Here is a story. About 10 years ago I'm trolling eBay and I

May 26

Here is a story. About 10 years ago I'm trolling eBay and I see an advertisement for a scale model car that just happens to be mine. At one point I had a website for the car and a company in eastern Europe had taken the photos and creates a very accurate representation of the real car. The funny part of the story is my dad "Big Al" was mad about it and wanted to sue them. I told him he was crazy, we would have paid to have these models made! You see them every once in a while on eBay for couple hundred bucks. I wish I could attribute the seller on facebook for the photos but I can't find him anymore.

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May 26, 2026

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· May 26

That’s funny. That model is really cool but nowhere near as cool as the real thing, even in unfinished form.

· May 26

@Hupp31 Travis, it is amazingly accurate. I couple of minor things are wrong that probably only I would pick out.

· May 26

Here is a period photo.

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· May 26

How cool!!! I love that car!

· 3w

Thanks.

· May 27

Here is are a couple of recent pictures. John Cislak did the engine and has been working on fabricating the manifolds. The exhaust has been a project because we want to use stainless and there is only one seam in the original photos.

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· May 27

@alsancle Nice! I don’t believe I saw it with the grille on. That’s a nice club coupe(is that the right term for that body?) that John’s working on there too.

· May 27

@Hupp31 Travis, that’s a Pierce. Like 90% of what’s in his shop.

· May 27

@alsancle Yep, and a V12 by the looks.

· May 27

AJ, I love that car and hope that your life allows you to finish it…..whatever finishing it might mean….at some point in your future. I’d be very interested in hearing the story about how the concept originated and who did it, how did you hear about it and where had the car been sleeping, and don’t you have a website for it? Could you post the link?

· May 27

@JohnBloom There is a particular club that needs to go live and when it does I'll do a full blown topic on it. Short answer is it was built by Schumacher Motor Service run by Gustav Schumacher in Yonkers NY in the early 30s. They built "Spring cars for the street" to order. This car was 1/2 done when the consigner ran out of money and Gus was stuck finish it with his own money.

· May 27

@alsancle i’m a patient guy. I will wait for the club to go live and enjoy when the full story is told.

· Jun 3

Back to the top.........

I meant to post this book when you had this thread more active several days ago, but if you like early racing content, grab this book. I had never heard of it until a car buddy "highly" recommended it as the start of his addiction. He is deep into these cars and his book recommendation was as good as advertised.

Mine is packed up for a move, but grab a copy of this if you like that very early prewar race era.

· Jun 3

John, I have that one and another good one to get is this by Joel Finn. American Road Racing in the 30s. Basically the beginnings of the SCCA.

The two Willys race cars they talk about were built by the same guy that built my Stutz.

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· Jun 3

I need to not let that suggestion slip off my mind and order it when I get a chance. Right now my entire office /library and all books are in crates in storage as we prepare to move. Hopefully, when I unpack on the other end and see that book it will remind me to order the one you suggested.