Muscle car shootout on TV.....

[bruno17]

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Is the GTO really a Royal sold & modified car? Also, is the Superbee a documented Mr Norm sold car, or, is this some TV license being taken? Great cars no doubt. Just wondering if the hype is backed up by facts.

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The Gto was ordered by a dealer in winnipeg named Birchwood motors.They campaigned a 68 firebird ram air II which was bought new from Royal in Michigan.They had Milt Schornack from Royal flown in to tune their cars.They raced the green 69 gto along with a 69 judge.The salesman that raced the green one STILL works at the dealership.The car was special ordered with 4.33 gears and born to race.Neat history...we'll see how it does.

[sixtiesmuscle]

Very cool car & history Bruno. I don't see how the show could claim it to be a "Royal Bobcat" though, unless Royal had an arrangement with that dealer to sell their cars with the Royal Bobcat name. Any idea if the Dodge was really sold at Grand Spaulding?

[csx289]

I agree with Mike, Bruno - I love that RAIV! However, if it wasn't sold at Royal and/or Bobcatted at Royal, it isn't a Royal Bobcat car. I have a 65 GTO, unreal 1-owner survivor car, sold new in Michigan about 20 miles from Royal, in 3-65. I have a receipt from an independent shop from 8-65 for installing a "Bobcat" type kit - steel shim head gaskets, CC heads, valves, springs, curve dist, re-jet the trips, etc..- even have the work order and cancelled check. But it isn't a Royal Bobcat. Does have some really cool decals on the valve covers that say "Tiger by Ted" that were from a dealer competing with Royal. I'll post pictures when I get the car back from getting detailed at Tiemann's shop.

The Super Bee used on the show is a car I know VERY well. I have owned it 3 or 4 times, most recently sold it to a customer in Canada who told me he let LMC use it for the show. It is a fantastic car but is in no way a Mr. Norm's car. It did not have the Norm's decals on it when I sold it.
I was supposed to loan my Mr. Norm's GSS 440 Dart to Peter Klutt to use on the show, but a transmission issue and scheduling conflict with SCR9 prevented that, as the show taped up until the first day of SCR9. As a lot of you know, I wouldn't miss the SCR and brought the Mr. Norm's car there to display with Mike's Norm's Dart (and race him!).

As an owner of a real Royal Bobcat car and a real Mr. Norm's car, like Mike, I too am a stickler for proper identification. I know it sounds like splitting hairs or nit-picking, but as there are very few actual Royal sold and tuned Bobcat cars and Grand Spaulding sold and tuned cars, I think it is important to differentiate.

Can't wait to see the show, should be great.

Colin

[69RSZ]

why isnt there any NICKEY or DANA cars there? And Im going out on a limb here but I predect the shelby wins only because those guys are ford boys up there!They remind me of motorweek.

[PeteLeathersac]

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those guys are ford boys up there

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Careful now...there's others of us 'up here' in Canada that are far from being Ford boys. .


~ Pete