Sound Your Horn

Fun with a ’59 four-door

I am responding to Angelo Van Bogart’s editorial in the Jan. 15 issue where he expressed his desire for a 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne.

Well, over 60 years ago, I drove a 1959 Bel Air four-door sedan (above). It was kind of a sleeper, as it had a 348-cid V-8 engine without the flags on the hood. It was a gorgeous car with a Powerglide, padded dash and “reverb.”

I’m one of those drag-racing nuts, so we street-raced on the streets of Utica, N.Y. It won