[Brian Baker]

Originally Posted by pont406

Here's some pics of the Champion Automotive sponsored 1st gen Firebird Funny car. built by Duane Muelling, with help from Tom Nell, this car featured a sliding engine cradle that would let you move the motor/tranny to 3 different locations in the chassis, had 3 different length driveshafts for the swap! Hilborn injected pontiac power, it was a "freshly"built car at the article writing, but ran 162 MPH it's first run down the track! (No ET listed)

Although not mainstream, there were many cars built like this, even into the mid-late 70's. The reason for moving the engine around was to "tune the chassis" for whatever track conditions you were dealing with.

[tom s]

that is a altered wheel base car he did after I took my car back.This pic is of my car when he was racing it.Tom

[tom s]

here is a group of pics in the diff colors it was over the years.The light blue was 1966.Tom

[jusjay]

I think this picture is from late 63 just before MT and Jess started playing around with the Ford ThunderBolt program, Tom S. jump in here anytime and help me out with the dates and place. I think It was Bill Barry Pontiac on Commonwealth.

[Brian Baker]

One of my favorite Jungle Pam pictures. My other is the fishnet top.

[evil455]

Originally Posted by Brian Baker

One of my favorite Jungle Pam pictures. My other is the fishnet top.

if you have a picture of it, post it up for us to see.

[NHRASuperStock455SD]

http://www.junglepam.com/photos.html

[Wareagle]

Did anyone here meet or talk to JIM CHRISTENSEN who bought one of MT's 63 421SD Tempests. The car ruled the street's of SO CAL around 1965.

[HotCat_63]

And where is that car today???

Kinda makes ya wonder how many more Super Duty's will be found!

[SD421]

Originally Posted by Wareagle

Did anyone here meet or talk to JIM CHRISTENSEN who bought one of MT's 63 421SD Tempests. The car ruled the street's of SO CAL around 1965.

Wareagle,
I met Jim Christianson in 95 at the Tiger Run in Oregon. Real sweetheart of a guy. He also came down and spent Memorial Day Weekend in 96 at my mom's house to hang out and talk.. what else..but his 1963 Super Duty LeMans Coupe!!

Funny story he told me about a guy in his Vette had come upon Jim & ALOT of other kids hanging out & starting talking trash about his Vette being the fastest etc.etc..

So, from what I remember Jim told the guy to put up or shutup and then meetup at this certain place to street race. So the guy takes off ahead of Jim . He has this fine girl thats in the car with him
& so Jim proceeds to fire the LeMans up and drive over to where they were going to race.

So Jim pulls up in the Super Duty and the guys almost sh*ts himself because this LeMans is making a helluva lot more noise than it should. So than the guy starts to back down but everyone is out there now to watch this vette blow the little white Pontiac outta the weeds.

To make a long story short, Jim beat him sooo bad that the girl this guy had with him got into a fight over it and Jim wound up taking her with him after the race. He dated her for a couple of years I think after that.

Pics are of Jim & Me in 1995 at Tiger Run in Oregon & his autograph in Pete McCarthy's book in 1996

-Don

[goatman65]

Been trying to upload a couple pics for weeks but it aint happening.I suck with computers,really.Ill have to get somebody else to do it. Maybe a 5 yr old!

[moegoat]

Here are some more present day shots of the Gray Ghost's archaic underpinnings, imagine running 8 second times with this. Can you say hold on to your butt????? The drivers of these must have had balls of steel racing these beasts.
Pretty rough, all there but engine/trans.
Check out the spindle mount wheels real magnesium as are the rear slots.

[Jack Gifford]

What's with the two pieces of steel welded to the top of the banjo housing? It looks like they decided to eliminate rear suspension at some point in time? I can't see that the tops of the pieces are attached to the chassis cross-tube, but they appear to be right up tight against it.

[moegoat]

Originally Posted by pontiac jack

What's with the two pieces of steel welded to the top of the banjo housing? It looks like they decided to eliminate rear suspension at some point in time? I can't see that the tops of the pieces are attached to the chassis cross-tube, but they appear to be right up tight against it.

Appears to be a centering/locating device, notice no panhard rod. It is slotted & the suspension does move freely up & down. Hope that answers your ???

[Keith Seymore]

Thanks guys. Just a few more...







You might recognize someone here:







Lastly, again not Pontiac related, but is this a hard launch or what?!

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by moegoat

Here are some more present day shots of the Gray Ghost's archaic underpinnings, imagine running 8 second times with this. Can you say hold on to your butt????? The drivers of these must have had balls of steel racing these beasts.
Pretty rough, all there but engine/trans.
Check out the spindle mount wheels real magnesium as are the rear slots.

Scary stuff.

I thought it might be fun to do a tribute to Dick Jesse's '65 "Mr Unswitchable", but when I saw some of the workmanship (ie, spacing the body up with stacks of washers, etc) I thought I would stick with more modern technology...

K

[Keith Seymore]

I was looking for the photos I have of the above "Mr Unswitchable" build (couldn't find them) but I did find these.

I apologize for not putting them in any kind of order but there is a lot here:

Car life:


Drag Racing:




Speed and Supercar:



Cars:

[Keith Seymore]

...
Rock Running:


Gay Pontiac:




Photo montage from Car Craft:


Notice anything wrong with the Royal car?:

[Jerry H.]

Great pics Keith. I'm shooting you a PM.

[billygoatii]

Notice anything wrong with the Royal car?:

Great pics! Thanks for sharing. The Royal pic is reversed, lettering is mirror image and the driver is on the right side of the car instead of the left.