Here’s baseball catcher and Dodge pitcher Joe Garagiola to sell you on the complete Dart lineup for 1975.

Joe Garagiola was a journeyman catcher in major league baseball, playing for four different teams in nine seasons. He’d grown up in the same Italian neighborhood in St. Louis as Yogi Berra, and he liked to joke that “Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn’t even the best catcher on my street.”  His greater fame came as an NBC sports announcer and television personality, co-hosting the Today Show and guest-hosting the Tonight Show for Johnny Carson. And with his friendly, guy-next-door manner, for some years he was the television face and voice of the Dodge division of the Chrysler Corporation.

Here he’s pitching the complete Dart lineup for 1975, and there’s quite a variety presented, including the Dart Swinger notchback hardtop, the Dart Custom Sedan, and the loaded Dart Special Edition Sedan. Our favorite here was the Dart Sport with its fold-down rear seat and crank-operated sunroof—Garagiola calls it a “convert-erble.” (Pictured above but not included in this spot was the Hang Ten, a Sport with surf-flavored graphics and interior.)  The Dart was actually the Dodge brand’s volume leader that year, scoring more than half the division’s sales. Still, the Dart was phased out in the following year to make room for the Aspen, which took over the compact slot. Video follows.