Bob

Old Al was about as close to a genus as anybody I have ever known and I have known some pretty smart people. Kinda of hard to beat a sand casting when you want a part to look like it belongs on a race car isn't it.

Where the heck did you find those pictures. Sure brings back some memories. It is as pretty to me today as I remember it being 50 years ago.

Back in the early 50's Al decided his oldest boy Eddie needed a race car. This was just a little before 1/4 midgets showed up here in the mid-west. Well he went out and found an old Harley Hummer motor cycle motor, those were rare even back then, then he proceeded to build a front engined Kurtis Roadster knock off for Eddie to play in the school yard with. I guess I was about 8 or 9 at the time but I can still remember feeling just like Bill Vukovich driving that thing around that schoolyard. It came up for sale on EBAY a couple of years ago from some place up in Michigan, wish I had had the money to buy it.

Al had a portable PC computer back then (His Brain). He could crunch them numbers in his head as fast or faster than any nc mill could do today. Them old hand wheels really moved when he got hold of them and always stopped at the right place.

I got one of them little Mills to Bob, biggest problem was finding B&S tooling for it back before they invented China. I call it my whittling machine. I just get close and say what the hay?

Al didn't have too much but he sure made the best out of that he did have.

Honest Dad himself