Whither 1966 D Darts for Stock

Jeff Lee · 11-20-2008, 04:57 PM

Since my days of drooling over and memorizing the pages of the Direct Connection "Bible", I've always liked that package. Too bad it only came in the ugly '66 Dart. Man, there just no way I would want to show up in one of those! Now if they could sneak it by in a '66 Valiant, that might make it more aggreable. Homely but cute in a way. Of course I drive a Rambler product so what do I know about looks!
I don't think I would want to race a D Dart in SS/I against things like 340 Dusters for example. Basically in SS the D-Dart offers no more than more compression and a Holley carb over a 273/235 engine. Granted, that's significant but to be competitive it probably needs to loose 40+ HP. Could be possible, start your letter writing campaign for this winter's project!

bill dedman · 11-20-2008, 05:02 PM

This is a direct quote from a guy named "Paul Canizzaro" who say he worked on the D Dart project at Chrysler until it was finished. Paul says, "We argued that we should not produce a half-baked project, but somebody up there in the head office wanted the cars out there. Really it was cover your butt project. Though there are claims that 50 cars were produced in April of 66', the truth is about 25 or so were built. To this day, I have only seen (2) D-Darts race. "

That is from the web page that David Lee posted the URL for. Lots of imformation and pictures of D Darts there.

http://www.seriousviewers.com/D-Dart/ddart.htm

Check it out, if you're interested.

Bill

11-20-2008, 04:57 PM	#1
Jeff Lee VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Anthem, Arizona Posts: 2,766 Likes: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Whither 1966 D Darts for Stock Since my days of drooling over and memorizing the pages of the Direct Connection "Bible", I've always liked that package. Too bad it only came in the ugly '66 Dart. Man, there just no way I would want to show up in one of those! Now if they could sneak it by in a '66 Valiant, that might make it more aggreable. Homely but cute in a way. Of course I drive a Rambler product so what do I know about looks! I don't think I would want to race a D Dart in SS/I against things like 340 Dusters for example. Basically in SS the D-Dart offers no more than more compression and a Holley carb over a 273/235 engine. Granted, that's significant but to be competitive it probably needs to loose 40+ HP. Could be possible, start your letter writing campaign for this winter's project! __________________ Jeff Lee 7494 D/S '70 AMX

11-20-2008, 05:02 PM	#2
bill dedman VIP Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Conway, AR Posts: 1,739 Likes: 0 Liked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Re: Whither 1966 D Darts for Stock This is a direct quote from a guy named "Paul Canizzaro" who say he worked on the D Dart project at Chrysler until it was finished. Paul says, "We argued that we should not produce a half-baked project, but somebody up there in the head office wanted the cars out there. Really it was cover your butt project. Though there are claims that 50 cars were produced in April of 66', the truth is about 25 or so were built. To this day, I have only seen (2) D-Darts race. " That is from the web page that David Lee posted the URL for. Lots of imformation and pictures of D Darts there. http://www.seriousviewers.com/D-Dart/ddart.htm Check it out, if you're interested. Bill __________________ Bill

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