Best Pontiac Powered Stockers

[BRINK]

Originally Posted by gsa612

Danny is a member here and was a friend of Mike M's.You can try PM'ing him, he may have some old pics.Not sure but Chuck's car may have gone to CA.Also you can try to PM Bill Rink(if he doesn't see this first) he's run his for years in STK and now SS.He may have more info on these cars.And you have pics of Brad's car as he currently runs it...gsa612

Auto Imagery has all of the pictures of my '74 at the NHRA National events.Go to their web site and type in my name in the box. There's hundreds of shots.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by BRINK

Auto Imagery has all of the pictures of my '74 at the NHRA National events.Go to their web site and type in my name in the box. There's hundreds of shots.

Yeah, I did that for a few years. But now when I go to that site no box shows up to type a name into. You only have the option of which race you want to see pics of.

Or, maybe they just changed the format or something. It doesn't work for me like it use to.

https://www.autoimagery.com/index

[oldskool]

The next '67 Bird I wanna talk about belongs to Bryan Phillips. As mentioned, it should be exactly the same combo as Randi Lyn runs.

While lookin thru the Indy class winners, I noticed that Bryan got the D/SA class win, in 2012, with a 10.733.

https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCS...r2012#indextop

In the middle of July this year, he qualified #24, with a 10.695, in D/SA, at a West coast Lucas Oil Series race.

https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCS...r2019#indextop

[oldskool]

Right now, this is the only other pic I have of a '67 Bird Stocker. Don't know who it belongs to or any other info.

So, I need some help makin an ID. The permanent # looks to begin with a 7. So, I assume it was a West coast car.

And, I need names and/or pics of other '67 Bird Stockers.

[oldskool]

Here's some '67 Bird Stockers. One has an OHC Six.

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by oldskool

Right now, this is the only other pic I have of a '67 Bird Stocker. Don't know who it belongs to or any other info.

So, I need some help makin an ID. The permanent # looks to begin with a 7. So, I assume it was a West coast car.

And, I need names and/or pics of other '67 Bird Stockers.

Rod Keeney...then DeFranks , then Randi Lyn

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Rod Keeney...then DeFranks , then Randi Lyn

If Keeney & Defranks had '67's that were not the same as Randi Lyn's car, I'd like more info & pics.

Mark, you obviously know a lot of Pontiac racers, & history. Would appreciate any help you could give with possibly contacting those who have had competitive Pontiacs, and having them provide info and/or pics for these threads. Would like to see them become exhaustive & ongoing threads.

I know there are several other members here who can help supply info, and could possibly get info and/or pics from others who are not on this forum.

Would appreciate any and all help gathering as much info as possible for these Pontiac threads. Thanks in advance to all who can help !

[oldskool]

We'll start lookin at '68 Birds now. This will take a while, because there have been more '68 Bird Stockers than any other Pontiac model I know of. I suppose that's because the 330hp '68 Bird combo has always been so competitive. For a long time it was a perfect 10lbs per hp car, with 330hp @ 3300 lbs.

That brings up a question for you guys. What was the first year that NHRA allowed weight to be added or removed, in order to move up or down a class ?

I wanna start with the car that is said to have triggered the 8hp hit the 330hp engine took, a few years back. Don't know if that's true, or not. ? It belongs to Bob Aceves.

Here's just one example of the car's performance. It was more than 1.3 sec under, at this race. By the way, his racing partner was #1 on this list @ more than 1.5 under, in a 2nd gen Bird. But we'll talk about that later.

"...9) Bob Aceves, Coarsegold, Calif., '68 Firebird, E/SA, 10.993, -1.307..."

He was #1 qualifier at more than a sec under, & won this Stock/SS combo race.

http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...&postcount=177

After the 8hp hit, he qualified @ .820 under, at the '18 Winter Nats.

https://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCS...r2018#indextop

[Rat Patrol]

A very young, very skinny Don Gay learning how to win from some older guy named Hayden....

Gay’s father owned the Gay Pontiac dealership - Bought Don a 421 SD 62 Cat - asked Hayden Proffit to teach him how to drive.

The kid had talent- at 16 Don won A/S 63 Nats, the A/S at the 64 Winternats.

He took the trophy at the 64 Nats, but was later DQ’d for ‘non stock’ mufflers.

He went on to race funny cars.

[oldskool]

Need help with an ID on this car.

It's obviously a Firebird Formula, somewhere from 1970 thru 1973.

Appears to be running F/SA.

The perm number looks to be either 7700 or 1100.

Anybody know the owner, at that time ?

Anybody know what year model was being claimed ?

Anybody know what engine it was running ?