Ford 1929 V8 Roadster Salt Flat Racer 'Lucky'

Kurt “Lucky” Weber has his own hook: his arm! Pun definitely intended, for you see, where his right arm once was resides a daily reminder of the accident, which left him with one arm. That’s not what defines him because “Lucky” is a racer. His pride and joy is a modified, custom built 1929 Ford Roadster, also known as the 109 racer that was featured in the movie ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’. Kurt’s roadster has been over the world record in the D street roadster class at Bonneville five times and is now a gas roadster; by removing the back fender, headlights and the radiator, thus, making the roadster even faster.

Building a race roadster car can be a bit tricky. One needs to keep the center of gravity as low as possible to keep the car going straight. Roadsters tend to lift at over 175 mph, so they need weight added to them to stay on the ground at the salt flats. To overcome this problem, Kurt melted 1,500 Lbs of lead into the roadster’s frame before welding the boxing plates on. Using an old 1929 Ford body as well as hand fabricated parts for most of the inner frame, Kurt kept the outside pretty by using parts from a 1932 Ford for most of the outer frame.

The 109 racecar was painted white and ‘1956 Chevy tropical-turquoise’ by Kurt Weber in his very own front yard. Mr. VanderLey created the 301 cubic inch power plant by boring a 1957 Chevy out 1/8 of an inch. The engine runs two four-barrel carburetors on a VanderLey fabricated intake ram manifold.

For more information:

www.hotrodhotline.com/fraternity-speed

'Lucky' is joined in a couple of images with the contemporary de Havilland DH88 Comet long-distance race record holder in matching paintwork as seen in 1935.

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Taken on: January 6, 2023

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