Musclecar Attraction

[Igosplut]

I grew up next to an air force base in the 60s. Enough said.

[Tenney]

Cool article, Steve! Pontiac consulted w/Peter Max on the initial Judge graphics, and Peter created this piece of art for Jim Wangers upon completion of the project ... (1:38:27)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFBo4f_Mh2M

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Tenney

Cool article, Steve! Pontiac consulted w/Peter Max on the initial Judge graphics, and Peter created this piece of art for Jim Wangers upon completion of the project ... (1:38:27)

From back before he had hair -



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[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

From back before he had hair -



K

I've always wanted to be famous enough to have my own cartoon character. Kinda like this.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Speaking of muscle car promotions (and Dick Purtan):

I'm sure most if not all of you are familiar with the "Beat the Tiger" program, whereby a lucky participant from the audience would get to race the "Mystery Tiger" in one of two "identically prepped" Royal Pontiac GTOs.

In addition to drawing names from the crowd they might also give a local celebrity or politician a shot at beating the Tiger.

One time they invited radio personality Dick Purtan to race in one of the cars. They quizzed Dick ahead of time to make sure he could drive a 4 speed.

"Yeah - I can drive a 4 speed" he replied.

I think you can guess where this is going. The tree came down and the two cars launched - and Dick proceeded to blast down the quarter, foot to the floor - in first gear, the whole way.

By the time he got to the pits the car was popping and carrying on. I think he bent every pushrod in the thing.

Needless to say, they screened their local celebrity participants a little more rigorously after that.

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[Steve Shauger]

That's a great story. I can only imagine the look on the promoters faces

[Tenney]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Speaking of muscle car promotions (and Dick Purtan):

I'm sure most if not all of you are familiar with the "Beat the Tiger" program, whereby a lucky participant from the audience would get to race the "Mystery Tiger" in one of two "identically prepped" Royal Pontiac GTOs.

In addition to drawing names from the crowd they might also give a local celebrity or politician a shot at beating the Tiger.

One time they invited local DJ Dick Purtan to race in one of the cars. They quizzed Dick ahead of time to make sure he could drive a 4 speed.

"Yeah - I can drive a 4 speed" he replied.

I think you can guess where this is going. The tree came down and the two cars launched - and Dick proceeded to blast down the quarter, foot to the floor - in first gear, the whole way.

By the time he got to the pits the car was popping and carrying on. I think he bent every pushrod in the thing.

Needless to say, they screened their local celebrity participants a little more rigorously after that.

K

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