[Navy Chief]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eric M. Schiffer

Chief,
Nice picture you posted along side Jim and the Jim's '65 GTO. I put the deal together for Jim to buy that '65 from one of my friends here in Detroit. Don't tell any one but that GTO originally came from California. Made its way to Detroit. Then Jim took it back to California. It was originally a white four bbl car. The prior owner, Ron Flurrie,painted it red, put a tri-power on it and had Jim Wangers personal engine builder, Ducan Michael rebuild the 389. The car sat a little higher and had all chrome rally I's on it before Jim made some changes to it to a more stock appearance.
When the car was here it ran 13.5's. I understand the engine has been gone through again resently in California and the car runs even stronger now.

Dr. Thanks for more of the inside story, Yes the 65 is a healthy beast to say the least, unforunately I never got to see it run in the 1/4, San Diego only has Barona Raceway which is an 1/8 mile, we did talk about the history of the car.
Before I left they were putting a lot of time into the Verdoro Green Firebird with some suspension work, and the engine was going to be upgraded.
Thanks for sending me the link to the RPCOA and the invitation to park at the dealer for the Woodward cruise, you did mention some of your members are from Ohio any of them from Toledo or nearby? I will try to attend one of your meetings time willing.
Maybe I can go with my 66.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Originally Posted by Navy Chief

Dr. Thanks for more of the inside story, Yes the 65 is a healthy beast to say the least, unforunately I never got to see it run in the 1/4, San Diego only has Barona Raceway which is an 1/8 mile, we did talk about the history of the car.
Before I left they were putting a lot of time into the Verdoro Green Firebird with some suspension work, and the engine was going to be upgraded.
Thanks for sending me the link to the RPCOA and the invitation to park at the dealer for the Woodward cruise, you did mention some of your members are from Ohio any of them from Toledo or nearby? I will try to attend one of your meetings time willing.
Maybe I can go with my 66.

Navy Chief,
Here are some photos of the '65 GTO before Ron Flurie sold it to Jim Wangers. The pictures are our Royal Pontiac display at the 1994 Detroit Autorama.

I also added photos of the Detroit based Judge when I displayed with the Royal Pontiac Club at the 1996 Detroit Autorama. I had "Akron" Arlen Vankye pose with the Judge. Notice the monitors next to the car. Real funny that Jim Wangers happen to come up on one and the Judge ad on the other. The Judge had not been modified yet. It had its original Ram Air III under the hood here.

Eric

[Navy Chief]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eric M. Schiffer

Navy Chief,
Here are some photos of the '65 GTO before Ron Flurie sold it to Jim Wangers. The pictures are our Royal Pontiac display at the 1994 Detroit Autorama.

I also added photos of the Detroit based Judge when I displayed with the Royal Pontiac Club at the 1996 Detroit Autorama. I had "Akron" Arlen Vankye pose with the Judge. Notice the monitors next to the car. Real funny that Jim Wangers happen to come up on one and the Judge ad on the other. The Judge had not been modified yet. It had its original Ram Air III under the hood here.

Eric

Dr.
Great pics of a legendary racer and a legendary car, thanks for posting.

Sorry I did not get to meet you at the Dream Cruise, I had the 66 GTO ready to go, it had been running great all week and then as soon as I backed out of the driveway to head north the waterpump to a dump, at least it had the decency to do it in my house.
I did make it up there even tho it was not with a Pontiac, my 69 Ranchero GT had a full tank of gas so up we went. Maybe next year.

BTW I was just at www.moparts.com and they were talking about the HEMI myth and the Blackbird was mentioned but some trash was said about it, offcourse about the times it ran the Silver Bullet.