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Fireball Roberts and Smokey Yunick pose with the #3 '59 Catalina hardtop. Pontiac produced two NASCAR factory race car options in 1959. The first, like this one, was outfitted with a single four-barrel intake, rated at 330 hp. The rarer and rarely seen 345 hp NASCAR upgrade was illegal for Daytona racing and featured Tri-Power carburetion.
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 Fireball Roberts and Smokey Yunick pose with the #3 '59 Catalina hardtop. Pontiac produced two NASCAR factory race car options in 1959. The first, like this one, was outfitted with a single four-barrel intake, rated at 330 hp. The rarer and rarely seen 345 hp NASCAR upgrade was illegal for Daytona racing and featured Tri-Power carburetion.  View Related Article

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