[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

...they turned the corner and behind the building was a beautiful dark blue '63 Catalina. He learned it was spec'd as follows: Built as a Super Duty car, it was converted over the counter to an "HO" car so that Dad could run B/Stock with it. It had aluminum fenders, hood and decklid; doors were steel as were the rad support, fender inners and bumper brackets. It had a regular production (ie, "non swiss cheese") frame. Probably the most notable feature, however, was the paint scheme: it was the car that Wangers developed the "Bobcat" appearance package on*. Nocturne blue with the tri color Ventura interior, it had an extra silver stripe around the spear side trim, and silver around the rear face of the deck lid. Eight lug aluminum wheels, with the area between the fins painted blue, the top of the fins painted silver and part of the cap painted blue too.

*Jim had taken a special interest in this car while it was in the Royal paint shop. A second car followed, a green one, as well as a third red car.

This is currently my only photograph of the car. I do have some images from old home movies that I am working to recover:

Thanks to Mike Noun I now have the video footage as mentioned in post #3 of this thread. You will see a fairly decent walk around of the car; there is a second walk around of very poor quality but (to make up for that) Mike also included some home movies of drag racing at some local tracks here in the early 60's. Thanks Mike!

YouTube video of '63 Catalina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0M4DQhXKE

This car was scrapped in 1964 after the front end was removed to repair Jim's Swiss Cheese car (which had been involved in a towing accident).

K