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dartindanno

dartindanno

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After my crash 2 weeks ago I thought it would be years before I'd get back to a running car. Well I joined a Facebook group last Friday afternoon called Mopar Drag Cars and saw a car for sale that grabbed my interest real quick. After a few messages and a phone call I was headed to Michigan the next day with trailer in tow. Picked up another 70 Dart, 340, 727 with reverse manual, 10 point cage, tubbed with 4:56 gears
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Mind if I ask hat did ya hit? it looks like you may have been drag racing slid sideways and hit the wall?
 
Drag racing and either something from my car or something on the track broke the tires loose and turned me into the wall
 
Yes, that damage is unique, i can tell it didn't happen on the street or should I say it looks like a "wall hit". Let it sit for a while I'm sur it can be fixed.
 
Sorry about the purple car but good to see you on the road to recovery. The new one looks tough!
Are you planning to swap the new motor over to the new car and then fix the purple car?
 
Always good to have a dedicated race car 'one that is not so rare like a 340 car' so that you don't keep destroying real rare muscle cars. It's not a brag to have a 340 car at the strip, its a liability...it's stupid.
Go get some slant car to go race in and wreck 'hopefully not'. What you did was like wearing a tuxedo to a mud wrestling contest...like using fine china plates as frisbees. Aside from some special nostalgia g stock/a stock race....it makes no sense to bring those cars into the aisle a walls..
 
It’s hard to keep a racer down for long. When I wrecked my Daytona in 2010 it was late September. I had bought a 1970 duster (the black one I race now) three years before and I was letting my son race it. That day I told my son he better get motivated on his duster over the winter because I would be racing the duster next year. Lol.
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
Always good to have a dedicated race car 'one that is not so rare like a 340 car' so that you don't keep destroying real rare muscle cars. It's not a brag to have a 340 car at the strip, its a liability...it's stupid.
Go get some slant car to go race in and wreck 'hopefully not'. What you did was like wearing a tuxedo to a mud wrestling contest...like using fine china plates as frisbees. Aside from some special nostalgia g stock/a stock race....it makes no sense to bring those cars into the aisle a walls..
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I think you're putting the cart before the horse my friend. Neither of these cars are original 340 cars, they are both 318 cars from the factory. The new one has a 73 340 but thanks for your awesome condescending rant. Carry on
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
Always good to have a dedicated race car 'one that is not so rare like a 340 car' so that you don't keep destroying real rare muscle cars. It's not a brag to have a 340 car at the strip, its a liability...it's stupid.
Go get some slant car to go race in and wreck 'hopefully not'. What you did was like wearing a tuxedo to a mud wrestling contest...like using fine china plates as frisbees. Aside from some special nostalgia g stock/a stock race....it makes no sense to bring those cars into the aisle a walls..
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sorry but I disagree on this. Where would drag racing be today if everyone thought this way. Keystone just had a Nostalgia Race last weekend and there was probably a couple million dollars of “old iron” on the track racing. People came from 100’s of miles away for the two day event. Every weekend at Pa and Ohio tracks these cars are going at it. Drag stripes across the nation would have boarded up their doors back in the 1980’s if these cars weren’t being raced.
 
gzig5 said:
Sorry about the purple car but good to see you on the road to recovery. The new one looks tough!
Are you planning to swap the new motor over to the new car and then fix the purple car?
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Yes, the engine and trans in the purple Dart will go in the green Dart since both engine and trans are new builds. The purple one? Not sure yet, we'll start pulling the crumpled mass of metal apart to assess the damage
 
dartindanno said:
After my crash 2 weeks ago I thought it would be years before I'd get back to a running car. Well I joined a Facebook group last Friday afternoon called Mopar Drag Cars and saw a car for sale that grabbed my interest real quick. After a few messages and a phone call I was headed to Michigan the next day with trailer in tow. Picked up another 70 Dart, 340, 727 with reverse manual, 10 point cage, tubbed with 4:56 gears
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Good luck with the "new" car. Hang on to the other one....ya never know.
 
Mine is an original 340 car. I have no problem racing it. I will not cut up any of them though to take weight out. Slant/318/340 doesn’t matter to me. I’m just a custodian of them. Just my personal opinion. Glad you are back at it and didn’t get hurt!
 
pittsburghracer said:
sorry but I disagree on this. Where would drag racing be today if everyone thought this way. Keystone just had a Nostalgia Race last weekend and there was probably a couple million dollars of “old iron” on the track racing. People came from 100’s of miles away for the two day event. Every weekend at Pa and Ohio tracks these cars are going at it. Drag stripes across the nation would have boarded up their doors back in the 1980’s if these cars weren’t being raced.
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I couldn't agree more! 2 weeks ago I attended the annual Dover Drags Nostalgia Race at Lebanon Valley. The place was packed! Awesome 3 day event and there was a little bit of everything there, gassers, funny cars, dragsters, door slammers. Hundreds of muscle cars. I will definitely attend each year moving forward. I absolutely disagree with what MOPAROFFICIAL said.
 
My buddy has been beating on his original Hemi car for going on 50 years. He raced it last Saturday and although some of us are getting up in age it still run through our blood
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pittsburghracer said:
sorry but I disagree on this. Where would drag racing be today if everyone thought this way. Keystone just had a Nostalgia Race last weekend and there was probably a couple million dollars of “old iron” on the track racing. People came from 100’s of miles away for the two day event. Every weekend at Pa and Ohio tracks these cars are going at it. Drag stripes across the nation would have boarded up their doors back in the 1980’s if these cars weren’t being raced.
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I understand where you're coming from that's why my post could read get a second or third read over because I said nostalgia racing. Brother...The 80s were 40 years ago.
Let me put this in perspective pretend it's 1980....and a Model T with a mountain motor in it goes racing down the drag strip and hits the wall. Because it's 2021.. and seeing a really nice 340 Dart hit the wall is like someone ripping one of my teeth out of my head
 
i think it was Shelby said "It can be fixed, it's just metal and paint"
 
pittsburghracer said:
My buddy has been beating on his original Hemi car for going on 50 years. He raced it last Saturday and although some of us are getting up in age it still run through our bloodView attachment 1715799184
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I get it if it's a car you've been racing since that era and you're that old, I totally get it.

But to be some 30 or 40 year old guy looking for a numbers 340 car and taking it straight to the drag strip to put it into the wall ...well I said my opinion.
I'd rather race a slant car with a motor swap than destroy a 340 car.
Anyhow to each his own.
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
I understand where you're coming from that's why my post could read get a second or third read over because I said nostalgia racing. Brother...The 80s were 40 years ago.
Let me put this in perspective pretend it's 1980....and a Model T with a mountain motor in it goes racing down the drag strip and hits the wall. Because it's 2021.. and seeing a really nice 340 Dart hit the wall is like someone ripping one of my teeth out of my head
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so old cars that are special to someone shouldn't race? f that...
better not tell em' at T.R.O.G.
 
dartindanno said:
I think you're putting the cart before the horse my friend. Neither of these cars are original 340 cars, they are both 318 cars from the factory. The new one has a 73 340 but thanks for your awesome condescending rant. Carry on
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My rant or yours?lol
That's your own fault for not being clear. You state it's a 340 727 car. You don't say that it's not an original 340 car.
I was pretty clear with what I said in regards to other cars. Enjoy!
 
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