It's was known back then as " Bloody Mary " and owned and built by a couple of guys just out of their teens, Charlie Engert and Bob Wuscher. The Wuscher & Englert 23' T roadster was one of the first all glass bodies in the East. It ran a 316 cubic inch Canadian block flathead ( that's 3 7/16" x 4 1/4" ). It had both a Hilborn fuel injected setup or a 4 carb manifold at times. Always showed up at most PA, NJ and DE drags strips back around 1958 to 1965. Eventually ran the last year with a Pete Shaddinger Straight 8 Buick in it. The chassis and running gear were stolen from a farm's butcher house where it had been store for the better part of 35 years. Discovered a year or two later, it was bought back and eventually restored with the straight eight Buick motor by it's present owners.
Welcome to the hamb, I would guess you are Bob. Very cool car, glad to see it still exists. I'll bet you could tell some good stories about it. We'd love to hear them. I'd like to see pics of your 40 coupe and delivery too! ~ Scott
Hi Scott, Here's a couple of pics of the 40' deluxe, 406 cubic inch sbc, Mustang frt, Lincoln Versaille rear, air ride on all 4 corners and better than 73,000 untrailered miles in 27 states. Been up to MA to the Ty Rods show and Old Timers dinner a few times in the past years. It's a great show. For some reason I'm having trouble loading pics of my 30' Delivery.
Haha, it took me awhile to figure that out. If you click on the user name you can go to their profile page or send PMs. Click on your own name and do the same. You can add photos in your album too.
What a beatiful car! I'm sure I've seen it at Ty-Rods. Keep working on those delivery pics too. The photos may be too big. Check this thread by 30 roadster about re-sizing photos. Click this link... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=66536
Scott, I'd love to add the 40' to the left upper corner of the page like you did with the M & H logo but haven't been able to figure out how to get it there. By the way, stopped at the old M & H building and that "OLD DINER" for some snapshots while I was up that way a few years ago. Needless to say, we ran M & H slicks back in the late 50 and early 60s on the Roadster as almost everyone did. b0b
That little pic is called an avatar, if you email the pic I can shrink it down for you in Photoshop and send it back to you or you can try it yourself. Here's an explaination by 30 roadster..... Avatars are funny.... not ha ha funny... requirements: 1. they must be a perfect square 160X160 pixels 2. They must be 14kb ( killobytes )or less For Photoshop Elements, I get the big picture that i want to make an avatar from and down size it so that the width is 160 pixels. The height will normally be less than 80 pixels because we are talking about car pictures.....and most cars are wider than they are tall . Now that i have a picture that has one side 160 pixels i will do a filter ( pull down menu) called sharpen. Then I will open ( create) a new blank photo that is exactly 80X80 pixels. Now I go back to my original picture...select all ( pull down menu)... copy ( under the edit menu).. then go back to my blank picture and paste my original into my new photo. I now have space above and below my car. I can keep it transparent or I can fill it in with black. The picture is still too big to post as an avatar but i do somthing easy and wonderful about elements. I go to "save for the web" and play with the quality slide bar until it is 14kb. save it and you are ready to go. If you don't have a perfectly square picture for your avatar it will get distorted. Ryans server will stretch you picture until it is a perfect square.
Wuscher & Englert's original " Bloody Mary " from the late 50's early 60's is currently on display on the first floor (just off the lobby) at the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown, PA. as part of the Original Lehigh Valley Timing Assoc display in the museum. Check out the on line site of __ americaonwheels.org __ where many great photos can be seen.
Howdy from the West Coast of Florida. Thanks for the really cool shots of the altered along with the history of the car. What drag strip were those pictures from?
Those photos were taken at Vargo Dragway in Perkasie, PA. around 1963 or 1964, sure seems like a long time ago... It's been closed from some time around the late 60's. They still have a pretty decent Reunion Show every year in late Fall.
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