My Pontiac Story

[Keith Seymore]

September 1963:

"It was now September and time for the Nationals. Because Pontiac had pulled out of racing the Super Duty cars had to run FX [ie, "Factory Experimental"] and they put ballast in the Catalinas to run B/FX. My car was entered in B/Stock until [NHRA Tech Inspector] 'Farmer' Dismuke walked by, but he had a ring with a magnet in it that he would use to check cars for aluminum or fiberglass. When he put it on the fender of my car he said 'no way. This is an FX car'. If I ran, it would be B/FX and I sure didn't stand a chance against a Super Duty, and I think that was the year Doug Nash ran C/FX with his Bronco so I couldn't add ballast and run C/FX. So my car sat on the sidelines and didn't run.



"Our other car was a 1960 Corvair, so we did all our traveling in our Catalina, for trips I would switch to a 3.90 rear end, we went to Indianapolis for the 500 in May and made a couple trips to Missouri in it and my wife drove it through the week....

[Keith Seymore]

Keith here again:

I'm afraid with that abrupt ending that's all there is.

I knew that he had been writing these notes, both for my benefit and to keep his recollections fresh. It took me a while to find them, but I did eventually - in the silverware drawer of his travel trailer. It made perfect sense; he used the quiet time at the campground (or after the racing was done on race weekends) to jot these thoughts down.

I'm grateful for his diligence in capturing all this (and for all the insights into the dynamics between he, Jesse, Wangers, Rediker, Schornack, et al), but I only wish there was more

K

[Keith Seymore]

Here's a couple pics of the pad of paper, just so you can see what I'm workin' with....

[Xplantdad]

So totally cool...thanks for sharing Keith!