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Originally Posted by mike koester 66 nova
Hemiss ( Mark J ) Another question to consider. Its been established that the Costello's picked up their first dart in Detroit, then crashed that dart at Englishtown in late 68 or early 69. He then replaced that dart with a dart owned and driven by Tom Crutchfield / Palmer Dodge in Indy / Kokomo area. That car was a bronze color, I saw it race @ Indy in 68 and also @ Edgewater.Was the first dart completely destroyed? Was the car rebuilt or repaired? Was another dart used to make this transistion.Is this why some of the above members claim to have seen 2 different darts at the same time. Mark J , you might be able to clear this up. Or maybe still a question.
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Mike,
This is where the debate begins. I spoke with one of Charlie's crew (i belive it was Rick Rickman) who told me that the car sat out back the shop - they took some parts off the car but he didn't remember what happened to the car. He said we could have junked it or it could still be out there somewhere?? I have pictures of the car being picked up off the track with a wrecker at E-Town. The roof was buckled quarters, doors were crunched pretty good - I thought I was told that the oil filter leaked/blew (Like Ron Mancini's crash at Indy years later) and the car ended up upside down on the guardrail. By todays standards fixable but in 1968 the car was a junk racecar. You could buy another one for WAY cheaper than fixing it and that is what Charlie did. Remember these cars were not that valuable in the 70's or 80's and were not selling for $300,000.00 at B-J auction - it was just another old racecar. The argument is that this car may have been repaired or that Charlie had another car.
Mark J