Backfire
The letter from Larry Miller in the May issue reminded me of another tale about aircraft engines and automobiles. Back in the ’50s, the hottest car in Scranton, Pennsylvania, my birthplace, was a dual-quad, Paxton-supercharged ’56 Ford belonging to a friend of mine.
One Sunday, some friends and I went down to the Forty Forth Airport, which was closed to airflight on selected Sunday afternoons.
On this particular day we came driving in only to see Ronnie Ferguson, the ’56 Ford owner, getting trounced by a ’47 Pontiac with its fenders flapping. It was a wreck. What the heck was going on here?
It turned out the Pontiac belonged to one of the Arfons brothers, and it was running a helicopter engine. Making room for the engine caused the fender problem! You know the rest of the story about the Arfons brothers.
Jim Graf Warner Robins, Georgia
In the June issue’s At The Auction section, there was a 1965 Chevrolet C10 that sold for a whopping $198,000 (Mecum’s Rick Treworgy’s Muscle Car City auction), and some confusion as to what made it sell for such a high price. Let’s talk about that.
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