This Never-Raced, Original LO23 Dodge Dart Is Going To Auction

mbaird said

My brother and his friend both had their cars featured in prominant magazines. Shawns was an ultra clean 67 Tempest Sprint 6 survivor and Toms was a 69 Corvette with a FAST class vibe to it ( looked stock ran 9s ).
When the magazine articlss came out both hadcrap they never said . Lol
They were like WTF ! I never said that!
Point is they take literary license.

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THATS exactly what happened here. Look how that click bait Dragzine article twists the info from the Mecum listing.

Horrible journalism and reading comprehension


From Mecum listing…

“ Back in 1977, this car was found at a car dealership in Pennsylvania by no less than the late Chrysler engineer Tom Hoover, who himself had led the Hemi engine’s initial development. Hoover in turn told Detroit’s Lou Mancini of the rare car then showing just 19.5 miles, which had an amateur custom paint job but had never been cut up nor updated to then-modern standards”

This one just didn’t get cut up like most of the actively campaigning in 1977 were. It did not say it was never raced! It did not say is was not cut at all. Just not cut like most were in 1977.

The tire rules and class rules changed a lot in very early 70’s. Most got tubbed and had more extensive roll cages put in them.

There are some now existing S/S cars that didn’t get these updates. Either they changed classes, didn’t run in classes competition, or parked.

The Mikey Weiss Dart is sorta like that. There’s others.