The ugliness and crudeness is what I think makes it cool. Not many people would have restored it since its not really based on an actual car body. Makes it unique for sure.
Damn... now I'm feeling kinda old. These cars are what I cut my teeth on racing. Safety stuff wasn't near as important back then. Good old beer keg fuel tanks, minimal roll cage tubing, (they had a tendency to bend), sometimes had a firesuit, etc.
That's a pretty cool survivor. Back then, you used what you had or could make. (no speed shops) As far as ugly... look at what Bently Warren 1st super modified. No frills.
I found a picture of the one that they drove on the street (and eventually raced) for advertising my granddaddy’s shop. It’s amazing that they destroyed all these old coupes not knowing what they would be worth eventually.
The 30s coupes were 20 -30 year old cars that had no value. When most of those 30 year old cars were turned into race cars, most cars on the streets were not surviving to be 10 years old. In the early 60s, you had to pay someone to haul off your old scrap car, no one was paying you for them. If some kid showed up at your house and offered to haul off, or was stupid enough to offer you $10 for that old junker you had sitting along side of the house, you thought you found a*****er, and took his money with a big smile. they had no value. I started racing in the mid 70s. Back then I could buy the 60s high performance cars for $100 nearly, one every week (when I could afford to buy one), that still ran and performed well. No one was concerned about its future value, they were unwanted junk cars with no resale value. Doesn't seem to be much concern about all the late 70s and early 80s Camaros that got turned into dirt track race cars through the late 80s and early 90s.
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