Original hemi dart information

[Nitro Joe Jackson]

Paul, my mother was racing in SS/BA at e-town in 1968 with her dart also.

[Paul Ceasrine]

Nitro Joe,

I have a couple of photo's of your Mom at the 68' Springnationals.
I'm guessing she must have had a nice co-sponsor from GoodYear.

The one photo of her versus the 'The Hustler' (SS/BA Dart) of
J. Corles shows a "T" on "The Hustler" door panel, indicating a
class trophy/final run.
Did she make it to the class finals in SS/BA at the Springnationals.

Paul

[MattConte]

Originally Posted by Black Hemi Dart

Matt . I haven't had the car out for about 2 years now. I do have the motor out and at the machine shop. Also changing over to a 4 speed. Hope to have it done by the end of January and get to use it before it heats up.

Are you west side or east side? Were do you take it too? I would love to see it when you have it out this spring.
Matt

[Paul Ceasrine]

IZZY,

At the beginning of 1968 the Super Stock class breaks were as follows;
SS/B--------- 6.00 - 6.99
SS/C--------- 7.00 - 7.69
SS/D--------- 7.70 - 8.69
SS/E--------- 8.70 - 9.47
SS/F--------- 9.48 - up

A class for SS/A class ( 0 - 5.99 ) was left open as a possible
entry from Chevy or Ford, which never developed.


At the 1968 Winternationals, the 65' Race Hemi and 64 1/2' Race Hemi cars were classed in SS/B.

Paul

[Paul Ceasrine]

IZZY,

The 1968 NHRA Springnationals S/S Eliminator was won by
Sox & Martin in their SS/D 67' R/O Hemi Belvedere (w/GTX lettering).

They defeated Don Grotheer in the SS/B 68' Hemi Cuda.
The Cuda at that time was all-white, and sponsored by
'Cable Chrysler-Plymouth' out of Oklahoma.

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[Paul Ceasrine]

Dave,

I added the information you asked for to this thread.
You can start a new one if you want.

1968 Indy U.S. Nationals (Class Winners)
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SS/B Wiley Cossey (68' Hemi Cuda)
SS/C Bill Jenkins (67' Camaro 396/375 HP)
SS/D Sox & Martin (67' GTX Hemi)
SS/E Jerry Harvey (68' 428 Cobra-Jet Mustang)
SS/F Musser Brothers (67' Z-28 Camaro)

SS/BA Chuck Ostrich (68' Hemi Cuda)
SS/CA Rudy Schings (67' Plymouth R/O Belvedere Hemi)
SS/DA Jerry Maes (63' Plymouth Max-Wedge)
SS/EA Lance Hill (68' Camaro 396/325 HP)
SS/FA Edgel McClellan (68' Camaro convertible 396/325 HP)

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[Paul Ceasrine]

Dave,

At the 1968 Nationals.

Wiley Cossey (Cuda) won the SS/B class.
Ronnie Sox (Cuda) was the SS/B Runner-Up
* He was runner-up by way of a Red-Light DQ. He also crushed the index in that race.

Chuck Ostrich (Cuda) won the SS/BA class.
Jack Werst (Cuda) was the SS/BA Runner-Up

For the Super/Stock Eliminator, 10 class winners qualified, plus an
additional 22 cars.

SS/B Eliminator Cars
Wiley Cossey
Ronnie Sox
Dick Landy
Arlon Vanke
Ed Miller

SS/BA Eliminator Cars
Chuck Ostrich
Jack Werst
Dick Oldfield
Shirley Shahan

[Paul Ceasrine]

Dave,

The answer to your 1968 Indy Nationals question.

Super/Stock Semi-Finals;
Wally Booth (SS/E) 68' SS 396 Camaro coupe
over
Dick Oldfield (SS/BA) 68' Hemi Dart

Arlon Vanke (SS/B) 68' Hemi Cuda
over
Bill Jenkins (SS/C) 67' SS 396 Camaro coupe

Note: Both Jerry Harvey (SS/E class winner w/68' Cobra-Jet Mustang) and Wally Booth (SS/E #2 qualifier w/68' SS 396
green "Mid-West Auto Parts' Camaro) qualified for the Super/Stock Eliminator.

[jarn05]

well i got some information regarding daryl's dart today, i talked to tony ?(his last name slips me now, he is ron and rick rickman's brother in law,he worked for castaldo, he said the dart that my dad and uncle had is not the castaldo car , the castaldo car had earmark things that he would have remembered when he saw the car in 1982 1983 at my dads shop , he also told me that the car he was worked on (suspension) in 69 through early 1970's was # 50 from the production line, he also said that the car had everything possible in the front end suspension made from titanium. he re counted the castaldo car that was crashed at e town got loose from oil on the track and had no trick front end suspension parts.

Daryl i have combed through thousands of pictures, i cannot find the pictures of the dart from when my dad got it, i am missing a large container of race car pictures dating from 1964-5 all the way through 1985 or so.

daryl what is the production number of your car? i asked tony if he was familiar with any darts from the peekskill ny area that were painted similar to castaldos cars and he said no,tony remembered the dart when he came to look at it and remembers it looked just like castaldos car (paint etc) but was not it .he also told me the car he worked on was an automatic car.

so i have just one question what was the car my dad had in the barn that had the complete trans tunnel cut out and what happened to it? another lost hemi car!!!!!

[Paul Ceasrine]

Hemi-Head,

When the 68' Hemi Cuda's and Darts came out,
the NHRA set a minimum ET / Index
SS/B 10.85
SS/BA 10.90

The first-early records were set by
Don Grotheer in SS/B; 10.91 @ 131.19

Bill Stiles set the SS/BA ET record with an 11.06 at
Island DragStrip, New Jersey in August 68'.

I'm pretty sure J. Corles (sic) had the first SS/BA ET record with
'The Hustler' Dart (11.09)

Both records were 'soft'.

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