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A.J. Foyt Wrecked '62 Pontiac
Race on Sunday....

"Race on Sunday... do body work on Monday"

Well, that's not exactly how the saying went, but it certainly applied here as A.J. Foyt turned out to have pretty much proved the physics theory that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

In this race it looks like Foyt's 405HP 421 '62 Pontiac and the '62 Ford were those "two objects". The Ford was most probably the 406, and while not the cubes as the Poncho was probably their biggest contender for those checkered flags back then.

The early '60s, up until the racing ban on January 24, 1963, was witness to Pontiac supreme on the tracks- the round ones as well as the straight ones. A few race teams struggled on in '63, but by the end of the season were pretty well gone without the factory backing. Pontiac would not reappear in stock car racing until 1978, and as we all know leave again in the early 2000s only to contine backing Chevrolet teams.

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