Original hemi dart information

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Originally Posted by jimi

moose i would not take offense to what he said or how he is handling it he is canadian! lol...... since the first time i spoke with daryl he struck me to be odd like that , not much trust in anything that anyone has to say and rightfully so these are hemi cars, as much documentation that is available they still cant be sorted out. i dont know why daryl still make remarks about the castaldo car that was in my dads barn that he thinks it was an illusion or not real. i saw it with my own eyes ,what happened with the dart in between my dads barn, paul pittman painting it and it coming back to my shop is any ones guess. the pictures of the white dart the way tim hennesey got it are the white dart i remember. unfortunatly all of the pictures (roughly 10,000) documenting the cars my dad had, dover dragstrip, englishtown etc. 1964-1995 managed to dissapear while he was sick . so to prove the castaldo car in his possession i cannot do anymore . further more i know someone from portchester ny that is in his 60's that was friends with castaldos crew and speaking of this with him in his own words he told me that charlie had at least four darts, i asked him if he was confusing them with different paint jobs and he said no way!!!!! i want to get to the bottom of this as well i know what was in my dads barn and something sinister happened .

Now for Jimi
What's with the "Canadian" & "odd like that" shot??????
Again, I am only dealing with the facts that have been presented to me. I have done a huge amount of background work on this thing, spending hundreds of dollars on long distance phone calls to find the history on my car. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this. I have spoken to Charlie Licatta, who was an actual crew member for Castaldo, not a friend of a crew member, on several occassions, & his info remains the same every time. Castaldo only had 2 original LO cars. One crashed as I posted pictures on which was scrapped, the other is currently residing on the east coast, again which I provided pictures of, through it's complete transformation including 2 different paint jobs, & many major mods. Due to these FACTS, it is physically impossible for my car to be any one of those two cars. As far as you having another LO Dart in your barn, I can't comment on, because I just don't know. Your not even sure yourself. You've posted that yourself. The only thing I have to go by is your word, & I have to & do believe you because you have nothing to gain otherwise. But the FACT of the matter is this. My car is not any one of those 2 documented cars of Castaldo's & according to Licatta those were the only 2 original LO cars Castaldo owned.
Believe me, I would love to have his name attached to my car, but it's just not so. I have alot more to lose saying it is rather than owning up to the facts that it's not. It would also be alot easier for me to go with the flow & say that it is Castaldo's, but I know it's not. And those are the FACTS. Nothing more, nothing less.
Again Jimi, I am not trying to discredit you, or your father in any way. I have great respect for both of you. I would appreciate if you would show some respect in return.

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