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bigboar- Joe- Sorting through my dad's photo collection the past few days, I have found some more pictures of Phil Freudiger's car. Here's...
After learning the bad news about Phil Freudiger yesterday, the original owner of the 'old drag nose' at the heart of this thread, I thought I'd...
Bigboar- It's great to know someone is planning to recreate Phil's car, that would tickle the hell out of my dad, and surely Phil as well. I...
Bigboar- Yes, sadly we tried calling Phil yesterday and his wife told my mom he was in a home, (last time she talked with him he said he thought...
F&J Like I was saying somewhere here, I vaguely remember there was something fundamentally different about the cars which made a modification...
Also remember, when I'm talking about the wooden jig the nose of both the, Thompson T, and the Freudiger California Special lakes roadster (your...
Phil's friend, that hammered out tha nose was my stepfather, Claude Hampson, for more info and great photos see my current posts at the original...
In case anyone wants more views of the nose on the Thompson T, the not quite twin of the Freudiger nose, here's a few pictures of the Jack...
No the jig is long gone, my dad closed his shop during the mid 60s, then I took off to be a beatnik in NYC, and I don't know what happened to it....
Pertaining to my previous post; Jack Thompson's 27 T was completely restored by Tri-C Engineering in the 1990s and was hitting the show...
See my post above... ...That's definitely the same front end, the shaping and louvres don't lie, and it's also the same front end on the...
My stepfather, Claude Hampson, was best friends with Phil Freudiger (Bonneville 200 MPH club) since they were kids. Claude was an aluminum shaper...
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