Ramon Lowe '58 Cheifton

49KB5 · 07-13-2009, 12:31 PM

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.

07-13-2009, 12:31 PM	#32
49KB5 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 2 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Ramon Lowe '58 Cheifton 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.