Original hemi dart information

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by Liteweight

Stumbled across this one from Minnesota State Dragways.
Anyone know something on this one??

liteweight

You have a PM. Hope it leads to something for you.

[Charlie A]

Here's one I don't remember in this forum:



Or this one:



Internet finds. Not my pics and no way I know to give credit to whoever took them.

[Liteweight]

[QUOTE=Charlie A;348977]Here's one I don't remember in this forum:


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a great, great unmolested car. Only has relocated springs & mini tubs. I remember when F. Engelhart picked this one up a few years back. Ex Mancini car

liteweight

[Hemi Moose]

Mark J posted this photo back on page 116, he was asking some questions about this L023 called 'Hemi Dart'...

[Steve Stasko]

[QUOTE=Liteweight;348994]

Originally Posted by Charlie A

Here's one I don't remember in this forum:


QUOTE]

a great, great unmolested car. Only has relocated springs & mini tubs. I remember when F. Engelhart picked this one up a few years back. Ex Mancini car

liteweight

Correct, this was the car Ron won Indy with in 1970. I have the car he got close with in '69. I understand that this car may be being restored to it's 1970 appearance?

The "Car of the Rising Sun" is a real LO23 car, and accounted for. In that photo, it is being driven by a good friend of mine who owned the car briefly in the early 1970's. I cannot recall the names of the brothers who originally owned the car, but it was built more for ISCA-type shows. They were from Central PA (York?). The car was never really a strong runner when my friend owned it. This car eventually ended up being the plain yellow car Lou Mancini built to drive on the street in the late 1970's/early 1980's. It sold a Barrett-Jackson a few years back for $300k, and I believe still resides in Vegas.

Also...I believe the Valley Motors car was a Sox & Martin "customer" car.

[rr-sweden]

Hi heres some pics of old hemicars

[Liteweight]

Welcome aboard rr sweden. Thanx for contributing

liteweight

[hemidart3]

i'll also jump in! in aug i posted about meeting the owner of the wild fire dart at a local cruise in the canton, ohio area and that he said he was pretty sure liteweight had contacted him when daryl had called his fax # over and over. his ownership has been verified by several people i trust, although i'm not positive he was the original owner. does this location jive with "know" owners? 4 hemi abodies from my area that i know of, although 1 was a body in white car that per rules could not be raced in super stock as it wasn't "factory ". i won't name people without there permission but i will try to get that if wanted. dave p.s. where has paul been hiding?

[Hemi Moose]

Here are some older pics of the Wildfire '68 Hemi Dart painted red & silver and what looks like Cragar 5 spokes on it...or perhaps another name brand.