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Trying to remember his name, Dave Cook?, Jr., was it red w/ tube frame? Had a TP in it, clean car, I was there at Sears the afternoon he got his chassis certified, along with my friends' '56- his dad's car was the fun one, he had a late 70's Corvette with a 428CJ with 2x4 in it, also bright red, ran 10.80's- the kids used to ask him why it was so much louder than the other Corvettes, so he'd open the hood- priceless hehehe