Original hemi dart information

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Originally Posted by Charlie A

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.

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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