'll notice, is shorter than the current owner's manuals because there was a lot
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less complicated stuff in the car. You know, you don't need 20 pages to tell people
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ought to use the radio when it's an AM radio with two knobs
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But some things are a little longer than they used to be. like battery care, do not overfill the water and the battery
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and the list of oils, which all depend on where you happen to be living and what the weather's like there
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So yeah, there's your very simple plane dashboard with instructions if you can't figure out what the alternator gauge or the fuel gauge is for
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I'm not going to go through this whole book, but there's a lot of how to use the car, how to use your AM radio
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It doesn't really take that much space. Safety checks, and then you get into your real specifications that you might really need this book for
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and the recommended maintenance. And again, here's a whole bunch of carburetor things
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Every six months, got in a fiddle with the carburetor. That's just the way it was
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or for those of us who still have these cars, sort of the way it is
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unless we don't use them as daily drivers. Well, that's it. I'd like to thank Cuda Pete for our lending me all this paperwork
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his dad, whose car it was, for tacitly lending me all this paperwork
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and you for watching me go through all this paperwork. Thank you very much
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There's more videos on similar topics here at Motales Dave. I hope that you'll come back and be a regular visitor
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and maybe even sign up for membership. And if you have a car like this
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if you're into the old cars and you have an old car and you live in North or New Jersey
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check out the Restored Rusty Relics at Restored Rusty Relics.com. It's a car club for people with 25-year-older cars
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Always looking for new Mopar owners to counterbalance everybody else. And also, please think about dropping by Moldails.com
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where I have a lot of car stories and such. I'll see you there
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Yeah
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