Story of THE CHEAP THRILLS DART, David Freiburger’s Car from Hot Rod Magazine

The Cheap Thrills Dart is the car you remember from Hot Rod magazine with the hose clamp transmission mount—a piece of butchery I used to install a used 440 big-block into a 1968 Dodge Dart in my quest to run 12s in the quarter mile for less than $2,000 back in 1995.

I’m not saying Cheap Thrills was the first ratty muscle car—far from it—but it was the nastiest thing Hot Rod mag had done to that point, and it influenced a lot of folks to realize that it was ok to have fun with cars that were not perfect. It set a tone for what Car Craft magazine would later become and also influenced the style of Roadkill TV. In this video I’ll tell you the inside story of how it all happened.

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