Original hemi dart information

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Originally Posted by JSLRacing

How much does a modified car hurt the sale value. Would a tubbed car still draw as much as a leaf spring car if it was original?

Anyone know if any of these cars still have the original engine. How would you know if it was. Did Chrysler affix any numbers to the block to correspond with the car it was going in?

That's a question that is really hard to answer. The market for these Hurst cars is very small, as they are not for everyone. What's an original untouched, as raced, car worth???? For the very few people that have them, they can ask just about anything they want, because of the rarity of this kind of car. Will they get it???? The only people that will pay the kind of price these will demand, know the historical significance of them. They are not for the weak of wallet.
What I call a "Pedigree" car, Dick Landy, Ronnie Sox, Arlen Vanke etc also has a very tall pricetag, & these don't seem to be bothered by the amount of work that has been done to them to bring them back.But they must be documented cars. Again, there is a very small market for these as most have landed up included in very expensive private collections.That's where my old Landy 4 spd. Hemi Dart went.
Next is the current legal SS/AH cars. You certainly don't see many of these actively racing anymore but there are a few left. Chuck Commela still races his, & he is the original owner too!! These cars have been modified so extensively to stay competitive in todays ranks, that they are best to be left as they are (in my opinion only). To restore one of these would not be economically feasible.
As far as the rest of them, the variables are just about infinate.It all depends on what you would pay for a certain car that you want.

As far as the original engines in these cars, there is no way of verifying them through serial numbers, because the cars were delivered to Hurst separately from the engines. The only way of varifying an original engine to the body would be through documentation from owners. Yes, as far as I know,there are a few with their original elfunt still in them, but they are few.

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Daryl