"Baby Pictures" of your supercar....

[TimG]

I love that '69, it looks like the rear spoiler is extended just a bit from stock.

[TimG]

Here's my 1969 Indy Pace car with my mom in her driveway in 1981. I lived in Madison, WI and was transferred to Austin, TX and drove it to Chicago for storage in her garage until I got settled in Austin. This was 1981. I bought the car in 1980 from Fink Chevrolet in Horicon, WI and it had 12,000 miles. They never sold the car and kept it in the back of the shop. Finally got it to Austin in 1983.

[TimG]

On a side note, you can see my neighbors Pontiac in the background. She worked for the advertising agency that handled all the Chicago area Pontiac adds and every year she brought home a new GTO until they stopped building them. I believe that is a Firebird in her driveway. You can also see the nose my my moms 1977 white/red two door Lincoln in the street.

[60sStuff]

Originally Posted by TimG

Here's my 1969 Indy Pace car with my mom in her driveway in 1981. I lived in Madison, WI and was transferred to Austin, TX and drove it to Chicago for storage in her garage until I got settled in Austin. This was 1981. I bought the car in 1980 from Fink Chevrolet in Horicon, WI and it had 12,000 miles. They never sold the car and kept it in the back of the shop. Finally got it to Austin in 1983.

That is a Great photo of your Mom, priceless!

[muscle_collector]

do you still have it?

[TimG]

No, it was lost in a warehouse fire where I had it stored. It burned up in 1992 and was a total loss. I had the original spare tire in my garage and sold it to Charley in 1992. He tried to buy the burnt remnants, but somebody else won the bid at a salvage auction. I haven't heard anything about the car in 30 years. I still have all the paperwork. Insurance paid the loss off.

[turbo69bird]

Never knew about this thread, I’ll
Grow one of my cars in there. RAIV 4spd 3.90 nodular posi Raced by Stephen Pontiac in Bristol CT by Bill Eckstrom and Tom Mc innis Bought the car in the early 90s (I’ve had 21 69 birds) but I drag raced this one for about 15 years! 15k original drag race miles w a little street racing/ driving on dealer plates along the way. First two and last pics are the two different paint schemes Stephen had on it believed to be 69-70 season change over.
The rest of the pics are when I was racing it
Best I ran with it is 11.73 , best Stephen ram with it was 11.93. Car was a C stock class car. They had previously raced a RAII GTO and a RAV pro stock 70-73 firebird . The RAV pro stock engine is currently in this car and the RAIV engine is on the stand waiting to be reinstalled someday. Those times are with the balanced and blueprinted RAIV engine. It hasn’t been raced with the pro stock engine but that engine ran 10.34 in the pro stock car in 71.

Pic of it next to my white turbo car is the car Stephen car a couple years ago. Still about the same today.m
The car was painted by Wayne Woody wood who painted a lot of the funny cars around that period of time. As well as stockers Super stockers and a lot of customs .

[turbo69bird]

Idk if this is the crowd for this car, but it’s a very rare very bad ass car. My dads 56 D500-1 convertible.
Said to have been 1 of 8 convertibles !

Arnie Beswick said his favorite race car was a D500-1 hard top and he’s had a lot of race cars

Unfortunately my dad dropped this car off for and oil change at his uncles shop and back then they drained them over night, the mechanics wife had a baby and he jumped in the car and drove it w no oil it wiped out the engine. They repaired it with a regular hemi but it never was the same .

My uncles said when my dad was going 60 in this car he could mash the throttle and it would leave rubber as long as my dad held the throttle down

My mom driving it in one pic and my dad in the other when they were about 16 or 17 in high school.

[PeteLeathersac]

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WW stuff, thanks for posting!

~ Pete

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[luzl78]

My 67 l78 convertible. Circa 1978. Sold it in 1980 as a foolish, stupid teenager. Wasn’t so stupid as I have the born with engine in my garage.