BO 29 cars
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I got an email from a guy that has an original Bill of Sale from a Dodge Dealership. I knew this Dealership sold one LO Hemi Dart in 1968 for sure but this invoice is for a BO 29 Hemi Barracuda. All this information is for a BO29 sold new in Ontario, Canada. Was there any restrictions on what Dealerships could sell BOs or LOs. I know it is just a push of a pen to order from a box, but why would someone travel 40 miles to a Dealership to order a Race car that was not even the Brand of the car selling there.
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Re: BO 29 cars
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I got an email from a guy that has an original Bill of Sale from a Dodge Dealership. I knew this Dealership sold one LO Hemi Dart in 1968 for sure but this invoice is for a BO 29 Hemi Barracuda. All this information is for a BO29 sold new in Ontario, Canada. Was there any restrictions on what Dealerships could sell BOs or LOs. I know it is just a push of a pen to order from a box, but why would someone travel 40 miles to a Dealership to order a Race car that was not even the Brand of the car selling there.
Perhaps he was close friends with or related to the salesman he used to order the B029 through at the Dodge dealership, or drank with the the parts guy at the Dodge dealership..or... If the dealership involved is Annondale Dodge and Rod was involved, well,...you know Rod....he could do almost anything.
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Re: BO 29 cars
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I know this Dodge Dealership quite well Mccannix and you and I stood on the property together after the Dealership was shut down. This BO29 Car is a well known Canadian 1968 Hemi Barracuda. As you know many went to the pick up their Hemi A Bodies in person and this is how the Barracuda made it into his posession. The car to be picked up was to be and Automatic car but ended up being a stick. Maybe when you picked up your car from Chrysler you did not have to go back to the dealership with it in person. The LO Hemi Dart that was sold new from this same Dealership was shipped to the Dealer and picked up there. I have talked to a few salesmen and mechanics that worked at this Dealership and none have ever stated about the sale of a BO29 Hemi Barracuda but told me about a Hemi Four Door Coronet and also a 1968 LO Hemi Dart. Next time get were Rod worked correctly in that time period of the early Seventies, that was Ontario Chrysler, he later work at Annadale Dodge and then at the Dealership in Courtice.
So what I am asking Mccannix, did Chrysler Canada put some kind of limits on what Dealership could sell the 1968 Super Stock cars. This original owner of the Baracuda said there were only two BO29s that came to Canada. Do not know if that is true or not, but maybe out of the batch of cars his came from only two came to Canada.
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Re: BO 29 cars
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The one in Ontario, just changed hands a few weeks ago, still in original condition with 14 miles on it. BO29
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Moparo on another thread he mentioned the car you stated sold lately. I new of that Hemi Barracuda Race Car but could never get the guy I knew that grew up with the owner to go over and talk to him. It has been 20 years since this person told me about the Barracuda Race Car from Welland. I new this car was fling under the Radar but the owner new what he had. He also told me about an A12 that was sold new in Welland and the guy that bought that car new Father owned a Foreign car Dealership. I think this car a Super Bee might be the one Scott R. owns now. For the great size of Ontario, Canada nothing can stay hidden for ever.
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Re: BO 29 cars
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I don't mean to derail this thread, but DAMN some of you guys are a wealth of information. You guys should write a book or three. SERIOUSLY, preserve this knowledge for future generations.
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Re: BO 29 cars
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Talk to Mark before and he tries to keep up to date on a lot of these cars. When I use to care more about these cars and wanted to buy one 30 plus years ago, I believe there were kind of three lots of BO29 Barracudas and two lots of LO29 Darts. This means that most of these cars are sequenced or in a row via the serial numbers and even the SO numbers are sequenced in a row or the ones I saw were. Most of us back in the day never thought this Hobby would reach this kind of level. Going fast on the street and on the track and both mattered a lot more than how Chrysler build a car. Most in the olds day modified everything that Chrysler did, motors, transmission, change the rear end gears, modified the suspension, took a ton of weight out of their cars. It was tough to go 9s or 10s without doing this to a Mopar. I can remember going to the Dealership on Fridays after being paid to pick up what you ordered the week before and then going to your speed shop on Saturday to do the same thing with aftermarket parts you had ordered and then start putting the stuff on you car for the street races on Saturday night and the track on Sunday. Those were the years when people actually wanted their cars to be faster than the next guy and used them to the fullest, those were the fun years.
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