History The Thorne-Fageol Supersonic

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The Thorne-***eol Supersonic

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I really like the bumpers. I think I've seen ones like them on a custom, maybe. Anyone else?

 

Fun stuff. That back window is Great.

 

Phantom Corsair has many similarities...

 

Interesting, quite the history.
It's a shame, it sounds like this restoration is starting with Granpa's hammer.
Replaced the handle twice, the head has been swapped, but it's grandpa's!
I shudder to think what a complete ch***is and twin Millers are going to run, let alone fixing a full hand formed aluminum body that's been heavily modified. More power to the guy, though.

 

Hopefully for an actual speed attempt they'd take those bumpers off. They look draggier than the whole rest of the car.

 

I love stories about ***eol, all of his projects where weird and cool, most involving multiple engines.

 

Those bumpers are meant for removing ankles…

 

According to Daniel Strohl's Hemmings article circa '24, Mark Brinker owns BOTH Faegol cars, and the Pataray sits on the original Hudson ch***is for the liner. Strohl's article is, as always excellent! As far as craftsmen to recreate, no shortage there....consider on Instagram, Dan Webb's Panhard Razor replica and the work Rob Ida and crew are doing to "restore" a GM Futureliner! Exciting times, given the financial challenges many of us are facing.

 

That car is just begging to get a hemi. And loose the bumpers. Then take it to Bonneville

 

Thank you for the story.

 

That thing was pretty slick!

 

I recently learned that the ***eol name is pronounced Fah-Shee-Oh, with a bit more of a G sound than an SH sound in that second syllable but pretty close. That is NOT how I had been reading it in my head all these years.