Help Needed: Found 1932 Roadster Raced at Bonneville 1952

I recently purchased a 32' Roadster body that had been stored in a building here in Denver since the 60's. This was one of the cars out of the "Mike Blanchard collection". He had 19 - 32' Fords, 6 - 34' Fords and a few Model A's in the building. Mike passed away a year ago and his son sold all of the cars to a guy in Colorado Springs. They wall went up for sale individually and I was lucky enough to be able to buy this Roadster. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o></o>
What I bought was just a body. There was no clue that it ever ran at Bonneville. The sides of the car were painted over with what looked to be rattle can spray paint. The rest of the paint had nice petina so I removed the paint on the sides of the car and found the number 570c on both sides of the car with a 1952 Sta Lube Bonneville Speed Trials logo on the bottom of the cowling on one side. I have done some research and mentioned to people here locally what I had found and with great success I found out that it is listed in the 1952 Bonneville Race program under the name of Debra Kay from Arvada, Colorado. Just 10 minutes from my house. <o></o>
A friend of mine who collects Bonneville Programs looked through his collection and was able to find it in the 1952 Program. I also mentioned to another friend about it and he thought he might have seen a photo of the car in the past. He helped organize Cal Kennedy's photo's of "The last surviving crew member of the Kenz Leslie Streamliner Team". That is where he remembered seeing a picture. He promised me that he would borrow the album from Cal who is now 84 years old and get me a copy. It was a very long week waiting anxiously to see if it really was the car. I am so happy that the car in the photo is the car I brought home. <o></o>
Here is the only picture I have from the 1952 Bonneville Race as well as a few photos of the car today. I am hoping that somebody out there has more pictures or can tell me more about the story of this car. <o></o>
1952 Bonneville results sheet noted that the car ran: 117.18 mph<o></o>
My son and I have been thrashing on the car for the last 4 weeks so that we can take it to Bonneville 60 years later. We will be there as spectators. <o></o>
If you have any old albums or old pictures please contact me. Thank you. <o></o>
Scott <o></o>
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Great find!----And close too!

 

congrats, looks like a good one!

 

So damn cool!

-Shiny

 

Wow!

 

You might want to read this:

http://flatheadv8.org/RS Tales/kennedy.htm

Great find. To have something with that amount of history would be awesome.

 

That is incredible, congrats ! I can't imagine your excitement.

 

Nice!

 

Some people have all the luck.

 

Very Cool Car, Good luck in tracing the history on the roadster, Its great to see theses cars being preserved and brought back into service.

 

great buy - curious to know what you had planned for the car before finding out some of the history and what plans you have now ?

 

Auwsome ! It is so great to see when someone finds something like this that they really do something with it versus just letting it sit. Lets' see some follow on shots.

 

Great find! Good luck on your search for more history on the car.

 

Sweet. Looking forward to seing this progress. It's funny that the pic of the car at the Flats looks like the pic of the car today: body on frame and no engine.

 

You are more handsome with your hat on! Your 32 is the tits. See you on the salt. When are you guys leaving? Pete and Nick and I are headed out thursday afternoon.

 

Great find for sure!

 

Damn, I love cars with traceable history.
Great score!

 

Man! How Cool! Hope you can learn even more of its history, but you have a very good start already.

 

Did SCTA require roll bars on roadsters being raced at Bonneville in the early 1950's? If so, what years did that become a requirement, I wonder? Is their any indication that a roll bar was ever on your deuce roadster? Maybe they were not required for racing on the salt flats until later. Anybody know?

 

man great car Scott

 

so cool..

 

Great to see it Scott. Saving the paint whilst patching the rust is going to be a challenge, but I'm sure you'll do it. DP

 

Lordy that is cool. I noticed the tonneau cover in the old photo and saw where they patched the holes where the snaps were. Very neat! Oh man, I would love to own that car. Congrats!

I looked through my photos on my computer and did not find any. I'll keep my eyes open in my readings though.

 

Congrats on the find!

 

what a great find! glad you uncovered the history. keep after it....subscribed!

 

Too cool! Good for you Scott!

 

What a great car! Congratulations.

 

Love it.

 

Now that's a great read--love it!!

 

there was a roll bar in the car at one time , the small package tray has flame cut half circles in it. I think that it was added later , i dont see it in the 1952 pic.