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#961
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Steve,
I wish you culd have been at the GTO deal in Wichita, it was Great. I am thankful for all that were repsonsible for putting it on, and for allowing myself and my 2 friends to get registered on site, we were not knowledgeable about having to be registered to get into the event, it was a great time for us. Arnie was in a round table session w/ the others I mentioned earlier. He was telling the story where he had just gotten this new "hot deal" torque converter, I think from GM??? Someone correct me if I'm wrong. First past on new converter, that thing fireballed. Arnie said he was wearing a Tee shirt, helmet, sunglasses (I believe). He had installed the converter @ Jess Tyree's shop. Arnie spoke of running a Ford Funny Car for a short time. The cammer engine would suck an exhaust valve, he'd have to send the whole engine back to Ford for repairs, because they would not let him (I guess anybody?) open the engine up to work on. Well, in between Cammer valve repairs, Arnie was running his Pontiac. THe Ford folks didn't care much for that, I think he gave them the Ford car back... It really sucks how your memory fades as you get older. My one buddy that was at Wichita w/ me lived only a short distance from Arnie's town, has been to his house, along time ago, I am sure Arnie doesn't remember. My buddy got to talk to Art Peterson @ Wichita. He had flown to the World Finals in 1982, stayed at Art's house, Art doesn't EVEN remember that....LOL..
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1962 Indy National Winner
It was an all Pontiac(61s) final at the 1962 Indy Nationals. The winner was Bill Sasse from Cleveland Ohio beating Bob Harrop in another 1961 black sedan. Here is Bill with a few of his trophies from either 1961 or 1962 and his poncho that was completely tuned and raced by Bill and his father Harry--Harry's Atlantic in Cleveland. Although Bill delayed registering for the Nationals, he was able to use an entry from Arlen Vanke and ran under the name of "Tin Indian Too." This was the year that the 421s and Mopars ran in SS/S. This was a 368HP super duty and consistently ran in the low 13s at 109+MPH. You are probably familiar with the picture at the Nationals with the D/A tower at the starting line and Sasse and Harrop running off for the title. Good times, 50 years ago.
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Cool!!!
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"The great obstacle to discovery is not ignorance...but the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J. Boorstein "Gas is STILL your cheapest thrill!" Your opinion of me is none of my business. |
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Here's a few more !
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63 SD
JERRY STILL OWNS IT AND IT WILL BE AT NORWALK NEXT YEAR.
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This was posted in "best Pontiac stories" thought it belonged here too. Nice pic of Truman Fields in there amongst others I haven't seen before. A bunch of '60's full size cars too!
http://www.oldhippie.com/forums/drag...per-stock.html Of course I love Jack Mullin's wagon for obvious reasons!
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Last edited by misterp266; 11-30-2010 at 04:15 PM. |
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ECM member. 2008 Outlaw Pontiac Drag Series Champion MANDRA Do it now fool! Life is short. 69 Grand Prix/3163lbs / IAII 535 w/ Tiger heads by Gaydosh....9.35@ 144 so far.. through mufflers. 1.26 60'. Going back to track with pump gas engine.... My 60 Ventura retired to street/strip duty.. |
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one more good one
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Glad to see this post come back up.
How about a slide show?... http://s412.photobucket.com/albums/p...view=slideshow
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There are 383 more of these old photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/rcktscie...45586578449026
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Great pictures. Do you have details on the tracks the cars where at? Years?
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