[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

After John Delorean moved onto Chevrolet in early 1969 Jim Wangers soon left the Ad agency and Ace Wilson Sr. sold the Royal Racing Team to George Delorean. A memo from John Delorean that all high performance parts, blocks, heads etc. will be picked up. All of the items went to George and his Leader Automotive in Ferdale.

Basicly, the hand writting was on the wall and the new PMD general manager and PMD head engineer would no longer be budgeting Royal Pontiac from engineering R&D fund. The support that Jim Wangers and Ace Wilson's Royal Pontiac had gotten from Knudsen, Estes and Delorean was now over.

Here is Leader Automotive/Royal Racing Teams' Firebird 350 HO now running in the 11.0's. Remember that John Politzer had this car running in th 11.80's and were asked to leave a East Coast event.