[Belair62]

This is possibly my favorite car of all time...Sixties is the caretaker for this awsum piece of drag racing history...the words are taken out of Arnies 50th Anniversary booklet...thanks for sharing this beauty Mike...

"1961 was the year of the first famous "Passionate Poncho". Arnie and this car were invincible. The combination did not lose one Super Stock class or match race it competed in. They went on to win the NASCAR Winternationals in Daytona Beach ,the U/S class at the World Series as well as the NHRA Summer Nationals now at Indy.The invincibility of Arnie and his Ultra Stock 368 HP Pontiac was proven absolutely when the combination soundly beat the highly rated Royal Oak Pontiac in three straight rounds of a "three out of five" match race. These performances assured the drag racing world that there was no faster stock automobile in the country"