"Landys' Last"  Dick Landy's  "Dart Sport" Pro Stocker.... Drag Racing Art

"Landys' Last" Dick Landy's "Dart Sport" Pro Stocker.... Drag Racing Art

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Limited-Edition Print of 500 (13x19) 
 Signed and numbered by the Artist. 
   
 In 1971, when The Dodge division of Chrysler was to release it's version of Plymouth's "Duster," the boys in the Marketing Department named it the "Beaver." Which begs the question, Why? 
 As soon as they learned that "Beaver" was slang for a certain female body part, they quickly came up with a new name, the "Dart Demon." This was accompanied by a logo of a little Red Devil with a pitch fork. Which begs another question, shouldn't someone in the "Marketing Department" have been fired by now? 
 So of course, this name went over like the proverbial "Lead Balloon" and in 1973 the car was again renamed, now the "Dart Sport." 
 In 173 "Dick Landy Industries" (DLI) built 4 "Dart Sport" Pro Stockers.  Two went back to the East Coast, the third was sold the Larry Huff and Landy kept the forth car. 
 These Darts were acid dipped bodies mounted on a Ke

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