The last known picture of the car in Sunset TX here: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?***le=File:Martin-s-papazian-cordster2.jpg Detailed history and many more pictures of the car here: http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?***le=Martin_S._Papazian's_Cordster
Hey Pasadenahotrod, I see you're from TX. Any newsletters or forums for clubs etc local to the Dallas/Fort Worth area that I should be posting on? That's where the car was last believed to be headed. Thanks.
Strange car... Bet he put alot of money into that thing. Neat though... Look for cords. Someone probably has it and thinks its a cord since that front end is so distinctive.
I've seen the car many times when it was at the Sunset Trading Post. The building is on an access road to Highway 287 (main highway between Wichita Falls and DFW) up on a hill. The car was left outside as a "highway sideshow" with no intent to preserve it until it disappeared.
Thanks Larry, Are you saying that's how things appeared or that you know it was left to rot there and that was it's fate? The Trading Post owner said he sold it to someone from he thinks maybe Mansfield TX, and they took it away on a flatbed. Thanks.
No, it sat there for quite a few years and then disappeared. I stopped a couple of times to check it out and always looked when I drove by on the highway. One day it was gone. I was just saying that the trading post owner didn't think enough of the car to take care of it or protect it from the elements.
Jack Glover, last know owner of the car reports that he may have sold it to someone from Childress TX, if that means anything to anybody. Thanks to all for the help with this.
It could have been Delbert Wilson. Delbert p***ed away a few years ago, but I believe his sons are still there. Or you might call Larry Grillet at Grillet Automotive in Childress. He would know if the car was in the area.
Thank you Larry. This was very helpful. I called Larry Grillet. He too remembers the Cordster sitting in front of the Sunset Trading Post. He told me he bought a Dodge pickup from Jack Glover at the Sunset Trading Post sometime around the early 1980s. He thinks Jack Glover might have confused the truck he sold to him with the sale of the Cordster. He also said Delbert Wilson would have know where the car was but, as you said, he is no longer alive. Larry says he's pretty sure the car isn't in Childress, and he's sure Delbert Wilson never owned it, though he knows he went and looked at it several times. He gave me two other names to try, Clay Wilson who is Delbert's son, and Willard Huckelbee of Bowie TX. Thanks again, Bruce
Thank you Danny. I called Bob. He'll look at the post and pictures and let me know what he knows or finds out at an indoor show in Amarillo this weekend.
Bruce, I hope you find the car. I can only imagine what it would mean to you to get it back. Good luck!
And if I did find it, what would I do with it? Leave it as I find it, restore it to a prior version, or create another one?
The Cordster has been found in Oklahoma and is being restored. The Kustomrama webpage has been updated with a lot of the story and several new pictures! Thanks to everyone.https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Martin_S._Papazian's_Cordster
Fascinating story. Thanks for checking back in after all of this time. Not everyone would have done that.
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