[bluejudge]

Originally Posted by Hesster1977

These (2) guy's were instrumental in Pontiac Performance. I attached a few of their Catalogue pages for reference and some nostalgia. I have had these since 1977.

You could buy from Nunzi a SD455 short block for $660, and the SD455 Heads for $270. Good luck finding any of this today.
I did buy RAIII heads from him at $100/ea, and his custom cast aluminum Oil Pan for $80. I passed on the SD Rods at $450, and found them from a local guy who parted his SD engine out, and got them for "only" $200. My machining shop wanted to buy them on the spot - I said like, no.

Next post will be some Herb's catalogue stuff

I just recently watched an episode of Dennis Collins Coffee Walk on YouTube. He was buying a 72 Trans Am from his friend Tom who you see on Gas Monkey Garage and Misfit Garage. He then bought a Nunzi 455 SD motor with no VIN number for $3,500. I guess it was filmed a couple of years ago. When I lived in Brooklyn I went by Nunzi’s place with my 70 Judge, he was a nice guy. I only lived about 15 minutes from him. The most GTO’s in his garage that I ever seen in Brooklyn.

[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by bluejudge

I just recently watched an episode of Dennis Collins Coffee Walk on YouTube. He was buying a 72 Trans Am from his friend Tom who you see on Gas Monkey Garage and Misfit Garage. He then bought a Nunzi 455 SD motor with no VIN number for $3,500. I guess it was filmed a couple of years ago. When I lived in Brooklyn I went by Nunzi’s place with my 70 Judge, he was a nice guy. I only lived about 15 minutes from him. The most GTO’s in his garage that I ever seen in Brooklyn.

Yep. The episode where Dennis kept referring to NUNZI as NOONZI. I yelled at the screen everytime he did it!

[Elarson]

Friends and I got to chat with Nunzi at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in the early 80's. Good guy that was willing to share his knowledge freely.

I followed Herb Adams and did a bunch of his VSE mods to my '77 T/A. Fortunately, I saved his VSE catalog. Now that I'm building a road race Firebird, I'm referring to his catalog again. National Parts Depot is selling his parts and his son is keeping the VSE products in production. I got to meet Herb and his son at the Trans Am Nationals this past August and had a good time discussing my new project. Nice guy with some interesting stories. Even though he was the suspension engineer, he designed the blue stripes for the '69 and '70 Trans Ams.

Eric