My dad, Jim, and I love a good story. Take Brian Burnett’s Deucari, for example. The son of famed cutaway illustrator Rex Burnett had Dick “Magoo” Megugorac build a Deuce roadster with a Ferrari mill (Brian was a Ferrari dealer). The car won the ’79 Grand National Roadster Show. That’s an accomplishment that usually guarantees a car a pampered life, but Brian chipped the paint off that car driving it around the country. It’s one of our all-time favorites.
The same thing is true with Gray’s car. He loved the fur right off the thing. Twice! It’s like the hot rod version of the Rock of Gibraltar, so, when my dad started building his own roadster, he used Gray’s as his muse. My dad and I had a good relationship with So-Cal Speed Shop, so we asked Pete Chapouris if he could arrange a meeting.
