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I worked on both of Duke's cars you have shown. The older car was a cutdown Watson roadster. Bobby Grimm drove it in 66 I think,as the last Watson roadster to qualify at Indy. Duke drove it as the last Watson roadster to win a USAC feature.
The newer car was a Nance car of course.Duke killed one of them at New Bremen alright. Laverne Nance just welded him up a new one. Somehow Duke got him to give him Nance chassis kits for free.
Duke used to say that he painted the car red , white , and blue to confuse the drunks.On the front straight they'd see one color , on the back stretch a different one.
Duke was a pain in the butt back then too, but I wouldn't trade the times I spent with my dad and Duke for all the money in the world.For all you young guys , you have no idea what you missed, AND IT REALLY WAS BETTER BACK THEN.
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