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Any of you East Coast guys remember Fred Borcherdt? I read about his Pontiacs in the magazines of the day, and they were always KILLER. I think he ran a F.I. '57 at one time. I also think he built that '69 Judge called "Rocky's Goat" that won the Finals at Dallas, one year. One of the magazines had a cover shot of that car doing a wheelie (uncommon for a Stocker, back then.)

I THINK Jerry Stealy bought that car and re-named it "NEMESIS" and ran Div. V with it for several years. It was known for long, and I mean, L-O-N-G, smoky, burnouts back then (7" tires.)

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True the Isky cams were dealer/racer installed but still allowed in IHRA back in the day. Havent seen one since around 1975 though. The FI unit was on 310 HP and 338 HP combos. The 338 HP FI combo had the same specs as the 330 HP w/tri power. The 315 HP with one 4 barrel did use a hydr. for NHRA later on but was allowed the Isky solid lifter cam before they were disallowed by NHRA same as when they outlawed the SD (NASCAR) parts on the 60-61 Pontiacs.

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I looked at a '57 Safari wagon tow car at one race.....maybe out at York. I think it was Borcherdt's when he raced a '57 2dr. He was a trans builder from what I have read. Never knew him but liked his cars....
Rocky's Goat was a very cool car....and he raced The "It's Dynamite" Mopar wagon at Atco heads up (E/SA?) in the final round I think at the WCS race in 1970. The Mopar won ??? Hard to remember stuff from 40 years ago! He did have a cardboard barbell in the car above the rear seat on the speaker tray area.......some kind of story about coming up light on the scales and he was given the barbell as a joke....

My favorite Pontiac racer was Truman Fields........Met him once at my local track and he was running his Hard Times Firebird.....

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The 58 had 60.1 head CC's, the 59 and 60 had 59.7 CC's.
Deck .015
All used a Carter WCFB
Valves were 1.725 on the Intake and 1.505 on the Exhaust.
Flat top pistons w/4 valve reliefs (2 for S/S).
As far as I can see they are all the same except for the 1958 head CC spec.
NHRA has the specs listed for the 60 on their site.

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Lil George Cureton borrowed it and drove at the Dallas race. I dont believe he won though. I have the mag with the Rockys Goat article around someplace. I will look it up.

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Thanks, Terry. Dunno whether Fred is still around....

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Fred Borcherdt is alive and well. He attended a racer's reunion at Cecil County in 2010- I just saw a group photo of the attendees over this weekend with Fred's signature, among others.

He lived in Milford Crossing, Delaware when the Rocky's Goat article was written. The main thing I remember from that article is that he had his own cam grinding machine.

Ron Sanders tells me that he had a rule-bending way of dealing with the siamesed exhaust ports on his '58 Pontiac. He extended a divider wall into the port that was welded to the header flange. So, the head wasn't modified, the header was re-designed. Ron said he was torn down, and as far he remembers, it was allowed.

Ron also remembers that Fred did some work on Cureton's Tokyo Rose (the first Rose was also a 58 Pontiac)), but doesn't know if Fred lent his car to George.

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thanks for the 66 283 combo,:D

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Thanks Terry

How the 67 Shelby got so wrong is still a mystery (JimSkelly) ?

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Larry, I don't think that ANYBODY realizes how many "mistakes" are really in the guide and they certainly don't just pertain to Shelbys! Maybe I'll sit down on a boring day and make me a "top 10" list.