Original hemi dart information

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by jimi

lightweight have you ever seen proof that the brooks lee car is the castaldo car ? proof of restoration , pictures etc.?

jimi
I have the same pictures & documentation from Mark Janaky & others that I have provided you with. Mark is very thorough in CORRECT documentation. If there's a question bout something, he'll tell you. If he doesn't know something, he'll tell you. Mark DOES NOT deal with hear say or fiction. If it ain't so he'll tell you
Brook Lee's car IS Castaldo's auto car.
Castaldo's 4 spd was crashed, stripped of usable parts & crushed. There are NO if's, ands, or maybes about any of Castaldo's Darts. There were only 2 & mine IS NOT one of them.
With the pictures I have, & speaking with many people, including Charlie Licatta (who wrenched on Castaldo's cars & has a VERY sharp memory) there is ZERO, 0% chance of my car being ANY of the 2 Castaldo cars.
Jimi we've gone through this many times.

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[jimi]

calm down i was asking a question because i am interested to know about the other car if it is documented with proof. i am not starting this argument again with you you have your feelings about it and so do i,the difference is i was there, it was in my barn at my shop i used to druel over that car, it was parked right behind my 62 dodge dart wagon in the same barn where i used to work on my car all the time,you need to chill the f out and deal with the fact that some where in all of this i just maybe just be CORRECT!!!!!! i do know that my father had a car that said charlie castaldo on the doors. i think that we have proven the fact that your car was at my shop in the 80's that there are similarities in things that i remember about it but i still want to know what car it was that my father owned that had castaldos name on the doors! maybe parts from the crashed car wound up on another car i dont know and i dont think at this point we ever will, did you ever get the chance to speak with ken wright? about al massarino? he is convinced he knows your car, its where abouts that my dad got it from and alot of other things. like availability of pictures and such. i sent you his ph number months ago.

i know it is hard to tell with theses cars but what is the approximate build # of your dart? 1, 25 , 50? i was told that charlies first car was # 50

[Hemi Moose]

I wanna see a match race between Jimi's '65 A990 Belvedere & Liteweight's '68 L023 Hemi Dart...lol

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by jimi

Did you ever get the chance to speak with ken wright? about al massarino? he is convinced he knows your car, its where abouts that my dad got it from and alot of other things. like availability of pictures and such. i sent you his ph number months ago.

i know it is hard to tell with theses cars but what is the approximate build # of your dart? 1, 25 , 50? i was told that charlies first car was # 50

jimi
Al Mosarino has passed on. I have spoken with Kenny Wright a couple times & he remembers very little about his Uncle Charlie's Hemi Darts.
My car is one of the first 10 cars built serial number wise.

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[JCShiels]

Wow! Thank you Terry for the Wild Fire photo -- my new desktop!
Jim Shiels

[JCShiels]

Thanks guys for the clarification on the fender tag info. Those tags were handy when we had to order interior trim parts (like when we received new Dodges with Plymouth steering wheels). The car's DNA was on those tags. But since this thread is a living history lesson I would like to know Daryl how you identified the fender tag for the Landy stick car (the tag that Landy's mechanic sent to you) without the VIN being on the tag? What other info did you use?
Jim

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by JCShiels

Thanks guys for the clarification on the fender tag info. Those tags were handy when we had to order interior trim parts (like when we received new Dodges with Plymouth steering wheels). The car's DNA was on those tags. But since this thread is a living history lesson I would like to know Daryl how you identified the fender tag for the Landy stick car (the tag that Landy's mechanic sent to you) without the VIN being on the tag? What other info did you use?
Jim

Morning Jim
There are 2 locations of body numbers on these 68 cars. One on the rad cradle, the other is on the DS trunk rail under the weatherstripping. These shipping order numbers ID the car to the tag

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[Liteweight]

Castaldo's Auto July 69 Dover

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