Posted By: dragram440
Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/08/14 10:37 PM
Anyone know who has a super sweet 68 Dart, silver in color and from Canada that was in Brainerd last weekend. I have some questions for him and thought maybe someone on here knows who they are. I have a pic of the car I will post shortly. Thanks in advance.
Posted By: dragram440
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/09/14 06:30 PM
It was a very sweet car. I just want to ask him a few questions about his tow rig.
Posted By: dragram440
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/09/14 07:38 PM
It could be. I just looked quick and was interested in his motorhome. It was the same as mine and he was towing a big trailer with it and I was curiuos how it pulled it.
Posted By: 71Plym
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/09/14 09:03 PM
That's Doug D from Winnipeg. Not certain if he is a member here.
Posted By: dragram440
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/09/14 11:13 PM
Any idea how to get a hold of him?
Posted By: PC-CHARGER
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/10/14 03:16 AM
No, Doug Doucette runs an A fuel dragster
Posted By: tubtar
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/10/14 03:47 AM
He is also a very astute collector , or good friends with one.
There is a local guy who used to be an engineer for Offenheuser back in the day and he had a Mr. Norm's Hemi Charger.
I met him at a local cruise deal and he showed me the headers with the Chrysler part number and I picked up on the electric fuel pump right away. Very nice car.
Fast forward a couple years and I am at his place delivering a few Chev motors ( he is now an AMC guy , with literally one of everything and all practically museum quality. )
His pole building sits over a quarter mile from his house and he paid for the paved driveway with part of the proceeds from selling the Charger.
The story I got was that Doug showed up at his house unannounced with another gentleman and asked about the car.
The guy was surprised because he never listed it and lives a pretty quiet , below the radar kind of life.
Ken told them it wasn't for sale.
They upped the ante by a nice chunk and he told them " I never considered selling it " and they upped the bid again.
It finally got to the point where he couldn't say no and they bought themselves a low mile original Mr. Norm's Hemi Charger and took it back to Winnipeg with them.
Posted By: 71Plym
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/10/14 10:43 PM
It was good news bad news weekend of Mike with the green Cuda. Ran an all time best 8.16, then burned a piston on the next run. Done for the weekend and went home on Saturday morning. Doug went home Sunday morning. I hung around with the 68 hemi Dart until Sunday afternoon.
Posted By: PC-CHARGER
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/11/14 04:29 AM
Hey Dave!!! We missed ya last weekend. We had Mike's car running pretty decent. Ran an 8.16 with a 1.19 60' and were spinning pretty hard off the line so I think we could have done better yet. If we hadn't torched #7 the plan was to step it up a bit on the second stage and maybe get that elusive 7 second pass. We were right in the thick of things as far as the competition and I believe we had a good chance and placing well but it wasn't to be. Headed over to Mike's on Saturday morning to do the autopsy.
As far as Dartly Daryl, he made a number of passes with a best of 10.43. I'm sure the 2700 DA wasn't helping him. We offered him a little blue bottle but he declined. He's already scheming on how to make it faster.
Posted By: quickd100
Re: Silver Dart from Canada in Brainerd last weekend - 07/11/14 04:36 AM
Rick I'd loved to have been there but getting the crop in was the priority. Would have loved to have made a pass next to Daryl and caught up with the Green Ba$tard gang. Hope the motor isn't hurt to bad. Dave
Dave