Quote Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT View Post
Not the glass slipper.

I don't know if the earliest Speed Sport Roadster still exists. Both of the cars running today are recreations. I did own the second body for a while, which had become a mold plug for the blown car. Tried to give it to Garlits for the museum, but he already had a recreation near completion. It eventually found it's way back to Red Greth, of Fisher & Greth, the owner/builders of the Speed Sport cars.


Jay, It's funny how some "little things" just seem to stick with you through life. As a kid, I saw (heard) the original Speed Sport Roadster run at Mel Larson's Phoenix Dragway. This early dragstrip was nothing more than an abadoned WWII Luke Air Force training strip in the middle of the desert. This was not at the current Speed World location. I would guess the year to be around 1960. I will never forget the sound of the exhaust on that fuel roadster with eight pipes. And Johnny Loper had his "Ole Hoss" red Willy's which he towed to the track "with a tow bar".

It's nice to see recreations of these early cars so we can share them with our kids. The Speed Sport Roadster is a regular at Bakersfield nostalgia meets.