1966 Dodge D/Dart ~ 'Mystery, Myth and Misconception'

ddartdude said
I've never told the story of the car to any of the owners. So nobody knows.

So here is a brief history. The original owner, we'll call him "Andy", was in the service and stationed in the DC area. He bought the car from Banning Dodge (#3 of 3 the Banning received). Andy put the headers on the car and built himself a set of "stinger" header extensions for the occasional trip down the 1/4 mile at Aquasco Speedway. He was later transferred to a base in California where the car was relegated to daily driver status. He drove it over 70,000 freeway miles with the 4.86 gears in it, and no radio. He did remove the original headers (which I still have) because of the noisy exhaust leaks. In 1975 the car was registered in Oklahoma where it resided until I saw it in a Nov 1998 Hemmings Motor News. I bought it and kept it until June of 2007.

So added cash for race prominence? I doubt it. I can tell you this. It was one of 10 cars shipped on May 13.

Couple of weeks ago I was sitting at a local gathering talking with a friend of mine, Greg Peck and he shared with me that his dad had owned Mount Vernon Dodge. Got on the subject of the D Dart and he said he remembers the car from when he was a kid. He said it was in the shop quite often, remembers the lettering and remembers seeing the car over the years still with the Mount Vernon Dodge logo on the car. If you’d like to talk with him shoot me a PM and I’ll give you his number.