Dr. Clint Brunner is a proud owner of some great Mopar muscle cars, but nothing is as fascinating as a real deal LO23 Super Stock HEMI powered 1968 Dodge Dart. Check out the video we put together for his awesome lightweight drag car, and read more about the glorious A-body below.
As you saw in the video the 1968 Dodge HEMI Dart lived its entire life 1/4 mile at a time as the 80 Hurst LO23 Super Stock cars weren’t street legal, and this bad boy was drag raced since Day 1. The Mopar only had two owners prior Clint Brunner who acquired it in February of 2017, and it’s very well preserved. I know some of you would like to know why he replaced the correct 426 Super Stock HEMI engine. Here is what Dr. Brunner shared with me:
“I’ve always been fascinated by the legacy and mystique of the meanest drag car ever produced- the 1968 LO23 Hurst HEMI Dodge Dart. I like the thrill of taking an authentic factory drag car down our local drag strip, knowing I am re-living a piece of history as well as to run it along with my 2018 Dodge Demon, as the two fastest factory drag cars of their day, 50 years apart!”
Rod Waltjer, Greg Sheepstra and Wade Lardy of MuscleCar Creations along with Joe Foster of Kustom Joe’s helped a lot with the build. Clint is happy with the current performance of 1968 Dodge HEMI Dart, considering the engine is still being broken in. The plan for 2021 is to turn the dial all the way up to 10 with the trans brake, rev limiter and shift points, and dip into the 8’s as well as to paint the LO23 Dart in the first race livery that Dick Smith used; White with Red stripes.
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Did You See the Story of Ray Colclough’s 1968 Dodge Dart Drag Car?
https://hot-cars.org/2abc021/01/29/story-of-clint-brunners-1968-dodge-hemi-lo23-dart/