Grey Ghost Pics

[whitetop]

Bob
That was the good old days when the men were men, the women were women and the sheep weren't nervous!!
Dave

[Rat_Pack]

Hey whitetop I am there with you on jumping over 50 Yenkos to look at this car also. Nothing wrong with the Yenkos but there is something about those old funny cars that just gets to me. Same goes for any old drag car, just check out Kevin's 69 Nickey drag car, it is just plain BAD!........RatPack......

[Belair62]

Well gang I have good news.I found the original owner in Florida with a plain old white pages internet search ! He has movies,pictures,and his old helmet too ! Strangely enough,turns out his folks lived in my town and his dad was the head of our Public Works for years.....Small Small world...here is the tough part...it was pure Pontiac powered for 9 months.The car ran bathtub manifold dual quads..then injected Pontiac on Nitro...and then.........injected on nitro 427 Chevrolet power ! Him and I will decide which way to put it back.I am going to piss off the Pontiac folks if we go Chevy !!!!!! hanks for all who helped out on this.What would we do without internet searches .

[Chevy454]

Sounds like you have had pretty good luck with your search! As hard as searching for "regular(!)" cars is, searcing for info on old drags is equally difficult. Often times there are articles/info on a particular car, but the info is not ALWAYS correct. Or, at least that is what we are running into on our Dick Harrell funny car...lots of info, but a LOT of misinformation. Plus, since it was 30+ years ago, peoples memories have since gone or aren't quite as accurate. Oh well, part of the thrill I guess! Good luck with the car!

[GMH454]

Don't want to get shot here, but I would bite the bullet and go Pontiac. There have to be VERY few Pontiac Funnies left. There could'nt have been too many in the first place. By 1971 I think everyone, Harrel included was running Hemis (except for a couple of guys who like to run Fords and did'nt mind losing.)
Good luck with it. Awesome car!!!!

[Chevy454]

I gotta agree with GMH...I'm a true blue Chevy man, but I would go Pontiac if I were in your shoes...a Pontiac body needs to be Pontiac powered! Or at least I think so! Now, about that nitro injected Poncho...!

[Belair62]

Thanks guys.454 ,not sure if you are signed up but if not,Micky Hale set me up with the FuelCoupes group on Yahoo. There is so much info there it's unbelievable..they speak Nitro there. Go there if you haven't...Micky can help...Harrell F/C ? You dog !!!!! Ghost owner said they could not keep a rear end in the thing.Also said Pontiac was a pain in the ass since they had to MAKE theinjection work from Oldsmobile parts with help of Pontiac engineer.Post something on that Harrell F/C please.....wanna match race ? Not on your life in this car ! By the way...after this car was sold and run as the Assasin it was HEMI powered.I asked Larry what would posess him to actually put his right foot to the floor in such a crude car...he said "thats what we had and we didn't know any better" True pioneers those guys.

[Edited by Belair62 (08-29-2001 at 10:46 PM).]