Posted 2010-06-18 10:58 AM (#228407) Subject: Gerad's '58 Dodge Runs the Quarter Mile
Location: The Mile High City
Here is a youtube video of Gerad running a perfect 16.00 at Bandimere Club Clash earlier this year in "The Beast" - a 1958 Dodge Coronet Lancer coupe formerly owned and raced by Wilbur Huyett.
Posted 2010-07-12 2:41 PM (#232204 - in reply to #229008) Subject: Re: Gerad's '58 Dodge Runs the Quarter Mile
Location: The Mile High City
Received a message today from YouTube user RavenousInstinct who comments: "my great grandfather worked with wilbur fixing this car."
Ok, 1) that means that I am officially old, 2) I will try to get him Gerad's phone number, and 3) it is amazing how and where information turns up about The Beast.
Posted 2010-07-13 2:04 PM (#232402 - in reply to #232368) Subject: Re: Gerad's '58 Dodge Runs the Quarter Mile
Location: The Mile High City
Too late for me! I signed the title over to Gerad last month.
Let's see... if this respondant is just a kid (16) and his father is 32 and his grandfather is 48 and his great-grandfather is 64, then the great grandfather would have been born in 1946 and would have been a 20 year-old when Wilbur was racing.
Heck, I am 41 and my great-grandfathers were born between 1862 and 1883!