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EMBO Dart
Built by Emory Schneck of Detroit, MI
The EMBO racing team consisted of two members of the Detroit Miniature Race Car Association (DMRCA): Emory Schneck (EM-) and Bob Farmer (-BO). Best known for the matching pairs of Dooling .61 powered Dooling Arrows and their custom-built .19- and .29-size Dart mite cars (which strongly resembled small scale Dooling Arrows), the duo proved to be formidable competitors in the upper Midwest during the 1949-50 racing seasons.
Only four EMBO Dart cars were built: two each for Emory Schneck and Bob Farmer. Both Schneck and Farmer had a .19-powered Dart and a .29-powered Dart which they raced in addition to their Dooling Arrows. The car shown in the photos is Emory Schneck's personal McCoy 19 powered EMBO Dart.
Emory Schneck was employed by the Packard Motor Car Company as a pattern maker working in the model shop of the automotive manufacturing
plant located on Detroit's east side. Schneck was a skilled craftsman who designed the Dart, produced the patterns for the cast aluminum body and pan, and performed the machine work required to finish the car.
The car is powered by an early-1949 model McCoy 19 race car engine. A number of off-the-shelf items were utilized to complete the cars, such as a brass model aircraft fuel tank modified for use in a tether car, a pair of Scat Cat ball bearing front wheels and knife edge tires mounted on a Scat Cat front axle, and a pair of 3-inch diameter Veco semi-pneumatic rear tires and wheels. The drive gears from a Real McCoy (i.e. a 16-tooth pinion gear and a 28-tooth axle gear) were utilized along with a pan handle fabricated from stainless steel flying wire.
