Best Pontiac Powered Stockers

oldskool · 10-20-2021, 05:43 PM

Another Stocker I recently discovered is the Warren Bros '66 GTO. Milt Schornack asked them to join the Royal Pontiac race team.

They kept the car name, "Catnip", & kept the "Warren Bros" lettering, but put Royal Pontiac lettering over the doors.

Haven't been able to find any performance info or racing accomplishments for the car. Assuming they ran pretty good, or Royal wouldn't have recruited them.

The 3rd pic shows the car in the staging lanes, in what appears to be the C/S class run-offs. Would love to know how many C/S Goats were in the lanes, that day. Pic #4 shows this car on the line @ what is said to be the '66 Super Stock Nats. It had won C/S that day & was running for Mr. Stock Elim. It won that round, but Bill Jenkins won the title. Milt Schornack had won the C/S class on Sat. They ran 3 separate class elims, Fri, Sat, & Sun. That B/SA wagon had won B/SA all 3 days. First I've ever heard of running class 3 different times in the same race.

I've read that back in the old days you had to win class, before you could run in the elims. This was probably in effect at most all the big nat events. Don't know about the small local tracks. Maybe some of you older guys can give us more info about running for class, back in the late '60's, early '70's.

10-20-2021, 05:43 PM	#11
oldskool VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: The Land of Bayous, Boudin & Crawfish Posts: 1,668 Likes: 223 Liked 747 Times in 362 Posts	Re: Best Pontiac Powered Stockers Another Stocker I recently discovered is the Warren Bros '66 GTO. Milt Schornack asked them to join the Royal Pontiac race team. They kept the car name, "Catnip", & kept the "Warren Bros" lettering, but put Royal Pontiac lettering over the doors. Haven't been able to find any performance info or racing accomplishments for the car. Assuming they ran pretty good, or Royal wouldn't have recruited them. The 3rd pic shows the car in the staging lanes, in what appears to be the C/S class run-offs. Would love to know how many C/S Goats were in the lanes, that day. Pic #4 shows this car on the line @ what is said to be the '66 Super Stock Nats. It had won C/S that day & was running for Mr. Stock Elim. It won that round, but Bill Jenkins won the title. Milt Schornack had won the C/S class on Sat. They ran 3 separate class elims, Fri, Sat, & Sun. That B/SA wagon had won B/SA all 3 days. First I've ever heard of running class 3 different times in the same race. I've read that back in the old days you had to win class, before you could run in the elims. This was probably in effect at most all the big nat events. Don't know about the small local tracks. Maybe some of you older guys can give us more info about running for class, back in the late '60's, early '70's. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by oldskool; 10-29-2021 at 04:18 PM.