[John Bender]

I have been racing Chyrsler " MoPar " cars since 1964, mostly on the local level, so I've been around the block a couple of times. I am a MoPar guy through & through with an extensive library of books on MoPars from way back in the day up to the new DP's. Here to my knowledge, is a list of all of the factory cars to come with hood scoops. The 1963 & 1964 aluminum nose max wedge cars. The 1964 & 1965 Hemi B body cars. The 1967 RO-23 Plymouth Belveders,& the WO-23 Dodge Coronets. The 1968 Hemi Barracuds & Darts. There are some 1973 & 1974 Dodge Dart Sports with a scoop, but it is not sealed underneath to the carb. I have searched high and low, going through countless books and tech bullitins and even made a call to Galen Govier, and I cannot find any where that a hood scoop was ever put on anything that Chrysler made in 1966. If it was a legal piece, why don't the other two or three racers in the country who run a 1966 Hemi car have them? I race a 1967 Plymouth GTX and have asked NHRA if the RO-23 scoop would be legal on my car. The two answers I got was, it never came on a GTX with the 440 engine, and it ia ONLY legal in Super Stock with the Hemi engine. I questioned NHRA again, stating that I was going to race a Hemi engine in my car in stock eliminator GTX. Would the scoop now be legal on my car. The answer was no, Super Stock only. I have a scoop, but I don't have the gonads to put it on and show up for a race, as I like racing and having a good time at the track, and don't want to piss anybody off. As for the Judy Lilly post car, to my knowledge it was a one on a kind thing. All 55 Plymouth RO-23 Belveders and all 55 Dodge WO-23 Coronets had the fast back roof line as my GTX. That is 25 cents worth from an old MoPar dude. Happy racing everyone.

John Bender 1967 Plymouth GTX E/SA