PONTIAC WAR PARTY! ’63 LEMANS NOSTALGIA SUPER STOCK! 482 CI PONTIAC! STREET LEGAL! BYRON!

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
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