In reply to Allen Richard about Pigeon’s cars, I seem to remember that Gary Pigeon had a black ’38 Ford two door sedan before he got the dark blue ’52 Ford Victoria with the Packard tail lights. I had not thought about that car in years until you mentioned it. When the Pigeon brothers operated the Standard station on north Main street, they hauled in a dark blue ’38 coupe and had it behind the station for a while. I used to walk up there and just look at it and dream! I don’t know what ever happened to that car? I do know what became of the flathead speed parts that Gary had on his ’52. He was in town one day in the later ’60s and had removed all the fancy heads and three deuce setup etc. from the old Ford and I asked him why? He said he put on a new set of Rah Jah red plastic spark plug wires and the heat from the aluminum finned heads melted his new wires. He said he didn’t think you could use those heads on a car with a hood on it as they dissipated too much heat. I asked him what he did with the parts and he said they were all back in the boxes they came in and stored in the back of an old ’56 Chevy station wagon out at the farm. Of course my next question was if he wanted to sell the stuff? He had me follow him out to the farm and showed me everything. I asked him the magic question–how much? He said he would sell me everything for $65. This included the carburetors, linkage, generator offset bracket, triple fuel line block, heads, and even his new race cam! While today $65 sounds like chump change, in the late ’60s my cars were costing me about that much TO BUY! I wanted that speed equipment so bad that I paid him with nearly every cent I had to my name. Anyway, the good part—I still have all the stuff in the original boxes just as I got it from ‘Shakey’. Hopefully I can get to building one of my dream cars, which is a ’29 Ford Roadster on ’32 rails, with a late flathead engine and the speed parts from Gary Pigeon. I had everything but a frame and last summer one of my Minot car buddies found one for me so now it’s just a project waiting to happen. In fact, he found me a complete rolling chassis from a ’32 and sold it to me for a lot less than he could have gotten on the market. I sell him cars often and he appreciates that so he sort of did me a favor. I have to apologize to the ladies about this car stuff. It’s what I know! Thanks Gary!

Dick