[Keith Seymore]

I'm jumping around a bit - back to the GM execs: One other GM executive that was asked to cease and desist was Fred Meissinger. Fred was high up at Chevrolet Central Office and eventually became Plant Manager at the Adrian Fab Plant, retiring from that position.

Fred was the recipient of one of the very first factory Z28 Camaros (normally I would say THE first, but I don't want to fight that battle right now). The car was prepped for road racing/hill climbs and I got to see it in action up in Empire, Michigan back in the day. Fred was very successful with this car, but it was eventually totalled when he let someone else drive and the kid put the car into the haybales.



That's me with the screwdriver in my hand. I am smiling because I am about to put a "super tune up" on that very early crossram equipped Z28 parked behind me.

The leg you see at the left of the photo belongs to my dad; he is about to take the screwdriver away from me before I touch it to that very early crossram equipped Z28 parked behind me...







Note the supreme back-in-the-day tow vehicle: the requisite Kingswood wagon, complete with fake woodgrain on the side. I'm confident it was a GM company vehicle.

The Corvette belonged to Fred's friend Denny Hall. Denny also ended up quite high up at Chevrolet Central Office and was the one that invited Dad to come work for him at CPC Advanced Manufacturing Engineering.

One other bit of trivia is that when Dad went to work at Advanced Manufacturing his office was in the Pontiac Engineering Building on Joslyn; the very same Pontiac Engineering building he used to visit so many years before when he was racing with Royal.