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

[njsteve]

Nothing like finding out you owned one of Dick Landy's cars long after you sold it!

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





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



and the odometer with 1/4 mile on it:

[njsteve]

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.

[MosportGreen66]

Amazing Steve. You have had some unbelievable Mopars!

[SS427]

Ding, ding, ding......YOU WIN!!!!

WHOOPS!!!

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

[njsteve]

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

[MrsBillyBobcat]

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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! I'd say so!

At least you'll have some cool stories to tell your grandkids someday

[gb70]

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

[njsteve]

Yup.
...and it was one the four speed cars to boot!

[njsteve]

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LOL! I'd say so!

At least you'll have some cool stories to tell your grandkids someday

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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!"

[budnate]

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.