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03-24-2013, 10:43 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
 '63 Catalina, 421 SD (converted to an HO car), 4 speed, aluminum front clip, Royal Bobcat appearance package. That's the only still photo I have of that car. We found some early home movies and race footage and I had a hero card made from the information we could glean: 
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best 
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#32
03-24-2013, 10:47 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
Our '64 GTO on display at the Michigan State Fair (late summer/early fall, 1964)
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best
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#33
03-24-2013, 10:58 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
From the files:
      '63 Nationals at Indy: 
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#34
03-24-2013, 11:05 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
More from the files:
 A "high performance option" for the Lemans:  More of the '63 Nationals at Indy. Dad is driving Pete Seaton's car in the far lane.  
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best
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#35
03-24-2013, 11:13 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
Promotional photos at the GM Technical Center (with my car interspersed in):
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best
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#36
03-24-2013, 11:18 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
These are early production '65's (likely first week of August 1964) and have been purported to be factory lightweights, built using thin steel sheetmetal:
  
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#37
03-24-2013, 11:25 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
Sorry about the double post back there; my computer is being a bit balky.
  Dad is the one that adapted this Olds fuel injection intake onto a Pontiac engine for Dick Jesse's '65 altered wheelbase car. They were probably made in the Chevrolet Die Room at Chevy Flint Manufacturing. 
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best
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#40
03-25-2013, 02:25 PM
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Re: Vintage Pontiac photos
Thanks, guys. I have way more pictures that I do time to post them.
Here's a few more: These are the Pontiac, Michigan assembly plant. All three of my vintage Pontiacs were built here:       The shipping yard. This is why cars can get "lost" in the assembly plant:  Pre-Pontiac: 
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'63 LeMans Convertible '63 Grand Prix '65 GTO - original, unrestored, Dad was original owner, 5000 mile Royal Pontiac factory racer '74 Chevelle - original owner, 9.56 @ 139 mph best
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