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Rod Riders Racing Team member Jim Travis campaigned the hammered ’34 for 27 years at Bonneville. “Richard Stricker bought the coupe from the late John Moxley,” Jim Travis says. “Moxley ran the coupe at Bonneville in 1955 as ‘Miss 400’. Chuck Griffith drove the car at Bonneville with an injected Chrysler. Griffith got it as high as 192 mph before parking it. Stricker wasn’t ready to pay Bill and Eisert to pull the Cadillac out of his pickup to put into the coupe at the time, so they borrowed it. In fact, it still had ‘Miss 400’ on the door when Bill and Eisert built an injected Flathead V-8 for it. Then they painted it red and put Automotive Specialties on the hood. Stricker, Bill, and Eisert went to Bonneville in 1957 with the blown Cadillac in it. When I went into the Army in 1957, I saw the coupe sitting in front of the Automotive Specialty shop and fell in love with it. The coupe sat in Stricker’s garage for years and I asked him to bring it to a SCTA booth at the Great Western Exhibit Hall in South Gate i View Related Article
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