Muscle Car Of The Week Video #82: Stan Antlocer And The World's Fastest Pontiac Tempest 

Thanks for sharing this video. It is really great to see someone reunited with their car many years later. I would love to do this for my dad.

Thank you to the restorer for saving crucial Pontiac history and reuniting a living legend with a car even he was searching. Can't make that up. Classy.

My only complaint about this episode is that it is to short....need more ASAP!!! Love seeing Stan reunited with this car!!

That paint job is outstanding.

It's great to see the connection between the man and the car. I will always be a Pontiac fan.

Great story with a personal touch, love Muscle car of the week!!

A mini gto ...love the 63 tempest!

7 years after this posting, still a very interesting story between man and machine. Back in the day, Pontiac had some awesome people in their division. The history of Pontiac starting back with Oakland, is so interesting.

What a superb car story. .Back in the day I had a subscription to Hot Rod magazine...Sure this car and Stan were in those pages...Now reborn. Stan did say how clean the restore was.

My dad sold Pontiacs in '63. Picked me up at school one day in a Tempest - brand new right off the truck! He owned '62 Bonneville at the time. I didn't recognize him sitting there in the Tempest even as he tooted the horn.. I finally heard his voice...we laughed.. I jumped in and he started giving me the sales pitch about Pontiac's newest "little" car. Salesman to the end...

This the Best Episode of "Muscle Car of The Week" I have seen. The explanations about the specifications that Mr. Anlocer shared, are Second to None of all I have seen in the RU-vid "MCW". There is nothing like "FIRST HAND STORIES" THANK YOU.

Is that the one that was on Ebay a while back? Bidding had gone up to $600 until an astute viewer noticed it was an original '63 Tempest Super Duty and the bidding went through the roof.

Cool video. If only someone had 8MM clips of the car running at the drags. Thanks for posting.

Great video

I really enjoyed this video and reunion story. Stan remembered that car like it was yesterday. Very cool!

Classic car and classic Stan Antlocer.

The 63 Tempest 421 SD is the baddest Pontiac ever made. No question about it

Beautiful car- the hand lettering is so nice. Great show guys 👍👍👍

That's awesome

It was great to see the original racer. You guys should do more of that.

Such a sweet car!

I had one of these. But it had the 2 speed automatic in the rear with a half a V-8 and 4 barrel carb. the torque converter was on the engine and it had a covered drive shaft that bolted the engine to the trains axle rear end. the half a V-8 had the left side cylinders cut off and one barrel per cylinder!

Very Nice and Thumbs Up ! Liked your video.

Kid at school had one with the rope drive and I seem to remember a dashboard shift lever. Pontiac wasnt afraid to try new stuff gotta give them that nice car.

Impeccable restoration..... 8:11 Bliss

04:18 - Man, that looks like a Triumph front end à l'americaine!

That is a sweet Tempest Gotta love the old Pontiac

Been cool if they gave him the keys to keep. Great story.

If he took that car out for a spin, no cop in Michigan better dare to give a ticket

Whatever happened to Tim Benko and the Bill Knafel Anderson Pontiac "Running Bear" driven by Arlen Vanke? I was around 12 years old when Tim found that car here in my town of Elyria, Ohio. He was plowing snow at a local trailer park and seen the Tempest.. upon further inspection he seen the access panel in the trunk for the original quickchange rearend.. all the original aluminum body panels were present except for the hood.. and it had no engine or trans. Just like the white tempest in this video, the original rearend was swapped out for a larger third member style pontiac rearend from a different model. He seen it had heater and radio deletes in it and he just KNEW that car was something special. He offered the owner $2500 and they accepted his offer!! I seen that car at Tim's shop (because my dad was friends with Tim.. and my dad raced 409 Chevy's) many times over the followiing few years as he finished the restoration. Now its been about 20 years since ive seen Tim and/or the car. Periodically ill check online for new posts/details on the car but all I ever find is the one single video of the car in 2006 at Norwalk when Arlen seen the car for the first time since 63. Would love to know the current status of Running Bear if anyone has any updated information. Thank!

Great video. It's nice to see the original owner with the car. Lot of memories there.

Great video.Thanks

Awesome story 👏

The prestige of your collection is greatly enhanced by this car. Despite the “world’s fastest Pontiac” speed claim, it’s about 30 mph short of its factory-prepped ancestor which, on the banked oval of Daytona, humiliated Ferraris and race-prepped Corvettes. The Super Duty paved the way for the muscle car generation that followed, and in addition was successful in both stock car and drag racing. And, it validated the visionary credentials of the man who created it from a modest economy car: John DeLorean.

