Might have had a problem catching a speeding Duzy, Cad,Pierca Arrow, Chrysler, Buick, etc in that Model A!
Golden Eagle aka Thunderbowl Comet. Although the car's story varies from one teller to the next, it did at least portray a Muroc Dry Lake LSR contender in a Jimmy Stewart B-movie called Speed in 1936, turning up years later as opening act at the Carpenteria Thunderbowl, a quarter-mile dirt track near Santa Barbara, California.
1948 Davis One Davis Divan of approximately seventeen, in its back-lot curiosity phase, as company founder Gary Davis served out a two year sentence for grand theft and fraud in North County Correctional Facility near Castaic, California. Built in Van Nuys, most were powered by four cylinder Continental engines, although at least one was fitted with a Ford V8-60.
1948 TASCO Gordon Buehrig's design for an all-American sports car, built by Derham on a reworked 1948 Mercury chassis with Edelbrock dual carb manifold and OHV conversion on its flathead V8. Ten investors contributed $5000 each to the project, initially a sort of king-sized MG TC for the postwar boom. Buehrig argued for a closed cabin, citing parallels in private aircraft where the open cockpit, with its helmets and goggles, noise and windblast, fell from favor after Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in a business suit. When you did want the wind in your hair, you simply removed T-top panels like those introduced on the Corvette twenty years later.
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