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Originally Posted by Hemi Moose
Does anyone here remember this car, it was Arlen Vanke's Tempest.
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Don't know if this is the car that was mentioned, or not. It was a Bill Knafel's Anderson Pontiac '63, driven & tuned by Arlen Vanke.
" Yep.....Not a factory built car. He built it himself. Has a solid pontiac rear under it and set the record. There was some "stink" about it having a real rear end instead of those rubber bands in the factory cars."
Yeah, M/T & others made this rear end swap on the early Tempests. Don't know how much of the build Arlen did by himself.
IIRC, for '63, Pontiac rigged up at least 6 Tempest cars & 2 wagons(maybe more) with the 421SD engine, & gave 'em to top Pontiac racers. Then, some of 'em were probably raced by others.