1961 Safari wagon

[Rich Biebel]

Cannaday had a '61 or '62 wagon in D or E/SA.... Perzan had a '60 Wagon and was maybe in G/SA and Maxey also I think had a '60 wagon.
The colors on those cars ??? Well I am pretty sure they were all stock colors...Perzans was a gold or light brown.....Cannaday's was maybe a light blue or silver, not sure of that one and the Maxey car was black....

This was a race we saw on a flyer maybe in ND or one of the other papers from those days. Paid a lot of money for back then so we flat towed down.....

We were running pretty good then and usually not far off the record at our home track...Island.....If you could run on your record or maybe a little under you were competetive. Don't recall the exact rules but I know breakouts were already in effect at most all races......I think 1 tenth under was the limit...

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Rich Biebel

Cannaday had a '61 or '62 wagon in D or E/SA.... Perzan had a '60 Wagon and was maybe in G/SA and Maxey also I think had a '60 wagon.
The colors on those cars ??? Well I am pretty sure they were all stock colors...Perzans was a gold or light brown.....Cannaday's was maybe a light blue or silver, not sure of that one and the Maxey car was black....

This was a race we saw on a flyer maybe in ND or one of the other papers from those days. Paid a lot of money for back then so we flat towed down.....

We were running pretty good then and usually not far off the record at our home track...Island.....If you could run on your record or maybe a little under you were competetive. Don't recall the exact rules but I know breakouts were already in effect at most all races......I think 1 tenth under was the limit...

I dont recall Cannady (or Kennedy) having a wagon. Just the 62 GP E/S later to be sold to a Bruce Conyers. I went to Aquasco and Capitol almost every Sat. and Sunday since 62. Maxey had the funky blue with faded silver/gray "Clinton Shaker" 60 wagon bracket car (it was a legal stocker before the SD parts were outlawed) after the maroon stick shift catalina. It broke a lot of T-10 tranmissions. Perzans was a gold and white and ran I/SA and led the Div. 1 points for awhile but the wt breaks changed during that time and could have been J/SA at one point. The black starfire was Sam Samuels and later sold to Johnny Walker. I tried to buy the Starfire sedan of Sam Samuels back in 1964. Tri power, SD parts, Gebler headers, 8 lug wheels, 4.56 gear and ready to race for $1000 asking price. BIG money back then....LOL. I was to young to buy it in1964 without my parents signing for it and it was sold to Johnny Walker instead. Maybe it was a good thing as Johnny blew the engine a few weeks later at Aquasco but didnt hurt the SD heads. It was rebuilt and set the NASCAR record in C/SA at Capitol in 1966. My late partner and friend Gene Collins in his 289/271 HP 66 Mustang used to lock horns every week in C/SA.

[Colesy]

Here's a link to an article on the Pontiac in Super/Stock and Drag Illustrated from January 1969....
http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showp...postcount=4431

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Colesy

Here's a link to an article on the Pontiac in Super/Stock and Drag Illustrated from January 1969....
http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showp...postcount=4431

Thanks, Colesy

The pic in the snow pile , (Plymouth hubcaps and all) was taken in Lowell, Ma. on the day Bill Shurla sold the car to Ron Sanders and company . Bill found the car for those guys so they could run the S/D stuff in the lower classes.
Some of you may know Bill ,although he's no longer on this forum...Still wheelin' and dealin' cars, as far as I know.