O/T Whatever happened to John Calles 303 Simca

Not a very traditional car by any means but was really a neat Hot Rod . Lots of cool ideas for the early 70's.
Is the car still around? Any pictures?

I think John was a PMD engineer, Black Simca, with 303 on the door. Ran drags and street khanas. Was supposedly a webered small block Chev. not a Pontiac motor??

 

I remember seeing that car in a magazine MANY years back. It was set up to handle well ( IFS I think ), and if I remember it had a de-stroked Pontiac motor ( maybe something designed to try to squeek Firebirds into the TransAm race series, before they were alowed to use sbc's). I hope someone fills in the years! Mark.

 

seems to me it had one of the honest to god 303 t/a engines(not all that available to the general public).
i'll be watching this thread, i loved that car...

 

I thought I read that it was a 347 57 engine to start with anyway.

I think he was the reason that NSRA dropped the streetkana. No one could beat him so they quit trying. If he attended an event, streetkana participation fell off.

It is a milestone car in my hot rod memory bank.

 

I remember a article or two on it.Black with blue numbers(?) I think it was a 303 had a wing fat tires major cage..Its been a while
steele

 

that thing would have had to have been a rocket.......i mean what was it maybe 80" wheelbase....and a track width of 5 foot or something....it was a crazy setup.....definent permagrin maker.....brandon

 

I remember that car well from the mags, what an awesome little ride.

Where is it now?!?!?

 

It was a neat little car. As I remember, it was one of the first magazine cars with Appliance Wire Mags.

Dave
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A picture of it was included in an R&C magazine article (maybe five years ago???) focusing on famous coupes.

 

I googled this last night. Found a thread on a Pontiac site....People asking about it too. Can't even find the site now.
But I think the car was featured in 1974 Hot Rod (at the height of the van craze).
Supposedly a 10 Sec car , and yes I think it did have wire wheels.

 

Found some information, but no recent pics. Here is a link to a Pontiac forum.


http://216.178.81.108/forums/showthread.php?t=475665