Does Anyone Have Any Photos Of Dodge Dart Race Cars

I ran this car for many years. First with a hemi and later after the hemi was sold a 440. The Hemi is in it here and it was a Cayuga (akaTMP) about 1977 I think. So when someone says you cant race a Hemi on budget dont believe them I did. Notice the lack of shiny stuff. This was a very good race car though. All it needed was a decent driver. I am not one!
BTW The Hemi is still alive and well after all these years and was recently bought from another racer by an old friend of mine who now has it in his shop awaiting something to put it in.

 

Cool, love the steel rims! what kind of E.T.s did you run with it?

 

11.20 122 MPH which back then was quite decent. Was fastest car in pro for about a year. Above that was the quick 8 or 16 or 32 depending on the meet. i just realized this photo is from the very first pass the car ever made. It had just started to sprinkle and the track knew I needed a TT so they waved me through and said just stage and go before the rain hits. Decent folks i would say. By the time I was on the return road the sky opened up and you could hardly see. I had driven 170 miles to make that run. It was a truck drags weekend which is how i know. You can see a Semi tractor in the photo in the staging lanes.
Don
By the way We used to eat and stay at Stoney Creek (Gullivers Travels Motel.)

 

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Thanks for sharing that, I have more rainy day memories at the track than anything, great car all business. I am working on a 65 440 as we speak, more to come...

 

Joe Petelle's Hemi Dart

 

Here's my WIP..It's a '65 with a '66 nose, stretched a foot. I made my own altered carbon fiber fenders and am doing the doors, hood, trunk also. Going for the Charlie Allen car look.

 

All of these pictures and not a single one in the winners circle?

 

damn this thread. i have a weakness for '67 darts. want a gasser dart, real bad. wanted one for ages. im generally safe here on the HAMB because they dont make appearances due to being too new.......

then this post.

suddenly thoughts of a wicked 340/4spd in a plain jane '67 post with a bench seat and the nose in the air fill my head. and there happens to be one that needs a full resto a block from my house.

too many projects, too little time...

(i just left a note on it asking if its for sale)

 

Got a picture er 2 of Ron Mancini's '68 HEMI Dart on the Gratiot Auto Supply threat.. Look it up!

 

Well this thread has a good deal of '68 Dart''s in it, easy to do since they were so dominant in competition, but moderators could delete them all as being too new. There were in fact a few post-'66 Dart gassers, but theywere all tube framed monsters, a couple with radical chops, and generally don't fit either the spirit of the HAMB, nor really are they very "nostalgic". Better to look to a '66 or earlier Dart as a gasser, leave the stock front suspension and leaf rears, and run anything from a 273 to a 340 in it with a four speed. THAT would be period correct, IMO.

 

I see your points Storm King, but the 340 debuted in '68, so if you are looking to be hamb correct you would need a 273 screamer, or shoehorn in a big block. I personally would go with a 360, If you are not a total mopar head you can't tell the difference between a 273 and a 360 and you can make way more cheap horsepressure and torque.

 

Dart race cars? How about these?

 

Here's a couple of pics taken at Aquasco in 1965.

 

Fraid not! That's a '66 body type. "65's had rounded fenders, not the scallops on the side.

 

How about a roundy-round car?

FWIW, this thing has a 50s or older Ford truck rearend in it. It ran a small dirt oval and they wanted the like 5.13 ratio in there. It also has a come-along as part of the rear suspension - dunno if that was for adjustment, or just to hold it together for the trip to the junkyard.

 

ajmopar, HAMB allows for engines that cross their year "deadline" if it is basicaly the same engine. Look at the pass SBC's get. (Big surprise). Any LA Mopar small block is indestinguishable from another to most people, the same way I couldn't tell you a 283 GM engine from an LS1, whatever that is.
Heck a 318 will get you deep in the 10's, and I don't mean a stroker, I mean a 318. They are all good, and all far better than their GM counterparts.

 

Here's one we should have stepped up and bought back in the day. yellow with accent striping. real LO23. anyone remember this one racing back in quebec in the late 70s/early 80s?

 

Agreed, LA's rock.

 

Original paint.... raced for several months and parked in a garage.

 

I was working up on the roof of my dad's house this past Sunday and I saw you cruise past, nice car, sounds great too...

 

No love for the road racing Darts???

 

Good one !!!!!! we have a winner......................YG

 

I have alot of Darts in this album...

http://public.fotki.com/AKAKustoms/misc-cars/


And here is my favorite Dart.