Man that was a great story and I loved the ending. I am sure it was a hell of a surprise for you to walk away from all the BS.

So did you ever get the car fired back up to show the boys in Chicago what it would do?

Paul

Yes i did. Stay tuned. : )

Ziggy, it's a small world. Not sure when you were around, but around '90 we raced up there out of the Weston/Finch lot with a Orange '73 454 Vette on nitrous. Raced a blue COPO '69 Camaro and a few others. Competition auto wanted to run us with there '69 Camaro and even Serge Longo came and wanted us to run his challenger.

Also, we had a Ziggy from my town. You had a tubbed sb Vega with nitrous. OUR Ziggy had a tubbed SB Arrow with nitrous. WHAT A COINCIDENT. 2 ZIGGYS both with tubbed small cars with nitrous SB's......

I also ran the streets in Brantford (my home town) from 78 - 85. We had a bucket of fun messing around on King George St, Brant Ave, Hardy Rd, the 403, etc.

I saw the Arrow out many times but never heard who he ran (maybe Proctor's Vette/Radawicki's Duster/or????). What times was he running?

Ziggy with the Vega, I need more of the Toronto race action. Did you ever hear of Jim Shimizu who ran a 69 Hugger Orange/Orange Houndstooth R/S Z/28 down at Cayuga from 1970 to approx. 1977?

What month did you buy the 69 and do you know if it had been sitting for a while? Don't see many SS wheels on a 69. Thx

I’m really digging these stories. Keep them coming!

Jim (RIP) was one of my best friends. He passed about a year ago alone. It was very sad. Such great guy. He lived 2 blocks from my place on Warden Ave. I stayed with him a couple of times in Kentucky were IBM sent him for a year. Jim's Z was fathom blue. I'm not sure but I think Zedder bought the car. He will probably jump in here soon. I'll put a post together soon of the guys I knew back then. Thanks.

I will have to dig up some paperwork but I bought the car in the summer of 1968. There were lots of 69 SS cars around back then but I never saw another one in silver with the hood louvers, hockey stick stripes and the SS wheels. I personally think the Rally wheels looked lame and should have been used only on the Vette. Thanks

Well since I'm STILL in Brantford, I know those guys you named. It was Al Proctor's Vette we took to Weston & Finch. That was also THE ONLY CAR to beat my car that ran those streets, BLACK GTX ragtop. Al now plays with motor cycles and a Late model COPO Camaro he races. Mark Radawicki got out of the scene pretty much after the Duster. Ya he had the '79 Blue Z28, but it wasn't a fast car. I bought the shell from marks Duster and parted out the body parts around '87.

Ziggy with the Arrow was Rodger Zigmond. Nice guy and still around. He was a good painter and painted Eddy Stern's Candy Blue '68 427 Firebird. Roger is out of cars now. I worked with him back in 2004 and still see him from time to time before covid. Eddy still has the Candy blue firebird, but now blown and street tubbed.

If you were around you should remember Greg Teasdale. He is getting back into it as he has a few car one being a LS6 70 Chevelle. But also bought a fats '68 (??) Camaro.

So back then I had the BLACK GTX rag, 440 4sp Dana. Fast car back then and I was only 16. Only had it 4 yrs but found it last yr out on east coast in the USA. Spoke to the owner and going to try to buy it in about a yr depending on life.

I DO still own Gord Sipost's old Red '69 Nova SS. That was a stupid fast back then. I seen it beat Al's Vette AND Ziggy's nitrous Arrow out on Oak Park rd. AND he mis-shifted 4 times against the Arrow, he missed 3rd TWICE that run, and still put a car on the 11.70 Arrow.

Doug from here (427 Strato) is also from Brantford.

Man those were fun days.............

John

Summer of 68 or 69? Earliest it could have been was fall of 68.
If you have paperwork that lists the VIN, that would be amazing... :)
Thx