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Glenn Pray’s Cord

“0-60mph acceleration was good, and the car could burn rubber for half a block or more.”

I NEVER MET Glenn Pray but wish I had. He was a remarkable person. Pray, an Oklahoma school teacher, was one of the pioneers of the replicar craze that flourished in the 1980s. Pray was so far ahead of the curve that he began working on his first replica car in 1963. Before that, he’d already made a

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