[Dr HEMI]

Scratch built for me by my Dad.

He put me in it at 4 and said no instruction was necessary - I took right to it.

I do not recall ever being "supervised".

It ran on gasoline; about as fast as a riding mower.

The '55 Chevy shown in the background was brand new.

It had forward and reverse.

Hand hammered steel bodywork with a cut-down Lasalle gril.

The dual sidepipes were functional.

It was featured in Popular Science and The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

From our Saturday gatherings. You have to remember many of these guys are form the industry so it is not your average cars.

First you have Mark Steilow's 1969 Camaro called the Red Devil. It is all over Youtube. You may have even seen the car in the Optima battery comercial. It is modern ZR-1 powered. Mark is a suspension engineer at the GM Proving Grounds and was on the Camaro and Corvette programs. Mark also wrote a book on the subject of building one of these.

There is a picture of a blue sports car. This car was built by Herb Adams. Herb was the guy who brought you the original Pontiac Trans Am and took his wives 1964 Tempest and went road racing with it. Herb left Pontiac Special Projects in 1973 after disputs with the new management over his 455 SD Trans Am program.

Then we have Ken Lingenfelter, Lingenfelter Engineering, who brings something new when he gets it. Like his FF this time.

How about a FX recreation that now on display at Walter P. Chrysler. It was street driven to the morning gathering.

[Greg Reid]

Cool pics Gents....keep 'em coming.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Here is a one off:
The late Bill Mitchell, Head GM Design, his Mangusta which was built by Detomaso with a 327, 350HP Chevrolet engine. Bill sent the 327 to Detomaso for the installation.

Oh, in case you did not know...this is the "Black Bird". I bring it out too.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Here are a few cars built by Ex- GM Designer Steve Pastiener. Steve built the Buick Blackhawk that Barrett Jackson sold from the Buick collection a few years ago for several hundred thousand dollars.

A customer wanted to buy that Buick but GM would not sell it to him. That car was a four seater. He tracked Steve down and had him build a simular car.

This time Steve began with a 1939 La Salle Business coupe, a Mercedes 320 SLK, a Dana 44 independent rear end and corvette suspension. The frame is all hand build is most of car. All items from the La Salle and 320 had been modified to fit.

Steve is the guy who had built 200 of the C5 Commerative that looks like a 1953 Vette. He is still doing C5 Nomads and a car he calls the Heldo. A Northstar power mid engine wedge.

He is now building a 1930's Duecey clone for a customer. Along the way he has done several C1 Corvettes for companies like Borla. I may have pictures of a few of those customer cars too.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Few more pictures of Herb Adams and his Contessa along side Steve Pastiener's C5 Nomad.

How about this bike?

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Here is a Staurday morning that Steve Pasteiner brought the newly finished C1 Corvette for the Borla Exhaust Company SEMA display...

You just never know what shows up Saturday mornigns. From a Brass Era car to Rat Rod, to pre production cars.

For some reason I can't down load the picture I took a few weeks ago when we had a Fysker and 2013 Corvette 427 show with a brass era Whipitt

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

How about a Vector?

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

A few rare items

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Ok! Enough of this sampling...I think I got a little carried away.LOL

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

For our Mopar friends. This is a car bilt by a friend of mine, Gordon Heidecker.

I'll try and find the Trans Am he also builds aount my pictures. Gordon's late father was a Cheif Engineer for PMD and worked on the 1969 Trans Am program.

Gordon built a "tribute" to one of the engineering 1969 Firebirds. A 1969 Carousel Red Trans Am convertible. He uses it in the back ground of his promotional photos of the "new" 1969 Trans Am he builds off the current Camaro.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

I found Gordon's T/A based on the new Camaro. Some where I also have Ken Lingenfelter bringing a couple of his Trans Am creations off the new Camaro that he has brought on a Saturday morning.

[Dr HEMI]

WoW! Sensory overload!

Familiar names all.

A friend of mine has John Cafaro's Corvette Speedster.





A few of his other cars....row of Z06 Corvettes and Specialty built 600 hp
supercharged Camaros plus lots of others.

[Tenney]

'Ol Woodward rig in the mix ...

http://www.speedandmotion.com/pictur...012/index.html

Burbank last Saturday ...

http://www.speedandmotion.com/pictur...012/index.html

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Those are some very nice cars.

One of my friends, Ken Lingenfelter will open his over 200 car collection for the public. Rather then me try to post my pictures of his cars from the three different rooms I just cut and past the links to videos from youtube from over the last few years.

Ken has sold some of the cars and added new ones since. The three rooms are divided up, first the exotics, next all Corvettes then muscle cars. Ken helped Reeves Calloway out during his divorce and purchased a couple speedsters and V12's.

I beleive it was in the Corvette Forum that some one caught me standing behind Ken's dark blue Vector. Yes, there are two Vector's in the Detroit are. Although the white one was apart of the original run.

