History 200 MPH 32 Ford roadster w/ blown hemi "video"

You guys better listen to Rich Fox.
Bonneville wasn't 'open' to privateer hot rodders in 1946.
'Bonneville' Equipment: 200 MPH with this car as pictured...Not quite.
Desoto Fireflite transmission...'Airheart disc brakes that stick until punched and then release'...
If this car was at Bonneville, it was hurried thru tech, nothing really examined..."O.K., just run it..."
NOT HARDLY.

 

Aha, the thin line between fact and fantasy. Congrats anyway to the owner for stepping up to buy a neat car along with a prefabricated identity. Getting down to it, proven provenance adds that otherwise intangible something a new build - even if far superior - will never have, and isn't that a large part of the attraction of owning a survivor with a history? The Jack Calori '36, the Ricky Nelson Roadster, the Jimmy Summers '40 Mercury, virtually any early Ayala, Barris or Valley Custom creation?

 

You mean that plucked your magic twanger? Killer avatar BTW.

 

I wonder if he thinks the stories are true.

 

But wait there's more !
200 mph doughnuts, with your foot flat on the floor till there's no more fuel with 1 arm in a sling.

 

I really like my motor better than that. Guess i don't know how to drive on the salt.

 

Maybe it achieved it's 200mph jacket after going sideways, gaining lift, then immediately plummeting back to the salt, aided buy the smoothing properties of 46 caps as air passed from the right side tires over the channeled body, left tires and tumble reducing remaining two caps.


"I need my mirror boy"

 

Don't forget the return lap....Oh wait he said no to the return run....Probably because he was out of fuel

 

Here is the whole story on the car, Jack Kukura roadster history
unfortunately info can get mixed up especially if the person talking doesn't fully understand the difference of a Dry Lake and Salt Lake and the timeline of when cars were run on these surfaces.

 

would be good to hear from a old timer Bonneville racer about racing done back in the day to help prove/dis prove story - maybe story was what the estate broker told buyer. also, anyone from Gear Grinders around? as stated, would have been better to see more of car, and trophies in car.

 

This seems a LOT more believable. I guess that now the car is worth really big bucks. Wounder what i could get for mine. Records at Bonneville, El Mirage, Muroc, and even a Inliners International drag record from the Nostalgia Nats. at Fremont. Lots and lots of timing tags.

 

http://tomlaferriere.com/1932_ford_Salt_flat_racer_SCTA_for_sale_vintage_race.htm

 

If 1/2 of that story is true, it probably took a few to get his sphincter loose from around his neck with only ome good arm and then catch his breath.

 

Yep, need your high rubber boots for that story. The car was obviously worked on over the years so it's not a true 'time capsule' (new carbs, alternator, 70s valve covers) but the seller appears to trolling for a gullible deep-pockets buyer...

 

The roadster was discussed in @Bruce Lancaster's (September 15, 2005) Kukura and Lindsley Roadster thread.

7+ years later (September 29, 2012), @hbuzz (Roger Hoffmann of Point Reyes, California) posted in that thread that he had recently purchased the car:

 

Wonder what he paid for it?

 

Excuse me for posting,,I thought it was interesting.

It's obviously a piece of junk and the current owner should be draw and quartered.! Good Grief! HRP

 

........the hand written spec' sheets, on the attached previous web address.......are pretty frekn' bad ass. SCTA sheets of sorts. Nice.

 

It's a cool car. Any of us would love to have it.......I just wouldn't be repeating the story. Either that or I would toss in space aliens somewhere along the line.

 

cool story anyway.
Thanks for posting it.
-Pat

 

.....if you post it next month, or last year....you're a hero to hot rodding.....but today ???? noooOoOHooOH !! lol sometimes its good to just pick your nose and wave at 'em.

 

I thought the whole she-bang was neat to read,, as for the Modern stuff,, the owner didn't die till 2004,, he could have added stuff, i.e. valve covers, alt, and other stuff along the years,, No body indicated it was sealed.
I know a person who has had same car (s ) for over 65 yrs, and put an alt. on his flathead powered '29 Ford Tudor this last summer, I said why? He said "cause I wanted too" I said : It hasn't been out of the garage for what, 30-40 years? He said, "so what's yer point?"
We all hear different drummers..

 

I've worked on a bunch of blown nitro cars over the years and If you are down on the throttle when you run out of fuel it will lean out, bang the blower and burn the holes out. If he drove it the way he said he did then he had to have a low % on nitro in that tank. JC

 

Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.

 

Agreed. It is a really nice car that has interesting history and all of us would be proud to own it. However some of the nonsense in the video I considered an insult to me and everyone else who ever drove over 200 on the salt. It upset me. And it really upset me that several people here on the HAMB seemed to believe this crap. Thank you Jimmy B for a rational post about this very nice car.

 

I'm with Rich Fox on this one. I grew up in LA and was fortunate to know many Bonneville racers, including Rollie Free and Dana Fuller. To attain 200 mph in any vehicle is an incredible accomplishment, the current owner was probably thinking it was the car but I would imagine in reality it was the driver, Lindsley, that had gone 200 in something else. But like Manager stated, don't let the truth stand in the way of a good story.

 

I would like to call bull shit. When he started it up in the video the people in the back ground didn't even look.