A few more.This is just a small sample of the ones I can share with you all.You'd freak out over the ones I can't post.
Butch Leal sold the the car and tow truck to Mr Norm. The car just barely arrived back in Chicago and Rich Mouldry, a mechanic for Grand Spaulding and also travelled with Gary Dyer, decided to take the car to the south side and street race it. He lost control of the car and it flew over the bank of the Calumet river and landed in a tree. Mouldry left the sceen as the cops showed up. The police later told Mr Norm "Someone must of dropped it out of a plane because there was a parachute attached to it" True Story.....................
This was originally an A990 car and Gary Dyer altered the wheel base at the Grand Spaulding shop. Later the front axle was moved forward also. This shot was taken at U.S.30 Dragway in Gary, Indiana
Talk about your backyard-built cars, Al cobbled this up in a week to match race Gas Ronda back in '65. He ran a dual-carb 426 to start, but soon went to injected nitro as seen here. This car also started the Flying Dutchman tradition of green paint and red headers. He sold the car at the end of '65 (to build the long wheelbase Dart) to a bunch of kids in Michigan, who raced it for a year, then pulled the motor to put in an altered, and junked the remainder. It was rough, to be kind, so not much of a loss. Still, if I won the PowerBall, I'd think about buying a Savoy and building a clone.
There is an artical covering the build of this car back in the day in either Car Craft or Popular Hot Rodding. It was crude but it is COOL!! I have a true Al Vanderwoode story. He was a practical joker and was always playing jokes on his buddys at the track. One time after a race the boys met at a truck stop for dinner. Toward the end of the dinner Al said he was going to pick up the tab and he bet Mr Norm that he would be down the road and back on the freeway before him. While Al was picking up the check Norm went to the parking lot and loosened the pin on Als parrachute as they used open trailers at that time. They took off down the road and Al laughed as he passed up Mr Norm and Gary Dyer. Not long after that Vanderwoodes chute popped out and then Norm got the last laugh as he passed him by on his way to the freeway!
Theres your answer on what to do with that 63 Dart you have bigdad. Clone the Dutchmans car. Did you know he was married to a girl from out by Norway Center?
That'll work! Of course that's Al standing by the car in the first shot you sent. Funny thing is that I never actually met him until I started working on the revived Flying Dutchman in 2000 and by that time he was confined to an electric scooter; I was shocked to see how tall he was in pictures! Next Gen: We were talking about altered-wheelbase Mopars, but maybe this is going too far! straightaxle65: Both Al and Doris were from SD.
Someone told me he was related to him some how .. My car is a 65 Valiant .. Have several others but no Darts like the fronts, tail lights .. yuk
I didn't know Jay Miner hacked up his 990 back then. We raced against him at Lebanon Valley. I always like the '64 Plymouth and first '66 Dart of Vanderwoode. I didn't care for the hacked roof model. My Dart is a '65 and I hate the front end of it. I've got a guy on the west coast who has a set of NOS '66 fenders I'm 'renting' to make tools from to build some stock and altered wheelbase carbon fiber ones from, I may do a stretched nose version as well. I was going to use a leaf spring front axle; but seeing the cut-a-way of Bud Faubels' '66 funny on this thread I see he used a coil sprung straight axle. As it happens, I've got a coil spring straight axle I took from a '68 Dodge Charger funny car my buddy torched up a couple of years ago, so I may just use that in the Dart. That would help keep it looking different than all the early Chev 2's running around with the leaf sprung front ends. I've been thinking of doing my Dart with Green stripes kind of in between the Dutchman style and BeeBee& Mulligans' colors.
This is a picture of a A.W.B my dad has. I thought when he got it .It had DUMBO on the side of it with and elephant on it.and I think the car came out of California
I saw that car a year or two ago. Charlie Allen was one of the greats of Mopar racing back in the day. I never saw that car back then, the first thing of his I ever saw was his '66 Dart. They make a model of his '69 Dart funny. Charlie Allen owns Firebird Raceway these days out in Phoenix.
I know this is not an A/FXer but it is cool nun the less. This was owned by the Grand Pubah of Thunder Valley Dragways, Mr Glenn Rapp
What town in SD was Al from?[/quote] Vander Woude was from Sioux Falls, if I remember correctly. BTW, storm king: The LWB "roadster" Dart (dark green) followed the '64 Savoy, and the shorter Dart (light green) was built for the '67 season. I sure hope the front end your friend "torched up" didn't look like this one (his '68 and '69 ride)!
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