I remember Danny and his son George, I raced with both of them and also enjoyed the off track conversations. George's Uncle John bought my Mother's restaurant on 75th. and Dobson Avenue in Chicago in 1954, then my Father sold his trucking business also and we moved to Michigan. Partly because Govenor Stevenson at the time was taxing the crap out of the small businesses according to my Father. I started high school in the fall of '54. Years later I met the Kladis' and did some indoor racing with Danny at Cincinnati Gardens in the late sixties, I believe.
In the late sixties or early seventies, my brother in law, (who was not a race fan) told me one day that he worked with a guy that his father had a car in which Clark Gable drove in "some movie," little did he know that by that time I saw, 'To Please a Lady' and, 'The BIG WHEEL' about thirty or forty times and knew exactly what car he was talking about. Only thing was, was it true? Anyway, the fellow I was driving for at the time and myself drove down to Chicago and went over to his house on 79th and Cottage Grove area to see it.
The man took us through his house and out the back door to an old garage behind the house and next to the alley. There it was! Red, huge steering wheel, tan upholstery, spoke wheels, (Rudge) small half round wind screen. Right away I was thinking just how we could talk this man into letting me run it in the Little 500, but even at that time it was pretty far out of date, besides, he probably would have kicked us out of his garage if I asked.
Recently, I had a chit chat with Mac Miller of "INDY ROADSTERS" and told him this same story and asked him what ever happened to that same car. He told me its now in California and completely restored. Nice to to know.