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Liteweight 09-21-2017 04:14 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
never seen this pic before.Cool pic of this car. Thanks to SSSwede for sharing with me

liteweight


https://image.ibb.co/hGYeTk/dli_68stick31.jpg

Charlie A 09-21-2017 07:27 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Dang! That's an early picture . Still has glass packs and turn downs hanging under it. Cool .
Check out the Buick GS in the background!

Stewart Way 09-21-2017 08:27 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Tom, think the wheelbase on the Hemi Darts has always been 110. That was the number we used in 1970 when I started working in Div ll. Shortened from 111 by Hurst per Chrysler. Not saying some were not maybe moved a little more. And some were moved forward front and rear but easily caught if you know how far the k-member should be from the core support. I know of 1 SS/DA Cuda caught at the Nation event In Sanair mid 70's. Was told to have it right at the next race. It was moved back and didn't effect the car at all.

Tom Broome 09-21-2017 10:08 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Stewart, you know I'm working off of a 40 plus year old memory on the wheelbase thing. I am sure that max Hurley's car was 111 (and they didn't like it) when they checked it. Landy's car was mentioned that day as the standard, and was enough shorter to matter to that tech man. It goes without saying that Dick Landy was an extremely creative racer, using him as a yardstick could be like using a Smokey Yunick car as a reference.

Warning, Thread drift, Excuse us for a minute, Stewart and I don't get together enough.
Bogus SS/DA? Perhaps a local one to us? Tell me about SS/EA cars with over 2000 pounds on the rear wheels? You know which one, just not the first one that comes to your mind.

Stewart Way 09-21-2017 11:46 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Not an Atlanta car, and I don't think he was from GA. As far as 2000lb on the rear that might be a little heavy. I seem to remember in the early 70's max weight allowed on the rear was 50% but I have slept since then so the memory is a little vague. If you get around Loganville give me a call for lunch. 678-873-6940.
Hijack ended.

Frito 09-23-2017 09:35 AM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
There was an Atlanta SS/EA car that would hook on ice. Thanks to the hidden weight box in the top of the gas tank (before fuel cells) and quarter panels beat in and filled with bondo.

Steve Stasko 09-23-2017 09:49 AM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Broome (Post 545551)
In the early 70's I went with another friend to pick up his SS Dart at the paint shop, during the paint process they naturally removed all of the glass and trim, breaking the windshield. Everyone thought that would not be an issue, the door glasses were the important pieces. When they went to install a new windshield the bare glass, without the gasket, overlapped the windshield pillars. The body shop was adamant that they wouldn't have broken the original windshield if it had not been single ply. It was only the outer layer of a laminated windshield, cut and polished to fit the opening.
I filed that info away, and I will swear that I never used that one again. Who would dare not run safety glass in a race car.
I do not know where the modifications to that car were done, or who did it. He brought that SS Dart, and one other, with him when he moved back East from California.
Kenny Nichols?

Tom Broome 09-23-2017 04:06 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Frito, Steve,
I'll let Stewart answer those for you.
But that SS/EA would hook everywhere.
At Chrysler tests that thing always got the 50 foot clocks with the rear tires.

Tom Broome 09-23-2017 04:12 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Stasko (Post 545829)
Kenny Nichols?
I'm not doing Kenny Nichols stories.:eek:

Steve Stasko 09-23-2017 04:21 PM
Re: Original hemi dart information
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Broome (Post 545846)
I'm not doing Kenny Nichols stories.:eek:
Wasn't sure. He had two Hemi Darts that came from out West...one an Ex-Landy car.

I'm wondering if we're thinking of the same SS/EA car...might still be in competition as a BA car...?


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