Does anyone know build details of this car? I know it is on a 46-47 ford frame, but other than that? Any more pictures or info?
That's the Paine/Baldwin Special. Vintage Racecar magazine did a feature on it in the May 2004 issue. Check it at www.vintageracecar.com That car is the inspiration for my fenderless roadster project. Except mine will have Rocket Power.
Whoops! A closer look reveals a different car. Both baldwin cars though, I'm pretty sure. But that style is what I'm trying for. You have impecable taste, sir. P
The Baldwin Special was built by Willis Baldwin in the early 50's and was a Merc-powered road-race special. Baldwin Special It was shown at Pebble Beach It was featured in several magazines after it was restored.
I had to give this another star and bump it up after reading Steve Ray's post. Follow the links and see some great stuff. Thanx Steve Ray, this is some real fine shit.
Seems there were (at least) three Baldwin Specials. The one TimM is looking at has been described as the first one. Chili Phil (and me too!) seems to get wood from special number two, built by Baldwin for Phil Payne of England. The first two both showed at Pebble Beach in '03! Here's a link to my earlier post about the Baldwin/Payne car: Nasty thing with some links to TimM's favorite.
Ohhhh my....that just looks SO RIGHT. Imagine that beast up against a little MG TC or whatever! A gnarly flathead up against a little 4 cyl.... Those SPECIALS just do it for me. A HOT ROD with purpose!!!
Ohhhh my....that just looks SO RIGHT. Imagine that beast up against a little MG TC or whatever! A gnarly flathead up against a little 4 cyl.... That would be shooting fish in a barrell. This car would often beat up on the Cad Allards.
There was one of these in a junkyard in the next county from where I lived in western North Carolina. The following is from a post on vintage racecars from last May. "One of my favorite junkyards in that area, Town & Country Auto Removal, in Bethel, Haywood County, NC, had an old race car for several years. It was one of those do-it-yourself sports jobs that were sometimes built in the '50's. It had a late '30's Ford frame, a flathead V8, bodywork that sort-of resembled a Jag 120, with a roll bar and the spare tire sitting flush in the boat-tail rear. About fifteen years ago, someone from Chattanooga bought the car and restored it, and then displayed it at Chimney Rock. I have an old issue of Hot Rod that has an article on the car, I think the owner was from Winston-Salem, and ran the car at Grandfather Mountain and Chimney Rock back in the '50's." Cool cars
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