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#421
05-06-2022, 12:59 PM
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#422
05-07-2022, 02:39 AM
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Inside the 1966 Pontiac OHC 6 https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...pontiac-ohc-6/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...55-pontiac-v8/ https://www.pontiacv8.com/articles/2...guts-amp-glory https://www.pontiacv8.com/blog/2022/...ional-champion 1970 + half, is rare with a red interior! |
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#423
05-07-2022, 02:44 AM
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Closest to this is my 1981 Camaro z-28 that used the red interior, cloth seats with vinal around them. The door panels were also a combo of the same materials. Everything else was red also. It made the car a pleasure to get into. https://www.pontiacv8.com/articles/2...last-one-built https://www.pontiacv8.com/articles/2...ble-collection Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-07-2022 at 03:37 AM. |
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05-07-2022, 04:38 AM
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#425
05-08-2022, 06:07 AM
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https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...st-rope-drive/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...as-sweetheart/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...nce-1957-1991/ https://youtu.be/De-QMy3I2E8 https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...i-power-story/ https://youtu.be/yqR0ebOcrxM https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...njection-1957/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...pest-trophy-4/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...eneral-motors/ https://youtu.be/B6tXHQLp4Rc https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...empest-lemans/ https://youtu.be/RV-RVp6kq4w https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...er-came-to-be/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...ntiac-ram-air/ The original muscle car, the Royal Bobcat GTO was the baby of a burgeoning Detroit subculture, one not sanctioned by the big automakers of the early 1960s. In a post-World War II America hungry for chrome, flash and speed, Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak, Michigan, modified and sold its souped-up versions of GTOs to customers, and in the process created a demand for custom street racers in America. Founded by Ace Wilson, the Royal name became synonymous with speed. This book outlines the history of the Royal Bobcat GTO, from the people--including Milt Schornack, the mechanic who raced for Royal Pontiac and was responsible for the custom Bobcats--to the fabled midnight test runs on northern Detroit's famous Woodward Avenue. Fourteen chapters, illustrated with 25 photographs of vintage GTOs, the infamous Car & Driver Road test photos against a Ferrari GTO, and more, chronicle the history of a car that changed the focus of the Detroit auto industry for the next decade. Former editor-in-chief of Hot Rod Magazine Ro McGonegal contributes a foreword. https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...eese-pontiacs/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...nating-secret/ https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/...55-pontiac-v8/ 1966-02-01 Pontiac's New Overhead Camshaft Six Cylinder Tempest Engine 660126 Pontiac's new overhead camshaft six-cylinder Tempest engine utilizes a neoprene, glass fiber reinforced, timing belt for its camshaft drive. The successful application of this timing belt provides a quiet, reliable drive for the overhead camshaft. This engine incorporates for the first time hydraulically actuated zero valve lash compensation in an overhead camshaft valve mechanism. In its standard version, the new engine is equipped with a one-barrel carburetor and uses regular fuel, while a four-barrel premium fuel option is also offered. Increased engine performance, high rpm potential, economy of operation, good idle characteristics, smoothness and durability at high engine speeds, and exceptional ease of servicing have been achieved. https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-cars-of-canada/ |
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#426
05-08-2022, 07:00 AM
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Good to see these guys racing new versions of their past race cars today while showing their old cars through the current owners in show fashion. |
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#427
05-08-2022, 07:12 AM
