Knafel Tempest 400 Magnum pics?

[NCGuy68]

I attended the Mopar Nationals at Natinoal Trials (Newark, OH) back in the late 1990s. Vanke was there running nostalgic 413 and 440 wedge cars. Suloff was there and broke a axle in a Viper he was running.

Its my understanding that Paul Suloff is/was a engineer at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron.

As a side note..during Vankes' glory days with Chrysler his main helper/wrench was a guy by the name of Bob Hiner. Hiner was also associated with some pretty stout Camaros running with sponsorship from a local Chevy dealer. It may have been Marhoffer (sp) but I'am not certain.

Can anyone shed light on this?

[gtoguru]

Last time I saw Vanke he was running a 68 Hemi Dart. I have not been to any Mopar events for 2 years though.

[olredalert]

----Arlen was always a nice guy to me. He used to come up to my dads hardware store during the summer of 65 to pick up various stuff for the speed shop he and Russ spent their days at while trying to keep RC Industries going. They made a damn good bellhousing once the bugs were worked out. Arlen always had a good word. I was the punk 18 year old with the 64 Chevelle 283 powerpack. Russ was driving a brand new 65 Shelby Mustang. Dont know what Arlen drove every day at that time. He also must have done alot of his racing work elsewhere as I only infrequently saw his race cars.
----Saw Arlen and his Hemi-Dart at a show a couple of years ago and shot the breeze for about a half hour.Looked pretty good for someone older than me!......Bill S

[Steve_Hoog]

Jack

Sorry this took so long, not only was I out most of the weekend but I have to do it from work.

These are courtesy of JLP:

Magnum Page 1

Magnum Page 2

I wanted to get them up ASAP after walking in the door and haven't even read them yet, they looked interesting working with the files.

[copo9566aa]

Thanks JLP and Steved
Very cool

[Steve_Hoog]

I'm not sure where this came from, but it's cool. Some award for Bill.

[Steve_Hoog]

Page 2

[Steve_Hoog]

Something else on Bill, again not sure of the origin.

[Steve_Hoog]

Jack... two things from the net:

The 1-of-12 KNAFEL '69 Ram Air V TUNNEL-PORT "Golden Sabre" GTOs, and their (50) '70 400ci "Magnum 400" Tempest sedans (w/GTO engines & tricks)

Bill KNAFEL PONTIAC of Akron built (12) '69 Golden Sabre RA V 400" GTOs & sold them to the public

[JLP]

Steved,

What is the link???? I see the last post was from Smoke Signals the official publication of POCI.

BTW, Thanks for posting the pics for me.