Original hemi dart information

[mopar68]

This is what I know of the car so far.Lou Vignona said he purchased it from some guy in Mt.Kisco(Cisco??) N.Y in the early 80's.It was in an underground parking lot of some apartment complex.The guy told Lou that it was Charlie Castaldo's Auto. car. I have since found out that it is not Castaldo's car thru talking to one of Charlie's crew members at the time by the name of Charlie Licata.

There has to be some Charlie Castaldo connection. First you have the guy Lou bought the car from telling him that, and then in this thread Jimi Vignona relating to us seeing the Charlie Castaldo name on the doors (beneath the paint) when the car was in his dad's garage. That can not be dismissed. There has got to be some connection...maybe just the doors are from one of Castaldo's Darts? Maybe Charlie had a third Dart? I dunno.

As far as "two scoop Lido" is concerned, from the best of my knowledge in order to be a participant at a Bracket Finals race you had to finish in the Top 10 at your track. If that is true, then the "two scoop Lido" Dart had to be a regular competitor at some track in order to gain enough points to finish in the Top 10 to represent his track at the Bracket Finals and not just show up for that one (big) race (and receive a participant decal) because he felt like racing there that day.

M68

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Originally Posted by mopar68

There has to be some Charlie Castaldo connection. First you have the guy Lou bought the car from telling him that, and then in this thread Jimi Vignona relating to us seeing the Charlie Castaldo name on the doors (beneath the paint) when the car was in his dad's garage. That can not be dismissed. There has got to be some connection...maybe just the doors are from one of Castaldo's Darts? Maybe Charlie had a third Dart? I dunno.

As far as "two scoop Lido" is concerned, from the best of my knowledge in order to be a participant at a Bracket Finals race you had to finish in the Top 10 at your track. If that is true, then the "two scoop Lido" Dart had to be a regular competitor at some track in order to gain enough points to finish in the Top 10 to represent his track at the Bracket Finals and not just show up for that one (big) race (and receive a participant decal) because he felt like racing there that day.

M68

I just can't find the connection to Castaldo. Believe me, I've tried, MANY different avenues, including speaking with Castaldo's crew members on several occassions. End result---There was no third Dart that he was campaigning, or, there was no back up car. NONE!!!
As far as the doors go, the stick car doors were damaged way past being able to be repaired after Charlie put that car on it's roof @ E town in 69. They were scrapped with the rest of the car after it was stripped of usable parts. The auto car has it's original doors on it today.
There is NO ONE that wants to fiqure out this connection to Castaldo more than me, but I just can't connect the dots.

I have followed almost every possible lead, speaking with dozens of people about my car, but so far I'm not any closer than I was 3 years ago when I started this thread. If nothing else, I've been able to fiqure out which cars it's NOT now, &, the list of possibilities is getting smaller. I'm not giving up........... I think it's going to be one of those; being in the right place @ the right time scenarios where someone will bring up a statement about a car their buddy knew about, or someone who had an uncle............... etc, etc, etc.

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