Best Pontiac Powered Super Stockers

[SS/Pontiac]

How about my Brother Carroll Warling 1974 LeMans 2005 to 2016 NHRA National Recorg holder in SS/MA Now running a 428 steel head in it. Has a 1974 GTO running the 400 in it.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by SS/Pontiac

How about my Brother Carroll Warling 1974 LeMans 2005 to 2016 NHRA National Recorg holder in SS/MA Now running a 428 steel head in it. Has a 1974 GTO running the 400 in it.

Thanks for that info !

Didn't know about the 428. I thought everybody was running the alum heads on the 428. Do you know of anybody else running iron heads on a 428 ?

Ever know of anybody running a 428 in stock ? Or is the hp factor just too high ?

[gmeyer]

Roy and Mike McKinney had 2 good running super stockers a 68 firebird with a 16 head 400 and a forth gen firebird with the same combo. The 68 had the coolest pic floating around for the longest time of it straight up and bending the lic, plate.
Greg Meyer SS/GT 3592

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by gmeyer

Roy and Mike McKinney had 2 good running super stockers a 68 firebird with a 16 head 400 and a forth gen firebird with the same combo. The 68 had the coolest pic floating around for the longest time of it straight up and bending the lic, plate.
Greg Meyer SS/GT 3592

About the only info I've found on the McKinney's is from this article about Truman Fields. I know that Mike later won the US Nats, in Truman's old Stocker.

http://www.risesales.com/pages/Dragr.../t_fields.html

Didn't know anything about their SS Pontiacs. Anybody have any more info or pics about those cars ?

Found this satement "...Roy McKinney was the VERY first NHRA Super Stocker running in a GT class of Super Stock with a 400 cubic inch engine to run in the nines back in 1997. Roy deserves that mention. He's one very smart NHRA racer. You may remember his 1968 Firebird in the CompCams ad almost straight up at Indy..."

I DO know that Truman ran a '72 GTO in SS/K, for a while. The 2nd pic below says that he set a top speed record. Don't know if that was a track record or an NHRA record, or what. ?

[Shadylane]

I can’t figure out how to attach the photos.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Shadylane

Here are a few of Don Kennedy's former SS 73 Firebird & a couple of Art Petersons car. Winternationals 82 or 83. OCIR same time.
Sorry for the attachments

Sorry for the dummy question, BUT, when I click on one of those links, it just opens to my computer's files.

So, what do I have to do to actually see the pics ?

I've got some pics of Art's car, with the old paint job & the new.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by Shadylane

I can’t figure out how to attach the photos.

I just click on "Manage Attachments", then "Choose File", then it goes to the files in my laptop. I double-click on the one I wanna post, then click on "Upload". And, if it's not too big and you haven't used that exact pic here before, it will post.

Here's the "Packin Pancho". IHRA allowed hood scoops, as well as different carbs on some of their SS classes. The older guys that raced IHRA will remember those rules, I'm sure. We saw this car close up, at the "World Nationals", held in Amarillo, TX. I think the year was either '75 or '76.

I went to this race back in '73. I think it was still an NHRA race then, and called the World Finals, maybe. It was my very first race where there were LOTS of Nitro cars. I remember standing on the crosswalk, during the nitro time trials. It was an awesome experience I'll never forget. All the big name TF & Funny Cars were there. The crosswalk was shakin, & there was lots of noise & nitro fumes. Loved it !

https://www.nhra.com/news/2018/time-machine-1973

[oldskool]

While searching for GTO Stockers, I ran across some more GTO Super Stock pics. The 1st one looks to be an older pic of Art Perterson's '69. Has the same perm number & looks like it could be his name on the door.

A T-37 is almost a GTO. The 2nd pic is a '71 455HO T-37.

Last 2 are of Art's car with a different color. So I suppose the car has worn at least 3 different paint jobs.