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 Post subject: More old magazine stuff
PostPosted: May Mon 14, 2007 8:38 am 
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I am still going through a bunch of old magazines and found more items of interest:

a) Picture of Ted Pelech's Camaro (and some Nick Scavo references)

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b) Cool old NOS ad:

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c) I thought this was interesting. It is an early add for GM performance parts, but notice how much stuff is Pontiac:

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d) Apparently Superbirds were not big sellers in the late 70's -

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e) An add for Alcoa aluminum, but features the ZL-1 aluminum Chevy big block:

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f) A camaro with an aluminum front end?

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g) Rock Running (his son Randy is the NSCA source for T shirts, jackets etc):

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h) This guy, Bob Marshall, took me out in the first round at Columbus this year. This is from Popular Hot Rodding, July of 1979:

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PostPosted: May Mon 14, 2007 8:50 am 
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(lost count): Bob Marshall again, this time from the November of 1977 Popular Hot Rodding;

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See the car in the other lane (the "West Virginia Hemi")? Here it is today (looks like the years have been kind):

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PostPosted: May Mon 14, 2007 8:57 am 
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Naturally, this caught my eye:

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Last edited by Keith Seymore on May Mon 14, 2007 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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PostPosted: May Mon 14, 2007 1:46 pm 
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They are great Keith! Thanks for putting them up!
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PostPosted: May Tue 15, 2007 8:45 am 
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Thanks for the encouragement -

One more batch: this is Al Adam, currently competes with us in the NSCA "American Muscle" class (the car still looks exactly like this, by the way). This is from the May 1976 Popular Hot Rodding.

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