Original hemi dart information

[Paul Ceasrine]

Wiley Cossey at OCIR in 1969.

[Troy]

Does anybody know anything about this BO?? Just popped up on Ebay few days ago.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/RARE-...orcev4exp=true

[Troy]

Hello, I'm new here and I would like to introduce myself. My name is Troy Bray and I'm out of California. For years I worked at Westoaks Chrysler and I headed up the performance program for many years. I supplied many of the Stock/Super Stock racers with there parts. Needless to say SS/AH is my favorite class to watch. I spent many hours with Bob Lambeck, Dick Landy, the Defrank family and the Smith Family at Pro Trans. I even worked at Pro Parts with Bill Bagshaw....these were fun times!!

I have been following these cars for over twenty five years. I'm not so much into the history of the people who raced them....or when these cars were in race trim. What peeks my interest is the way these cars were built and how they left Hurst. I know that most of these cars didn't even run....Bill Bagshaw picked up his car and the headers were in the trunk because they would not even bolt up to the engine. Because of this a few years ago I built a "As Delivered" clone Dart. I did not have the money for a real BO or LO and I wanted to drive this thing without any worries about somebody crashing into a piece of history. I have spent hundreds of hours trying to figure how they did it back those days...how they cut the wheel wells....cut down the steering column and that funky exhaust....what were they thinking??!!!??

Anyways I just wanted to say hi and thanks. Thanks for all the hard work that it takes to keep a thread like this going. There is so much history in this thread and it is truly priceless information.

Here are a few pictures of my street car and thanks again.

[flintstonecharger]

Originally Posted by Charlie A

Or this?

I am pretty sure Plaything is Chick Brignolo's car,he bought car new from Mr. Morm,he still has it,now it is painted black.

[Paul Ceasrine]

Correct,,,,

Chick Brignolo,,,,,,,Norton, Massachussets

Frame Specialist.........still has.......Chick Brignolo's Chassis

Ran at;
* New England Dragway
* Connecticut Dragstrip
* New York National Speedway
* Orange Dragstrip

[Charlie A]

Original owner Hemi Dart !!!!!

Now that, is cool.

[hemid68]

Has anybody posted any pictures of the Musgrave & Sullivan Wayne County Speed Shop Hemi Dart? I'm not even sure it was an "original" Hemi Dart, ( I'm sure Mark J knows) because when I used to see it run at Coles County Dragway, I believe it was running Modified Production (late 60's early 70's). It was a big part of the reason my Dart has red wheels. I used to see there black Dart with gold wheels, and thought that was "cool", but I liked red better, so I used it.

Coles County was a little 1/8 mile out in the middle of no-where Illinois basically, but a lot of Hemi cars ran there. Besides seeing Wayne County's Dart, Lloyd McVey's Invader ran there a lot, Billy Fritz ran a '68 Hemi Cuda there a lot, plus all the other Hemi cars around there.

As far as I know, it is still in operation. A funny side note, I wasn't old enough to drive, so a time or two, I rode over there, from Terre Haute, IN, in an original '68 Hemi GTX, that my friend Chris Sanders raced, and still races.
Anyway, enough story telling for now!!
Dan

[Liteweight]

Hey Dan
Thanx for sharing. Keep it coming bud.

If I remember correctly this is the old Wayne County car. Notice the drooped front fenders from when it was running Pro stock. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It's been known to happen on occasion

liteweight

[hemid68]

That is probably correct. I think that Joe Holmes, in Carbondale, IL (who I bought my car from, setting in his "junkyard"), had that car at one time. I actually got chewed out by Joe, because he didn't recognize me, when I went in there a couple of years after I got my car from him, and he thought I was going to lean on the acid dipped doors! I wasn't going to, but when I got close, he started growling!!! That was Joe.

Joe was friends with Jim Van Zee, and I think that the car went to
Van Zee in Iowa, if I remember correctly, isn't "Fast Eddie" from Iowa also, and it says Van Zee on the quarter .

Anyway, if anybody has any pictures of the car when it was Wayne County Speed Shop, with the gold Fenton Gyro wheels, I'd like to see them, for old times sake. If they are already on this thread, and somebody knows where they are, just let me know, and it will save somebody doubling up.
Thanks,
Dan

[Charlie A]

No Fentons but here's the car: