I had the pleasure of hearing John Sawruk speak in Stanton a couple months ago. I race Pure Stock with his son, Jeff Sawruk (350HO Tempest in the low 13s!), and he gave a VERY interesting speech on all things Poncho. He devoted a lot of effort to the SD455 part of the speech, as he was the primary engineer on that project. VERY COOL stuff, and one heck of a nice guy (his son is the same as well). I think he said he was at Pontiac for like 30 years or something?
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