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[stevefzr]

Hi Guys,
 
I'm back looking for livery for another Hasegawa stocker, this time a Pontiac Bonneville. I'd done a bit of searching but couldn't find any reference to one running in NASCAR or other stocker racing. 

Does anyone know of a car that competed and have pictures?  Better still, where can I find decals? 

Otherwise I'll have to look for some big red "25"s and do it like the box lid.
 
Thanks,
 
Steve C

[Paul Kovich]

Two versions of the same car
 
1966 Pontiac GTO
 
1966 GTO hardtop

[stevefzr]

Are the GTO and Bonneville the same?  The pics I've seen show a different grill, scoop on the GTO and rear wheel spats on the Bonneville.  The body has the spats and no scoop.

 

Regards,

 

Steve C

[John Streisguth]

The 1966 Bonneville is the full-size car. The GTO is based on the mid-sized Tempest. Only mentions I have found of Pontiacs in that time frame are for GTO's

[Paul Kovich]

The article says that the Allison car (pictured) was the only Pontiac GTO on the GN circuit. With the GTO option available it's unlikely that anyone would have raced a Bonneville, the GTO was smaller, lighter and came with the big engine.

If you model is a Bonneville the best option would seem to just do it as Allison's GTO.

[MG Brown]

Joe Weatherly ran a 1962 Bonneville in NASCAR, it was dark red with a white #8.

 

Paul Goldsmith ran a Bonneville up to the time GM pulled out of NASCAR in 1963.

 

I found these pics of a Bonneville slot car built by Ezio Scisco:

 

 

 

David Pearson drove this famous Daytona Beach Kennel Club backed Bonneville:

 

 

 

Look here for a selection of decals: Slotcars 4 U

[Old pink can guy]

All I know is my brothers friend bought one and it was super fast! But that was the good old days. I rember when A Hemi Cuda was 3500. Out the door and a New Vett Fully loaded was only 6500 out the door!

[Rusty Pinion]

Steve..go to... http://www.randyayer.../modelingforum/

 

Look in the darkside racers section....If there was one racing..those guys will know it.

[Rusty Pinion]

OK...I did some looking and here is what I came up with.....H.B. Bailey ran one in 1968 at Daytona. Red bottom..white top #36 a good shot of it is at the 2.02 mark and a glimpse of it at the .15 sec. mark.

 

[Champion 507]

This was as close as I could find:

 

http://www.ebay.com/...=item4d0f379075

[stevefzr]

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for the research. That site looks like a great reference. I registered a couple of days ago and was waiting for the moderator to activate my account so I could post a question but it looks like you've saved me the trouble.

Regards

Steve C

[John Streisguth]

I was wondering why I was seeing cars as old as 1961 in that video.  A little research told me they ran 3 races that weekend, the "500", an ARCA race, and a late model. The oldest cars were obviously from the late model race, according to the race results I read.  But it did show what Steve was looking for...nice digging!

[Rusty Pinion]

Yes.......they ran several races that weekend. Sportsman was one class and I think they called the other one modified Sportsman....( I could be wrong)' It was kinda fun digging around....I'm glad I came up with something. I think a set of decals for H.B. Bailey's other cars would work ok for this one.

[John Streisguth]

According to the archive I found, which included finish results with car make and year, they ran ARCA, and NASCAR late model and Grand National

[Rusty Pinion]

I stand corrected..thank you.