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01-30-2013, 01:50 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
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01-30-2013, 03:18 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
This car is probably the most untouched example of a LO car you will ever see.
kinda funky looking trackbars?? tho. liteweight 
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01-30-2013, 11:20 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
In 69 or 70, I bought a 57 Bel Air 2 door htp with a set of traction bars like that.
The mounts were welded to the axle and rear frame rails. Square tube steel on bushings / bolts and washers hanging from mount to mount. Noisy and rattling but when you dump the clutch, it pulled the rearend of the car down for weight transfer. Guess they outlawed them for some reason. |
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02-01-2013, 08:54 AM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
So, first Joe Ralph Thompson:
 Then Joe Tueton. Does that make this one the "JT" Dart? Last edited by Charlie A; 02-01-2013 at 08:58 AM. |
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02-01-2013, 02:13 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
one and the same
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02-04-2013, 09:28 AM
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 The one said to be in Kansas, that we would all love to see a recent picture of. Last edited by Charlie A; 02-04-2013 at 09:31 AM. |
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02-04-2013, 02:42 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
I finally found the January 2004 Mopar Collector's Guide that featured a story about a street racer who totalled out one of Max Hurley's original Hurst Hemi Darts.
   
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02-01-2013, 10:43 AM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
liteweight i think the traction bars were called that a leaf link?????
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02-01-2013, 03:17 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
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I believe the leaf link was developed by the boys involved with the Motown Missile P/S projects. I think the first one was installed in the 70 Challenger. If I remember the design correctly, basically the front spring segment was clamped together solid, & everything behind the axle was left unclamped. The clamps make the front of the springs a "solid lower link". There was a housing floater (so the housing floats on the spring) and a top link from a "four link" for location. liteweight |
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02-01-2013, 03:39 PM
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Re: Original hemi dart information
Don't remember if this has been here or not. Link to a book "Maximum Performance" with some Dart and Barracuda info and pics.
http://books.google.com/books?id=l3D...0built&f=false |
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