Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1973 Hot Rod Roadster Automobile Spirit of 76 Highboy - 4-Page Vintage Article Original, Vintage Magazine ArticlePage Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good It could be heard the instant they firedfrom behind the nine-mile board Fourmiles away or not, there was that unmis-takable “whooomp" of a heavily-nitrated,supercharged Hemi cleanly coming tolife. Then the highboy appeared, a redblur on the white horizon, a spine-tin-gling vibrato of an exhaust note, a songinstantly reminiscent of the blood-chillingyowl produced by the famed Speed Sportmodified roadster of years past “It's Al,all right,” volunteered Elmo Gillette'sawed voice from inside his communi-cation's car, “and you won't believe thetime." The guy with the tape recorderwas hep though. He was there recordingthe audio portion of the record runs fora bit CBS was doing on Bonneville. Upuntil then, the long course cars weresonorously uninspiring, but as the swell-ing, surging sound of Sadd, Teague andBentley began vibin’ his mike, all youcould see was frantic hands at workturning down the gain. The Spirit of 76had just struck another blow for hot rodroadsters.The Spirit began back in the days whenhighboy roadsters weren't figured to goany faster than 200 mph Nonetheless,Nick and Ernie Sadd commissioned GeneOhly to build them a 4-wheel barn tohouse their ARDUN The ensuing yearssaw a procession of blown and unblownDodges, DeSotos, Chevys and Chryslerstaking the place the ol’ ARDUN had va-cated. Here and there the '29 on '32 railswas structurally updated, but it remainedbasic '57 hot rod in concept. In 1966.September to be exact, ROD & CUSTOMMagazine featured the "A Sadd '29Roadster" (“sadd" for the competitionanyway) on its cover. From that time on,the staff recorded the team's steady up-ward progress along the dusty wastes ofthe optical illusion (El Mirage), to the saltlagoon (Laguna Salada) of old Mexico.But never during the 13-year time spandid we “editorially" think to go for a ride.We just stood by and drank in the sightand sound of 76 and waited until nexttime Well next time just about didn'thappen. At Bonneville '72, a one-m-a-miIlion crusher on the return road virtuallywiped out 16 years of work. Nonethelessthe Spirit was there and the flesh waswilling. A Tom Senter-written piece in HotRod Magazine, covering the rise and fallof Sadd, Teague and Bentley, helped... 14943
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