FINLEYCOURT

Born in 1957, always loved rods and customs since grade school, used to draw them in class. Also loved indy and formula 1, can-am racing. Built models, rods, customs, racing cars, Red Barron, Boot Hill Express-show cars I had seen. I went to the Rod & Custom show at the DC Armory, starting in 1968, my mom always took me-dad left when I was 7, she never said no to the car show. We couldn't afford much more than a few luxuriers, so models is the closest I got to cars. My dad liked cars, I think that's where I got the gene. An uncle had a 64 impala SS, and would ride down my grandmothers street in Hagerstown, MD, had duals with glasspacks, loved that sound ever since I first heard it......accellerate/decellerate all in 1st gear, flat top haircut and t-shirt tannerd arm out the window-you know what I mean!

I was at a saturday night gathering in Manassas VA last year and there was a guy there with a nice 56 chevy. I told him about a 56' a guy had on the street one block down from me when I was a kid, it was jacked up, big mickey thompsons on the back and a straight front axle, cragars, blown smallblock, chrome everywhere underneath, two-tone green-dark bottom/lime green top seperated at the the side trim, white tuck and roll leather, beautiful. I saw it at the R/C show, and a friend and I were riding bikes one day and the guy had it outside, we stopped and talked to him for hours while he polished it. It was Tommy colemans "Little Green Apple"-I just read that on your site in a post about Acquasco dragway......small world!
I lived in Wheaton,MD, on Finley Court, I don't remember his street, it was one block down. The guy I met at Manasas said HE lived across the street from Tommy, and the world gets smaller....!