Grey Ghost Pics

[whitetop]

Here is a picture of Bob's "Grey Ghost" Funny car.
Bob, I have a picture of this car in Hot Rod or Car Craft magazine when it was at the Bryon "Bracket Nationals" ( a mega big affair at the time) in the late '70's-campaigned as the Assasin-I recognized the car as soon as I saw it. I will email it to you in a few days. Great car, keep it all original. One of my pet peeves is someone will "update" (wheels. gauges, seats etc) a famous car to run current NHRA specs. Don't do it Bob. I will probably be banished from this site for saying this but as many of you know how I like Day 2 stuff, I would jump over 50 Yenko's at a show to see this car.
Dave

[Belair62]

No worries Dave. I am not going to do one ounce of updates.The hardest part to find may be an NOS screen door closer that operates the door! Keep an eye open for a Pontiac Hilborn unit ! I still need to find the original owner Larry Swiatek.

[Edited by Belair62 (08-18-2001 at 09:11 PM).]

[whitetop]

Here is another of pic of the Gray Ghost.For that Hilborn setup check out www.rpmcat.com especially under Dales Stuff and www.drag.race-cars.com and www.hotrodvintageparts.com. All have very active for sale and want ads and have lots of old neat stuff on them.

Dave




[Edited by whitetop (08-19-2001 at 02:11 PM).]

[Belair62]

Thanks for posting the pics Whitetop.....one of these days I may just get it to Elmhurst Mr70 !

[MikeA]

Good luck with the restoration!

Mike

[Mr70]

Very nice Bob.I would like to see that in person some day.
Would you take that to the Elmhurst weekly cruise?

[Belair62]

Finally took some time and looked this thing over pretty good. I have come to the conclusion that when I do find the owner Larry Swiatek I am going to shake his hand. ANYONE who would get in a car like this back then and actually stomp on the gas pedal was truly a hero.There isn't much there to keep you safe OR going straight ! Thanks to the magazine article sent to me by COPO69 I found out this thing weighed in at a skimpy 1600 lbs.

[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 .