A fabulous car!!

The Tempest 421 beat the Ferraris and Cobras at Daytona in 62 aswell.. WORKS cars!

Good one

Too bad they didn’t include the story of how it was found, how it was listed and what it sold for it’s a great story unto itself. But it’s amazing seeing S Driver and car reunited w the car. That’s what it’s about right there.

amazing piece of history

Arnie the farmer beswick got one of these cars in the nines back in early 65 I believe no nitrious either! He was the first in the nines not a Chevy no mopar no ford a lowly Pontiac my friend!

Nice video and story. I remember watching The Stan LOng and Royal Pontiac race cars at "Sibley and Dix" (Detroit Dragway) back in the 60's. Great stuff with all the factory backed Super Stocks.

The car had the aerodynamics of a brick. Today, the car would likely be in the low 10's.

Great Stuff

GREAT car and an awesome story teller. I would love to sit and talk 1 on 1 w/Stan. What i find interesting is the car in the background at the 2:50 mark. It appears to be a 66 Dodge Charger,but it looks burnt and has a trophy on it. Must be some crazy rare car the have that besides all the beauties in this collection. Glen

For me, it's 61 through 72 Pontiacs..

AWESOME.

epic

I foorgot to mention that this video, is a vivid "document" of an Historical moment, in the U.S. cars History.

I remember seeing this car on the cover of Motor Trend.

oh damn I remember when that car sold! a bunch of articles came out on it. does he own it now?

In the mid 70s, I owned a 64 tempest with 389 and three speed on the tree. Sure wish I had it back. I don't know if it was stock, but I sure liked it.

I saw this car sell at Russo 7 Steel several years ago

I had a '67 Tempest with the not well known, but mentioned here, 326 HO...beyond a hotter cam and 4 barrel dual exhaust they also had slightly higher compression. I forget the factory HP rating...I want to say 245 but they were pretty darn fast. I beat a couple camaros and even a '68 Bullitt Highland Green Mustang GT with a 390.

Wow...when that engine turns over...

The 326 ci was really a under bored and under stroked 389 big block. The 389 and 326 weighed about the same and can be easily swapped.

It is such an impeccable restoration, the only bummer is they missed the mark by putting autometer gauges in it instead of sourcing some vintage period correct gauges that were used in the car, the amount of money paid for the car & then the cost of restoration, it could have easily been done.......attention to detail

I had a "63"auto. Full house 389, 2-4's, rollers and all. Great car for the street, but low gears were way to expensive for an every day driver.

0 - 123 mph in 11 seconds ahhhhh = Missile::::::::::::::::

SO, COOL THOSE TWO WHERE HOOKED BK UP AFTER ALL THOSE YEARS !! HOW MANY TIMES DOES THAT HAPPEN. . I PERSONALLY WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE REUNITED WITH MY TOTALLY ORIGINAL 1968 RALLY SPORT Z/28 BRITISH RACING GREEN WITH WHITE STRIPES , 302 CUBIC INCH 290 HP. . M-22 MUNCIE 4 SPEED DEALER INSTALLED 4:56 GEAR 3RD OWNER 62,000 ORIGINAL MILES WHEN I LET IT GO I WAS A FOOLISH 20 YEAR OLD WHEN THAT MISTAKE WAS MADE, IT LEFT NORTH WEST FLORIDA TO THE NEW OWNER A MUSCLE CAR COLLECTOR SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH MISSISSIPPI , BEEN TRYING TO FIND IT EVER SINCE, STUPIDLY GOT RID OF IT IN 84, FOR A 82 SILVERADO 4X4 I KNOW WHAT A DUMB ASS, LIVE & LEARN ANYONE SEE THE Z/28 HOLLA BK THIS WAY SURE WOULD APPRECIATE IT ...

I had a schoolmate that had oneof these that had a 26 V/8 in it. They came with a trans axle. He blew four of those out so Pontiac .cut the tranny housing out for his and installed a four speed tranny in it. It went like hell but then he got drunk one night and totalled the car.

I got a 63 tempest in need of help

Just watch the video of a car like this with a 4 cylinder from the factory in its running 12.12 in the quarter mile And its naturally aspirated

122.95? What was that? A Joe Biden gaffe? The lettering clearly says "123.95."