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This sportsman car was owned by Monroe Shook and built and campaigned by his first cousin Owen "Shorty" Shook out of Keysville, VA. As a child, I remember the car running at South Boston when it first opened in the late 1950s.
I believe it to be the car that Wendell Scott drove for part of his 1959 Virginia State Sportsman Championship as documented in Chapter 11 of the biography "Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story". That book documents the car as being a ivory Ford coupe, but I remember that car as a red Chevy coupe as pictured here. Monroe Shook fired Wendell for an incident at South Boston, then rehired him for the end of the season.
Monroe sold this car on the spot for a few hundred dollars after it heavily crashed at South Boston, saying he wasn't going to put any more money into this car. He went on to own a Grand National car driven by Emmanuel Zervakis that was very successful in the 1961 season.
I don't know what became of the car after after Monroe sold the car. Not knowing when this picture was taken, this could be after it was repaired by the new owner or maybe a season prior to 1959 when it was repainted ivory.
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Latest VideosAt Rolling Thunder Dragstrip in Iowa Aug 31 2012.
Comments LikesMaking exhibition passes during the Gezzer Gasser event August 25-26 2012 at Rolling Thunder Dragstrip. Jim Howe the manager is who is talking.
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