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Originally Posted by 'ol Pinion head
Somewhere there's a Cars magazine article that was reprinted in the late 70's in one of Marty Schorrs publications, and I believe the early HPP republished, the GP was running low 14's. Believe it was Joe Oldham that referred to his associate Gromer as his "preshrunk" roadtest driver.
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The "preshrunk" comment is on pg 25 from the April 1985 issue of High Performance Pontiac mag titled "Road Test" 1969 428HO Royal Bobcat Grand Prix = the close ratio 4 speed car with 3:90 gearing. Not to be confused with the almost exact same article (actually the same author = Scott Stevens) from the March 1988 issue of Musclecars mag titled "Das Boat" of the exact same car. The Car and Driver article from February of 1969 is titled "Two Pontiac Grand Prix" and again features the same "Bobcat" painted close ratio 4 speed HO car. Car and Driver claimed a best ET of 13.98 seconds at 102 mph for their testing. Car Life magazine in the Feb 1969 issue (with the red GP on the cover) lists the 1/4 mile in 14.1 at 95.3 mph and a top speed of 129 mph at 5800 rpm for the HO automatic and a 3:55 to 1 rear gear (although I thought 3:23 to 1 was std with A/C).There is a nice picture of the GP rear end running at what appears to be LAPEER International Dragway - not sure where this was. A very unknown article is from Super Stock magazine from July 1969 titled "Gee-Pee with Go-Power" where a HO automatic car got the "Bobcat" treatment and the 3:90 rear gear that they were able to coax an ET of 13:43 and 105.26 mph with the exhaust manifolds removed. This car was white with gold "SSJ" type of paint job - maybe Jim Wanger's car? This should get everyone busy on the internet now!!