1934 Pierson Brothers Coupe
In 1949, Dick and Bob Pierson broke with traditional roadster trends and decided to build a coupe. Edelbrock employee, Bobby Meeks, built the engine, and Meeks, with the aluminum-welding prowess of veteran Tom Backy, chopped the body to the max. They cut the top nine inches and raked the windshield back 50-degrees. When they were done, the driver’s helmet brushed the top of the fabric roof insert! As the story goes, the red, white, and blue paint job came about because a couple of Europeans were running a Jag at Bonneville at 138mph, and a Mercedes at 139, and smugly thought they would wrest the record from the Americans. Bob and Dick rose to the challenge, built their coupe and turned in a 142.98 mph run at the 1950 El Mirage Russetta meet. At the second Bonneville meet in 1950, it turned in a 150+ mph run. When the brothers sold the coupe in 1953, the new owner pushed the speed up to 165.23. Tom Cobb raced the car to a speed of 198.86 in 1956. But the old salt flat warrior wasn’t done. In 1991, Tom Bryant set the coupe’s all time record (with a small block Chevy V-8) at 227.33! Bruce Meyer then purchased the coupe and had Pete Chapouris’ So-Cal Speed Shop restore the car to its debut trim. With Bob and Dick to oversee, and the skills of none other than Bobby Meeks to rebuild the engine to its original specs, the little coupe now resides at the Peterson Museum and is brought out for special events.
LTD Edition and hard to find.
Scale 1/18
14101
