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I was a Pontiac fan in my earlier days and loved them all. Capital Raceway had a lot of Pontiac racers in the mid 1960's......when I was there racing......early wagons and there were lots of Pontiacs being raced pretty much everywhere I was racing...... My first 2 cars were Pontiacs and I had a '58 street car/tow car that I drag raced a few times.....Ramon Lowe, Jay Hamilton.....west coast Pontiac hitters. John Thropp, Fred Borcherdt and another well worth watching was Jack Mullins.....manual trans wagon and he really pushed the limits with that car.....weight, rpm......
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A '57 Bonneville convertible was the only model that had Rochester F.I.
'58's.....an option on any body style....
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The biggest collection of Big early '60's Pontiac drag car pics I know of, is at this link, below the Chevy 409 section.
http://georgeklass.net/ss.html The 389SD & 421SD cars ran most of the upper Stock classes. And they were heavily involved in what i assume was the beginning of Super Stock. There were classes like S/S, OS/S, & S/SA. Last edited by oldskool; 12-30-2019 at 12:22 PM. |
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How about the Burtons?
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Never saw a picture of John with a convertible. After the FI venture with Freddie Borcherdt, I believe he then built the 56 Chevy, N/SA
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scott and brad burton brads 1972 firebird 455ho two times national champion. scotts ex1970 firebird 400 ram air 4 best et 9.98 sold to sweden.we invited scott to race his old car in August here in sweden.
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Pontiacs with solid cams .....and there were some who ran those.....Over the counter options never installed in production cars.... I had one of those cams in one engine and it was nothing like a std production street hydraulic......
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I remember Al Vanis's vanis & decker Ventura. Indy winner. On the deck lid was, VD if you can't get near it you can't catch it.
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Kudos on inviting Scott to race his old Firebird in Sweden.
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