Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

Do you think I should reach in and blow the horn?

 

I was only 14 in 1963, didn’t make it to the drags until two years later. How many of you Chicago area guys remember this car and the shops that gave the owner some limited sponsor money or maybe only a break on parts or services?
Clement Speed Shop was started by a guy that was a local stock car racer, both dirt and asphalt. He eventually became a wheel manufacturer doing wheels for NASCAR racers, later branched out into forged aluminum wheels for Indy racing and also a line of commercial vehicle and trailer wheels.
The quarter panel is lettered Custom Exhaust by Ced’s, they were one of the local custom header and exhaust shops popular BITD.
Chicago had chassis, speed, exhaust, machine, dyno, custom paint and body shops and now it’s mostly tuner shops and window tinting. You don’t realize what you had until it’s gone.

 

Gee I wonder how many blowers and intakes have been sacrificed to the nitromethane gods?

 

Lemme guess, it’s a umm, barn find? Hehe.

 

He appears to be distracted.

 

Jeff Beck

 

Drivers award

 

From Bristol, Connecticut.