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Roger Bond from Enid, OK in 1978 at Wichita.

Warren Vincent
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes

The white striping around the beltline is gone here. Also the knockoffs are replaced with studs, probably a v-8 quickchange(we had one of those). It may be just the lighting but it looks like the fiberglass posts on the front of the top are still on this body. The white line around the side opening seems to go all the way around to show this.. The Adams version has the front fiberglass posts cut. I'm pretty certain these bodies had the posts when they were made. Most cut them off. Somehow this car sits different.

If we had some backside shots of the Bond car it would be a little easier to determine if it is the same as the Adams car. Just trying to help.

ONE MORE THING- The rear bumper goes behind the skin here( showing it is the wide tail) while the rear bumper on the Adams car is outside of the skin(showing it is a narrow tail).

Chasing down the Nance ducktails has taught me there were two tail widths. Throw in the fact that there were others in the fiberglass game, then it stands to reason that there were 2 readily available versions out there. The narrrow tail was for the wider tires that started coming in, yet the wide tail could still be had.

Don't know if it is the same car, but I do think it is -not- the same body . The Adams car also had the front of the top pulled down about an inch or two and that gave it a bit of an attitude.

I don't know which car is which, but there was a red #32 that Ken Sweet from Lawton drove also. I believe the early version was a Vicky body style. I'm guessing one of the 32's was from the Lawton area at one time.

Warren Vincent
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes

The red 32 out of Lawton for many years was driven by Junior Bruner. KEN SWEET may have driven the 32 as well, I don't know.

Ken Sweet is highly thought of by my Dad. My Dad discovered the wonderful world of flipping racecars one night at Lawton. Ken was the first one there to pull him out. I guess he got there just a second before my Uncle because my Unc says Dad was in such a daze, he was trying to restart the car without even knowing what day it was!

Ken if you read this, it was an orange #26 modified. Once again, thank you.

Da! Junior Bruner I new that, sometimes the memory, well you know.

Ken passed away back in 2000.

His son races modifieds up in in Kansas.

Warren Vincent
Cans 4 Kansas Heroes

My gray matter slips all the time.

Sorry to hear about Ken.