12.70's with a basically stock motor, iron manifolds and Polyglas tires...that is so cool it hurts.
This whole Pure Stock/F.A.S.T. thing is the greatest thing to come along since PB&J sammiches and chocolate milk.
Makes you realize that some of the #'s people used to run with these cars are NOT embellished magazine hype as some people would like us to believe. Given a good driver and some sensible tuning, these cars flat-out hauled a$$.
If I may digress for a moment...
The local street king around here when I was a kid was a certified Pontiac nut, had several stout GTO's, most all of which were essentially stock and near show quality.
Perhaps the 2 hottest cars he had were a black `65 GTO which was "supposedly" a 4-speed 389 tripower (inside word was it was actually a 421) and a blue 4-speed `66 convertible 389 tripower car. He absolutely cleaned up with those 2 cars, taking down plenty of legit low 13-high 12 second cars. (this was nearly 20 years ago when a 13 second street car was still considered fast lol)
The black `65 was definitely the quicker of the 2, but the blue ragtop was no slouch either. Those cars still had OEM manifolds and stock sized bias ply tires on them, but they were well tuned and the guy was a
superb driver. No one ever believed those cars were even
close to stock, but they were. Just goes to show how impressive factory iron can be.
Sorry for straying off-topic, just wanted to share that.
Back to the subject.
Eric
