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Here's Rich Guasco's '29 on the Mar. '58 cover of a long-gone East Coast monthly, Speed Mechanics. He was 19 years old. The roadster was powered by a lusty three-carb flathead, one of many over the years, with outside headers that ended in stubby little mufflers. The car's basic stance is a precursor for three years later when it won the big one at Oakland: unchopped, barely raked, bobbed rear fenders, chromed reversed wheels with '50 Merc caps and big-and-little wide whites, it was a period piece, then and now. The flathead gave way to a '57 Chevy V-8. "It was late '57 or early '58," Guasco remembers, "the first Chevy motor my Dad got in. And I stole it."

Rich Guasco's 1929 Roadster

Here's Rich Guasco's '29 on the Mar. '58 cover of a long-gone East Coast monthly, Speed Mechanics. He was 19 years old. The roadster was powered by a lusty three-carb flathead, one of many over the years, with outside headers that ended in stubby little mufflers. The car's basic stance is a precursor for three years later when it won the big one at Oakland: unchopped, barely raked, bobbed rear fenders, chromed reversed wheels with '50 Merc caps and big-and-little wide whites, it was a period piece, then and now. The flathead gave way to a '57 Chevy V-8. "It was late '57 or early '58," Guasco remembers, "the first Chevy motor my Dad got in. And I stole it." View Related Article