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SAAC Forum Discussion Area / Re: Random car pictures
« on: October 24, 2021, 01:28:48 PM »
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Same thing Ken Miler (rip) told me before he passed . "Bud wanted no part of that crap" were his words. Tony Cary bought a 'room full" of parts from Bud through Ken.Red Myler was a capital fellow. I got to know him a bit while hanging around Bud's shop in the 80s. He was doing the read ends for BME's cup cars at the time. Who knew that years later I would get the chance to restore one of the car's he built why working at Holman Moody? He and came down to the Southland from Iowa wanting to race. And race they did. Red turned for a number of teams, to include Reid Shaw and the Petty's (Becoming a father-in-law to one of the Petty Boys along the way).
This is my clone. I might have to do a NASCAR themed car next.Sweet! Is that the street legal car I have seen shots of on the web? Hope my replica Bobby Allison Boss 302 turns out half as nice!
Thanks for the kind words. I hated to lose the 64. BUT..it was full of the toxic stuff that was dissolved in SE Texas flood water. Up over the carb. That means that everything would have to have been immediately disassembled and flushed to prevent major corrosion and rust damage. Engine, trans, rear end, hubs...everything. Along with that car, I lost six others...my house and my shop. And all of my tools. Lived in a hotel for a month or so and then an apartment. Plus I was very busy at work. The very expensive Candy Tangerine paint job (3.5K just in materials) would have needed to be stripped down to bare metal and redone, too. So...No time/no place and no ability to work on the car resulted in the insurance company taking it. I had A LOT of stated value insurance on the car. So all is good on that front. Not sure where it is now. The two previous cars I restored before the Galaxie are still being vintage raced at least. I would have lost them too if I had not sold them. I have heard that Curt Vogt is maintaining the Cyclone tribute I built first (NO real deal Wood Brothers SIIs survive). Not sure who the new owner is. Does anyone know? It ran at Road Atlanta last year IIRC. The 65 Daytona 500 winner still belongs to Andrew Franzone who runs it at Sonoma from time to time. It has been to Goodwood three times (the last two with Andrew). I was told it snagged "Top 35" recognition at the last Festival of Speed it attended. That is big smoke considering the cars that show up at the F.O.S. each year. Maybe the Torino will earn an invite when it is done.
C5HM,
I was a big fan of your 64 and monitored its build over the years. In my opinion it was just too awesome to describe.
With respect to the extreme scarcity of real HM cars/chassis and the degree of effort and skill you put into bringing HM cars back from such, eh, degraded beginnings, was/is the 64 now just too far gone beyond repairability?
(if this is too much a personal question I take no offense it letting it slide)
Thx, Steve A
Thanks for the additional Data. I am assuming that M/T was at Bonneville in August id 68. Does that sound right?Here's a shot of the Yellow M/T salt flats car serving as a show car draw at a 1969 auto show (not sure where/when). I'd like to know what became of that car. Gus T. Heard it was crushed in a Cali earth quake. Other believe it went Grand American racing like the #49.
I have this photo noted as the Detroit Auto Show, and believe it to be in late November 1968.