Early Hemi history

[bentpshrods]

  While being bored and surfing the internet I came upon this site. It has a pretty interesting story on the early year (1964) hemi history and some cool shots of Richard Petty's A-body cuda drag car. With the image the word HEMI brings now it is kinda neat to see/hear about the begginings of a legend.        http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/mmo12007.html 

[tactransman]

A Lot of info there.

[Jacksboys]

Quote from the article "
The car was booked at various tracks well into the 1965 season. On February 28, 1965, 43/JR was scheduled for a best of three match race with Arnie Beswick at Southeastern Dragway in Dallas, Georgia. Dallas is northwest of Atlanta about 300 miles from Randleman. During one of the runs against Beswick a front suspension part broke sending the uncontrollable Barracuda off the strip and into the crowd of spectators. Several people were injured and one 8 year old boy named Wayne Dye was killed. Richard was okay but he and the family were devastated. JR was hauled home to the Petty junk yard in the woods behind the shops never to run again. "


Southeastern Dragway finshed its last season in 1996.  Last time I looked, something was being built in its place.  That sucks because that was one of the main places I use to race.      

[Black340]

Very good information..thank you

[RusTy/SE]

Intersting read, thanks

[Challenger6pak]

Thanks for the link.  Very interesting. In my experience there is a good group of guys on the 62-65 webboard. They helped me alot when I was working on a 64 Dodge.