Dave Penniman started buying speedster parts 50 years ago—until he had enough to build his own
A.J. BaimeDave Penniman, 82, a retired information scientist living in Columbus, Ohio, on his 1927-1928 Chevrolet speedster, as told to A.J. Baime.
Starting in the early part of the 20th century, young guys used to build what we call homemade speedsters. They had the same motivation that people of my generation did when we built hot rods: to make cars go fast, often for not a lot of money. Back in the 1910s and ’20s, a builder would take a worn-out Model T or comparable model, throw away the body, and build their own lightweight...
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