Now, here's a good question for you... if you were a young automotive enthusiast living in Winnipeg in the 60's and your father just happened to be president of a local Pontiac dealership what would you do?


why, of course you'd send dear old Dad down to Michigan to talk with Milt Schornack at Royal Pontiac which is exactly what John Dubois did

with the result being...



John Dubois and Towne Pontiac's Rambunctious Birds were prominent and popular competitors






Frank Lenord (l) and John Dubois, himself, after a late night / early morning thrash


John, Tom Donaghy and Frank Lenord with car loaded up and ready to go racin' few racers manage to run a car totally on their own John credits unsung Kevin Love, Bruce Thomson, and Ron Mouer, among others, for their invaluable assistance

John took great delight in beating up on friend Barry Steves and this Park Pontiac sponsored 'bird


John tells us the '68 Firebird ran a best of 12.18 off a 12.23 record

Although not readily identified as such, we suspect this '69 model is Rambunctious #2 We do know Richard Wood took the photo and it is the only one we've ever seen of this particular car


Rambunctious III heralded in the Firebird's new body style







Towne's racing exploits got good coverage in one of the automotive dealership industry's publications



Winnipeg's famous landmark, Assiniboia Downs, was the backdrop for the photo and yes, we think that helmet says "Skid Lid", too car set the NHRA H stock record @ 12:07 and was capable of more





at some point, Towne stepped up to Super Stock

John and the Love brothers teamed up on this '60 Chevrolet super stocker running 15 flat impressive given the 283 2 barrel and 3 speed stick combination






Kevin Love hanging on for dear life as Bill Balicky keenly observes we'll leave it to you as to why NHRA eventually banned this practise



John's favorite photo and understandably so great leave was caught by well known west coast photographer, Rich Carlson, at Mission Raceway in B.C. John met and beat northwest Mopar heavy hitter, Dave Wren, in the finals 2 weeks running the '65 Chevelle ran a .03 under 12.12 while there

Currently, John can be found living the good life in New Port Richey, Florida where his Mint Restorations offers modified Corvette suspension components and builds turn-key hot rods such as this 3 window coupe that recently drove away with top honours at Winnipeg's 2009 World of Wheels modern deuce enjoyed the experience so much as of July 2009 it's still roamin' the local streets


well done John, and thank you

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