Wednesday, June 03, 2015

a 1969,70, and 71 Super Car Clinic I just learned of, John Petrie and his dream set of hemi Mopars focused on Canadian Mopar dealerships, a Bee, GTX, Barracudas, Challengers, Duster and Demon




In the U.S. the clinics were being conducted by well known drag racers, but because American press is so damn MYOPIC, they didn't see what else was going on around the continent unless someone named Don was going to be racing there.

The U.S. Plymouth division had SOX and Martin of North Carolina.
Don Grotheer of Oklahoma represented the Plymouth line of performance cars.
The U.S. Dodge division had Dick Landy from California.
Bill Tanner of Georgia to represent the Dodge line of performance cars.

The success of these performance clinics were remarkable for their time. 






http://johnpetrieracing.com/?page_id=846








In 1970, he ran a full racing schedule and made 66 clinics.


The Duster was converted to look like a Demon for the 1971 year, and a 71 Barracuda was over acid dipped by accident






8 comments:

  1. Hey! Nice to see you posting this info and pics! One slight correction: the 1970 Duster was stripped of some of its components, which were added to a new Demon shell. The Duster body was then sold to a Manitoba racer, who continued to race it for a period of time before it was sold again to John Hagen.

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    1. Thank you, it's what I do to be happy, and entertain other people. Interesting info! It wasn't included on the John Petrie website.

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    2. There is a photo of the 1970 Duster next to the 1971 Demon in John Petrie's garage in Bay Ridges, Ontario. It appeared in a copy of the drag newspaper "Wheeltracks". I have this article and photo in my collection, which is comprised of Petrie's own scrapbooks and photo archive which were handed off to me. I'm currently writing a book on John Petrie's history and achievements on the race tracks of Canada and the US.

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    3. great! When you're ready to publicize your book, please be sure to let me know, and I'll run post to let other readers know!

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  2. Its since been amended! Thanks!

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    1. It appears to still require amending. Thanks!

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    2. well... ok, if you say so

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