Rap, this year the Indianapolis GoodGuys falls between two of my "professional meetings," so i can hope to be there, and i may even bring the '52 two-door, if it's ready to travel. There won't be any more interior than the two sedan delivery seats--i hope we'll have both of them in the car!--but perhaps that will be true to the character of what it is. i'll find you.
Scrap, i visited Maurice Babbs's shop a few times, and we all admired and coveted his flathead-powered '32 Ford coupe--a race car that, as i remember, looked a lot better than it ran, although it would likely outrun most anything we had. Not far from Babbs' Custom Automotive, just beyond the old soul brother's barbecue restaurant, the Boley family had a compound full of cars in various stages of development, including a '41 Ford convertible with a Chrysler V8 and six carburetors--and evidence on the hood of the fire that began when the Hemi backfired. Larry Boley, who went to Abilene High, had been seriously crippled in an accident, and by the time i met him he drove a very nice, completely stock '29 Chevrolet coupe. My friend Al still has the grille and radiator and a few other pieces of Larry's '29 Chevy.
Stock '49 shows us that younger Inliners bring memories of their own generations--the speeds *may* be faster, and the memorable vehicles are quite different, but the scenes are familiar to many of us whose memories go back 50 years and more. Truly young Inliners--surely we remember what it was to be "19"--are making their own memories, swimming against the tide of "350-350," and they will have their own stories to tell, along with the stories they may learn from some of us. We have a "tradition" to keep alive and pass on.
God's Peace to you.
d
Inliner #1450
