Original hemi dart information

[rhinodaert]

Last one for now. Good top pic and bottom one has a Camaro in front with the Dart on a hauler in the background. Joe told me the car was painted red with black spiderwebs and a pygmy on the fender with a dart gun blowing a poison dart.....

[marfen]

Any one recall Lou Mancini having any other Hemi darts besides the famous uncut yellow one?

[mike s]

Lou had 1 Hemi-Dart (real) . Ron had 3 Hemi-Darts 2 clones 1 real. IIRC

[Dave2spd]

A picture of Joe Petelle's Hemi Dart from Hampden Dodge, Springfield MA, was sold out west somewhere!

[mike s]

A correction on my post above of how many Darts Ron Mancini owned.He had 2 not 3 . I forgot the 3rd car I was thinking of was Bruce Hawk's. Lou only owned 1.

[GARY JACOB]

Mike, I think alot of brain cells have gone away over the years. Ron sold the red and black car and built the body biw car it was yellow and orange. He then built another and also painted it yellow and orange. He sold the first one to Bruce Hawk and he had the other. I went to spring nats with him when both cars were there. Ron ran his in a/mp on that weekend. Mike Dawson also had his ss/aa cuda there that was painted yellow and orange. Jay Montrose had his yellow and orange cuda there running in c/sm. So there was 4 yellow and orange cars there that race. The A/MP car is the one that Ron crashed at Indy latter that year. Jake
Mike now that I think of it I don't think Ron ever drove the car that Bruce got.??????????????

[mike s]

Hi Jake, we used to do some stuff with Bruce when he ran the Max wedge car.I had to double check. It was accurate.I got the low down on one of the other Dart's bought in the Detroit this week.Still alive and well.Just hiding.

[Dan Lattimore]

Probably won't help much but I remember one of those darts showing up at Old Dominion Dragstrip in Manassass, Va. It was new and I think grey primer and automatic. It belonged to a car painter at a bodyshop in Fairfax , Va. He later painted it, don't know the color and named it the Cookie Duster. Don't ever remember seeing it again after that first day but did hear it was more than he wanted to handle and sold it shortly after. Memory ain't what it used to be.

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by GARY JACOB

Mike, I think alot of brain cells have gone away over the years. Ron sold the red and black car and built the body biw car it was yellow and orange. He then built another and also painted it yellow and orange. He sold the first one to Bruce Hawk and he had the other. I went to spring nats with him when both cars were there. Ron ran his in a/mp on that weekend. Mike Dawson also had his ss/aa cuda there that was painted yellow and orange. Jay Montrose had his yellow and orange cuda there running in c/sm. So there was 4 yellow and orange cars there that race. The A/MP car is the one that Ron crashed at Indy latter that year. Jake
Mike now that I think of it I don't think Ron ever drove the car that Bruce got.??????????????

Not a Hemi but a Mancini and a Dart.



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[mopar68]

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