[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

On Saturday I gave Keith Seymore several of the orginal magzinze articles on the Black Bird, Silver Bullet, Mike Fon's '57 Vette and Mike McGauri's '69 Camaro. I am hoping that they will be able to be enlarged through the thumbnails.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

I have been invited to have the Black Bird at "Dream Cruise Central". Duggan's Irish Pub, Woodward just north of 13 Mile Rd, on Tuesday on "Pete's Wall". This is the south parking lot of Duggan's. John "The Cheater" Politzer with be with me. I'm planning on being there after 1PM until about 7PM.

On Saturday I will have the Black Bird and my '68 GTO Bobcat at Jim Fresard Buick - GMC along with the Royal Pontiac Club of America. Woodward and 8 1/2 Mile Rd. Ferndale. From 7AM until 6PM. Brian Ballish, the Black Bird's engine builder and caretaker under Jim Wangers will be with us at Freasard.

John Politzer has to attend a wedding out of state and will not be with us on Saturday.

[rad400]

Eric thanks for doing that I am really would love to read those articles.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Hopefully, when Keith is done cruising Woodward this week. I'm sure he'll have more time after Sunday of Dream Cruise week to sort through the articles I gave him. That is in between work and sleep.

[Keith Seymore]

Ya - I think Eric got the easier part of this deal....

[SD421]

Thanks again for the trouble to post those articles. Greatly appreciated!
BTW I sure wished I lived nearby, I would love to spend some time talking to Brian Ballish and hear the stories first hand.

Don

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Sorry about that Keith.

I was at Duggan's "Dream Cruise Central" last night with the Blackbird. WOMC 104.3, the Dream Cruise Office radio station, interviewed me about the Blackbird. The D.J. followed up with an interview of John Politzer "Cheater". John had no idea that the broadcast was live and wouldn't give his name other then say he was known as "Cheater". The D.J. quested him about all of his exploits. John gave him some stories but never his name. John said to me later I hope they edit it. That is when I told him it was "live". He just laughed.

Traffic was heavy with Muscle Cars and Classics. Great night for being out on Woodward.

Several people knew the 'Bird in its day. One gentleman's cousin had just sold his low 1968 Black Hemi Charger to Director Ron Howard for a movie he is doing. The Charger ran the Blackbird. He said it was very eye opening as when they raced all he say was the tail lights of the Blackbird disappearing in the distance. John Politzer heard the story and just smiled.

Another guy who knew the Blackbird back in the day wouldn't stop bothering us with questions about the car. He finally said all of you guys, Jim Wangers, Frank Ulbrick, John and I still won't give out any info about how fast and what is under the hood. John just smiled and said it's a Chevy. After several hours the guy just gave up.

[rad400]

I hope I can make it to Woodward cruise one day.

[Keith Seymore]

Here are the re-scans of the previous articles. I did them in half page increments in an attempt to make them more readable:

[Keith Seymore]

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[Keith Seymore]

A "fluff" piece on Addison's Silver Bullet:

[rad400]

Keith thanks so much for posting these articles. Eric thanks for letting Keith have these to post.

[rad400]

Keith, I was real young when this article was written so my question is could you run 12:1 compression with leaded gas back in the early 70s? If so I wish we still had leaded gas. I know race gas can be use but it is an arm and a leg and cant get it at the pumps like you could leaded gas.

[Keith Seymore]

Back then guys would run " Sunoco 260" - which was available at the Sunoco station with a mere the twist of a dial.

I buy my race fuel (Torco 110) locally at a station with a dedicated pump. There is a station closer to my house that sells Cam-2 (105 or 106 octane) as well, but I usually drive right past it on my way to get the Torco.

K

[ANDYA]

Thanks Keith, that was some interesting reading. I always enjoy reading magazine articles that were written when these cars/parts were new.

[71ModelJ]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Back then guys would run " Sunoco 260" - which was available at the Sunoco station with a mere the twist of a dial.

I buy my race fuel (Torco 110) locally at a station with a dedicated pump. There is a station closer to my house that sells Cam-2 (105 or 106 octane) as well, but I usually drive right past it on my way to get the Torco.

K

Back in the day when I was a kid I pumped Super shell. 100 octane. And at the time I had a 12to1 Boss 302 mustang. I didn't think the 100 was enough so after work I would go directly across the street and get Sunoco 260. 104 octane. Ahh the good old days!

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Thank you Keith for taking the time to cut and paste the articles onto the thread. I see you had to cut out some of the pictures to get the articles up. You most have done a lot of trial and error. We all thank you for your efforts.

Maybe when Keith finds more time he can try to get the other two one page articles up. One on Mike McGaurie's '69 RS COPO Camaro with Tunnel Ram and the other on Mike Fons' big block '57 Vette. Both of these cars where amoung the "Fastest" in Detroit.

[Keith Seymore]

The aforementioned articles, demonstrating the caliber of cars and what constituted a "street car" on Woodward back in the day:




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[Keith Seymore]

And, lastly, another piece on Addison -

[rad400]

Oh the good old days of fast cars.