few pics from Level Cross - Petty Garage

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road trip - Illinois to Level Cross, NC!

I went to the Petty Garage on Friday (29th) checking on the progress on my buddies 64 Petty tribute car (using an original Petty Hemi motor), and found a few wing cars in the shop. The orange Daytona is being restored/reassembled. Of course the 40 resto Petty car was in the showroom. I even got to hear it run - nice rumble from the hemi!  Along side that, was another white bird. In the corner was a roof template that was reported to be for the Nascar superbird.

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Even got to see the engine room and dyno, where the Hemi was being assembled for the 64 project.

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After "Level Cross", we too a side trip to visit with Cotton Owen. No wing cars to take pics of but lots of history to be learned from a few hours with him and has wife Dot.

Still a lot of Hemi parts around!

[tan top]

    awesome day by the looks of it !!! would love go these places !   
thats great able to chat Cotton owens also ,  good pictures !! thansk for sharing 

[jonw29]

Looks like a great trip.I am ashamed.I live 45 min from Cotton's and have never been there.

[Ghoste]

You should be ashamed and youshould rectify that ASAP. 

[jonw29]

I  plan to take care of that VERY soon.

[hemi68charger]

Those are some very cool pictures..... Thanks for sharing............ Looks like Mr. Petty has some very close ties with his past... 

[The70RT]

Cooool, I see he even has the Olds.

[moparstuart]

awesome , thanks for sharing buddy   

[41husk]

I wish I had stopped at Cotton Owens and had him sign the dash of his hauler.  I picked it up at Niel Castles, who said we were only about an hour from Cotton's Garage

[nascarxx29]

Awesome road trip

[Mopar John]

Scott,
In your second batch of pictures, the top picture has a black 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix AERO coupe on the right. It is my understanding this is the only one that wasn't painted silver from the factory with a gray interior! This one is black on the outside and has a brown interior. It was in the Talladega musuem for years and was missing during our 2009 visit! I didn't know it had a Petty connection? I know Petty wanted Pontiac to build this car so he could race with the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS AERO coupes! GREAT PICTURES!
John

[Richard Cranium]

Awesome road trip

Most definately.

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Scott,
In your second batch of pictures, the top picture has a black 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix AERO coupe on the right. It is my understanding this is the only one that wasn't painted silver from the factory with a gray interior! This one is black on the outside and has a brown interior. It was in the Talladega musuem for years and was missing during our 2009 visit! I didn't know it had a Petty connection? I know Petty wanted Pontiac to build this car so he could race with the Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS AERO coupes! GREAT PICTURES!
John

John - to be honest, I was not at all interested in the "non-wing" cars in the shop, so I paid little attention. I do seem to recall thinking as I took the picture, the Pontiac looked to have a NC State issued "Petty" license plate. Again - not positive on that. I will double check the hi-res original pics to see if I can zoom in for a clearer look.


We also trekked back home on the two lane roads and found an old dragstrip in XX (state removed as I may be working a deal on a few of the cars) which had 50-60 cars "up-in-the-woods". These cars were were nearly impossible to access, and while found a 69 RR with the top crushed, I was later told by the owners son, I missed a GTX that was supposed to be "right next to the dart".  I did find the 72 dart, but never saw a GTX.

Since there were no Aero cars, and I don't generally read or post in the general section of this forum, I have not posted pics from the "hill".

Scott

[redrider]

correct me if i am wrong but isnt that white superbird pettys

[WB General Lee]

That is very cool. I was at Pettys in the 80's with the Superbird club and it was awesome. Was that Daytona a customer car? That Pete Hamilton car is very historic what a sight for sore eyes. There is a story behind that white Superbird as I remember. I think Richard traded some farm equipment for that or something back in the day.

[Brock Samson]

 WoW! Thanks for posting those Pics. up.. that G-body Areo Grand Prix story sounds like a repeat of the Super Bird circumstances,.. kinda'

[FJ5WING]

I dont think 'ol Richard has any ties to anything that dosent have Uncle Benjamins picture attached. Ive have been to his shop a few times and was unimpressed everytime. He was the first to charge an entrance fee to the shop tour and I lost a lot of admiration for him since.

I appreciate all the stuff happening there now but I seriously doubt Richard is the drive behind it.