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Fred says, “I was up on the line. Wes Porter, a public relations guy for the Utah press, said a lady asked him how fast I went in my car. Wes answered, ‘He went 313 mph in it, and he’s 70 years old.’ She said ‘That’s a pretty good-looking rocking chair.’ So I put it on the canopy. I retired from driving last year because I’m too damned old to work on it.” The Cummins & Larsen streamliner now resides in the NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona.
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