Muscle car shootout on TV.....

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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