Saturday, September 25, 2010

Sprint Car

 My drawing of the Don Thomas sprint roadster. 

 Don Thomas, owner, builder and driver of his Buick powered CRA sprint roadster at El Centro, 1962
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 Hillborn injected 364 Nailhead Buick powered. Note, the engine sits in the car at a diagonal and to the left of the car.

 Loading up car in Wisconsin in June of 2002.

 Stopped by a fairly well known race track on the way home.

 Don Thomas built a very unique frame.

 Car at home. Note, someone over the life of the car had added a "Watson" type nose, not original to when Don built the car.

 Don Thomas sitting in the chassis of his roadster that he built 40 years ago in this same driveway. I took the car to Don's home in El Cajon in September of 2002, and discussed the history of the car, and changes made to the frame.

 Here I am standing next to the Don Thomas roadster, along side another roadster that I have been working on for it's owner, Carl Severin.

 Working on the car, paint has been stripped. The original paint was found underneath 4 layers of paint. From that chip of paint, I was able to reproduce the original color.

 The car was put together in May of 2003, for it's first car show.

 December of 2003 the car is apart again and I have painted the frame Purple Mist, re
-chromed the roll-bar, and assembling the front end hopefully for the last time.


 Don Thomas visiting, late '03

 After 2 1/2 years of work, the following 7 photos are how the sprint car looks in 2004











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