Original hemi dart information

[HEMIDARTDAVE]

Originally Posted by Liteweight

Dave any update on Joe Patel's car

liteweight

Daryl,
I was told it went to MI in the mid 70's. No word of it since.
Dave

[Hemi Moose]

Originally Posted by Liteweight

I heard that the Don Carlton B029 '68 Hemi Barracuda is up for sale...originally painted baby blue and called the 'Lil Thumper' then it was painted & raced in the the Sox & Martin colors when Don joined the team.


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[fatboy1875]

i really appreciate it Darryl, and so is my father-in-law! i will be posting the pictures of Checkmate before lettering.

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

Liteweight, have you tried that fellow who writes those Super Stock authenticity books, (Darrel Davis) because he used to work for Chrysler apparently and has a ton of documentation from them...he also has access to the IBM cards that verifies all of the factory race cars they built...maybe give him a shot, it can't hurt.

Time for an update I suppose.
contacted Darrel Davis, Jim Schild, & David Hakim in the past couple weeks. Unfortunately, no new information available. I am currently awaiting a response from Bob Frey again now that the NHRA season is coming to a close. He is checking on info to the 1977 Bracket Nationals that were held in York that year.
I am currently trying to find a Tony DeVito who apparently looked at my car while in Vignonia's ownership. I believe he was on Castaldo's crew for a time.

Here's something, I found kind of neat. A guy asked if he could do a scale model of my car, so I said sure why not. Well it turns out this thing wins some big modeling show & gets put into print. Below is a link where you can open the magazine & page through the article.
He showed me the car. Absolutely amazing the detail he has gone through to recreate my car.

http://www.scaleautomag.com/en/The%2...0Magazine.aspx

liteweight

[Liteweight]

I started getting autographs inside the trunk lid a few years back. Collected a couple over a time. I call it my wall of fame. Now when it comes to sell the car I gotta decide if I'm gonna put a different lid on, & this one gets hung in my garage or leave it with the car. There's names on here that can't be duplicated. Should stay with the car tho. Guess I'll have to decide when it's time



Bill Stiles
Judy Lilly
Lee Smith
"Akron" Arlen Vanke
Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick
Don Grothier
Tom "Mr. 426 Hemi" Hoover
Ronnie Sox
Buddy Martin
Tom "The Ghost" Coddington
Ted "Motown Missle" Spehar
Jim Hale
Jack Thomas
Larry Griffith
Mr. Norm
Linda "Miss Hurst" Vaughn
Butch Leal
Bud Faubel
Chuck McJury
Ed Miller
Herb McCandless
Dick Oldfield
Dave Koffel
"Dandy" Dick Landy
Dave Christie




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[Charlie A]

I would be painting another red deck lid.

There is a LOT of Mopar history right there

Just sayin'.

[Hemi Moose]

I tend to agree, there's alot of impresive names on there...maybe one day you could use it to build a Hemi Dart clone out of it...imagine a car with a wild paint job incorporating the colors from the names of those drivers on each panel of the car!

Another thing I noticed, did all of the '68 Super Stock Hemi Darts & Barracuda's get those jacking instruction decals inside the trunk lid.

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[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

I tend to agree, there's alot of impresive names on there...maybe one day you could use it to build a Hemi Dart clone out of it...imagine a car with a wild paint job incorporating the colors from the names of those drivers on each panel of the car!

Another thing I noticed, did all of the '68 Super Stock Hemi Darts & Barracuda's get those jacking instruction decals inside the trunk lid.

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Not sure on the clone part. To have all those colors on the same car, me's thinkin' that's just a lil too far "out there", even for me.

Honestly, I don't think any of these cars came with the decals in the trunk, or the antifreeze decal on the rad cradle, but Hennessey put them on after he restored it back in 86-87 & I've just left them. They may have been put on by Ma Mopar, but I don't think so.
Anyone??.




I have been very fortunate to been given the opportunities to actually sit down over meals & have a few "cold ones" with quite a few of those people that signed my trunk. GREAT memories, that will never be duplicated.

liteweight

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

That's a very cool paint job on this old '68 Hemi Dart...anyone else here know the owner/driver of the car from back then...

At first I thought this was the same car. Photo is from Indy 1972. Any idea who this is?



Here's one of Herb McCandless.



M68

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Liteweight

I started getting autographs inside the trunk lid a few years back. Collected a couple over a time. I call it my wall of fame. Now when it comes to sell the car I gotta decide if I'm gonna put a different lid on, & this one gets hung in my garage or leave it with the car. There's names on here that can't be duplicated. Should stay with the car tho. Guess I'll have to decide when it's time

Bill Stiles
Judy Lilly
Lee Smith
"Akron" Arlen Vanke
Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick
Don Grothier
Tom "Mr. 426 Hemi" Hoover
Ronnie Sox
Buddy Martin
Tom "The Ghost" Coddington
Ted "Motown Missle" Spehar
Jim Hale
Jack Thomas
Larry Griffith
Mr. Norm
Linda "Miss Hurst" Vaughn
Butch Leal
Bud Faubel
Chuck McJury
Ed Miller
Herb McCandless
Dick Oldfield
Dave Koffel
"Dandy" Dick Landy
Dave Christie

liteweight

Leave it on and with the car, it adds more history and value to it. Taking the deck lid off and hanging it up on the wall in your garage is your perogative; however, putting it on another Dodge Dart is just not genuine.

M68