Original hemi dart information

[Hemi Moose]

Liteweight, I don't know anymore details on it, maybe Mark J or Paul C may know, I seen old photos of it a few years ago and thought the car was from that area...anyway how did your search go on the Manhattan Speed Shop 68 Hemi Dart go, did you find anything out.

[FED 387]

got a buddie of mine kinda a Great Lakes drag strip history buff will ask him about the Balzekas car this weekend---

[68hemiss]

I am familiar with this car but have had problems identifying the original owner - the photos are mine (I own the negatives - probably from an earlier search of mine from years ago). Great Lakes Dragaway is about 20 min. from my house and I have shown these to many of the old racers if that era and no one seems to remember the car. I contacted a Hemi Dart owner in the Chicago area about 10+ years ago that confirmed that the Dart is the car he had. It was green with lace. Supposedly the car was run for a year and then sold - racing mostly at US 30 Dragway in IN. I have an old for sale ad from late 68- early 69 when someone named Jim was selling a Hemi Dart in Chicago - possibly this same car. Possibly Jimmy Evans?? I belive that I know where the car is now but a few of the newer owners have been difficult getting info from - I think they tried throwing me off the trail. I am not sure that is the correct dealer name- I have it in my notes somewhere but it was a cross-town rival of Grand-Spaulding Dodge.
Mark J
1968 Hemi S/S Registry

[mopar68]

(Woody Delbridge photo)

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by mopar68

(Woody Delbridge photo)

Car #14 and #19,,, 2 Hemi Darts? Wonder who the other car in the photo is?
Danny Durham

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Geerhead55

Car #14 and #19,,, 2 Hemi Darts? Wonder who the other car in the photo is?
Danny Durham

Welcome back M68. Been missing your great pictures for awhile

Strange cars, with strange designation/ classes being numbers.
No side glass on them
front wheels are spindle mount, no brakes
Looks like a 69 car tho


liteweight

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Liteweight

Welcome back M68. Been missing your great pictures for awhile

liteweight

Someone noticed. Thanks.

M68

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by FED 387

got a buddie of mine kinda a Great Lakes drag strip history buff will ask him about the Balzekas car this weekend---

Any update FED387

liteweight

[FED 387]

not yet he was outta town this weekend will get with him tonite==FED387

[JCShiels]

I don't get to this site as much as I would like (I am not supposed to use my work computer, even on my own time or at lunch) but I saw Paul's post with the blow-up proof Ramchargers engine that Rick Kent put in his dart. Tim and Bob had a Ramchargers engine in their Wild Fire Dart when I first went to work at Town and Country Dodge in 1969. shortly before they sold the car (1970?) they broke an exhaust valve destroying the cylinder head and the piston in that hole. They re-installed the original Hemi, and that was the engine in the car when they sold it. They let me keep the intake valve from the cylinder that went bad; it had a hole punched through the valve head between the stem and the rim. I wish I had kept track of it, I think it was tossed out when my parents moved. They later repaired the Ramchargers engine and built an early Dart (1964?) gasser. But that is another story.
JIm Shiels