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Old 05-25-2010, 01:04 PM   #3
Paul Ceasrine
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Default Re: Dick Landy 'Q & A'

Tim,
To try keep the years in line.
1968,
1) He ran a 1968' Dart 440 in SS/EA at the 68' Winternationals.
Not sure how long Dick Landy kept it, but I think Bob Lambeck campaigned the car for the rest of the year. At the 68' Winternationals, that car won its class, beating a SS/EA 68' Cobra-Jet, and made it to the semi-finals, before losing to Al Joniec in the Rice-Holman SS/E Cobra-Jet.
Not sure if that 68' 440 Dart was a GSS car, a factory-made or a DLI made car?
Dick Landy was not running it after the early-Spring 68'.
2) The 1967' W/O Hemi Coronet 'Model 440', which was campaigned as a SS/B in 67', and at the 1968 AHRA Winternationals, then as a SS/D car at the NHRA Winternationals one week later. They eventually put an automatic in it, and ran in SS/DA with Mary Ann Foss behind the wheel for the spring. Then she got her own SS/BA Hemi Dart in May 'Go Hummer II'
3) The 1968 Coronet R/T 440, driven by brother Mike ran in SS/F at the 68' Winternationals, and then SS/FA after that.
4) The 1968 Dodge Charger R/T Hemi 4-speed. Would have run SS/D despite weighing #3754lbs. (about 80lbs. heavier than the same classed 1967 R/O Plymouths and W/O Coronets, and with fresh-air intake hood scoops). But Dick built the car
for A/MP (68' Winternationals), where the added weight would work to his advantage. There are photos of this car their with #803 on the window, and the small hood scoop on the car.
Later, after the Winternationals, he changed the hood scoop to a larger low-profile one, much like the 65' A-990 Super/Stock cars.
That car was on the cover of the April 1968 Car Craft magazine,
with the bigger hood scoop.
Those were the (4) at the 68' NHRA Winternationals
Paul

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