Skip,
Thabnks for your help: if you can actually check the film you have, that
could help me a lot!
Thanks in advance
Ugo Fadini
Padova - Italy
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>Glen, Ugo,
>I was crewing the Stude then. The color was yellow and the name on the side
>was Imperial 400 Motel. Glen, I think you are right that the lettering was
>blue. I will consult my 8mm movies of the race in 61 and see. Joe Locasto
>drove but Belmont and Clark Cagle ran the car. I was learning how to spell
>Bonneville Salt Flats then. This was even before the Herda experience.
>Seems like Joe crashed a stock bodied Stude the same year.
>Skip Higginbotham
>
>
>At 04:50 PM 1/19/00 , you wrote:
>>Ugo
>>As I recall the car was white or cream in color with blue lettering
>>Glen
>>
>>Ugo Fadini wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I have an odd request...
>>> Does any of you know what COLOR was the Sanchez-Locasto Studebaker
>>> chopped-top "Loewy" coupe that ran in 1960 and 1961 (and possibly later
>>> again), setting records in both A and B fuel classes?
>>>
>>> You may remember that I am a model maker. Well, another italian model maker
>>> (name of the firm is TOM) has a 1/43 master ready for this car, but could
>>> not find a color picture anywhere. From the b&w photos it looks a very
>>> light color, with the numbers in either black, or a dark color anyway.
>>>
>>> If you don't know the answer, but can help me to contact the former
>>> owners/builders (hoping that they are still with us) that would be
>>> wonderful.
>>>
>>> Oh, by the way, welcome Arie!
>>>
>>> And since Arie has brought in the subject of model cars again: just in case
>>> any of you cares for Bonneville cars, well, I have models of Al Teague's,
>>> Hoffman-Markley's and The Redhead streamliners available, which I myself
>>> make, 1/43 scale, ready built and very high quality (you can see them on
>>> the Hoffman and Teague websites).
>>> Also Ermie Immerso's Thunderbird Turbine, Art Arfons Anteater, Lee Chapel's
>>> Tornado, Summers Brothers' "polywog" and Knot Farrington's streamlined
>>> T-bird by two other italian firms. All 1/43, all ready built. No web site
>>> yet, sorry...
>>> (End of promotional space...)
>>>
>>> Ugo Fadini
>>> Padova - Italy
>>> <ugo.fadini@abc.it>
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