the wifes new ride 64 merc conloy park 9 pass i think we did good for 500 bucks floor pans are solid grill and bumper are in the back and came with all kinds of crap in crates now i just got to find a 390 and a c6 now time for the possible history the car was soupposebly by one of the justice brothers and bought new and was his delivery car here is a little history on them The Justice Brothers and the company they founded are true American Originals. Since the Justice Brothers built their first race car during their early teens, all things mechanical have been a passion in their life. They dreamed of building race cars and racing in the famous Indianapolis 500. In the 1930's the Justice Brothers burst on to the California racing scene and found jobs relating to fabrication and development. Ed went to work for Douglas Aircraft Flight Test Department and Zeke became part of the Joel Thorne racing fabrication shop. After the interruption of World War II, Zeke became the first employee of the then new Kurtis-Kraft race shop. Ed followed soon after and both were thrust into the post war boom of midget car racing in America. Before it was over Kurtis-Kraft would build a reported 500 midget racing cars. Kurtis-Kraft became one of the World's most famous race shops and Frank Kurtis' cars would win more races than those of Ferrari, Lotus and Bugatti combined. While working at Kurtis-Kraft, Ed also painted some of the most well-known midgets of the day. These included Sam Hanks Black Beauty and Henry Banks Lindsey Hopkins Special. It was on a fateful day at Kurtis-Kraft, Ed and Zeke came upon the idea to place Dzus fasteners on a race car for the first time ever. Ed had quite a bit of experience with them at Douglas Aircraft and didn't see why they wouldn't work. Zeke agreed! When Frank heard about it though, they almost lost their jobs. After cooler heads prevailed, Frank realized that Ed and Zeke had really hit upon something. Kurtis-Kraft only took up their daytime hours, that left their nighttimes and weekends open. With this extra time, the Justice Brothers opened up their own racecar repair and fabrication shop for the nighttime and weekend hours. Justice Brothers Racecar Repair and Fabrication handled the odd jobs that Kurtis-Kraft didn't have the time for. It was during there time at Kurtis-Kraft that Ed and Zeke discovered that better lubrication did make a difference in the performance of racing and street engines. In this they saw a better future and took their chance. Selling oil additives in these early days was not easy and many of the selling techniques that are taken for granted today had to be invented. Surprisingly, many of the sales and promotional techniques originated by Ed and Zeke are used today by many in the industry. For example, Ed and Zeke placed some of the first sponsorship decals on the then new racing series called NASCAR. They provided "crew shirts" to the entire field for NASCAR's first super speedway race in 1950 at the new Darlington Motor Speedway. At this event, they also provided Pith helmets for all of the NASCAR officials, track officials, and race teams. And each one had their products logo on them. Pretty cool, huh! They had become good friends with Bill France, Sr. when they sold them their product. You see old Bill ran a Amoco Service Station before coming up with the idea for NASCAR. I'd say it was a pretty good idea! In that same year (1950) their car won at the Indianapolis 500 with Johnnie Parsons driving for their former boss and friend Frank Kurtis. To say 1950 was a good year is no joke! And it's only gotten better from there. In 1952 their car finished second at the Indianapolis 500 with Jim Rathman driving for the Granatelli brothers. Andy Granatelli would later run a company called STP. The Justice Brothers have innovated many of the best selling products in the additive industry starting with the world's first transmission stop-leak in 1952. Today the corporation continues on this same road. Our line numbers over 90 products today. And when it comes to racing today, you'll find Justice Brothers sponsored teams around the world in almost every form of racing. Racers have carried our products over the finish line in their engines, transmissions, fuel tanks, etc. and our logo over the finish line on the sides of their race vehicles. Justice Brother's products have won almost every major event in racing. Just this last year cars carried Justice Brothers into victory circle at LeMans, Baja, NHRA, NASCAR, IRL and CART. And what about participating in the Indianapolis 500, that they dreamed about, in their childhood? Well as you already know, they won it in 1950 and in the last few years; Justice Brothers sponsored cars have both sat on the front row, lead the race and finished second.
you got lucky! your wife want's a relatively inexpensive car that is nicely utilitarian as a bonus! my wife wants a 49-51 merc($$$$$). not only that, but she wants it STOCK. BONE STOCK with all the trim and everything ..... she's a party pooper
Nice! That should be a fun project, I've been looking for a 9 pass version of that or the Ford counterpart myself. BTW - I've got a great running 390 and c6, I'll PM you so I don't clutter up the thread.
I have a good friend and neighbor that is the Northern California Distributor for JB. I'll see if he can help confirm the linage of your car if you would like? Let me know. BTW Nice wagon the wife sure looks pleased
Nice score - will be nice with the big block in it. My wife wants a '67-69 Barracuda convertible - someday I will get that for her.
Mine wants a gold 70 Olds 442 with turbo 400. Seen some nice ones on the 'BAY. But that will wait till the recession gets better. She is happy with her '06 Kia Sorrento. Loves it! But wanted the 442 back in her high school days. We are like two kids in old folks bodies, but we at least look younger than our ages. Good luck on the car, she will be happy. The Fiesta wagon would've been nice too.
she started off wanting a 69 charger i told her hell no (just not my thing) so she said she wanted a wagon and this is what became of it
Good score!....I've seen wagon roof racks getting more that $500.....I built my wife a 60 chevy wagon, it put lots of brownie points in the bank for me
What a good husband!! You know what she'll be wanting for anniversaries, bday, Valentine's day now...wheels, parts, paint, and chrome. Makes shopping so much easier for you guys! Looks like a great start.
my wife wanted a super beetle I got her this instead. Now she's happy, and I am too! Good score it will keep her smilling for a long time!
That'll be a great ride, do it right. Zeke used to hang out in my shop, he said it felt 'comfortable'. He had a story or two and i sure miss him.
I KNOW your wife and I would really get along. Tell her I said nice score on this wagon and one of these days both her and I will each have our own Fiesta wagons.
did you ever see him driving this thing with the boxes of stuff that came with it i can tell he had some stories zeke's dughter joy that i bought the car off of is very good people
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