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Nichels Nichels Engineering was an American racing car builder and team owner. It was run by crew chief / mechanic Ray Nichels. History It competed in many genres of racing starting in Midget car racing. From there, the team progressed to Indy cars including the Indianapolis 500, land speed records, and NASCAR Grand National Series. After driver Paul Goldsmith won the 1957 Daytona Beach Road Course race, Nichels became the primary car builder for Pontiac; it took over the role for all of the Chrysler products in 1963. Nichels-built stock cars won national races in USAC, NASCAR, Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA) and International Motor Contest Association (IMCA). The team won the 1961 and 1962 USAC Stock Car championship with Goldsmith and the 1967 championship with Don White. Nichels cars competed in two FIA World Championship races – the 1950 and 1954 Indy 500. Awards Ray Nichels was named to the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2010. Mike wants to know if there is any more data about the Nichels Engineering 2 Transaxles being joined to make one winning Tempest? https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....0715c2e953dfb6 https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....sement-bessie/ https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....ready-to-race/ https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....0-johnny-pawl/ Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-08-2022 at 08:06 AM. |
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#428
05-08-2022, 08:30 AM
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https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....ig-impression/ https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....ig-impression/ Region Racers at the Indianapolis 500 – Dale “Tiny” Worley By: Wm. LaDow 388 Although he was nicknamed “Tiny,” he cast an enormous shadow over much of the American auto racing scene in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Dale “Tiny” Worley began his life in the laid-back farming countryside of western Illinois. His life ended abruptly in the Cline Avenue shop of Nichels Engineering while on the phone with Johnny Pawl. On that sad day in June of 1964, “Tiny” was doing what had been his vocation for almost 25 years: building world-class race cars. So talented at what he did, his employer (and life long friend) Ray Nichels had business cards printed up that sported the words “I’ll Take All the Work that TINY Can Do” just below the nationally recognized Nichels Engineering logo. Nichels already knew what many would eventually learn — that there was no one better at building racecars than “Tiny” Worley. Getting Started … Worley’s first big break in racing came about in 1940, when he took a mechanic’s job offered him by Rudy Nichels, Ray’s father. By 1941, Tiny had become the chief mechanic for a young Tinley Park, Ill., driver by the name of Melvin Eugene “Tony” Bettenhausen. Together Worley and Bettenhausen, in the Nichels Service No. 1 Offy Midget, became the scourge of the midget racing ranks across the Midwest. After a series of local track championships at Chicago’s Riverview Park Raceway, Blue Island’s Raceway Park, and the Milwaukee Mile with Bettenhausen, Worley became the chief mechanic for Johnnie Parsons’ 1948 Midwest midget car racing championship run. With those successes behind him, Tiny moved up to Indycars. By 1950 he was working for Murrell Belanger’s operation in Lowell and traveling across the country racing on the AAA Championship Trail. He was a co-chief mechanic in the 1951 Indy 500 with Johnny Pawl, and immediately rejoined the Belanger Team after the 500 to be an integral part of Bettenhausen’s AAA National Championship run in the legendary Belanger No. 99 Kurtis-Kraft. Worley worked the next four Indy-car seasons (and 500s) for Belanger alongside brilliant chief mechanic Frenchy Sirois, wrenching for some of the best drivers in the business, including Jim Rathmann, Art Cross, Paul Russo, and Bettenhausen. In late 1956, Worley returned to work with Ray Nichels, who by this time had founded Nichels Engineering. Ray and Tiny worked and managed three significant motorsports programs. Ray was running sprint car champion Pat O’Connor’s Kurtis-Kraft Indycar program, managing the Firestone Racing tire test program. Lastly, Nichels Engineering was now the “house” builder for GM-Pontiac’s stock car program. Daytona Double … In 1957, Tiny Worley’s skills became apparent when, while working with Nichels, he participated in capturing both the pole (with Banjo Matthews) and the race (with Cotton Owens) at Daytona. The next Nichels Engineering undertaking was the setting of several world closed-course speed records at Monza, Italy, with O’Connor behind the wheel of the Firestone Racing test car and then finally capturing the pole for the Indianapolis 500 with the Nichels Engineering-prepped Kurtis-Kraft No. 12 Sumar Special, also piloted by O’Connor. During the next six years, Tiny Worley balanced his duties at Nichels Engineering between building championship-winning Pontiac stock cars and magnificently fast Indycars. Worley’s involvement with Nichels Engineering and working with brilliant engineers such as Ted Halibrand of Halibrand Engineering, along with Mac McKellar and John DeLorean of GM-Pontiac, generated a series of newly-engineered racing components, both chassis, and powertrain. When Tiny wasn’t the co-chief mechanic on Nichels’ cars at Indy, he was in charge of his own entries for Bettenhausen, Paul Goldsmith, and Jim Hurtubise. In 