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Originally Posted by Rich Biebel
Not trying to hijack your thread but I also loved the old Pontiacs as I owned a few.....
Me and my partner drove down to Capitol with our Simple Simon's Pie Wagon one summer(1966 or 1967) and raced a high dollar Jr Stock event.
We raced Joe Perzan.....twice! For some reason they made us re-run him .....we won and lost I believe in a later round to the old Pete Preston wagon then owned by the Wheatleys.....
Pontiacs were plentiful there that day......Frank Cannaday and Bob Maxey were two others I recall.....and I do recall the wagon that is the original posters.......
We used a '58 Pontiac wagon as a tow car to get there on that trip....
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Im glad Ron finally remembered me....LOL. I was friends with ole Frank "Pop" Cannaday (I thought it was Kennedy sp?) and I did all of Bob Maxeys cylinder heads for him and his customers before he died. Maxey raced a pretty Maroon 60 SD Catalina Hard Top with a 4 speed before going to bracket racing. Pop raced a 62 348 HP 4 speed Red Grand Prix before going to a 57 270 HP Chevy. Joe Perzan lived 2 doors up from Bob Maxey. That was one heck of a community with Mousie Brown, Fred Fry, Sam Samuels, and a couple of others all living on the same street. Several its sad to say have passed on to the "Happy Hunting Grounds". Mike MIatico was the owner of Capital Raceway and also owned and raced a 61 SD baby blue S/W plus owned the Carol & Loyd Cox 61 (M/T car) Blue Ventura.