The roadster guys should have a ball with this one. Be sure to click on the
web below to see the pictures. Hell it looks legal to me.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
To: "list LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:58 PM
Subject: Another Granatelli story ... with available photos.
> Speaking of Andy Granatelli ... back in the post war 1940's he and his
> brothers modified a 1934 Ford Indy Car to run with rockets. They worked
> the state fair circuit and other venues where the flames and radical
> appearance of the car would attract attention.
>
> Gary Kuck, who now campaigns the former Salter-Marchese roadster on the
> Bonneville Salt Flats, now owns that car. He has run it in the Great
> American Race, once organized and sponsored by Interstate Batteries. The
> restoration to the Indianapolis 500 configuration is very well done. It's
> a real trip to walk into his warehouse/garage/shop and see that car on one
> of the hoists in the shop area. He has tee shirts and caps with "The
> Rocketeers" and illustrations of the car.
>
> http://www.tomstrongman.com/ClassicCars/RocketCar/Index.htm
>
> Wonder if he received an invite to the event?
>
> Wes
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