1960, Tiny, Ray, and Goldsmith finished third in the 500, and in 1961, Worley’s entry with Hurtubise started the race on the front row. In 1961 and 1962, Worley’s efforts on the stock car side of the business saw two USAC National Championships captured by Nichels Engineering. In 1962 and ’63, Nichels Engineering-built Pontiacs won National Stock Car Championships in NASCAR. Famed Pontiac … Worley and Nichels combined to construct one of the most revered Pontiac stock cars ever built, the Pontiac 421 Super-Duty Tempest LeMans that beat the competition by more than five miles at Daytona in 1963. So beautifully engineered by Worley, Mercedes-Benz made an offer to purchase the car from Nichels Engineering that was so lucrative that Nichels couldn’t pass it up. nichels-engineering-pontiac-tempest-lemans2 Mercedes promptly took the car back to Germany and dissected it to learn just what Tiny had engineered. Once the documentation had been filed away by the engineers at Mercedes-Benz, the vehicle was destroyed. Worley’s next engineering milestone was the development of the Nichels Chrysler Hemi in late 1963, early ’64. The results of his work were evident when Goldsmith set a new world’s closed-course stock car speed record of 174.910 mph, taking the 1964 Daytona 500 pole at almost 15 miles per hour faster than the 1963 Daytona pole-winner Fireball Roberts’ qualifying speed of 160.943 mph. Nichels Engineering-built cars then went on to win both qualifying races and the 500-mile race, a virtual sweep of Daytona Speedweeks. But only a few months later, on June 6, while on the phone with Johnny Pawl, a massive heart attack silenced the 45-year-old Worley forever. A husband, a father, and a world-class mechanic, he left this world much too soon. But no one can say that Dale “Tiny” Worley didn’t achieve a lifetime’s worth of accomplishments in his short time on this earth. https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....ountless-wins/ https://videos.files.wordpress.com/i...outube_dvd.mp4 https://speedwaysightings.wordpress....jigger-sirois/ Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-08-2022 at 09:10 AM. |
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#429
05-08-2022, 10:21 AM
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Ace Wilsons Royal Pontiac "Hot Chief #2" Race Car
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#430
05-08-2022, 10:51 AM
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FYI,the #50 Lemans was built by Pontiac Engineering along with the other 13 SD Tempest.Nichels just set the car up to be a circle track car as they were setup from the factory for drag racing.At that time just normal NASCAR up grades.Looked to me they put a low rise 2-4 on it to maybe give it more TQ in the power band that he wanted and as said they installed oil coolers to make drive train live.Tom
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#431
05-09-2022, 05:26 AM
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Similar to Holman and Moody with their competition proven logo (CP)? They worked on Fords. |
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#432
05-09-2022, 05:29 AM
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Good stuff Hesster1976, I will post my Royal Info: 1968 PONTIAC ROYAL BOBCAT 428 GTO 428/425 HP, 4-Speed $240,000 Engine 428/425 HP Trans 4-Speed Color Meridian Turquoise Interior Black HIGHLIGHTS Documented Royal Bobcat 428 conversion Ordered new from Royal Pontiac by Arnie Beswick for original owner Mike Rutherford March 1968 Popular Hot Rodding magazine cover car Conversion at Royal performed by Milt Schornack and Dave Warren Raced and owned by Rutherford until 1999 Only 3 owners since new Letters from Milt Schornack and Arnie Beswick verifying this is a Royal Bobcat PHS documented Frame off restored by Muscle Car Designs of Minooka, IL Original 428/425 HP engine 4-Speed transmission Featured in June 2009 issue of Muscle Car Review Immortalized in all three sizes of diecast model Raceday graphics are applied in vinyl for easy removal and return to stock Royal Bobcat look Stock tires, wheels and hubcaps are included From the muscle car collection of Mike Guarise Royal Pontiac is widely accepted as the most significant Pontiac high performance dealer, and as the Pontiac equivalent of other "American Supercar" builders such as Nickey, Yenko, and Baldwin-Motion for Chevrolet and Grand Spaulding Dodge for Mopars. No "Supercar" collection is complete without a Royal Bobcat Pontiac, and the rarity and significance of this 1968 Royal Bobcat GTO make it truly unique. Original owner Mike Rutherford had planned to buy the car and have his good friend Arnie Beswick replace the stock Ram Air 400 engine with a 428/425 HP unit. Because of his busy racing schedule, Beswick advised Rutherford to order his new GTO from Ace Wilson’s Royal Pontiac, whose elite crew would handle the transformation. As Arnie tells it, he had to make appeals on Rutherford’s behalf to GTO Godfather Jim Wangers and “a few people at Royal”, before consummating the deal. Word of the project apparently spread, because the car’s arrival at Royal “coincided” with a visit