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Man that was a great story and I loved the ending. I am sure it was a hell of a surprise for you to walk away from all the BS.
So did you ever get the car fired back up to show the boys in Chicago what it would do? Paul |
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Yes i did. Stay tuned. : )
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Ziggy, it's a small world. Not sure when you were around, but around '90 we raced up there out of the Weston/Finch lot with a Orange '73 454 Vette on nitrous. Raced a blue COPO '69 Camaro and a few others. Competition auto wanted to run us with there '69 Camaro and even Serge Longo came and wanted us to run his challenger.
Also, we had a Ziggy from my town. You had a tubbed sb Vega with nitrous. OUR Ziggy had a tubbed SB Arrow with nitrous. WHAT A COINCIDENT. 2 ZIGGYS both with tubbed small cars with nitrous SB's......
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I saw the Arrow out many times but never heard who he ran (maybe Proctor's Vette/Radawicki's Duster/or????). What times was he running? Ziggy with the Vega, I need more of the Toronto race action. Did you ever hear of Jim Shimizu who ran a 69 Hugger Orange/Orange Houndstooth R/S Z/28 down at Cayuga from 1970 to approx. 1977? |
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I’m really digging these stories. Keep them coming!
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I will have to dig up some paperwork but I bought the car in the summer of 1968. There were lots of 69 SS cars around back then but I never saw another one in silver with the hood louvers, hockey stick stripes and the SS wheels. I personally think the Rally wheels looked lame and should have been used only on the Vette. Thanks
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Ziggy with the Arrow was Rodger Zigmond. Nice guy and still around. He was a good painter and painted Eddy Stern's Candy Blue '68 427 Firebird. Roger is out of cars now. I worked with him back in 2004 and still see him from time to time before covid. Eddy still has the Candy blue firebird, but now blown and street tubbed. If you were around you should remember Greg Teasdale. He is getting back into it as he has a few car one being a LS6 70 Chevelle. But also bought a fats '68 (??) Camaro. So back then I had the BLACK GTX rag, 440 4sp Dana. Fast car back then and I was only 16. Only had it 4 yrs but found it last yr out on east coast in the USA. Spoke to the owner and going to try to buy it in about a yr depending on life. I DO still own Gord Sipost's old Red '69 Nova SS. That was a stupid fast back then. I seen it beat Al's Vette AND Ziggy's nitrous Arrow out on Oak Park rd. AND he mis-shifted 4 times against the Arrow, he missed 3rd TWICE that run, and still put a car on the 11.70 Arrow. Doug from here (427 Strato) is also from Brantford. Man those were fun days............. John
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If you have paperwork that lists the VIN, that would be amazing... Thx
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