On behalf of Dave Mongeon, Derek Graham, and Mike Tomaszewski, we proudly present the 25th anniversary reunion of the Super 16 class at the 34th annual Buick GS Nationals (dates to be announced) at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The 3 persons listed above created this class to showcase the fastest Buicks in the world in one place. Big blocks, turbos, superchargers, naturally aspirated. If it is Buick bodied and Buick powered it is good to go. Many people have come and gone both as enthusiast or driver/owner or spectator, but the memories will last forever. Before its too late and for a one time only spectacle to pay homage to many of those who have carried the Buick torch of performance, both big block and small block, we look to bring a reunion of the cars and the people together for one final time. A true tribute to Buick performance to not only the drivers, owners, mechanics and enthusiasts but to the cars as well. We are looking to get as many of the original cars in attendance, whether to race or show or both. We would love to see everyone race their car but realize time and budgetary constraints may be an issue. If you can bring the car to the event with cobwebs from sitting in the barn for 10 years, no problem, people will love to see it, period. We are looking to have this special show on Friday from 830am to 1030 am for car show and photo ops. We are hoping to line the cars up on the track on both sides similar to how the NHRA hot rod reunions are planned out accordingly. Then we will take each car who wishes to race and have 2 qualifying runs and then run eliminations that afternoon as well. Monies will be collected to sponsor this class for prize money, as well as possible participant t shirts or hats. That will be decided down the road as we get closer to the event. We appreciate any and all sponsorship of the class as it will go directly to the participants. More details will be forthcoming as well. Here in no particular order is the list of cars we want to see attend this event. This list will be updated as well and I do know some of the cars on here are not around or with new owners. I am hoping someone can give myself or the other individuals involved contact information to get these owners to bring their cars to this event. Some cars also have never been to BG but when you think of Buick performance history, you have to include these cars because they are the backbone of Buick performance. Here they are in no particular order: Mike/Eddy Smith West Virginia Kenny Duttweiler prepared GN (2 of them) Paul Pirnat 69 Skylark Mark Busher Lil Joe 1970 GS Gary Paine Great Scat 1968 GS Gary Paine Thumper 1970 GS Todd Berreth GT Performance 1970 Skylark George Mueller "PRO GS" 69 GS Pat Sweeney 1970 GS Stage 2 car (Jim Turner's old car) Fred Catlin/Rick Patterson 1969 Stage 2 car (Buizilla)/ 1970 C Stock automatic GS Lou/Larry Gilbert Southside Machine Buick Skyhawk Rusty Wilbank/Jay Vanous 1967 GS 455 Guy Parquette 1970 GS Reynolds Stage 2 car Mike Guarise Jones and Benisek 1970 GS Race car Dave DeHabey Kenne Bell big block Regal Rich Brower "Coin Operated" 1970 GS Rod Hendrickson 91 Regal Scott Stern 1987 455 Regal (Poston car) William Dotson (now Toy Barn) 87 GN tube chassis car "Tweaked" 83 Regal (formerly Lawrence Conley, then Will Wilkerson, now????) Doug Hecker 1965 GS Rich Martinez 1970 GS Scott Coffman 1967 GS Corry Ruffo 1970 GS (Not sure who owns it now, Jeff Hart???) Dave McIntosh 1971 Buick GSX Mike TA 1968 Wagon Dave Mongeon Nobodys Fool Kenny Duttweiler GN tube chassis drag car (Shane Grimsley) Buddy Cox 1987 GNX John Schmidt Buick Opel/Buick Riviera (bring both John, you have the trailer for it!) Dan Hopkins Buick Skyhawk Kennedy McConnell 1965 Buick Skylark (Big Bad Buick) The Alcohol Gang 1970 Buick Skylark/GS??? Ricardo LaCosta 1986 Designers Series TR Lawrence Clark 1969 GS Mike Nussell 1970 GS (Big Daddys Toy) Bo Gillespie 1971 Skylark * ***Any of the remaining Tom Rose Buick drag cars remaining, if anyone can help with current owner whereabouts and contact information would be greatly appreciate***
I wasn't there until 97.... Green car is in Cinncinatti area now.BBC powered but very fast and well done.
You still count as anyone in the 25 year history automatically qualifies. Shall we add you to the list?:bglasses:
I'd be a definite maybe.....Going to try to get a new motor done this winter.Will depend on how smoothly that goes.
Just sitting here doing what I do best........:beer:beer And trying to remember some more names that used to race in the super 16 from yesteryear that haven't been mentioned. Dean Kauffman 70 gs George palaukis 70 gs Brad oliffe 86 skylark Al delric 70 gs Dave Johnson Guys car Jim haas 70 gs I know I'm forgetting some more but just wanted to throw these ones out there. A big thanks goes out to Dave Mongeon ,Derrick Graham,Mike Tomaszewski . Thanks for cutting into my retirement funds guys!!!!!!! :moonu:
You got me thinking o No: Did Scotty McConnell ????????? BIG BAD BUICK out of Michigan ????? saw them at Norwalk a few times.......9.90 class Car is awsome
Yes, Scott ran a few times in the 16, car was sold & was running with a BB Chevy in some fastest street car events last I knew.
