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Mark,

Those cars MAY have spent most of their activity at tracks like New York National Speedway. I don't remember even seeing either one at Island, and I only went to E-Town for the first time in 71. Maybe they had already left the area by then. Were Brooklyn Heavy or Ron Lyles involved with a Cuda, as opposed to a Dart like the Speedwin car?

Bill Rolik

1514 SS

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In the staging lanes at Bristol in the late 70's, Max asked me to set in his car and hold the brake while he went to the little boys room. The back of the lanes ran uphill and Max did not have park in is trans. He kept a small piece of 2x4 for parking on less hilly ground. I would say the wheelbase issue was him and I am sure he had talked it over with nhra first. A first class guy. He ran with the heavy hitters of that time (Bagwell, Earwood, Kinnett) with a LOT less budget!!

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Figure I'll wade into Liteweight's thread here re NE based Hemi Darts/Barracudas (the cold beverages are on me next time we get together Liteweight!) since my dart has been mentioned a few times and there's a wealth of info coming out on this thread. It's the car that may be the Gene O'Neill 4 spd car. Here is the earliest pic from 83/84 that I know for sure is my car when it was for sale in Quebec (Reynald Prieur), it went to Nova Scotia (Richard Boyd), John Brown (Pennsylvania) and a few more collectors until I acquired it. It is a first run VIN car. Any of you NE folks recall a dart heading north back then and who may have owned it?

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I'm sure Steve O'Neill (flintstonecharger) will have something to add here....I realize that's a B&W photo, but do you have any idea of car color combo in that pic? Thanks. Best wishes. WJ:)

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Hi WJ, the guy from Nova Scotia who bought this car thru this ad in the Auto Trader in Quebec thought it was yellow with red/blue stripes when he bought it/. He repainted it orange and lettered it mopar magic.

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Thanks....flintstonecharger is up in Maine on a little vaca....w/out a computer. You'll be hearing from Steve soon as he gets home, I'm sure. Best wishes. WJ

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Bill Rodik
Flintstone Charger (Steve)
W J (Parachute Jumper; a/k/a Hemi Sky-Diver)
MarK J (Hemi Professor)

Very Good Hemi Hunting to you.
Bill, Nice posting on that white Cuda, Park Chrysler-Plymouth. Looks like a Dana-rear, another 4-speed. Look out, here comes another flying
driveshaft.

Steve (FlintstoneCharger). Great photos of the Flintstone Charger at
Dover 5/22/66 versus "Doc" Burgess, Black Arrow. The first time out for
Doc in an Hilborn-injected engine. The "Flintstone Charger" blew the
hood off the car earlier in the day. Ran later with no hood. Great close-ups of both cars on the line. 10.80's on a cold day.

W J... Southern-Connecticut dealer for Gene O'Neill's Dart, with help from Bill Flynn. Possible, Chorches Motors, Manchester, CT (just east of
Hartford). Or, another Hamden. This one located in southern-Connecticut
(just north of New Haven, Bill Flynn's home-base). Was there a
Hamden Dodge, Connecticut?

Mark J (Professor). Last I heard of "Playmate II" it ended up in a little town in Eastern, PA (Greentown, PA). But that was many moons ago.
Charlie Lendrum's Dart kind of vanished into the sunset.

Paul

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Bobby, please, by all means do not leave us out! Please share these photos with us. We would love to see 'em too!

Regards,

M68

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George Baptiste bought an original UNCUT '68 Hurst Hemi Barracuda from some street racer-type who ran afoul of the law and (unfortunately) cut it up into a race car back in the very early 1990s.

The car was purchased from someone in the northern New Jersey area. It saw very limited strip action (and possibly street?) and sat for years until George found out about it and purchased it sometime in the 1980s. From what I was told, the 'Cuda was so original Chrysler Corp. offered to purchase the car back but George declined.

I am only relating what I was told about 18 years ago and cannot verify this story's accuracy.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/465...gebaptiste.jpg

Btw, is George still around? I'd like to hear the story from him!

M68

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Lou Centolanza ran his 'Cuda sometime in the mid-1970s up to at least 1977.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/473/loucentolanza.jpg

(No, it's not the Baptiste car.)

M68