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Just read Jerry Flippo has passed.


RIP sir.


http://www.lakelandraceway.com/image...po_ss_dart.jpghttp://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...ps98p6kdv8.jpg

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M/T ET Streets. 31X16.5 on 12" rims

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Thank you for that information. Does the car have a standard B body dana or does it have shortened axels? The reason I ask is the look is fantastic and I would like to duplicate it on my Hemi Dart clone. Some of us poor folk can't afford the real thing! Thank you again.

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Your very welcome. Glad I could help.
The Dana is cut to 51" Axle to axle and came out of a 1976 Ford F250. Cheap cheap cheap to buy compared to an original Mopar OEM car Dana and they are everywhere. Bonus if you get the gearing and diff lock with it. I put a spool in this one.
Savoy, just to clear things I not be independantly wealthy. I be blue collar mechanic with dirty fingernails and scars on my knuckles to prove it...lol

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Thank you. Do appreciate the update. I think back to the early 80's when I took a car trailer to Edmonton Alberta to look at a L023 car...and didn't; buy it. I still remember the price...$17500. Wish I had a time machine. Thanks again for the update. Great looking car.

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Thank you. Do appreciate the update. Before I retired I too was a man with callouses on my hands. I think back to the early 80's when I took a car trailer to Edmonton Alberta to look at a L023 car...and didn't; buy it. I still remember the price...$17500. Wish I had a time machine. Thanks again for the update. Great looking car.

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that would have been the Demented Dart...I believe there may be an old Auto Trader ad for that car posted near a long time ago in this thread. Do you recall if it was red way back then? Don't feel bad 17500 back then would have been a ridiculous amount few would pay in the early 80s.

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Actually the car was advertised in the back of a hotrod magazine. It was supposedly the one that hot rod tested in some back issue. The car was light green if I recall with the old geometric graphics popular in the 70's. I think the car ended up in Arkansas or Alabama if I recall correctly but not sure of that. The car had a snorkel hood of some sort, a detuned hemi, and was generally as wavy as the ocean. Back then I had no clue what to look for, at, or even what a hemi dart was! I just wanted a car to run on the street and make noise. Still remember that when I walked away the guy just whined about what was he going to do now as he needed the cash. Sigh.....

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I remember digging up some pictures of a LO23 that matches that description. They are posted in this topic somewhere. Be interested to know where that car went for real as there are still some not accounted for.

Check the pictures at end of page 390. I'll move the pictures to your post tomorrow if you think it is the same car you looked at.

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Mobile dodge

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That was the "rising sun" / Lou Mancini car that we now know as the uncut/unmolested yellow one that has sold a couple of times for @ 300g. It was in AB in 1982 . Wasn't it a Mark King in Calgary that had it? I believe somewhere's in this this epic thread is an Autotrader ad of that car. I know I've seen the ad. I have no idea what colour it was when it was in Alberta but it had to be this car. Yep would've been a good investment.

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This one?


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...1&d=1452610509http://classracer.com/classforum/att...7&d=1452610509



Or this one maybe?
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...50f4909e4f.jpg

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Bottom one is the that ended up in Alberta for a bit, painted yellow at some point .

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Lou Mancini painted it yellow when he got it. That was around 1977-78.

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But this one (Daryl said it belonged to Wayne Dokken) matches the paint and snorkel hood scoop "savoy" described.


Ok "savoy" which one was the one you didn't buy? :)


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...0&d=1451440373

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http://classracer.com/classforum/att...8&d=1492401295

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Sorry, I have to claim old Geezers disease as I really can't tell you which car it was or wasn't. Like I said I found it in the want ads in the back of a hot rod magazine. Wish I could confirm which it was, all I know is I should have bought the damn thing. I do know that it wasn't the solid green car. There were no race decals or names on the car. Oh well, shoulda, coulda, wounda. Story of my life with classic cars I guess. Like I said, I think it went south to a guy that had another L023 car was trying to flip them last time I heard for around 50K. Wish I could be more specific for the board but it was a long time and many cars ago.

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No worries. In my office they say I have "Sometimers" .
Some times the thoughts and memories just evaporate!


I tell them "The older I get , the better I used to be".

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I refer to it as a case of CRC....Can't Remember Crap...

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Back to saving pictures:


http://www.dragracealberta.com/index_files/image054.jpg

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Was this one identified as "real" and who owned it?


http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0tlrxmuz.jpg

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And while we are looking for more info, how about this one?


Was called "Gold Seeker".


http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...Seeker2006.jpg

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Not an lo23 , Tank Crosswhite sold it last year .

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Thank you. Some are still ....AWOL ..... and the search continues!

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That is the Joe Ralph Thompson Dart after being sold to the Teuton family.

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So, neither of the two local restoration shops that I trust were able to commit to such a worthy project and give it the attention it deserves until this next late fall/winter. One of them, though, agreed to at least a quick primer/black epoxy job just to keep me happy for the summer, since I didn't really care for the Chromalusion paint job it had, and my son refused to go to the track in it until we had made it "our own" a little. So, now it looks a little more correct, and by next spring it will be painted a 1968 Dodge white color. Now, just waiting for that 604 hemi from Tim Banning...

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/a...pslg8meicg.jpg


http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/a...psst024nwu.jpg

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/a...psj1q5ifrl.jpg


http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdzxjg09g.jpg

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JMHO.......Better!

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That's a very cool intake...I had one once that was on Allyn Lee's car , on an engine he built for me. last mag intake he used before they changed the rules and allowed sheet metal intakes. Hundreds of hours in those pieces. Hopefully there's some kind of backfire poppet valve on it. All the pieces can be hard to find and especially hard to weld back together.

I remember when that colour shifting paint first came out. wasn't it 500 a pint?

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Talking of intakes, I have a magnesium crossram like that with matching carbs waiting on the shelf if I ever get around to finishing my wanta be hemi dart. Guy I picked it up from said it came from an SS/A car, but then who knows. Anyway cool piece of nostalga. I have a current mopar crossram on my 572 hemi in the Savoy I put together a few years ago and it is definitely taller and wider than the 64-65 versions. Just fits under the hemi hood on my 64,

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Thank you. Here is a blurb from an article done on the Keyes hemi cars in Hemmings MuscleMachines 2012 bonus issue. Yes, that House of Kolor Chromalusion paint was/is pretty spendy. Was sort of a shame to strip it.

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/a...psovzskqx6.jpg

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Spyphish:


now...


http://www.motorbase.com/uploads/pic...tt_jackson.jpg




was.........


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...3&d=1340651192

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I think that old paint job is very cool.

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Me too. Think there was possibly some quality smoke behind that work?


:)

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That Dart:



http://i568.photobucket.com/albums/s...psdwqkxlig.jpg

http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/...pg.1714964157/

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History on this one still open:


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...0&d=1493826917


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...1&d=1493826960


http://classracer.com/classforum/att...8&d=1387406994

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Well I took the Hemi for my Dart to Bob Riggle of Hemi Under Glass fame and he is going to build it for me! Here is a pic sitting in the car before I took it out last week. My magnesium intake and heads were modified by Diamond-Elkins.