On the dark, narrow and twisiting roads of the South....

[Lucky13]

It's 1958, your friend has just the other day, gone off the road in a nightly chase in the hills, luckily he survived with just bruises, but your car has seen better days, burned out wreck, narrowingly escaping the law this time, you need a new car, but as business are up you better get two...

Sooo, what's on the shopping list?

White Lightning: Moonshine Runners and Their Cars

 

[Readie]

Something that goes around corners

 

[Lucky13]

Not a Ford then! lmao!

 

[Readie]

Haha...

Interesting choive of year Jan, Ford and Jaguar made mor agile cars from 1959...

 

[Lucky13]

Interesting to read that article, one of guys favourite car for this, was a '61 Chrysler New Yorker, if I remember correctly.....
Mopar fan and all, but not really a car, that you think of being nimble, quick, around corners...or?

 

[Readie]

As big as a Ford Galaxy I reckon. The Galaxy did well in circuit racing but, was really too heavy.

 

[Lucky13]

Good ol' days, Fireball Roberts, Lorentzen, Tiny Lund and many others!

 

[Readie]

Then came Roger Clark in his Lotus Cortina oh, and the mightly Mini...