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Old 09-18-2017, 10:25 AM   #4801
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Old 09-18-2017, 11:34 AM   #4802
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I have a few I haven't posted Charlie. Problem is they are on my photobucket account.

Look close and see who can ID the first days of this car.
Dan Williams and John Perko, you guys can't comment...sorry...lol

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Thanks Pete. I think I got it now!!!. Only have a few hundred pics to input in my spare time..........
. Interesting as it has car craft all stars decal on back window , ex Landy car ?
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Old 09-18-2017, 01:28 PM   #4803
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Old 09-18-2017, 03:39 PM   #4804
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Yes it does. Good catch!!


Note also the trunk trim/molding is different. Maybe updating the car?



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Old 09-19-2017, 03:16 PM   #4805
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. Interesting as it has car craft all stars decal on back window , ex Landy car ?
We have a winner!!!!! It is an ex Landy factory Hem,i Dart, BUT, it is not the stick car as Charlie pictured below on the haul It is the automatic car.
Landy won the 1968 Car Craft All Star award and the decals were proudly displayed on the windows of his race cars.
Along with the rear window decal, there's are some other stuff that puts a signature to its first days.
As mentioned a 69 tail panel along with 69 tailites were installed to appease Chrysler to stay updated to current model year. But you notice the auto car has round side markers, while the stick car has no side markers. Not sure why the 68 stick car had its markers filled in without the 69's installed, or why the auto car was converted to a 69 but the 68 markers remained.
You will also note the wheel well trim on all corners. Dick first put trim on these cars because when he went to install slicks on one of them, the rough wheel well surgery done by Hurst cut the back of his hand.

It is also still wearing its Cragars, WITH the signature DLI spinners.

Also check out the b&M decals on side glass

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Old 09-19-2017, 03:47 PM   #4806
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I was looking at the Pennzoil stickers on the rear quarter windows!
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We will probably never find all of them. This one is still MIA:


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Old 09-19-2017, 04:01 PM   #4808
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Just playing with my new imgbb site.

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Some more playin"

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Old 09-19-2017, 06:50 PM   #4810
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You will also note the wheel well trim on all corners. Dick first put trim on these cars because when he went to install slicks on one of them, the rough wheel well surgery done by Hurst cut the back of his hand.



If I may, I'll add a little more about the wheelwell trim on the Landy cars.
I was in the teardown barn at Indy sometime in the later 70's tearing down a SS/AA car that I maintained. We did not win class, but had qualified for the eliminator, earning a teardown. The SS/AA winner and runner up arrived, one of them was Max Hurley. There was a significant commotion around Max's car even before they started getting the engine apart. Very shortly a Chrysler representative shows up at our car with a West Coast tech man in tow. Tech man is told to ask me what the wheelbase is on a SS Dart. He does, and I answer 111 inches. Tech man argues with me about that, says the factory super stockers were 108 like the Barracudas. He knows that because back in 1968 Dick Landy told him so, and all of Landy's Darts were 108. My reply was Max had owned his car all of these years and pretty much every other Dart was 111 inches why did you let Landy decide your specs.
They wanted to throw Max out for too long wheelbase.
It was common knowledge at the time that the rear wheelwell trim on Dick Landy's Darts (and other Landy cars also) were to cover his modified wheelbase.
The line about cut hands, and keeping the cars looking sharp for sponsors was just the smokescreen.
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