Best B.O.P. stock and super stockers of all time

[vistacruiser67]

[vistacruiser67]

Loyed Woodland & Bob Andresen

[vistacruiser67]

Loyed Woodland & Bob Andresen

[Tom Goldman]

Al , I'm really enjoying your Olds photos.
I really love the Troxell racing engines ad.
In 1970-'71 I my family lived at 525 N. Gilmore St . ,the address in the ad..
Jack used the address since his plumbing business was located in the back.,
Being 17-18 years old at that time and hanging around and helping on the cars ,and going to the track with Jack ,my other uncle Dick Meyers ,Willy Schmoyer, and Butch Sentner was priceless.
Sure wish I had taken more photos back then.
BTW , I was driving a '50 Olds 88 convert with a '57 J2 stroked to 404" then.

[oldskool]

Wow ! Looks like Olds completely hijacked this thread.

I've never seen that many Olds race cars in one place.

Only a very few Pontiacs were mentioned.

BUT, I'll bet I can fix that ! Will take a while. But, I'll start workin on it, a little at a time.

This is gonna be fun, ya'll !

I'll begin with '56, '57, & '58.

[oldskool]

OK, now for some '59 & '60 models.

These include several nat record holders.

Jim Wangers won '60 Indy in the Hot Cheif 1, & was named Mr. Stock Eliminator. The final was an All-'60 Pontiac race !

https://www.sema.org/news-media/maga...liminator-1960

Ronnie Broadhead not only set several nat records, but also won a Stock championship.

These '60 model Pontiacs did real good in Stock class racing, set lots of records & got quite a few big class wins.

[oldskool]

The '61 Pontiacs also did real good.

Pontiac came up with lots of good over-the-counter parts. Those 389SD & 421SD engines won a lot of races, in the early '60's.

They powered lots of class winners.

Also did real good on the NASCAR circle tracks.

Gary Moore set a nat record & won the div 4 Stock points championship with his.

Carol & Lloyd Cox got several big class wins with theirs.

[oldskool]

'62 was a pretty wild year for Pontiac. There were 421SD Pontiacs running in several strange classes. They appeared to be some sort of Super Stock classes, but were considered "Top Stock", including the A/FX & B/FX classes.

I think by now most everybody knows that Mickey Thompson's little 421SD powered '62 Tempest won the A/FX class at the Winter Nats & at Indy, in '62.

There were several other '62 model nat record holders & class winners. Don Gay picked up several big class wins in his A/S '62.

[oldskool]

OK, for '63, Pontiac still had the 421SD engine plus "Swiss Cheese" frames, & other lightweight parts.

Also had the 421SD powered '63 Tempest/Lemans A/FX cars. One of these again won A/FX @ the Winter Nats.

Some of these cars eventually ran in the "Modified Production", Gas, & other classes.

Jim Wangers won the B/FX class @ Indy, in a 421SD Cat.

Some big cars again ran in some of the other Top Stock classes.

And, there were '63 big Pontiacs that ran lower classes.

It was the last year of major factory support, & the last year of the 421SD. I see it as a sort of end of Pontiac's "Glory Days". The factory supported Mopars & Fords took over. Most of the top Pontiac racers switched brands.

For the next 10 years or so, it would be mostly up to independent & dealer sponsored Pontiac racers to do the drag racing.

[oldskool]

Of course, the big Pontiac news in '64 was the GTO !

The age of the Musclecar had arrived. And, just as you'd expect, independent racers & Pontiac dealers took 'em to the drag strips.

Posting a pic of the Gay Pontiac cars & hauler. They ran lots of Pontiacs, thru the years. This pic shows 3 cars: #655 '62 A/S 421SD Cat, which Don drove, #656 A/MP '63 Tempest wagon, & #657 B/S '64 GTO, which Roy drove. Don't how the GTO ran. Anybody know ?

Here's the link to a site I found which shows pics of a model of the Gay B/S '64 GTO. Also has a small write-up about the cars.

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/t...k-pontiac-gto/

Don't really know how most '64 GTO's did at most local tracks. Can't find evidence that they did much on the national stage. Most I see pics of ran B/S. Don't think they could have been real competitive in that class, on a big stage.

But, I don't know. So, if some of you guys know of some '64 GTO's that did really well in Stock or SS, please post that info, & pics, if possible.

I also found pics of two '64 big Pontiac record holders. It has been pointed out that the Alaskan did NOT have a 421 engine, even tho the caption says it did. That's easy to believe, since it is marked in J/S, in the pic I have. But, I'm not familiar with the car, at all.