In mid 1954, legendary go cart racer Frank 'Duff' Livingstone, who was running a muffler shop next to Don Blair's speed shop, entered a quintessential American hotrod vehicle, a Model T dragster, onto competing on road courses against European sports cars. His car defied the sports car elite and beat some of the finest sports cars in the world. The car made its first appearance in print in the June ’53 issue of Hot Rod in a story titled “Building a Hot Rod Sports Car,”
The original teenage surfer girl named Kathy Kohner who inspired the 1959 movie character Gidget and mid sixties TV show of the same name !