Mecum Pontiac Super Duty's

[Paul D]

For those that didn't make it to the Mecum auction last weekend, some pictures of the Pontiac Super Duty's that were sold out of the Randy William's collection follow this post.

Dana Mecum stood up and said that these were the finest cars he's ever sold at any of his auctions. That's quite a statement and after closely examining the cars, they were all unbelievable restorations.

Also, Arnie "the farmer" Beswick gave a little talk. He said the reason he kicked ass on Chevrolet, Mopar, and Ford in those days was the quality of engineering that Pontiac put into their race cars. He said Pontiac totally dominated NHRA and NASCAR in the early 60's.

In fact, in the Race of Champions at Daytona against all the series winners of European and American sports car and oval, a 421 Super Duty Tempest lapped the field of Ferrari's, Mercedes, Porche, NASCAR, etc., etc. After the race, Mercedes bought the car (an offer that couldn't be refused) from the Pontiac race team, took it to Europe and reverse engineered the car. To this day, that Tempest has never been found!