Best Pontiac Powered Stockers

[Dave Gantz]

I can't find any pictures, but Don Himes had an early 70's Lemans wagon (like Tons A Fun), a similar Lemans coupe, and a 77 Grand Prix. RIP Don. A very funny, self-deprecating sense of humor kind of guy.

[Carguy49]

How about Bill Edgeworth's 77? Firebird???? Division 6 Bill's number was 6471. This car, with Bill driving held 4 National Records at the same time. A few years ago, but I think they were J,K,M and N. Correct me if I am wrong.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Carguy49

How about Bill Edgeworth's 77? Firebird???? Division 6 Bill's number was 6471. This car, with Bill driving held 4 National Records at the same time. A few years ago, but I think they were J,K,M and N. Correct me if I am wrong.

Yeah, I think a '77 Bird can run a 350 & 2 different 400's. Been quite a few competitive '77 Birds.
After Bill's passing, Ryan Warter raced the car, trying to help sell it. Ryan was driving the car in this pic, IIRC.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Dave Gantz

I can't find any pictures, but Don Himes had an early 70's Lemans wagon (like Tons A Fun), a similar Lemans coupe, and a 77 Grand Prix. RIP Don. A very funny, self-deprecating sense of humor kind of guy.

Yeah, I think the last car he raced was the 301 powered '79 Lemans that Billy Nees still races.

Looks like Don's GP went to Lindy Lindholm. Don't know where it went from there.

http://classracer.com/classforum/sho...35&postcount=1

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by fordteacherguy

How about the Burtons?

They've had some quick Birds, & won lots of races.

[BA1927]

Anybody from the North East remember Thompson Pontiac's GTO's with the Tubular Automotive Headers that hung so low the car's had to be way up in the nose even after that type of ride height had gone by the way side - they ran at NED South I think and NED in Epping NH and probably CT Dragway they were pretty neat car's back in the day

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Ronald Urquhart

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.

Been quite few 350 Pontiac powered X-bodies in Stock. Al Vanis is pictured running against the '74 GTO belonging to Rock Running.

Also ran across one that was a nat record holder for several years, with Duttweiler Automotive on the side. Bill Rink ran his in Stock for several years. He also won the J/SA class at Indy, in 2005, for sure. On this '05 Class win list, I also noticed that Pontiac powered cars won N/SA, O/SA, & P/SA. Don Himes '77 GP won P/SA, which was at least it's 2nd US Nats class win. You can find lots of familiar Pontiac names by checking out the Indy class winners, thru the years. Three I noticed were Scott Burton, Bob Mulry, & Mike Morgan.

https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCS...r2005#indextop

The quickest '74 GTO I know of, running this year, was driven by Brad Koivisto. I think he got it down into the low 11's.

[Dave Gantz]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Truman Fields.....no contest !

I knew the Project Six Pack guys back when; it was a good C/S competition, even though I believe they only raced once. Back in the days when long distance phone calls fed the rumor mill.

[ss3011]

Mick Leifermans' 1971 GTO with a 455 HO was super competitive , he sold it to Alton Minchey . Mick then ran a 1973 GTO with a 455 Super Duty . These cars were run in the days when you had to have the factory lift , duration , and overlap , he was tight with General Kinetics developing a lot of "square nosed" stocker cams .

[Sean Marconette]

Norman Warling from D-5 with the very cool 62 Catalina.