Mexican Racer

About 1993 a friend gave me a Pink Floyd video called La Carrera Panamericana, a story about the rock group's exploits racing British cars (jags) in Mexico. Inspired, I sought my own suitable American road racer for the Mexican race and finally settled on an unlikely racer, a 1955 Chrysler. After about a year's build time, I had a car, kind of. Anyway, it was started--roll cage, fuel cell, the front frame clip and suspesion removed and replaced with a more modern and repairable front clip from a 1975 Oldsmobile station wagon. At the time finding parts for or information about the early hemi engine was nearly impossible because most of the old hemi guys were dead and there was almost zero interest in these engines. Any parts to be bought were old junk made in the '50s. Anyway, long story short, I now have three cars set up for the Mexican road race. --Ronald Davis, Fort Collins, Colo.