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Originally Posted by Ronald Urquhart
I remember Al Vanis's vanis & decker Ventura. Indy winner. On the deck lid was, VD if you can't get near it you can't catch it.
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Been quite few 350 Pontiac powered X-bodies in Stock. Al Vanis is pictured running against the '74 GTO belonging to Rock Running.
Also ran across one that was a nat record holder for several years, with Duttweiler Automotive on the side. Bill Rink ran his in Stock for several years. He also won the J/SA class at Indy, in 2005, for sure. On this '05 Class win list, I also noticed that Pontiac powered cars won N/SA, O/SA, & P/SA. Don Himes '77 GP won P/SA, which was at least it's 2nd US Nats class win. You can find lots of familiar Pontiac names by checking out the Indy class winners, thru the years. Three I noticed were Scott Burton, Bob Mulry, & Mike Morgan.
https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCS...r2005#indextop
The quickest '74 GTO I know of, running this year, was driven by Brad Koivisto. I think he got it down into the low 11's.