Ray Pyle's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster - Destined To Survive - Hot Rods

An Original Dry Lakes Race Car Stayed In The Family All These Years. Here's The Saga Of The Ray Pyle Roadster.The names from the early years of SCTA dry lakes racing in Southern California are legendary. Chrisman, Edelbrock, Hilborn, Meyers, and Navarro were big then, as they are now, each contributing to the beginnings of racing and hot rodding as we know it. This is not a story about one of those heroes, however. This is the story of one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of young men in the postwar era of dry lakes racing who tried their best to go their fastest but faded into history as the decades passed. This little '29 Model A roadster is not a famous car, and you've probably never heard of its builder, but it gives us a very good look at those early days. It survived daily use, WWII, three years of SCTA racing, street racing, drag racing (at Santa Ana), and 55-plus years of dry storage to come back to tell a story and honor its former owner/driver Ray Pyle, its last owner Kenny Eichert (Ray's cousin), and all those young guys who scrapped, traded, and built their own parts to go racing.


Photo Gallery: Ray Pyle's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster - Hot Rod Magazine

Photo Gallery: Ray Pyle's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster - Hot Rod Magazine


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