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68 dodge dart pro stock


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Hi been working on this dart for a while and think its time to try and finish it. Bought as a glue bomb, stripped it and soaked it in oven cleaner which seems to work quite well. Decided to turn it into a pro stock using and parts binned most of the original parts. Opened up the boot or trunk depending what side of the world you live in and cut off the trim section to join the boot lid. Painted up the bonnet just to give me an idea of where this build is going. Next on the list is to finish modifying the roll cage to suit the body style. Cheers and thanks for looking Steve

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Looks cool I hope you dont mind me saying but it looks like your parachute mount is upside down and you scratch build a scoop like scoop on the red dart in joshl702 profile pic your car is definitely cool and I'm sorry if I offended you but just throwing out a few ideas

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Really nice start! I'll be watching this very closely. I like the idea of Pro Sportsman chassis under a Dart body, I might have to buy a Dart body and do something similar to this at some point, it looks so good.

But I have to say that this is not a Pro Stock car, it's more like a Pro Sportsman/Comp Eliminator or something like that. Pro Stockers have very limited rules and as this looks like it wouldn't fit into that category. ;)

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Hi Niko didnt really know what class to put it under as its still a work in progress. Todd it is the lapd comaro just using this motor for mock up as I dont want to supercharge. Cheers and thanks for all the feedback.

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This build could run in many classes, Pro Mod, Competition Eliminator, Super Comp, Super Gas, Super Street among others...but not Pro Stock as the body style must be approved and not older than 5 years for NHRA competition (and many other sanctioning bodies).

Over here in Europe the body style can be up to 10 years old, otherwise the rules are the same with one year delay for updates other than pure safety.

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Great looking build!!!! It would not be in the class of Pro Stock as the NHRA did not make this a official class until the 1970 season. If I'm not mistaken when the class started it had to be 1970 model year and previous years were not allowed. I ran a 1970 Challenger in 1971.72 & 73 in a class that was called Modified Production. It was a full on Race Car. It was basically one step above Super Stock and one step below Pro Stock. From what I recall that car could have run in Modified Production, However your build is far more sophisticated than what was available back in the day and would not be period correct. I would say no to even Modified Production.

I would go with some type of outlaw class or run what you brung. Not many High Rise Carbureted motors in Pro Mod anymore unless they are sprayed and that is even a rarity. Mostly Supercharged with the trend leaning towards Turbos on the bottle. You might say you are in a class of your own, in a good way!!! Again Great Build!! looking forward to following this one

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The manifold looks to come from the Revell Pro Stock Firebird kits.

There are still some carburated Pro Mod engines out there amongst the Super Charged and Turbo Charged engines in that class...they are large cubic inch mountain motors with sheet metal tunnel ram intake and dual carbs on Nitrous Oxide.

But as James says, this build is too sophisticated to pass as a "period car" as the Pro Stock (wich the car body is too old for) and Modified Production cars looked more like Super Stock cars with a more suped up engine back in the day...they didn't have tube chassis with roll cages and that wide tires so one of the more modern classes would be more suitable

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Hakan, When I ran Modified production we had to have a roll over hoop, diagonals from the hoop to the front toe board and diagonals to the floor in the rear under the package tray. We didn't have to have carpet or interior trim, if you didn't have trim on the doors you had to cover them with tin. You had to have two seats up front, stock dash, no seat in the rear. Super Stock had to have full on interiors, most of the people I knew did run a roll hoop but I don't know if it was required. Super Stock had to be a vehicle that could be street driven, where Modified Production did not. Not many SS guys drove them on the street other than those late night blasts down the street that had all the lights come on in the neighborhood, But I never did that :D

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