from Popular Hot Rodding magazine photographer Lee Kelley, who took the now-famous cover shot of Royal’s Milt Schornack and Dave Warren hoisting the 428 into the car’s engine bay. Mike Rutherford, who owned the car until 1999, raced it extensively on the street for the first couple of years, with Arnie tuning the car for the occasional foray to the drag strip, where the two shared turns at the wheel. Arnie’s search for more performance in the GTO began even before its arrival at Royal when he secured a pre-production set of Ram Air II cylinder heads, which were bolted to the 428 short block prior to its installation. He took the car to JR Headers, who installed a custom-fabricated set of tubes, and he modified the front and rear suspension for improved launching, always respecting Rutherford’s caveat that the car not be cut. As Arnie Beswick recalled in a feature article on the car in the June 2009 issue of Muscle Car Review, ”Even though it was more of a street car than a race car, it did make numerous trips to some Midwestern drag strips, including Cordova, Illinois and Kahoka, Missouri. The “Boss Man” lettering was put on the car when Mike felt it had paid its dues and earned the title. That’s also when he had my name put on the fender.” The Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO was eventually acquired by noted muscle car collector Mike Guarise. Muscle Car Designs of Minooka, IL performed a frame-off restoration using primarily refinished parts original to the car, including the 428 CI engine that appeared in the famous PHR cover photo. In fact, that shot was recreated for two magazine articles when Schornack and Warren flew in to help install the engine to complete the restoration. The race day graphics, which remained on the car until Rutherford sold it in 1999, were recreated in vinyl for easy application and removal should the stock Royal Bobcat look be preferred by the new owner. In addition, the stock tires, wheels & hubcaps are included to return the car to its original Royal appearance. The Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO is unquestionably unique. Its creation was approved by Jim Wangers, its conversion was performed by celebrated Pontiac talents Milt Schornack and Dave Warren; it is the only 1968 GTO known to be associated with both Royal Pontiac and Arnie Beswick when new; it met with instant celebrity status as a magazine cover car and earned its Boss Man moniker as a street fighter cum drag racer tuned by none other than The Farmer himself - together which make the Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO singularly significant in Pontiac and Royal Bobcat history. file:///E:/Test%20Photo's%2079f%20%20DELL%20%20B%20%20%20%20% 20%20mikes%20pontiac%20documentation%20files/1968%20GTO%20Royal%20Bobcat%20-%20Muscle%20Cars.html Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-09-2022 at 06:27 AM. |
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#433
05-09-2022, 07:27 AM
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https://i0.wp.com/www.musclecarlife....g?w=1024&ssl=1 https://i1.wp.com/www.musclecarlife....g?w=1024&ssl=1 https://i1.wp.com/www.musclecarlife....g?w=1024&ssl=1 1968 GTO Royal Bobcat December 11, 2016 by Dr. Pete GTO Royal Bobcat 1968 GTO Royal Bobcat This 1968 GTO Royal Bobcat was Ordered new from Royal Pontiac by Arnie Beswick for original owner Mike Rutherford. This High Performance Conversion at Royal was performed by Milt Schornack and Dave Warren and it is a Documented Royal Bobcat 428 conversion. This GTO Royal Bobcat was the March 1968 Popular Hot Rodding magazine cover car. It was raced and owned by Rutherford until 1999 and has only had two owner since then. It still retains its original 428/425 HP engine. This 1968 GTO Royal Bobcat is a piece of American Muscle Car history. Mecum Auctions listed it and this is what they had to say about it. Royal Pontiac is widely accepted as the most-significant Pontiac high-performance dealer, and as the Pontiac equivalent of other “American Supercar” builders such as Nickey, Yenko, Baldwin-Motion for Chevrolet and Grand Spaulding Dodge for Mopars. No supercar collection is complete without a Royal Bobcat Pontiac, and the rarity and significance of this 1968 Royal Bobcat GTO make it truly unique. Original owner Mike Rutherford had planned to buy the car and have his good friend Arnie Beswick replace the stock Ram Air 400 engine with a 428/425 HP unit. Because of his busy racing schedule, Beswick advised Rutherford to order his new GTO from Ace Wilson’s Royal Pontiac, whose elite crew would handle the transformation. As Arnie tells it, he had to make appeals on Rutherford’s behalf to GTO Godfather Jim Wangers and “a few people at Royal,” before consummating the deal. Word of the project apparently spread, because the car’s arrival at Royal coincided with a visit from “Popular Hot Rodding” magazine photographer Lee Kelley, who took the now-famous cover shot of Royal’s Milt Schornack and Dave Warren hoisting the 428 into the car’s engine bay. Royal Bobcat GTO Rutherford, who owned the car until 1999, raced it extensively on the street for the first couple of years, with