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came across this video, but with no background info to go with it, hope folks here can tell me more about it, I believe the video was done in spring 1990, depicting event from January 1957.

When Semon “Bunkie” Knudsen was put in charge of revitalizing Pontiac, part of his plan was to get involved and achieve some success in various forms of auto racing. So in January 1957 at Daytona Beach a 347 tri-power Pontiac driven by John Zink set a one-way speed record on the flying mile.

Interested in more details about the original event, was this Pontiac's first racing success in the Bunkie Knudsen era? About the car? About John Zink?

But also interested in this tribute video, when and where has this video been shown before, who was involved in making it, when was it done, is there a better (or longer) version, assume the car used is a re-creation, who owned it at the time, where is it now, etc.

It is my understanding this video was shown at a regional POCI convention in the early 1990’s (possibly 1993) and may have been shown at a POCI national convention.

Note: click image to play, you don't need facebook account to view video, best with the volume cranked to really enjoy the Patrick Stewart narration

John Zink at Daytona Beach 1957 Tribute