Pete Hendeson combo

[3W Hank]

One of my favorire hiboys is Henderson’s 32 roadster.
Well I’m no fan of wire wheels on non dropped front axles but this car has something.
Engine is modest and all before all got more wild.
I like that style ( and Karl Orr’s roadster.
Part of that Henderson car is not far from me, the old interiour etc.
But has anyone knowledge how the engine was set-up after war etc when he was at El Mirage.
Keep me informed in any key !

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by 3W Hank

One of my favorire hiboys is Henderson’s 32 roadster.
Well I’m no fan of wire wheels on non dropped front axles but this car has something.
Engine is modest and all before all got more wild.
I like that style ( and Karl Orr’s roadster.
Part of that Henderson car is not far from me, the old interiour etc.
But has anyone knowledge how the engine was set-up after war etc when he was at El Mirage.
Keep me informed in any key !

Story here > https://carpyscaferacers.com/henders...ster-sothebys/
As the story goes, back in 1944, a guy with a quick quarter horse won countless bets challenging hot cars to a race. This roadster, however, had a reputation as the quickest car in the San Fernando Valley. With Pete Henderson behind the wheel, in a specially staged race held in La Habra, and witnessed by a large crowd, including speed equipment gurus Vic Edelbrock Sr., Ed Winfield, and Phil Weiand, this deuce was the only car that ever won. Ernie McAfee took a famous grainy photo showing the roadster edging out the horse. Noted hot rod racer Ak Miller and writer Gray Baskerville always said they could trace the origins of ¼-mile drag racing to that famous contest.

A few months earlier, 18-year-old Pete Henderson had purchased the speedy ’32 from Don Casselman. It was equipped with a Don Blair-built, bored, and stroked 296-cu. in. Mercury flathead, running a hot cam from the legendary Pierre “Pete” Bertrand. Milled aluminum “Denver” heads, a Weiand high-rise dual intake manifold with twin Stromberg 97s, and a Spaulding dual-point, dual coil ignition rounded out the engine modifications. Typical of street roadsters in that era, it had a neatly chopped top, but it retained the original Ford ‘push and pray’ mechanical brakes and wire wheels. On the dash, a Russetta Timing Association timing tag attests to a 120.9-mph run at Harper Dry Lake in 1944. Pete Henderson sold the car in 1946 to L. K. Chappelow of Monrovia, California, who owned it for a year before selling it to Manny Ayulo. Surviving photos show the ex-Henderson roadster competing at many L.A.-area circle tracks, driven by the soon-to-be Indy 500 star Ayulo, and later by racing stalwart Jack McGrath.

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Thanks for the post, Pete