Beswick tuning the car for the occasional foray to the drag strip, where the two shared turns at the wheel. Beswick’s search for more performance in the GTO began even before its arrival at Royal when he secured a pre-production set of Ram Air II cylinder heads, which were bolted to the 428 short-block prior to its installation. He took the car to JR Headers, who installed a custom-fabricated set of tubes, and he modified the front and rear suspension for improved launching, always respecting Rutherford’s caveat that the car not be cut. As Beswick recalled in a feature article on the car in the June 2009 issue of “Muscle Car Review,” “Even though it was more of a street car than a race car, it did make numerous trips to some Midwestern drag strips, including Cordova, Illinois, and Kahoka, Missouri. The ‘Boss Man’ lettering was put on the car when Mike felt it had paid its dues and earned the title. That’s also when he had my name put on the fender.” The Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO was eventually acquired by noted muscle-car collector Mike Guarise. Muscle Car Designs of Minooka, Illinois, performed a frame-off restoration using primarily refinished parts original to the car, including the 428 CI engine that appeared in the famous “Popular Hot Rodding” cover photo. In fact, that shot was recreated for two magazine articles when Schornack and Warren flew in to help install the engine to complete the restoration. Royal Bobcat GTO The race day graphics, which remained on the car until Rutherford sold it in 1999, were recreated in vinyl for easy application and removal should the stock Royal Bobcat look be preferred by the new owner. In addition, the stock tires, wheels and hubcaps are included to return the car to its original Royal appearance. The Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO is unquestionably unique. Its creation was approved by Jim Wangers, its conversion was performed by celebrated Pontiac talents Milt Schornack and Dave Warren; it is the only 1968 GTO known to be associated with both Royal Pontiac and Arnie Beswick when new. It met with instant celebrity status as a magazine cover car and earned its Boss Man moniker as a street fighter and drag racer tuned by none other than “The Farmer” himself. Together, it all makes the Boss Man Royal Bobcat GTO singularly significant in Pontiac and Royal Bobcat history. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews...2f16c88c55b01a https://www.racingjunk.com/news/boss...a6d05fc17c53ab https://www.autoevolution.com/news/t...967d27#agal_13 Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-09-2022 at 08:26 AM. |
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05-09-2022, 08:39 AM
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"The Last SD Catalina"
Pikes Peak Race Car. "Only 16 guy's were allowed to order SD cars" A secret build Sheet and mysterious "Memo 1075" |
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#435
05-09-2022, 10:19 AM
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Mikes Royal Pontiac Finds:
Marlo Breding 4y ago I was blessed to co-own one of these awesome vehicles. I got mine in 1981. It needed a bit of maintenance. The clutch was gone, the M91 Muncie 4 speed needed work. The counter shaft bores were oblong from the engines massive torque. I knew a tranny shop here in Eugene and they bored the holes out and steel sleeved them along with several new gears, Syncros etc. it was upgraded. New Cloyes Tru-Roller timing chain, a highly modified Q- Jet, Acell ignition parts turned it into a fire breathing monster. GOD Knows that I wish I still had it. But my X and co- owner took it to Ohio where she blew up the 428 and sent it to the Wreckers. Reply 693 User avatar Shaggy 9y ago @ Super8: That's true, when the Pontiac GTO came back in 2004, I noticed it had a strong resemblance to a Holden Monaro, and Vauxhalls and Holdens aren't even sold in America as Vauxhalls and Holdens, the Chevrolet Caprice that some police use now is actually a rebadged Holden. Reply 581 User avatar Super8 9y ago @ Shaggy: If this car was created again today, it probably be named Royal Pain or Royal Majesty due to the fact new GTO is Holden Monaro/Vauxhall Monaro. Reply 450 User avatar Super8 9y ago Fastestlaps: I'm sorry, can you change the power to 435 Hp @ 5700 rpm? Thank you. Reply 391 User avatar Shaggy 9y ago @ Super8: This was a rare version of the Pontiac GTO, I never heard of the Bobcat Special. Reply 353 User avatar Mental 9y ago If Darth Vader had a car, this Pontiac would be his choice, I guess. LOL, don't know why, but when I saw this car, I momently thought of Darth Vader. D:> Anyway, this is an awesome classic muscle car. Shame Pontiac is gone, I'd love to see a successor to this car... Reply 312 User avatar Super8 9y ago On the other hand, according to Car Life, the Ram Air powered car "likes to run between 3000 and 6000 RPM. Below 3000, the GTO ran flat and a bit rough. Part-throttle driving at 2000 RPM around town was difficult and unpleasant. Freeway cruising at 4000 RPM is anything but pleasant and promises short life for hard working engine components. Also, driving