I still have those slicks mounted. I wonder if they are still ok to use. Thanks guys. That was the last year of freedom before the boys came in 97. I think we were back in 99-2002.
Since Patrick mentioned "key," maybe the string had dual uses...??? Don ran a switch pitch with a (very) custom converter. Wringing the car out at Gulfport Dragway, he could find no mechanical means of "switching pitch" to meet his expectations. He installed a generic toggle switch, with a long shoe string, to "switch pitch" on his call. I also remember that after a run, the worn key was always literally thrown (from the worn lock) into the back seat. He could not shut the car down until he fished around to find and re-insert the key. I think maybe he solved both problems by looping the SP string through the key...???
I do seem to have come to the end of the "best of" pics I put in my photo album. But there does still remain a size 11 shoe box of FotoMat/Eckard envelopes of "GS Nats" pics...
He did , I have the Stg 2 parts on my 70 GSX and Nick Servo ( Ivyland collision ) restored the Beautiful 69 GS stg 1 Ed owned . Bill
My recollection is that the car had a "Stage 2 cam." Milling around the Holidome parking lot, I was "at the right place at the right time," to get in the back seat when he went for a test drive after taking off the "show" Webers and reinstalling a Q-Jet. Getting on an "appropriate stretch," Ed nailed it from enough of a roll to "not draw attention." It pulled!!! At peak, Ed lifted. He gently moved the shifter to second, and nailed it again. Back breaking acceleration ensued again... I loved it, and it was frickin' funny...
That girlfriend was Ed’s wife Janell, also that Apollo white GSX 4-speed was Janell’s car. Larry Simek and I removed the Weber’s and installed the stock manifold and carb in the Holidome parking lot
Ed's "granny shifting" particularly amuses me in comparison to another four-speed ride... I flew to Columbus, and bummed rides between the hotel and National Trail in the coolest car I could find. One day Dave Hemker "Uber'd" me back in the Silver Bullet ('70 4-spd conv.) Getting on the freeway he "caught rubber" in all four gears, without even (much???) exceeding the speed limit
I was initially going to post this as “comic relief” in the thread hashing out what should happen on the privately sponsored pre-Nats Wednesday in BG. (Kinda seems like they may need such… but…) Having “no horse in that race,” I figured posting here made more sense… One year, I think in the mid-90’s, GSCA rented the track for the day (Wednesday or Thursday…???) After daylight Buick festivities, we could buy a tech card to “play with the locals” in the usual evening bracket program. I remember a faded gold ’68 4-4-2 (Maybe “just” a Cutlass…???) with a smashed windshield. Not just cracked; while there were no obvious blood stains, one might easily imagine that someone’s head may have gone through it in a bar parking lot the night before. It “passed tech…” A good friend reached BG and Beech Bend just in time to participate in the local bracket racing. (No names… “to protect the innocent,” and all that… ) Fresh off the Interstate, in a black ’79 Trans Am. T-tops, Olds 403, TH 350, 2.41 posi. (And, from personal experience, a killer stereo!!!) With white shoe polish hood and trunk spears, fender vents, and GS 400 emblems on the fenders!!! With little more than “proper exhaust,” (and "wish I were a Buick" badging...) the T/A acquitted itself well on the quarter mile! (I may or may not have photographic evidence of such escapade… )
My camera only came out the next day, after we took advantage of the hose and old towels, once offered by the Scottish Inn.. 14.90s...
