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Old 08-19-2014, 04:24 PM   #82
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Default Re: Dick Landy 'Q & A'

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Originally Posted by Carguy49 View Post
In looking through this entire thread no one mentioned the FORD that Dick Landy ran in early 62. It was a 406 tri power stick shift? liteweight car. There is a picture of it on the website by George Klass. The photo if from Muscle Car Review 1/88. I know Dick got all his fame in Dodges, but he did have a Ford briefly.
After that, a 1963 Max Wedge Plymouth. I have a photo of it somewhere...

"Landy was one of drag racing's first "factory" drivers, wheeling a 413 Max Wedge Plymouth to ever faster and faster quarter mile runs. In 1964 he moved to a 426 Wedge Dodge..."

http://www.dicklandy.com/about.htm

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"Landy began racing in 1956 as a freshman in high school. Originally, Landy began his Pro racing career driving Fords and in 1962, he got a new 406-cid Ford Galaxie, which would have been a good car, but that was the year that Chrysler got into drag racing, and it made all the Fords and Chevys obsolete. Landy switched to a Plymouth with a three-speed manual transmission, then got an automatic-transmission-equipped Plymouth in 1963."

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=29101

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