1969 Race Dart w/ 426 Hemi- garaged for 45+ years

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Wow what a series of events hauling the car. I am glad it all worked out in the end, the final result is outstanding.

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With the Dart, before I know it winter will be here, so I would not be cruising it around anyway..............................

The time frame of the build is going well and a lot better than some others that take years to get a project together, so absolutely no complaints about the process.
 
HemiDenny said:
while we wait for the dyno run.....here is why I love life on the glory trail.

here is the Horizon (pictured above) last May. I flew to California to meet Steve Atwell and ride back to Detroit with the freshly repaired horizon in tow. We were honkin along @ around 80 mph as we entered New Mexico on I-40 and encountered a giant "BUMP" sign and a few whoop-de-dos in the pavement. As we recovered in our air ride seats from the the third crater Steve looked in the rear view mirror and calmly remarked..."we lost the trailer" I asked him what he sees and once again he calmly replied ...."a big cloud of dust". To add a degree of difficulty as we idled on the slanted side access waiting to re-hook to the trailer, the hauler lost prime, no big deal, it was only 113 degrees in the desert sun After a roll back got the trailer out of the center median, the driver transported me twice to a truck stop 10 miles down the road with a 5 gal can to retrieve diesel to attempt a re-fire. After removing and filling the fuel filters and going thru a case of starter fluid / spray to re-prime the fuel system, Steve was forced to call the big hook and were towed to the truck stop to get the fuel system re-primed and back on the road.

out of the 4 trailer tires / spare we only blew 2 of them when the trailer came off. We made it back to Detroit on one axle , 2-tires...and a good spare.

as I told my wife when I reported the days activities....there is excitement around every turn.

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Holy smokes, that is just crazy. You should have bought lottery tickets while you were waiting to get primed. The fact it was literally unscathed is a miracle. Wow, just wow.
 
HemiDenny said:
that is what it looked like BEFORE the MoParty crash. The Horizon is currently being restored....again, and knowing Steve Atwell will race it again.
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That's a very cool piece of history.
Fortunately I have a 85 duster my boss just got me for free and I'd like to build a tube chassis car out of it. So maybe when I'm ready I could get some pictures from you as I have hardly any idea of what's under the body panels lol
 
sorry for the hi-jack.....now back to our regularly scheduled program.
 
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