We have a little car show at a local pizza place every other Wednesday from July through September and Pearl has been AWOL for six weeks, so I drove on over last night. All of the Primo parking spots were already taken 20 minutes after the "opening" so I ended up in the overflow lot between a couple of ex-Marines, one in his '65 Mustang convertible in Poppy and white (and nicely restored it was) and the other, Rich MacKoul and his original '55 Speedster. This is the now-famous car that I photographed the dash and turned the photo into a dimensioned drawing for Bob Carley/Henry Reisner, as well as Gary Bloom (Flat-Four-Fan) in South Africa and and few (six, at last count) other builders around the World for a two-gauge dash.
So I thought it would be cool to show you all the rest of Rich's car beyond the dash, and maybe even Rich hisself! So, here you go:
Rich's original 1955 Speedster, 1500 "normal", black interior. Bone Stock :
Rich noticed that there was a cool reflection of Pearl in his Hubcaps, then said "Hey! You don't even HAVE hubcaps. I can't even get a decent picture or MY car from those Fuchs!
Little bit better photo as we were comparing engines (mine was cleaner, but not by much...) Rich immediately noticed the Magna Spark disti - Hey! What the hell is THAT?!?!? I criticized his wimpy little generator ("What's that light, like one headlight?"
And if you've wondered what the owner of an original 1955 Speedster, (a 98 - 100 point car, BTW) looks like..... Well, if I still had a brother.....
He said that the Cardex said that the car originally came with white sidewalls but he hated them so.......