History What is this car??? Thought it was Edsel Ford's roadster.

Had some very rare high end sports cars come thru my town today and saw this car. At first I thought it had to be Edsel ford's roadster, but after looking at pix of his I realize that it isn't. Does anyone on here know what this car is? It looks somewhat like a cord in the front. Possibly an early custom? Interested to know what you come up with. Cheers!

 

Looks like a Cord.....

The Alfa next to it looks nice too

 

another view of the front.

 

Frank Kurtis built for Tommy Lee, OFFY powered. Saw it at Hershey 6-8 years ago. It is in that Pre WWII Dry Lakes film in a HAMB thread. Tommy Lee had a LOT of fine cars in the 1930's, ran INDY cars also. His family owned most of the Cadillac dealerships in Sothern California at the time. Bob ==== FULL HISTORY and auction info === http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?CarID=r203&SaleCode=MO07

 

Awesome I knew someone here would know all about it!

 

This place is better than an Amber Alert.

 

It was displayed in the "Customs Then and Now" building at the Grand National Roadster Show at Pomona a couple of years ago. Beautiful car.

 

To see this car running at Harper Dry Lake click on the HAMB link. That is Tommy Lee in his Type 51 Bugatti, then in the Kurtis build Speedster around 3:38, neat stuff. Bob === http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=652631

 

Good to see it's still running. We had the transmission and radiator out of it a week ago...