1960 pontiac catalina conv manual#

It was painted white, but lettered up very close to the way Hot Chief 1 was. There was a second car called Hot Chief No. Unfortunately, the car vanished over the years. This performance became famous and Wangers later produced and sold a poster showing Hot Chief 1 in action. (NHRA) Nationals in the Detroit area he took both class and Top Eliminator titles with a 102.04 mph 114.14 sec. When he took Hot Chief 1 to the National Hot Rod Assoc. According to Stewart, the job would get done fast and well and then Wangers would get his phone back. He said he would have the phone removed from Wangers' desk and tell him he couldn’t have it back unless he did his work. However, Stewart had a few tricks he used to get the agency jobs done. Stewart said that Wangers often put his work aside and spent all day on the phone talking to his drag racing buddies. This writer once interviewed Wangers' former boss, Jack Stewart, who told me how much Wangers was into drag racing. This car was painted red and had bold lettering all over the body hyping Pontiac power.

1960 pontiac catalina conv manual#

1, which had a 389-cid/368-hp Super-Duty V-8 attached to a four-speed manual transmission. Jim Wangers, who worked for Pontiac’s advertising agency, drove the Hot Chief No. So, a pair of race-prepped 1960 Catalinas were constructed. MacDonald), Schornack says, “The Hot Chief traveled to Florida in February 1960 and by the time the Royal Racing Team left the Winter Nationals, the Daytona Beach dragstrip was but a smoking hole in the ground.”Īce Wilson enjoyed winning races and the next year he decided he needed even more racing cars to shake things up. In his book 'Milt Schornack and the Royal Bobcat GTOS' (co-authored by Keith J. The engine was tuned to deliver 345 hp on the drag strip. The dealership’s drag car needed an easily recognizable identity.