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Old 01-27-2020, 08:42 PM
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Many of you know about this and I'm sure some don't. The story about the Catalina starts near the bottom. Couple of pictures I hadn't seen before. Very cool they used a 421 Catalina convertible. I wonder what happened to them?

https://hooniverse.com/nasa-built-a-...space-shuttle/

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Old 01-27-2020, 09:01 PM
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That is a great story! I had no idea of a Pontiac connection to NASA, especially anything like this!

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Very cool story!

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Old 01-27-2020, 10:40 PM
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The article says they, NASA, had slicks installed on the car. Perhaps the scientists DID have some off the record fun in mind for this car. Curious.

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The article misspells the name of the shop that did the work...it was Bill Stroppe, not Bill Straub. I always thought it was interesting they took it to him, since he was more well known for his work on Fords.

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F'ing Incredible .
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Thanks for sharing.

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Very cool. Never knew about this. Thanks so much for sharing.

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Never heard of this before-- AWESOME!!!! Thanks for sharing!

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Old 01-29-2020, 10:46 PM
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I completely understand what you're saying about click links. I try to keep them to car only web sites anymore, no more MSN! There seem to be so many newbies here I had to share this. Thought I saw something about it in Pontiac Enthusiast years ago and that there was more than one Catalina?

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