You wouldnt have to worry about any of this if you would have just sold me "Coin Operated" when i asked you about it.....then you could have had more money for :beer:beer:beers2:ou:
I've ran in s16 multiple years but for the last 4 I've been down . I will be there with my GS next year
Thanks guys for the names, list getting updated as we speak. I will be posting who is confirmed to attend starting in the next few days. Please chime in as reading old gsxtras and viewing videos, we still wont have all the names people may know of or have seen. Please help. Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated. :TU:
I ran in the 1997 Super 16, so I'll try and get Bluzilla sorted out and put back together for the event. (1970 Skylark done up in 72 trim) Larry Berte
Larry thanks for the post. I look forward to seeing you and your car there. Was watching some old footage of the car the other day. Thanks for reading and good luck on the the thrash. 11 months and counting:TU:
Confirmed cars as of today, 11-17-2013: Gary Paine Thumper (Re-Born) and hopefully Great Scat Rob Chilenski Skylark Dave Mongeon Nobody's Fool Guy Parquette Reynolds Stage 2 car Pat Sweeney Stage 2 car (Jim Turners former Blue car/4 speed) Dave Johnson Stage 2 clone Rod/Danie "The Regal" (And hopefully the Hawk too) John Gentner 70 GS/71 GS These are just a few so far, many more phone calls/contacts will be made since the list is still being updated as we speak. **** If I am missing anyone, please let me know and ill edit this post. Im going to re edit the overall list right now. Please chime in if you will be attending and racing/showing your car as well. Thanks everyone! ---------- Post added at 01:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:12 AM ---------- Revised list as of 11-07-13. If we are missing any cars or know of anyway to contact these people, please let me know at 216 470 8844 cell, pm me or email me at trose231@hotmail.com Here it is: Mike/Eddy Smith West Virginia Kenny Duttweiler prepared GN (2 of them) Paul Pirnat 69 Skylark Mark Busher Lil Joe 1970 GS Gary Paine Great Scat 1968 GS Gary Paine Thumper 1970 GS Todd Berreth GT Performance 1970 Skylark George Mueller "PRO GS" 69 GS Pat Sweeney 1970 GS Stage 2 car (Jim Turner's old car) Fred Catlin/Rick Patterson 1969 Stage 2 car (Buizilla)/ 1970 C Stock automatic GS Lou/Larry Gilbert Southside Machine Buick Skyhawk Rusty Wilbank/Jay Vanous 1967 GS 455 Guy Parquette 1970 GS Reynolds Stage 2 car Mike Guarise Jones and Benisek 1970 GS Race car Jones and Benisek "Red car" re creation Dave DeHabey Kenne Bell big block Regal Rich Brower "Coin Operated" 1970 GS Rod Hendrickson 91 Regal/Skyhawk Scott Stern 1987 455 Regal (Poston car) William Dotson (now Toy Barn) 87 GN tube chassis car "Tweaked" 83 Regal (formerly Lawrence Conley) now in West Texas Doug Hecker 1965 GS Rich Martinez 1970 GS Scott Coffman 1967 GS Corry Ruffo 1970 GS (Starkey owns it now) Dave McIntosh 1971 Buick GSX Mike TA 1968 Wagon Dave Mongeon Nobodys Fool Kenny Duttweiler GN tube chassis drag car (Shane Grimsley) Buddy Cox 1987 GNX John Schmidt Buick Opel/Buick Riviera (bring both John, you have the trailer for it!) Dan Hopkins Buick Skyhawk Kennedy McConnell 1965 Buick Skylark (Big Bad Buick) The Alcohol Gang 1970 Buick Skylark/GS??? Ricardo LaCosta 1986 Designers Series TR Lawrence Clark 1969 GS Mike Nussell 1970 GS (Big Daddys Toy) Bo Gillespie 1971 Skylark (John Gentner) * ***Any of the remaining Tom Rose Buick drag cars remaining, if anyone can help with current owner whereabouts and contact information would be greatly appreciate*** John Osborne 71 Buick stocker Les Powell 70 GS John Getner 70 Stage 2/ 71 GS/Skylark Rob Chilenski 70 Skylark John Csordas Stage 2 Skyhawk Gary Kubisch 70 Skylark Tom Lorek/Peter Barton/Ron Pilati ANS Turbo Regals John Massoud 67 GS George/Ellen Hall Buick Station Wagons Jerome Gill 71 Skylark Bob Gilliland Green Skyhawk/Green Skylark Frank Smith Turbo Tune 87 GN Steve Hamilton 68 Skylark Red Donald Friar 71 GS Ron Joyce 70 GS Keith Armor 78/79 Regal Jim Burek 65 Skylark Kent Rudbeck 87 T Type Dean Caufman 70 Skylark Brady Perry 87 GN Dick Walker 87 T Type (6 shooter car) Mike Phillips 70 GS Joe Hampton 71 GS Cal Hartline GN? Al Plumber 87 GN 7 sec car Jerry Chambers Superdog car Eric Rankin GN Barry Walker 87 GN Travis Beckendorf Spooky 87 GN Dave Poppe 87 GN Glen Anderon GN Billy Anderson 84 GN Bill Bergman 82 Skyhawk Brad Oliff 85 Skyhawk Mike Garrison 70 GS George Pollakis 70 GS Al Delric 70 GS Bruno D 65 GS John Stevens 85 Regal Bob Makley 72 Stage 1 Ron Kincaid 72 GS (Jim Haas former car) George Sweesey 1972 tube chassis GS Alan Liverman 87 Buick Steve Reynolds 70 Buick Ken Betts 71 X Bruce Kent Apollo Dick Johnson 1970 GS LIL Joe 1970 GS
Hey Tony another stocker of the good kind Glen Biggers............Mr. Big here is that little guy looking for a horse power fix couldn't attach to pm Paul
Nice pic Paul. I sent Glen a pm he said he has been busy last few years thus the Stage 1 has not been on the most important list. If you can give him a push in the right direction if you know what i mean:Brow: Ill be making phone calls starting this weekend to get a lot of the people out of the woodwork.
