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Deuce was original champ of first World Series of Drag Racing. This 1. 93. 2 Ford was built for the first World Series of Drag Racing, and after that 1.
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Story by Angelo Van Bogart Photos by Bob Chiluk. A single shot from a BB gun may have saved one of the most historic 1. Ford Deluxe three- window coupes in drag racing history from completely rusting into oblivion.
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In 1. 95. 4, Francis Fortman and Kenny Kerr decided to build a car for the 1. World Series of Drag Racing, the first such event hosted by the Automobile Timing Association of America. The event was held at Half Day Speedway in Lawrenceville, Ill., about 2. Chicago, none too far from Fortman and Kerr’s home. Other young participants included Arnie “The Farmer” Beswick driving a new Oldsmobile, Art Arfons in the Allison airplane- engined “Green Monster” and Fred Lorenzen in a Cadillac- powered Ford convertible.
Fortman and Kerr did not become big names like some of their fellow competitors that day. However, the 1. 93. Ford three- window coupe they built and raced for that event placed first in the A- B class with a 1. Surviving pictures show the ’3. Ford at the 1. 95. World Series of Drag Racing.
The car placed first in the A- B class with a time of 1. After that day of racing, Fortman and Kerr hung up their helmets and parked the Deuce for good. As driver, Kerr took home the trophy from the track.
As the builder, Fortman took home the Deuce as his own trophy. He then parked the car outside until fate intervened and the car became a bona fide barn find in 2. But from the day he brought it home in 1. I bought it, it was never touched or started.”The Deuce Robins bought in the summer of 2.
The car is a simple, purpose- built car with several period go- fast tricks, and the fact it’s based on one of the rodding world’s most lusted- after cars is pure luck.“He was just looking for a good car to race and it just so happened he found a ’3. Robins said.“. He got back in his car because he told him he wasn’t going to buy it without a radiator, but he reluctantly went back and bought the car.”The car was brought back to Kerr’s shop, where it was channeled over the original frame. An alcohol- burning flathead Ford engine with four Strombergs was mated to a stock Ford three- speed crash box that led to a standard 1. Ford rear axle welded to make it a “locker.”In 2. Francis Fortman said goodbye to the ’3.
Ford he built in 1. Fortman never had the urge to start or run the car after it was built for the 1. World Series of Drag Racing event. The car had other modifications standard to hot rods of the day: a 1. Ford steering wheel and a filled roof and cowl vent, a rollbar, custom interior door panels, and a metallic red spray job with a white- painted grille insert and firewall. It was a race car, however, so a rollbar was installed and the deck lid was secured using screws. A hand- operated fuel pump and fuel tank were installed in the passenger compartment, next to the single driver’s bombardier seat obtained from a salvage yard.“The fuel system by today’s standards is absolutely suicidal,” Robins said.
This is just what they did.“I have a couple hot rods, and people have now built ’3. Fords with the bomber seats designed just like this car is designed, but when . It just all fell into place.”A search for the car also fell into place for Robins. His friend, a fellow Model A enthusiast, stopped by Robins’ business at Restoration Plus in Cary, Ill., and mentioned he knew of an old Ford race car in the area, although he wasn’t sure of the type of Ford or exactly where it was parked.“We went in the area and we knocked on doors,” Robins said. I asked the gentleman if I could come back, so I came back and he pulled out the original sheet from the first World Series of Drag Racing, and in it he showed me how he had won his class with another gentleman.”The 1. Ford Deluxe three- window coupe as OCW reader Ken Robins found it in a barn in 2. The coupe body was channeled over the frame and didn’t run headlamps.
Power came from a later Ford flathead that burned alcohol. To save weight, builder Francis Fortman installed a lightweight seat found in a salvage yard. While Robins and Fortman visited, Fortman told of how the Deuce would not start once they arrived at the track. A fellow racer noticed their troubles and explained the problem was the ignition. He happened to own a shop that sold the parts Fortman and Kerr needed and would supply it.“They drove to Iowa that night, bought the ignition and they installed it the next morning,” Robins said.
When Fortman built the car, it had all new gauges in it, and the odometer now shows 8/1. Robins eventually asked if the car was for sale, and after Fortman conferred with his wife — “She said, . Despite the deterioration the car suffered while parked outside, Robins said the crowd “went nuts” over the car at the Iron Invasion traditional hot rod show in Woodstock, Ill., the only place the car has been shown.“This is a true time capsule,” Robins said. He was actually a pioneer that built the car that everyone tries to copy today, which is really amazing.”Although the car is certainly restorable, it has considerable rust in the lower portions of the body. Robins has no plans to restore the body or make it run.“I would never restore this car.
It should be untouched, because if it is restored, it’s just another ’3. Ford,” Robins said. This is a true time capsule that should go down in history as drag racing folklore.”Enjoy more photos of Robins’ 1.