My old Hemi Dart is famous...and I never knew it!
 

Nothing like finding out you owned one of Dick Landy's cars long after you sold it! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

The thread started out with someone looking for a link to Steve Juliano's 70's psychadelia/car collection but mistakenly confusing it with me and my old cars. So thanks to an alert by one of the guys here (442w30) I chimed in and quashed some of the old longstanding rumors. I posted some original as-found before and after resto photos of some of my old cars.

One of them was this 1968 Hemi Dart. A real LO23 car that was way too much of a race car for me to restore. I'm glad I didn't, because the guy who eventually did restore it found out it was one of Dick Landy's cars.

Here's the link. The reveal is on page 3:

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=1&vc=1

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/LO23dart.jpg

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...8b/LO23vin.jpg

and how about this - the original warranty Certicard for a car that was sold without a warranty!

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...3certicard.jpg

and the odometer with 1/4 mile on it:

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/LO23dash.jpg

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Just googled "Dick Landy Hemi Dart" and came up with the Car Craft story on the car.

http://www.carcraft.com/featuredvehi...hra/index.html

Glad to see the car got restored correctly. I sold it because it was just too tubbed amd mod'ed to restore on my skill level at the time. It needed and entire floor from the mid-firewall to the tail lights. It was totally tubbed out, even the tranny tunnel was gone. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

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Amazing Steve. You have had some unbelievable Mopars!

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Ding, ding, ding......YOU WIN!!!! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif

WHOOPS!!!

Just kiddin Steve. Neat that you once had it in your grasp.

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I think I'm the undisputed reigning champion of selling million dollar cars for hundreds of dollars!

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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I think I'm the undisputed reigning champion of selling million dollar cars for hundreds of dollars!

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LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif I'd say so! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

At least you'll have some cool stories to tell your grandkids someday https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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OMG! Did'nt they make only like 50 hemi darts? And this is a Dick Landy Hemi Dart, OMG!

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Yup. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smirk.gif
...and it was one the four speed cars to boot! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/rolleyes.gif

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Very cool Steve...well, not cool that you sold it cheap...but...cool! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif

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I think I'm the undisputed reigning champion of selling million dollar cars for hundreds of dollars!

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LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif I'd say so! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

At least you'll have some cool stories to tell your grandkids someday https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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Rita,
My kids already think I'm senile. Why wait for the grandkids to confirm it.

I showed this photo to my kids while I was digging pictures out to post on the Moparts site.

They laughed hysterically and the boy says: "Nice hairdo, Dad!"

I responded proudly: "It's not a "hairdo"...it's a Mullet, Dammit...and it's your heritage!" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif


http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...-6Cuda1985.jpg

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So Steve its now time to sell me the Viper and throw all the extra parts in for a few grand, let me know when I can swing by. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Rita,
My kids already think I'm senile. Why wait for the grandkids to confirm it.

I showed this photo to my kids while I was digging pictures out to post on the Moparts site.

They laughed hysterically and the boy says: "Nice hairdo, Dad!"

I responded proudly: "It's not a "hairdo"...it's a Mullet, Dammit...and it's your heritage!" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif


http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...-6Cuda1985.jpg

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LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif

Cool pic! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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So Steve its now time to sell me the Viper and throw all the extra parts in for a few grand, let me know when I can swing by. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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I would do it, but I wouldn't want to take advantage of you like that. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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Steve:

Amazing! One of my favorite '68 Hemi Darts. Cool story to tell though.

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Steve:

Amazing! One of my favorite '68 Hemi Darts. Cool story to tell though.

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Juan, did you see my U-haul photo on the Moparts website? Not as cool as yours but it's a keeper. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Steve:

Amazing! One of my favorite '68 Hemi Darts. Cool story to tell though.

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Juan, did you see my U-haul photo on the Moparts website? Not as cool as yours but it's a keeper. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Ultra Kool Steve! I really enjoy stuff like this. I also liked the one where you are towing the Hemi Cuda ragtop. By any chance, did you take the Hemi ragtop to a major car craft or hot rod nationals in Indy in mid to late 80's. I was going to college in Indy and I drooled over a yellow ragtop 'Cuda. I think I have pictures of the show at my mom's apt in Venezuela

P.S. Luv your Hemi Charger MAN! I've shown the thread to many fmly members and friends.

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You mean like this, back in '86?

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...68b/ragtop.jpg

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So how did you come to own the Dart? I love hearing the stories behind these types of finds.

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You mean like this, back in '86?

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...68b/ragtop.jpg

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Exactly Steve! I will look for my pictures when I head back to Vzla. I remember looking at your car and daydreaming about restoring ours one day. Took us 19 yrs from that show. Wow...the thing is it doesn't seem that looong!

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Yup. There is a finite number of humans in the universe and they all seem to overlap after a while. It's that, or I'm some kind of time warp vortex that everybody on earth orbits around. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Case in point: I just found out one of my old friends from Florida now owns the Hemi Dart in his race car collection.

Somebody que the music! Today's theme song: It's a Small World After All!

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Steve, is the yellow Cuda the same car that was trailered home in that hellashes snow storm of a post a while back? Ron....

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I also remember seeing a photo of someone shoveling a Yellow car out of a snowstorm!ha

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Yes, that's the same car. If you hit the link in the first post you'll see some of those old photos.

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I think I'm the undisputed reigning champion of selling million dollar cars for hundreds of dollars!

https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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LOL! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif I'd say so! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

At least you'll have some cool stories to tell your grandkids someday https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif

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Rita,
My kids already think I'm senile. Why wait for the grandkids to confirm it.

I showed this photo to my kids while I was digging pictures out to post on the Moparts site.

They laughed hysterically and the boy says: "Nice hairdo, Dad!"

I responded proudly: "It's not a "hairdo"...it's a Mullet, Dammit...and it's your heritage!" https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif


http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/r...-6Cuda1985.jpg

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Steve, as Minnesota Viking Jared Allen would say, "A mullet isnt a hairdoo, its a lifestyle!"

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Posted some more "garage-find" photos of the Hemi Dart. Interesting comments from the experts over there about some of the parts that were early clues to the Landy connection - like the '69 grill and taillights.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...part=4&vc=1