I may have written this before, but I'm old now, so please bear with me.
A long time ago, probably in the early 90's if not late 80's, there used to be a cool car show and swap meet in MA run by the North Shore Old Car Club at the Topsfield fairgrounds. There was even an auction that took place on Saturday, with the judged show on Sunday and swap meet both days.
Anyway, a fellow by the name of Richard Rigoli used to bring multiple letter cars to that show, including a white 62 300H that had blue 'short' crossrams and was said to be a 405 HP car. I didn't know as much about letter cars back then, so I didn't dive in to look at things like what kind of exhaust, manual vs automatic chokes, how power brakes were set up, etc. I was just wowed by the concept, whether it was 'real' or a 'tribute' or a 'What if?' didn't matter to me, and it wasn't for sale, just in the show, so it's not like it mattered, but it was cool. Rigoli had many letter cars, maybe one from every year except if there was a convertible available, then he had one of each from that year. He built a 62 monster drag car that he would trailer to shows some of the time as well.
Interesting fellow. He used to give me grief about the rear of my G coupe being up too high in the air, and also the raised white letter tires I had on it instead of wide whites, so it seemed like he was a bit of a stickler for originality.
I also had a 61 Newport at one time. If I had more free time and disposable income, I used to think it might be fun to build a lightweight, short wheelbase, 300G with a J or K engine setup so I could have an even faster G than Chrysler ever built, and be better looking than an H, J, or K (one man's opinion) because it would still have fins!
I would expect Mr. Grady or Mr. Tom White would have known Mr. Rigoli and his fleet?
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