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07-21-2010, 02:57 AM
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69 NASCAR GP
Here's a few pics of the 69-70 NASCAR Pontiac run by Roy Tyner.
Quite nicely restored but they can't fix the nut behind the wheel. Will bring to Norwalk. |
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07-21-2010, 07:21 AM
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Very different. What is the right door power window switch for with no window regulator?
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07-21-2010, 07:55 AM
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I looked that car over pretty well at the POCI convention and I saw that switch and forgot to ask the restorers WTH it was for. The reason I was so interested in it is I built a sister car to it back in the late 70s for my dirt track exploits.
  
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07-21-2010, 09:51 AM
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Switches were for rear windows. Who knows why they installed them in the first place.
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07-21-2010, 10:06 AM
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Thanks for posting the pictures of this car, they bring back many memories...... I worked for several independant NASCAR teams in the sixties and worked for Roy several times. I remember the car being almost destoryed in practice at Richmond, Va. Roy was injuried and was taken to the hospital. A couple of us took the car to the local Pontiac dealership and worked most of the night making repairs. Another independant Pontiac racer, Worth McMillion drove the car in the race on Sunday as Roy was pretty banged up. Roy was a great guy and good freind who left us way to early.
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07-21-2010, 11:53 AM
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VERY interesting. I had NO idea that a GP was ever run in NASCAR events.
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07-21-2010, 03:05 PM
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For those of you who haven't seen this you realy need to. Keith and the bodyshop did a great job on it and it ooozes cool!
The only thing I think is missing on that car is myself making hotlaps in it at a super speedway!
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07-21-2010, 05:29 PM
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I've got an August 1969 issue of Stock Car Racing with that car on the cover and a profile story of Roy. Great job on the restoration of it.
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07-21-2010, 08:16 PM
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If you want to find out more about the driver owner Roy Tyner the folks that were with the car at POCI told me to do a search on the web using his name.......there is a good bit of info and statistics about Roy and his Pontiacs as well as some of the other brands he drove during his career.
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07-28-2010, 11:29 AM
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nascar
i found this pic awhile back love the look of the nascar grandprix. years back i wanna say i seen it in a book or a magazine where they had a line of grandprix coming out of a corner on some oval track.
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07-28-2010, 11:41 AM
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Like the custom wrapped steering wheel. Old school.
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#12
07-30-2010, 11:05 PM
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Found these on the net,
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07-30-2010, 11:07 PM
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one more,
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#14
07-31-2010, 09:20 AM
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THat's Tyner's 67 GTO that he ran in 68. (notice in the pic nobody is looking at him..) He had been running Chevies in the previous few years. Probably the only early GTO in nascar a few later ones 69 upwere run. HB Bailey ran Grand Ams after 72, up to 77 with Pontiac power.
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#15
08-27-2010, 07:49 PM
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I wonder if the car originally used a factory tilt column. I don't think I've ever noticed that (or thought about it) on any vintage NASCAR race car.
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#16
08-27-2010, 10:27 PM
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Supposedly true per one of the guys that worked with Roy in 69-70. Why? I don't know. It was one of the unique items that identified the car in 92 when I bought it.
As we were restoring the car we had been in contact with "Tiger" Tom Pistone, who has a shop in Charlotte with NOS race stuff. While in a conference call with Glenn and Tom, Pistone remarked about the column as well. Neither me nor Glenn had mentioned it to him previously. Maybe it was "to make yourself comfortable" when he was driving. (Both onthe track and off...Roy used to set up the car on public roads... More on this in the future.) Doesn't seem to aid getting in or out of the thing. It also probably has one of the nicest original wood wheels left in the world under all the tape. |
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