PONTIAC WAR PARTY! '63 LEMANS NOSTALGIA SUPER STOCK! 482 CI PONTIAC! STREET LEGAL! BYRON!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Rich Antonacci's love for Pontiacs started when he was just 5 years old! His father, also named Rich, ran a '63 Pontiac Catalina back in the day at US 30 and Oswego Dragstrip in Illinois. Rich grew up going to the track with his father and they lived in a Chicago neighborhood loaded with race cars and right down the street from the legendary racer and car builder Romeo Palamides' chassis shop. Needless to say this had a big influence on Rich and since then he has had many Pontiac race cars and show cars over the years with his father who taught him everything.
Currently, besides his 63 Lemans, Rich has a 1966 GTO called THE GODFATHER that he intends to update and race again hopefully in late '21 or '22 depending on finances. The car which Rich followed as a kid, has not been run since 1999. Rich acquired it 4 yrs ago from the guy who owned & raced it over 40+ years. It's an original survivor car and has been a race car since 1968 with a legendary history. It was well known around the Chicago area and raced at Byron, US 30, and Union Grove.
The '63 Lemans was purchased from the second owner in '91 from very nice elderly lady in Aurora, IL. It was an original 62,000 mile car that he drove for a few weeks before he started to disassemble it. The car had the base 4-cylinder engine connected to a transaxle. So, the transmission and torque convertor were in the rear under the trunk floor connected to the engine with a rope shaft inside a torque tube housing. This setup was used from 1961-1963 in all Tempest and Lemans cars. Rich finished the car in late '92 and was made into a Pro Street car and drove for 4 years before next he decided to make changes and modifications to what you see today.
The body is all original steel except VFN Fiberglass fenders, hood, and deck lid with paint by Bob Carter owner of BC Auto Creations & Hot Rods in Crestwood, Ill. You'll also notice a decal in memory of Rich's father who he lost in '03 and the side window and a cross on the trunk dedicated to Rich's 10 week old Grandson Jaxon who he lost in Feb 2020.
The interior is completely original interior except for the front racing buckets. All the windows are factory OEM glass with fully operable window cranks. Rich used a Painless wiring kit for required lights, turn signals, brake lights, instrumentation, etc., to operate and license as street legal.
The party starts with an engine built by Custom Auto Machine Crete, IL. consisting of 482 cubic inches, Pontiac 400 block, 15.3 to 1 Diamond pistons, Crower Ultra Lite crank, Ferrea titanium valves, Comp Cams roller cam, Edelbrock Aluminum heads with Cometic gaskets, Twin 750 Demon carbs, Wenzler Guts Ram intake manifold and a Moroso Vacuum pump.
Ed’s Auto Conversion of Plano, IL made the custom step-headers.
The trans is a Turbo 400 with a Reverse pattern with an ATI transbrake, ATI 9 inch convertor, JW Ultra Bell front housing and built by Don Stanley @ TSI Transmissions.
The chassis was built by Chassis Craft in Addison, IL and includes an all stock front suspension except for an aftermarket steering rack and Calvert 90/10 shocks. Rear suspension is an Art Morrison 4-link with coil overs and a 9” Ford rear housing with Strange axles and center section with 4.56 gears.
This year was the first time out with the car in 12 years as Rich's sons played high school and college football. Rich's weekends were spent traveling to camps, going to both home and away games to support his sons. Rich's intent now is to run it at select nostalgia events, and at some of the Nostalgia Super Stock Inc. events. In another two or three years Rich plans to retire it, swap in his other motor and drive it on the street again! #pontiac #nostalgiasuperstock #warparty
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Building one of these now, will be racing next year.
Beautiful car , love the originality of it . Hooks hard and goes straight, what more could you ask for. Except for another video from victoryred to watch. Keep em comin, and we'll keep watchin ! Thanks
Thanks!👊
Sounds like an old school Pontiac should, beautiful car. Another great video VRC !
Thanks!👊
Just met Rich at the Indian Uprising Pontiac Show. If was fun rapping about cars. Great guy and great car!
💯 He's without a doubt a great guy. Super friendly and a great customer 👍
❤ This was a great day! You captured everything beautifully victoryredcolorado!
Thanks!👊
Very groovy!. These were hard to find originally. Great engineering! I love when a dude keeps it all one brand.
Nice video rich
Video has 1 thumbs down. Must be someone that was ass whooped by this big bad Ponti
nice ...would've liked to see a build vid of this car
I liked the Mustang II in the other lane.
Its an original pro stock car. Plan on doing video of it eventually.
Happy to see it is Pontiac powered. Pontiac power rules
Only matched in wicked evil nasty stance with the Hurst Hemi Darts,,,,.......cool bitchin
Cool.
Sweet ride! I just bought 63 lemans did you make your own chassi or buy one?
It is all fabricated from a new cross member back to custom frame rails, using an Art Morrison 4-link and coil over kit.
how much does the car weight?
Mmmm that's the way an engine is supposed to sound
Beautiful car.
This is NO DOUBT a very mean Pontiac and top notch in every respect. But it doesn't really say nostalgia super stock to me. This thing has tons of modern features that's hardly nostalgic. The body is nostalgic.
I owned a 63 and it self destructed
Bummer!
Why he shut it down 2nd pass?
The 1/8 mile run was actually my first pass. The runs got reversed on the video. New motor so just wanted to run one at 1/8th mile first.
The owner is a dweeb!! LoL
Huh? Do you know him?
Yeah BFLY is my brother in law. He knows me alright. 🤣😅😂
Ever get your ass dragged by a dweeb ?
What a Goat
Pre-goat
@@IronChief
That is true but down deep John DeLorean was thinking about it !
And we're all glad he finally was able to navigate through the bureaucrat b.s. to make it happen!
@@IronChief That’s true & this thing u got is a keeper