The Camaro Club (UK)

Well the firebird was the baby of the ponchos
not many google pics of royal pontiacs but they raced firebirds and maybe even a funny car ???
http://www.royalpontiac.org/royal%20pon ... story.html

Haha... very good..

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Royal Pontiac-blast from the past !
Back in the day they did some very nice cars for the Pure Stock drag class, cars ran mid 13s with only ignition and carb jetting mods on terrible Wide Oval tyres. 400 motors were standard spec .
With headers, modern rubber and a little weight reduction the car would be running 12s, not bad for a totally streetable daily driver
They also did some wilder things for customers like 428 conversions with multiple carbs...

That car doesn't look like it's set up for drag action at all with the big tyres at the front...

I'm assuming Royal was the Pontiac version of Yenko or Baldwin.. A keen dealer with racing aspirations

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Royal Pontiac really came into it's own in the early '60s , well before the COPO Chev dealers such as Yenko, Baldwin and Dana.
They drag raced their own team cars from the late '50s onwards, first team to exceed 100 mph and run 13 quarter in 1959 in the Super/Stock class. They won the NHRA Daytona winternats in 1960.
They used the fame to sell very fast street cars , sold as Royal Bobcats they had specialy tuned engines, all the best factory options and custom wheels.
The work done by Ace Wilson the owner of Royal Pontiac eventually led to the development of the original GTO, widely considered the first true muscle car...