Can't help but comment on this, my favorite thread....drove one of these at Ascot at the tail end before I "graduated" to the modified coupe figure eights at Ascot. Sad day when these all folded up in the early sixties, at least down in SoCal. WHAT a find you have! Nobody commented yet, but love the way you knew to bend the front radius arms so the wheels could turn sharper, the GI gas can, and your car actually has center steer, not a bunch of u-joints. Neat, neat, neat!
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Just caught this thread. My first job back in the 60s was working for Jerry Turners Auto Wrecking. Would spend all day pulling license plates and noting make and model of car they came from. Jerry at the time was a regular fixture at Kearney Bowl in Fresno along with guys like #3 Al Pombo, #7 Marshall Sergeant, Evert Edlund, Bill *****ett..Every year I would hang by the phone and win seasons tickets to these races on local radio shows with the final race of the year, The G****stakes. It could get crazy from time to time with side shows like destruction derby and car crushing army tanks. Jerry always had several of these cars in his shop area. In fact I was there just a few years ago and he still had his old A coupe racer in the shop, complete and ready to go 40 years later. These cars were kinda crude...in fact this car in Jerrys shop had a SBC with one power pack head and one fuelie head. Jerry was quite a character...my dad was a good friend of his and my mom kept his books. Dad and I would go hang out a Jerrys house, which was next to the wrecking yard back in some eucalyptus trees. He had a big ***ed monkey on a chain tied to one of these trees and that some***** knew EXACTLY how much length he had to play with. Man if you werent payin attention the ******* would bail out of the tree and get your ***, used to scare the **** outta me...dad and Jerry thought it was pretty funny...me, not so much. Too bad kids now days dont have this kinda stuff going on anymore. Man, what a great way to grow up.
Thanks...went to school with Jimmy and my sister dated him for awhile...like his dad he was a great guy...what a shock when he got killed. Sorry about the long story but this post brought back so many memories.
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