67 Dart GT Racecar Rescue
So the deal was, my friend was a hardcore street racer in the local scene 20 years ago, founding member of his local Mopars Unlimited chapter. In the 80s and 90s he built this car and won races with it.
But the thing was, he was a street racer. A serious one. And he had not one, but TWO BB-1 67 Dart GTs. The first one, which we'd looked at, was a 273 car with a manual body 904 and an upgraded 8 3/4, and he'd built it to be the perfect street cruiser.
"I called that car Baby," he told me, "and people used to always ask me, why do you call it that?"
"Because," he went on, "if they beat the baby car, I go home and get the racecar, and come back and ask for a rematch."
This was the secret. He had two cars, two BB-1 67 Dart GTs - one was a very hot streetable 273 car and the other was a rip-snorting built bigblock monster.
"383 bored and stroked out to 396, hemi cam and valvetrain on Stage 7 heads, manual valve body 727 with a hemi torque converter. Tunnel ram with a Holley 1150. We put it on the dyno and got 700hp at the rear wheels."
So the deal was, my friend was a hardcore street racer in the local scene 20 years ago, founding member of his local Mopars Unlimited chapter. In the 80s and 90s he built this car and won races with it.
But the thing was, he was a street racer. A serious one. And he had not one, but TWO BB-1 67 Dart GTs. The first one, which we'd looked at, was a 273 car with a manual body 904 and an upgraded 8 3/4, and he'd built it to be the perfect street cruiser.
"I called that car Baby," he told me, "and people used to always ask me, why do you call it that?"
"Because," he went on, "if they beat the baby car, I go home and get the racecar, and come back and ask for a rematch."
This was the secret. He had two cars, two BB-1 67 Dart GTs - one was a very hot streetable 273 car and the other was a rip-snorting built bigblock monster.
"383 bored and stroked out to 396, hemi cam and valvetrain on Stage 7 heads, manual valve body 727 with a hemi torque converter. Tunnel ram with a Holley 1150. We put it on the dyno and got 700hp at the rear wheels."