the GTO on wet roads with this deep geared axle was thrilling. Rear tire breakaway could be provoked by a slight jab at the accelerator, sending the car into a minor skid that usually used up more than one lane of space.". This is one of 3 perfect High-Performance GTO ever made. The other is original Bobcat and Ram Air V. Reply 281 User avatar Super8 9y ago This one is special. Royal Pontiac, located in Royal Oak, Michigan, offered a 428/Royal Bobcat conversion of the 1968 GTO. For $650.00. a 390 horsepower 428 cubic engine was installed in place of the 400 cubic engines. The 428 CI engine was disassembled and blueprinted to produce more than the advertised factory 390 horsepower and easily spinning to 5700 RPM's. Car and Driver Road tested the 428 CI powered car with 3.55 gears. It could do 0-60 MPH in 5.2 seconds, 0-100 in 12.9 seconds, and the 1/4 mile in 13.8 seconds @ 104 MPH. is compared to a Car Life Road test of a 400 CI powered GTO with a Ram Air engine, 4-speed transmission, and 3.90 gear which did 0-60 in 6.6 seconds, 0-100 in 14.6 seconds, and the 1/4 mile in 14.53 @ 99.7 MPH. Car and Driver wrote that the 428 CI powered car was "a fine, exciting car for either touring or tooting around in traffic. Not overly fussy. Not difficult to drive up to a point. Too much throttle at the wrong time will spin the car, or send it rocketing off the road and into the farmer's field. You can light up the car's tires like it was an AA-fueler anytime the notion seizes your fancy." https://fastestlaps.com/models/ponti...92368c29509728 https://www.streetsideclassics.com/v...e30dc2812898a4 https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0117-26...cca7a2c7d30443 https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car...3772774c4b8f78 How many Bobcats did Royal Pontiac sell in 1966? At its peak, Royal Pontiac was selling more than 1,000 Royal Bobcat conversions per year. Royal’s best year was 1966 thanks to their modded GTO and Grand Prix. Surprisingly, Ace sold more Royal Bobcat kits through the mail than by physically installing them, making them, in essence, the first high-performance mail order dealer. What was the best year for the Royal Pontiac Bobcat? Already the most powerful mid-sized car on the market, Royal took the GTO – rechristening it the Bobcat GTO – and created a street machine worthy of national notoriety. At its peak, the Royal Pontiac was selling more than 1,000 Royal Bobcat conversions per year. Royal’s best year was 1966 thanks to their modded GTO and Grand Prix. What kind of car is a bobcat GTO? Almost immediately, Royal was performing their famous “Super tunes” on the new ’64 GTOs. Already the most powerful mid-sized car on the market, Royal took the GTO – rechristening it the Bobcat GTO – and created a street machine worthy of national notoriety. https://www.streetmusclemag.com/news...dae72924e11f31 https://www.hemmings.com/stories/201...282a0195a2c906 https://dreamcars.com/listing/1968+p...787b913eee1eb9 Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-09-2022 at 11:18 AM. |
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05-09-2022, 10:25 AM
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Around that same time Wangers had a towing accident and crumpled the aluminum on the flagship racer. When "they" (probably Dick Jesse working with engineering) went to the warehouse to get the spare set of aluminum - it was gone. I speculate that it had been pulled and allocated to this red car in order to complete the build (after it had left the assembly line). That being the case they still needed material to fix Wangers car. Dad had left his SD sitting at Royal and they saw it sitting there, unattended, so - they removed the front end to put on Wangers car and scrapped dad's. Summary: This car: took the last set of aluminum, so they scrapped this car: in order to fix this car: All was not lost, though. That's how we got our first GTO. K
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 original mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.85 @ 136 mph besthttp://www.superchevy.com/features/s...hevy-chevelle/ My Pontiac Story: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=560524 "Intro from an old Assembly Plant Guy":http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=342926 |
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05-09-2022, 02:55 PM
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05-09-2022, 03:40 PM
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Mac Mckeller! https://issuu.com/jordanrpm/docs/mus...suu/s/11207570 1970 1/2 Pontiac Firebird Articles! By Rocky Rotella! Last edited by TRADERMIKE 2012; 05-09-2022 at 04:00 PM. |
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05-09-2022, 03:48 PM
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The PY Online Forums is the largest online gathering of Pontiac enthusiasts anywhere in the world. Founded in 1991, it was also the first online forum for people to gather and talk about their Pontiacs. Since then, it has become the mecca of Pontiac technical data and knowledge that no other place can surpass.
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