Original hemi dart information

[mopar68]

(Woody Delbridge photo)

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by mopar68

(Woody Delbridge photo)

Car #14 and #19,,, 2 Hemi Darts? Wonder who the other car in the photo is?
Danny Durham

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

Liteweight, I don't know anymore details on it, maybe Mark J or Paul C may know, I seen old photos of it a few years ago and thought the car was from that area...anyway how did your search go on the Manhattan Speed Shop 68 Hemi Dart go, did you find anything out.

HM
As near as I can get with the Manhattan Car is that it was a stick car, so pretty much takes this one out of contention also.

liteweight

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Geerhead55

Car #14 and #19,,, 2 Hemi Darts? Wonder who the other car in the photo is?
Danny Durham

Welcome back M68. Been missing your great pictures for awhile

Strange cars, with strange designation/ classes being numbers.
No side glass on them
front wheels are spindle mount, no brakes
Looks like a 69 car tho


liteweight

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by FED 387

got a buddie of mine kinda a Great Lakes drag strip history buff will ask him about the Balzekas car this weekend---

Any update FED387

liteweight

[FED 387]

not yet he was outta town this weekend will get with him tonite==FED387

[JCShiels]

I don't get to this site as much as I would like (I am not supposed to use my work computer, even on my own time or at lunch) but I saw Paul's post with the blow-up proof Ramchargers engine that Rick Kent put in his dart. Tim and Bob had a Ramchargers engine in their Wild Fire Dart when I first went to work at Town and Country Dodge in 1969. shortly before they sold the car (1970?) they broke an exhaust valve destroying the cylinder head and the piston in that hole. They re-installed the original Hemi, and that was the engine in the car when they sold it. They let me keep the intake valve from the cylinder that went bad; it had a hole punched through the valve head between the stem and the rim. I wish I had kept track of it, I think it was tossed out when my parents moved. They later repaired the Ramchargers engine and built an early Dart (1964?) gasser. But that is another story.
JIm Shiels

[Paul Ceasrine]

On Wiley Cossey,,,,,,,

SS/B Class Winner @ 1968 Indy Nationals
SS/B Class Runner-Up @ 1969 Winternationals

[Hemi Moose]

Maybe the current owner will jump in here and post some recent photos of this L023 68 Hemi Dart that was known as Spider.

Originally Posted by Black Hemi Dart

The first owner was Jim Miller out of St. Louis. It was called King Dart. The second owner was Ken Broadaway also from the St. Louis area. This info is on one of the old titles I have. It was rumored to have been ran as a early Pro Stock car. Feb.1972 Harry Prososki from Nebraska brought the car and is known as Spider.Harry owned the car for 20 years. There was a picture of the car in the 1980 Direct Connection Catalog wearing 69 tail lights. Harry sold the car to Toli Polewik in Iowa, who sold the car to Ray Barton. Barton was building the car for John McGill who owned the Checker Drive ins out of Alabama. Bucky painted the checker paint for the drive in. I was told that McGill never picked up the car and then was sold to Jim Whipple who was out of Michigan. Jim Pancake got the car next and I bought the car from Jim in December of 2005, who I have known for a long time. The car is the 13th one built and it came with a certicard. Today the car has a 11:5 motor in it with mufflers and has been seen on the streets.

[hemidart3]

more old magizine pictures! dave