Original hemi dart information

[Charlie A]

Just read Jerry Flippo has passed.


RIP sir.

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by savoy

Could someone tell me what height/width tires are on "lite weight" car as shown in the rearend photo? Thanks in advance.

M/T ET Streets. 31X16.5 on 12" rims

liteweight

[savoy]

Thank you for that information. Does the car have a standard B body dana or does it have shortened axels? The reason I ask is the look is fantastic and I would like to duplicate it on my Hemi Dart clone. Some of us poor folk can't afford the real thing! Thank you again.

[Liteweight]

Your very welcome. Glad I could help.
The Dana is cut to 51" Axle to axle and came out of a 1976 Ford F250. Cheap cheap cheap to buy compared to an original Mopar OEM car Dana and they are everywhere. Bonus if you get the gearing and diff lock with it. I put a spool in this one.
Savoy, just to clear things I not be independantly wealthy. I be blue collar mechanic with dirty fingernails and scars on my knuckles to prove it...lol

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[SSSwede]

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[savoy]

Thank you. Do appreciate the update. I think back to the early 80's when I took a car trailer to Edmonton Alberta to look at a L023 car...and didn't; buy it. I still remember the price...$17500. Wish I had a time machine. Thanks again for the update. Great looking car.

[savoy]

Thank you. Do appreciate the update. Before I retired I too was a man with callouses on my hands. I think back to the early 80's when I took a car trailer to Edmonton Alberta to look at a L023 car...and didn't; buy it. I still remember the price...$17500. Wish I had a time machine. Thanks again for the update. Great looking car.

[marfen]

that would have been the Demented Dart...I believe there may be an old Auto Trader ad for that car posted near a long time ago in this thread. Do you recall if it was red way back then? Don't feel bad 17500 back then would have been a ridiculous amount few would pay in the early 80s.

[savoy]

Actually the car was advertised in the back of a hotrod magazine. It was supposedly the one that hot rod tested in some back issue. The car was light green if I recall with the old geometric graphics popular in the 70's. I think the car ended up in Arkansas or Alabama if I recall correctly but not sure of that. The car had a snorkel hood of some sort, a detuned hemi, and was generally as wavy as the ocean. Back then I had no clue what to look for, at, or even what a hemi dart was! I just wanted a car to run on the street and make noise. Still remember that when I walked away the guy just whined about what was he going to do now as he needed the cash. Sigh.....

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by savoy

Actually the car was advertised in the back of a hotrod magazine. It was supposedly the one that hot rod tested in some back issue. The car was light green if I recall with the old geometric graphics popular in the 70's. I think the car ended up in Arkansas or Alabama if I recall correctly but not sure of that. The car had a snorkel hood of some sort, a detuned hemi, and was generally as wavy as the ocean. Back then I had no clue what to look for, at, or even what a hemi dart was! I just wanted a car to run on the street and make noise. Still remember that when I walked away the guy just whined about what was he going to do now as he needed the cash. Sigh.....

I remember digging up some pictures of a LO23 that matches that description. They are posted in this topic somewhere. Be interested to know where that car went for real as there are still some not accounted for.

Check the pictures at end of page 390. I'll move the pictures to your post tomorrow if you think it is the same car you looked at.