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Those cars MAY have spent most of their activity at tracks like New York National Speedway. I don't remember even seeing either one at Island, and I only went to E-Town for the first time in 71. Maybe they had already left the area by then. Were Brooklyn Heavy or Ron Lyles involved with a Cuda, as opposed to a Dart like the Speedwin car? Bill Rolik 1514 SS |
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09-22-2009, 09:06 PM | #83 |
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Figure I'll wade into Liteweight's thread here re NE based Hemi Darts/Barracudas (the cold beverages are on me next time we get together Liteweight!) since my dart has been mentioned a few times and there's a wealth of info coming out on this thread. It's the car that may be the Gene O'Neill 4 spd car. Here is the earliest pic from 83/84 that I know for sure is my car when it was for sale in Quebec (Reynald Prieur), it went to Nova Scotia (Richard Boyd), John Brown (Pennsylvania) and a few more collectors until I acquired it. It is a first run VIN car. Any of you NE folks recall a dart heading north back then and who may have owned it?
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09-23-2009, 06:08 AM | #84 |
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I'm sure Steve O'Neill (flintstonecharger) will have something to add here....I realize that's a B&W photo, but do you have any idea of car color combo in that pic? Thanks. Best wishes. WJ
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09-23-2009, 09:19 PM | #85 |
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Hi WJ, the guy from Nova Scotia who bought this car thru this ad in the Auto Trader in Quebec thought it was yellow with red/blue stripes when he bought it/. He repainted it orange and lettered it mopar magic.
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Thanks....flintstonecharger is up in Maine on a little vaca....w/out a computer. You'll be hearing from Steve soon as he gets home, I'm sure. Best wishes. WJ
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Flintstone Charger (Steve) W J (Parachute Jumper; a/k/a Hemi Sky-Diver) MarK J (Hemi Professor) Very Good Hemi Hunting to you. Bill, Nice posting on that white Cuda, Park Chrysler-Plymouth. Looks like a Dana-rear, another 4-speed. Look out, here comes another flying driveshaft. Steve (FlintstoneCharger). Great photos of the Flintstone Charger at Dover 5/22/66 versus "Doc" Burgess, Black Arrow. The first time out for Doc in an Hilborn-injected engine. The "Flintstone Charger" blew the hood off the car earlier in the day. Ran later with no hood. Great close-ups of both cars on the line. 10.80's on a cold day. W J... Southern-Connecticut dealer for Gene O'Neill's Dart, with help from Bill Flynn. Possible, Chorches Motors, Manchester, CT (just east of Hartford). Or, another Hamden. This one located in southern-Connecticut (just north of New Haven, Bill Flynn's home-base). Was there a Hamden Dodge, Connecticut? Mark J (Professor). Last I heard of "Playmate II" it ended up in a little town in Eastern, PA (Greentown, PA). But that was many moons ago. Charlie Lendrum's Dart kind of vanished into the sunset. Paul |
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George Baptiste bought an original UNCUT '68 Hurst Hemi Barracuda from some street racer-type who ran afoul of the law and (unfortunately) cut it up into a race car back in the very early 1990s.
The car was purchased from someone in the northern New Jersey area. It saw very limited strip action (and possibly street?) and sat for years until George found out about it and purchased it sometime in the 1980s. From what I was told, the 'Cuda was so original Chrysler Corp. offered to purchase the car back but George declined. I am only relating what I was told about 18 years ago and cannot verify this story's accuracy. Btw, is George still around? I'd like to hear the story from him! M68 Last edited by mopar68; 09-25-2009 at 02:32 AM. |
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Lou Centolanza ran his 'Cuda sometime in the mid-1970s up to at least 1977.
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