Original hemi dart information

[Paul Ceasrine]

Mark J,
I'll post that info you on this thread in a little bit. Have to research the site and post #, so you won't go crazy looking for it.
As for Castaldo's crash. That wouldn't have been on 10/6/68 at Englishtown? There was a Super/Stock All-Star Meet their that day.
Won by Dave Strickler in a 68 302 Z-28 SS/F.
Oh, a little Charlie Castaldo back info. The second car SS/BA , which
was lettered by Dino, in Charlie's garage at his home in Scarsdale.
That car, which won the 69' Super Stock Magazine Nationals at York
(8/10/69), had the motor built by.............John Macey "Heads Up" Cuda.
Paul

[jack arnew]

Paul you might be corect, but I can;t recal any 426HEMI on the front. When Sam and I picked up the Cuda Ronnie had a match race with the dragon lady at a track in Va.We went there that day, Sam paid Buddy and we loaded the car and took the whole rig (car, cewcab truck, and trailer) back to Sam's car lot in Md. Might add the car had aluminum heads on it at the time and was in match race trim.ET;s that day were in the 10.4's-10.5's.Sam drove it the rest of the yeart till he put me in the seat later that year.At the end of the season Sam sold the cuda to me along with rig and spare parts.The next March I took the car to Cicle County,after we had found a bad ground cable in the trunk, and made three 10.2's, with no outher changes to the car. Bet Ronnie had been chaseing that problem for some time!!! It was dumb luck on my part that we found it.NOTE, on the trunk lid was (THE BEAP BEAP BEAT GOES ON) .

[Paul Ceasrine]

Jack,
It always perplexed me, to find out what that little scrol-design was on the
front-center grille (upper portion). I'll post the site where I found it, so you can check it out too. All the Super Stockers at York had "X's" on the window, instead of the SS/B. Jenkins ran his 68" SS/C Camaro with a
tunnel-ram in the X/SS "Heads-Up" match. I imagine all Hemi cars ran in match race trim, aluminum heads and roller cams for the Super Stock
Magazine sponsored event. Two weeks later they were at Indy, for the
Nationals. Ground wire,,,,,,,,sounds positively negative.......................
If you got the car in match-race trim, that means you had to be at Dover Drag Strip, Wingdale, NY in 1970, in Pro/Stock. I have to see if I have
results of the meet. Rich Mirarcki/Bill Blandings "MIMI" 427 Camaro was doing a number on all the Mopars back then at Dover. Hope I can find that you outran him.
Paul

[Paul Ceasrine]

Mark J.

Here goes. Check THE H.A.M.B. site, go to the NHRA Junior Stock
forum. Page 55, post #1094. Photo of the 69' NHRA Winternationals,
(February 69'), staging lane shot of all the stockers. Upper right, 68'
Hemi Super Stock (SS/BA) Cuda. NHRA #719. Center-stripe hood only,
kind of like a Sox & Martin paint scheme. Can't see the name of the
driver on the passengers side door. But the name above "Plymouth" looks like Bender or Senker or Benker????
Paul

[mopar68]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

Mark J,
I'll post that info you on this thread in a little bit. Have to research the site and post #, so you won't go crazy looking for it.
As for Castaldo's crash. That wouldn't have been on 10/6/68 at Englishtown? There was a Super/Stock All-Star Meet their that day.
Won by Dave Strickler in a 68 302 Z-28 SS/F.
Oh, a little Charlie Castaldo back info. The second car SS/BA , which
was lettered by Dino, in Charlie's garage at his home in Scarsdale.
That car, which won the 69' Super Stock Magazine Nationals at York
(8/10/69), had the motor built by.............John Macey "Heads Up" Cuda.
Paul

Paul, here's a pic of Charlie's 2nd Dart at Indy in 1969.


(Tom Kasch photo)

M68