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• The Waco Kid

AT the end of World War 2, a young soldier Tom Orren was discharged from the military in San Diego, CA. Anxious to return home to Waco, Texas he bought a stock 1929 Ford Model A roadster: A week later he arrived in Waco.

While serving in the military his mechanical skills were honed, like many soldiers, and he began modifying the old car. He bought a donor car a 1939 Ford and built what you see here..... a very early version of a channelled car with a V8 and a chopped screen. With all the modifications and added power by the late forties or early fifties, he had the fastest car in Waco.

One day in 1955 a brand new Chevy pulled up next to him at the stoplight. The little hot rod roadster was beaten off the mark by a showroom stock family sedan! Tom drove the roadster home, parked it in the garage and there it sat. It’d become obsolete in Tom’s eyes and he never drove it again.

In 1998 Tom