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It's a base model Catalina and a big, heavy car. That one has the base 2-bbl 389 and smooooth Hydramatic transmission.
Raced one that same color on the runways at Caddo Mills, TX in 1963 in one of the few drag-racing efforts I worked with (Hine Pontiac/Monk King sponsored the car).
Never forget lining the Pontiac up against five other cars at the same time and the flagman looking for the safest place to stand to flag us off.
Caddo Mills was the first NHRA-sanctioned dragstrip east of California. The cast of characters was amazing - Bobby Langley and his "Scorpion" rail, Oklahoma City's Marion Owens and his twin-engine Harley motorcycles, Kansas Badman, "Hands" who was so big you could pass a half dollar through his ring and some of the best pit fights I ever saw.
Last edited by Borders Reivers; 11-07-2017 at 04:14 AM..
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