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The T-bird Mad Dog looks surprisingly familiar. A rather crazy friend of a friend worked at a junk yard and he would show up driving very unusual things. He came around in a 56 T-bird looking much like the one in the photo. It had a removable cover which allowed the driver to be exposed although it had a windshield. The engine was a 430 cu in Lincoln with a Hallibrand quick change rear end running 16 inch wheels in the rear and 15 inch in front. The trunk was an excessively large fuel tank with a quick fill mounted on the trunk lid. The engine drove a standard shift transmission which I couldn't identify, and the torque applied to the rubber was enormous. A burn out was the announcement of Tommy's arrival. The car met its' demise on one occasion when crazy Tommy was street racing and the flywheel disintegrated cutting off the clutch and brake pedals just missing crazy Tommy's feet. As I remember, large chunks of flywheel also exited upwards through the dash and windshield. It would have been something to see.
There's a Lindbergh Drive around here on Long Island. I think it's near the Roosevelt Field Shopping Center.
Midwest City OK was built in 1942 to support the Midwest Air Depot, now called Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center. The street names are all ones like Ercoupe, Cessna, Douglas, Aeronca, etc. When I lived there I recalled driving down Lockheed St to the Lockheed Shopping Center and going into the Lockheed Hardware Store and seeing Lockheed Brake Fluid for sale. Both the Loaghead Brothers went into aviation right after WW1, but one broke away and invented hydraulic brakes, which used Lockheed Brake Fluid, which is how alcohol-based brake fluid was described circa WW2. And they both changed the spelling of their name to how it is supposed to be pronounced.
