Original hemi dart information

[Ghost Missle]

Lebanon Valley pics from the era.

http://drag.racersreunion.com/photo/...ntPage=&page=1

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Here's a N.Y. based Dart I've never seen before.

1971-1974 Utica-Rome Dragway album on Drag Racer's Reunion.

http://drag.racersreunion.com/photo/...AAlbum%3A68699

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Another one - Saniar 1977

http://drag.racersreunion.com/photo/...Album%3A206772

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1978 - New England Dragway

http://drag.racersreunion.com/photo/...AAlbum%3A98600

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by hemid68

Charlie,
The "Canned Heat" car is explained in my post on page 226. It was not an original car. It was owned by Lou Biggs, out of the Belleville, IL area (St. Louis, MO area). I ended up with some of his left over parts in the early '80's. The color picture is probably at the "old" Gateway International Raceway in Madison/ East St. Louis, / Fairmont City, IL., or whatever town they were claiming at the time. You can see the spectator cars setting up on top of the canal. The track has been totally rebuilt, and runs the opposite way, and is called Gateway Motorsports Park, and hosts an NHRA National event.
An interesting thing about the parts I got from Lou Biggs, was that some of them came from Lou Brock Dodge in East St. Louis, IL. Lou Brock is the Hall of Fame baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals, and also owned a Dodge dealership in East St Louis.
I have not seen the 2nd picture of his car, but the color pictures are on page 205 and 206, in this thread.
This is probably just some "worthless knowledge", which I specialize in!
Dan

I also share vast amounts "worthless knowledge" on a few different subjects. I always let the reciever judge the value. ( lol )

Just forgot about this one already being here. So much has been posted it is easier to double up than to search 5 years of postings.

A lot of history here.

[chris ok]

Thanks for all these updates guys, This is one of my favorite internet topics. I have a lot of family from Utica Ilion. If I liked cars as a kid and asked to go to the drags, I'd a been in deep trouble, lol.
I hope we can get to the bottom of this. Daryl I hope you follow up on that couple in Ohio with info on every Dart produced. We need an answer.....
Chris

[Ghost Missle]

I hope you guys will excuse the multiple posts above.

I went through over a thousand archived photos from '70's era east coast
tracks looking for Hemi Darts that I didn't remember ever seeing before.

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by Ghost Missle

I hope you guys will excuse the multiple posts above.

I went through over a thousand archived photos from '70's era east coast
tracks looking for Hemi Darts that I didn't remember ever seeing before.

That's how we're going to solve this. One, just the RIGHT one clue-tip-photo is going to send this investigation to the "closed" file someday.

I have googled Hemi Dart-LO23-68 Dart- 68 Hemi Dart......... and mulitiple combinations of that so many times just to hopefully stumble over some obscure document-picture-article-posting that I have never seen before. It's a great, late night, I can't sleep thing to do. (lol)

But as stated many times, what a great history of LO23 Darts this has become.

Just saw this from Bill Ringer's post on Thunder Road Motorsports Park from years back.
Anyone know the Dart? LO23?

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

Just In,

The 1968 Dodge Dart {Lieto car} was 'not' an LO23 Hemi Dart.

It was an original 1968 GTS 383 Dart.

It was all black, with no lettering.

Someone put in a tricked up 426 Max-Wedge in the car, and it had steel fenders with Fenderwell Headers.

It had a Cross-Ram on it, with a 68' Fiberglass Hemi Hood.

Lieto or ? switched it over to a Tunnel Ram, and changed the
hood to accommodate the Tunnel Ram.

It had a 'full' Roll Bar in the car.

The Dart also had a narrowed 8 3/4" Rear in it, with the rear inner
fenderwell's tubbed.

It ran 11.40's in the Pro Eliminator Bracket.

Well, back to square one. Thanks for solving that puzzle, Paul. Car sounds like a Dart I once saw run at Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ circa 1980. I didn't get a chance to look at it close-up in the pits to see what was under the hood nor the 'custom' two-scoop (oddity) if it still had it. My only recollection is a behind-the-starting-line view and that it had a 4-speed and broke something in its drivetrain off the line. Maybe it was a different Dodge Dart...who knows. What we now know is that the two-scoop Lido (aka Lieto) car is not Daryl's car.

One more thing: does anyone know the whereabouts of Tim Hennessey? If so, my suggestion is he should be made aware of this (very long) thread and put his two-cents in.

M68

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Ghost Missle

Here's a N.Y. based Dart I've never seen before.

1971-1974 Utica-Rome Dragway album on Drag Racer's Reunion.

http://drag.racersreunion.com/photo/...AAlbum%3A68699

It's been posted in this thread before in both black and white vinyl top configurations.



M68