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West Bend ? I had an outboard boat motor named West Bend some 35 years ago

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Well, I had her for 16 years but she died last week (R.I.P.).

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This has become a major LO23 history lesson since it began on 09/17/2008!
Yep, over 5 years and Daryl is still missing some time in the life of his Dart.
Unbelievable considering all the knowledge, memories and cars that been uncovered and relived here.
Let's get this topic back on track.
It is the reason the nostalgia forum exists.
Surely, someone has something new that has fallen loose from a clotted brain cell ?
Refuse to lose.

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Did Daryl find out the original owner/delivery? I thought I read them all and didn't think so.

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Hi John
Yup, over 2500 replies & close to 500,000 views, but Nope, no closer than I was 5 years ago. Many leads have been followed up on, many phone calls, emails, etc, but it's true history still eludes me previous 1982.

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I was sittin' in the "office" recently reading the Car Craft that has the article on your Landy Hemi Dart.
All the expert owners it went through before you discovered it's heritage makes it a bit easier to understand how these cars get "lost".

Ironic that this one, in that respect, is much the same as the Landy Dart.

Who are you and where did you come from?

If they could only talk.

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I remember that the original owners of "Wildfire" received the revised front suspension components. How did Chrysler know who to send them to? They must have had some kind of original purchasers list. But if there was such a list, by now it likely is destroyed or in a box on a dusty shelf in a warehouse.

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Chrysler sent out a service bullitin to all dealers on the suspension modifications.There were no parts just instructions as how to lengthen the upper control arms and the angle to gain positive caster.It was also mentioned to bend the idler arm and pitman arm down.;)

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At least with that one I had the original paint scheme to go by underneath the paint that was on it when I purchased it from Steve O'Neil . All it needed was a little sandpaper to "get it to talk".
This is how Dave McDade connected the dots to find the original history on his Gene's Speed Shop Dart. It's also how we found the background of a BO car that currently resides in my shop as being an Ed Miller car.
My car has had the paint stripped to bare metal twice previous to my ownership. The first time, it was chemically stripped in the early 80's when Lou Vignona owned it. Usually when this process is done, there is still paint overspray left over in the door areas, trunk lip, behind tail lights etc, but unfortunatley when Tim Hennessey aquired it in the mid 80's he blasted the entire car clean, erasing all it's color history.

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couple more from moparts JCCuda


http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...psc7e0b41a.jpg

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9cd62120.jpg

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