Originally Posted by mscs20:
The unique thing about this #42 car, he built it just like the #B4, and our #27, except he could add 8" to the front clip, change the hood, and then run it with the usac champ cars. I don't have any records to know how many times he did it, but being the innovator that he was, it made for good discussion. Larry also was the first one to run the Firestone rib front tires in the Illinois area. He showed up at Springfield Speedway with them on B4 and lapped all but 5th place. In a month everyone had a set.
Don't remember that feature of the car, but I thought USAC had prohibited dual purpose cars that could be run as sprinters and champ dirt cars by the time Larry built this one. I think they did that to shut down Henry Meyer and the Iddings Auto Glass car.