While surfing a Race car site from OZ I came across a picture from July of this year of my old race car. I have kind of been looking for it the past couple of years and had heard rumors that it was in a field behind a barn. The driver of this car was a many time champion here in Northern CA and was invited to go to OZ in 73/74 to race and then sell the car there instead of bringing it back (this is how they got race cars back then as it had to to do with tariffs and such it was easier to bring the whole car than buy parts from the states. Any way he left the day after Christmas in 73 and stayed untill mid March racing all over the country. They paid for everything execpt his meals. The car was sold to a local racer and have not heard about or seen it since. Now I am trying to find out who owns it and if they are willing to sell so we can run it here at our oldtimers events. The driver is still alive at 80 years old. This my our favorite car the the best one were ever had. we built the 2 sister cars to it one, we sold and the other Wally was almost killed in . While he was in the Hospital recovering (1976) from a fractured skull the car was repaird and sold and her retired. Called LOML into my den and showed her and she fell apart. It was like seeing an old friend. The car duiring the winter of 1970 and for what ever reason this car became the terror of Northern Ca. Although the sister cars were duplicates they never were as good as this one. I would give up woodworking to get this back probably would sell LOML also, Just kidding about the woodworking. The driver made the injectoror cover on the hood. Will keep you posted on what the outcome of our request is. This car is 37 years old and looks like the day it landed in OZ, the person did a beautifuy job restoring it. The drivers name and nick name "Crazy Wheels" Wally Baker are on the lower corner of the hood by the roll bar and Sacramento is painted (No stick on letters back then) on the upper part of the hood behind the injectors. Roddy was a local part store here in Sacramento. The driver got 50% of what ever we won and worked on the car also. We built our own engines and cars back then. The car was built in a rent shop.
Tom
Tom
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