Bill Owen, who designed the cross member and mounts for the torque arms for the TTA and more importantly was the main guy who took over the TTA project with help of Milt Schornack (Father of Royal Bobcat Pontiacs) and came up with using the FWD 3800 heads to mold to the 3.8 block so as to fit in the TTA will be there with the actual heads (prototype i believe), pictures and documentation and will speak on the 3 aspects of taking the project over (started in '85/86 with Ron Yuil and Ron Kociba-both will be speaking for us already) and then when Buick said they couldnt help out Bill was contacted by Pontiac Engineer Tom Goad (sp?) who was directly reporting to John Delorean at the time and made the TTA happen. Has great stories of the 5 years it took to take the Pontiac TTA from in house special car to legend, also stories of how it was the only car since the 1950s to not need any tuning to meet the rigid standards of performance to be the Indy 500 pace car as well as running against Porsche 911s and Vettes on the west coast and being able to run 186-189mph non governed and could have been running in the Daytona 500 as in qualifying for the event. He is excited about attending and speaking and ironically was told by Jim Mattison the head guy of Pontiac Historical Services about this event. He will also look to bring others there just to answer questions after the speakers are done.
We also per Wayne Sherman will have Tom Halka attending who was the rod and piston engineer of the 3.8 turbo block. He also has a sleeper low 13 second pristine 79 Turbo Coupe they are hoping to bring. Remember as well Wayne is hoping to bring his 86 T Type the only factory test car still remaining in existence, depending on if he can get the car tuned properly in time.
Shaping up to be a really good event in the making and the engineers are really excited about showing the enthusiasts all the details of what made these cars great, in addition making it exciting and not like a boring classroom experience.
The excitement is really building!! Now if gas prices will go down, I can sleep at night!
We also per Wayne Sherman will have Tom Halka attending who was the rod and piston engineer of the 3.8 turbo block. He also has a sleeper low 13 second pristine 79 Turbo Coupe they are hoping to bring. Remember as well Wayne is hoping to bring his 86 T Type the only factory test car still remaining in existence, depending on if he can get the car tuned properly in time.
Shaping up to be a really good event in the making and the engineers are really excited about showing the enthusiasts all the details of what made these cars great, in addition making it exciting and not like a boring classroom experience.
The excitement is really building!! Now if gas prices will go down, I can sleep at night!
