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It would really be nice to see a car from that era get refurbished to exact.

Steve Moyer CKS Fabrication & Welding                  
CKS Chassis                                            
I want my last words to be "damn this is fun"

David, I may be a little foggy on this but I'm pretty sure that it was Randy Whitson's dad that was fatally injured on the 1/2 mile at Fairgrounds Speedway driving D.E. (Gene) Suggs car. The cause was determined to be a brain aneurysm.

D.E. did drive a blue #16 but the first car he named "RoHo" was actually the #11 Poppy Red car. D.E. had a mexican freind hanging around in those days that named the car RoHo. Roho/rohaus means Red, also means Hot Chili Pepper.

Although the Mexican feller must have been color blind because Poppy Red was actually orange. The car pictured could have very well been one of D.E. Suggs first cars built by D.A. Suggs( Dalton Allen Suggs) and his son D.E. Suggs (Dalton Eugene Suggs).

I can recall stories from D.E. saying how they mystically came across street sign poles heated them with a torch and bent them around the tree in the front yard. They soon learned (D.A. and D.E.) that if you fill the pipe full of sand before you heat and bend it would not collapse.

So I guess the City of Oklahoma City was D.E. Suggs very first sponsor. Oh yea those Aluminum sign panels that where attached to the poles made for some nice floor pans.

Unca, now those are the stories I love to read. Thank you.

David Smith Jr.
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The tail sections on this and my Dad's cars look a lot alike, but the one on my Dads car was thrown away many years ago. Still I think they used the same method.

The #26 car's tail came from the upper rear cab corners of an early 50-55 Chevy truck, then were turned to each other and a filler panel was welded in between-thus you have a tail that although heavy compared to fiberglass, cost maybe a few dollars and several hours to complete, mount and paint.

The tops come from the rear of an old sedan, an Austin/Bantam coupe (looked like a tiny sedan) body was used on the #26.

Now remember, we're looking at 2 different cars here-but my Dad's car was Poppy Red, a Ford color--just like DE Suggs car that uncle A mentions.

Mike Henderson built the #26 pictured here in Ardmore in late 1969, but he never put the numbers on..............I wonder if he had seen and liked the Suggs car so much that he built a copy?

That still doesn't mean this #16 car is the Suggs car, but I'm just thinking.

Brian, your dad's car might have been a Bantam, but this one wasn't. It looks like a Model A sedan that was cutdown and narrowed. You can tell by the factory bead that runs under the rear window. Plus, you can see the torch work where they opened up the sides.

I gotta think this is a mid 60's car. Early 60's and it wouldn't be a "bug". Late 60's, it wouldn't be all steel bodied and still on factory frame rails with no other tubing in the chassis. By the late 60's this car was obsolete or at best relegated to the quarter mile.

HM

right here shows some cars from 1966, and then goes into 1967 at OkC.

Brian, it's probably just an old turd out of Springer, Ok. back in the day. LOL

Bring pictures to the get together at Holley's BBQ. I'm sure you will get answers there.

It can't be! I've already got all the surviving old turds from Springer!