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Here are three of Jim's pictures of his 1958 Pontiac. I sent 3 of the five pictures

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The distribution block that feeds fuel to the tri power looks like the brake distribution block on my '65 GTO.

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Thanks a lot tony, hope people like seeing the FIRST GTO.....LOL!

What most people don't know is that the car is NOT restored, it has one re-paint otherwise it's just like delivered in 1958!

Jim

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Stu Rogers ... Now there is a name I haven't heard in long time.. I remember him at Raceway E-Town NJ back in the 70's... He did make them Pontiacs run..

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Hey Joe, I've been around longer than even I thought. Just plain sic! lol First national event was '67 Winters, seems like yesterday....yea right

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Stu was quite a character...I worked for him for a while at Tony Feil's. We worked on cars in the back. Super Tuned them along with anything and everything. Stu and Craig were buddy's/ Stu could make any Pontiac run. Stu even knew Jess Tyree,,,,,a F/C racer who used a pontiac engine. We worked on his stuff once in a thrash during a race he was running at E-Town..... A Nitro burning Pontiac, now that's pretty crazy but it's true.....I was there....I always wondered what happened to Stu......I heard he was in Florida and was not well and that was a long time ago....He was an onery S.O.B. and would argue with anyone but man he was a very smart guy when it came to cars and drag racing......

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Your not the only one thats been around a while Keith.....I was at Indy racing a car in 1966 and it definately is only a distant memory ........

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I was at the NHRA Oklahoma City Nationals in '57 when John Zink's 317 HP Tri-Power, solid-lifter, Chieftan showed 'em all the way home in Stock.... but I had to leave early and didn't get to see it... :(

He ran 94+mph (dunno the e.t.), through the mufflers, with the air cleaner on, and on street rubber. 3-speed stick car.

I've always heard that the supercharged Fords were the baddest pure stock cars around in '57, and we all know how fast the Fuelie 283's were, but this Pontiac ran roughshod over the entire field......

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I don't think most would prefer a Jetaway or Stratoflight. Bill, you mentioned Fred Borcherdt. Fred did have an injection on his 57 Pontiac Safari Catalina wagon. It had a Jetaway (I think) in it, and he was always swearing that he was going to put one of his dual range hydros in it when the Jetaway finally broke, but it never did. Fred's 57 Pontiac Junior Stocker had a dual range hydro in it, but finally was flagged in inspection as 56 was the last year Pontiac had a dual range in them. A funnier combination was his 48 Jeep pick up which had a 327 Chevrolet with the Rochester injection, still 4wd, and the Borg Warner overdrive. When Fred partnered with John Thropp for John's Passionate Poncho, 57 Pontiac with injection, it had the Jetaway and he worked and worked experimenting to try to get the small fluid coupling for 4th to fill faster. That car made it to the World Finals stock eliminator final round, but JT redlighted.