Thread: They're still out there......

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Back in 1959, one of my older sisters was dating a guy named Jerry Lee who regularly drag raced his '58 Pontiac convertible. He decided he wanted something else to play with so he brought home (he kept it and worked on it at our house) a full-fendered '32 Ford five-window coupe. It had a '48 Merc flathead with finned aluminum heads, headers, and a log manifold with four 97's. It had a perfect body, white interior, whitewall piecrust slicks and was all done in gray primer. My dad told Jerry he was crazy for giving $800 for it!

He flogged that car very successfully in E/Gas for two summers at Bunker Hill dragstrip in Kokomo, IN. When he got drafted in the fall of 1961, he sold the coupe to some other "crazy" guy for... yep, $800. I have often wondered what ever became of that car. I wish I had pictures. Ah, the good old days...

Originally Posted by J. Robinson

He flogged that car very successfully in E/Gas for two summers at Bunker Hill dragstrip in Kokomo, IN. When he got drafted in the fall of 1961, he sold the coupe to some other "crazy" guy for... yep, $800. I have often wondered what ever became of that car. I wish I had pictures. Ah, the good old days...

They are still running at Bunker Hill. Maybe it's still there.

Tom