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Forum: Other Muscle 12-28-2003, 03:07 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

GOAT72, may I suggest some anger managment classes for your condition. Your working yourself up, much to much. Take a deep breath. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
Forum: Other Muscle 12-28-2003, 02:59 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Keith. truer words were never spoken. Have a Good New Year. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif
Forum: Other Muscle 12-27-2003, 07:43 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Just had to check the board for some comic relief. You guys didn't fail me. You truly want to rewrite history though with your blind faith.
Hey, thanks for the complement. But, Yep, I am older 50....
Forum: Other Muscle 12-22-2003, 07:59 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

You guys are too much. Good by and have a nice fantacy life.
Forum: Other Muscle 12-22-2003, 07:58 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Maybe you would have to had Milt steal an engine from you or one of your friends over the years, to understand. Look up a surgeon in FL, Bobby Gingle, or in Detroit and man who owns a Steel...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-22-2003, 07:31 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

In answeer to your questions. It was pretty hard for Dick to hire anyone. He was not the GM. McQueen was. Nor was Dick the new car manager. Dick Was the High performance salesman. Chuck Broomfield...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 08:40 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 125,150
Posted By Bobcat
Re: TUNNEL PORT RA V

Loved that old 1970 Chevelle SS. Ertl sent me two of those a few years ago.
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 08:36 PM
Replies: 107
Views: 125,150
Posted By Bobcat
Re: TUNNEL PORT RA V

The OHC 421 tri -power in Mac's car was a gift to him from GM after he retired. GM was going to scrap it along with others that Mac had built. There where several peices missing when Mac go the...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 03:39 PM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Yes, fiberglass. Back than we didn't have cheap Chinese produced sheet metal replacement panels. The new GM parts where very expensive compaired to the value of the car. It was comon to have...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 04:57 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Hey, Belair62, I had a 61 Impala Convert Red white top 283 170hp Powerglide, in high school. It was orginally my mothers car. Just before I turned 16 they gave it to me. The rear end was starting to...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 04:42 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Belair62, TIme machine. Move to Detroit and relive my life. LOL
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 04:39 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

I forgot to answer your important question. I have no idea where you saw brackets and VIN's on enigines in the pre computer age. But the Pontiac plant used a guy by the name of Emanuel Labor. He...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-19-2003, 03:21 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

Since, I don't have time to recreate the three shifts and the out line of the Pontiac assembly line process. Let me Refer you to the GTOAA monthly magzine "THE LEDGEND". Which in 1993 Eric White did...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 02:48 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

Apparently you are to young or don't recall the law suites against GM in the '70's when it was found out that they had installed Chevy engines in Oldsmobiles. This is why GM now has only has...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 04:30 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Sorry, I get a little carried away, too much information,LOL
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 04:22 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

Some one wanted my credentials. I'll just scratch the surface.The Source of most of my information. Is I was there for much of it. Family member in engineering depart in '50's through '80's. Family...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 03:56 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

In 1966 the vin was not stamped into the block. The block number was a unit number that would only be on the paper work. Numbers matching was not an issue at the factory. The date codes are within an...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 03:42 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

I seem to remember Twelve (12), Six (6) LeMans coupe and six(6) Tempest wagons with factory 421's and aluminum front ends in the 1963 Super Duty program. The LeMans cuopes"; Ray Nichels/Paul...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 03:32 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

You do realize that Jim Wangers' took a hard line that "NO" 421's where put into GTO's at the Factory. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that Jim Wangers admitted that the two '64 C & D cars had...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-18-2003, 02:45 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Well your story is pretty close. A few corrections are in order. 1) There were two Ace's Jr. and Sr. 2) Sr. bought the dealership to give Jr. something to do. 3) Jim Wangers sold an idea to Estes and...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-11-2003, 12:58 AM
Replies: 44
Views: 45,679
Posted By Bobcat
Re: 1966 GTO 421??

PMD did not officially put 421's in GTO's for public consumption. There wer some GTO's bulit with 421 from the factory, BUT and that is a BIG BUT, the owners rearly know it. If the factory was short...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-11-2003, 12:42 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 18,894
Posted By Bobcat
Re: GTO + Motion = ?

The connection, Royal Pontiac/ Motion Performance was through CARS MAGAZINE. Jim Wangers would supply the cars to Joe Oldham For articles to be published the magazine. Joe would then take the...
Forum: Other Muscle 12-11-2003, 12:30 AM
Replies: 142
Views: 170,027
Posted By Bobcat
Re: Royal info wanted

Jim Wangers, Frank Rediker, Win Brown and Dick Jesse put the Bobcat Package together in 1961. The 1961 Bobcat Catalina had the letters on the back tail light panel spell out Bobcat using the letters...
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