I should be somewhere in the 2010 video also. It starts out with two of my friends just past the Bricklin, Bill Klausing, big guy with wine color jacket back to you, and Lorin Buzinski in black jacket looking at Bill. I know I had to have been there too.

Enjoy.
2010 - 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yapftz-L_6w
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_orKf63uz8
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnG90VjExWI
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZQY13NbRU
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8geLtWlImxk

[Greg Reid]

Put the engine in it, hook up the exhaust and forget the interior...except for the driver's seat....and drive!

[ANDYA]

Originally Posted by Greg Reid

Put the engine in it, hook up the exhaust and forget the interior...except for the driver's seat....and drive!

I wish it was that easy Greg, but the car is a total restoration and hasn't been driven yet. I would still need to get a wheel alignment, break in the new rear, new clutch, brakes etc. The car needs to be road tested locally for at least a few hundred miles before I can go anywhere. I really thought the car was going to be ready by the spring but thats how it goes.

[Greg Reid]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I was just having a little fun at your expense. I have two GTOs around here and I ain't even driving my own cars.

[Dr. Eric M. Schiffer]

Ok, I think I finally got it. I hope my 2012 Norwalk pictures loaded.

We found a 1967 GTO in the same unusal color combination as the two 1967 GTO's used in the "switch". White coupe with black vinyl top and red interior.

You know the story when Dave Warren was sent out to race a past Royal customer who bought a new 1967 Hemi because he didn't think the new '67 GTO 400 Bobcat was as fast as a Hemi. Jim Wangers sent Dave out and raced and beat the ex- customer with the Royal automatic test car. The automatic car had the basic Bobcat kit on it. No head porting no cam etc.

Dave was told to only race the customer and bring the car back. Well, Dave felt pretty good about how the new '67 ran and a couple year old Vette with a big mouthguy driving egged Dave on. Dave took up the challenge and lost. The Vette owner told everyone how badly he beat Royal. This pissed off Jim.

Since they also had a blue printed 4 speed twin 1967 GTO taht no one had seen yet. It was thought they could pull a switch on this guy and on one would notice. The word was put out that after Dave race the Hemi a rocker fell off and he was only running on 7 cly and wanted a rematch. The two GTO's not only looked a like but their license plates where only one number apart. (look earlier in this thread and you will see the two cars. One picture has Dick Jesse in the automatic car on the left and John Politzer in the stick car on the right)

The Vette guy felling real good about his win excepted the challenge. The Royal car showed up at the restaurant with John "Cheater" Politzer at the wheel of the automatic car. Everyone wanted to see under the hood of the Vette but he said it would cost them $100 to see under the hood. No hoods where lifted. They agreed to meet on the freeway then after the race they would meet back at the restaurant.

On the way to the freeway John took a slight detour off the main road and jumped into the 4 speed blue printed Bobcat. John lined up against the Vette. They launched and John never looked back. The guy in the Vette was so stunned he never even realized that John had shifted three times.

On the way back to the restaurant John switched back to the automatic car. When they got back the guy in the Vette came over to pay the $100 and admit that the Royal Bobcat where fast. Jim Wangers told him to hold onto his money and lifted the hood of the GTO declaring they had nothing to hide.

A few months later several articles on the two GTO's appeared in several magazines. The guy in the Vette came yelling at Jim Wangers and the guys that he had been had! The Royal guys just laughted at him and told him he'll just ever know.

Here are a few pictures of the original Geeto Tiger "Mystery" driver, John "Cheater" Politzer, along side the new Geeto Tiger who took on and beat many of the professional racers of the time. John did not see very many red lights. He would stand near the starting line practicing his reaction against the lights until it was time for him to run. Practice makes perfect!

There is a photo of the original 1966 Geeto Tigers being towed. That is John "Cheater" Politzer in the driver's seat. Many times people think it is Milt Schorneck in the photos. John Politzer and Milt have almost identical profiles. But they look nothing a like straight on. John was the only 1966 Mystery Tiger until the very last race to reveal the "Tiger". Then John had to race, without the Tiger suit, against a poor driving George Hurst who now wore the Tiger Suit. John had to really sand bag to loose this one. Then George Hurst was unmasked as the "Mystery Tiger". Some guys get all the credit while others get none. lol

Another picture of John "Cheater" Politzer flanked by Dave Anderson, current Geeto Tiger driver and Jim Wangers at the 2012 Tri-Power Nationals at Norwalk.

[Dr HEMI]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eric M. Schiffer

Ok, I think I finally got it.

Dr. Eric - Somewhat but not quite. Those expandable thumbnails suck a lot
of bandwidth out of your forum. Better to load the photos onto a web
hosting site like Photobucket or Fotki and then copy their address links
into the field that opens up when you click the square yellow box (second
from the right above where you type your message). This way you can post
large pictures and there are no detrimental effects to this website. Here are
your pics after processing through my Photobucket account.