the famous Red Henslee roadster.
At the SCTA July 18, 1948 meet, Paul's roadster with Butch Ludwig behind the steering wheel was the fastest C-Class roadster at 148.02 mph.
This was also Paul's best run in 1948. Paul used his roadster as a test vehicle for development of an aluminum flywheel which became the first major product of the Schiefer Manufacturing Company
This car at one time set the modified roadster record at 157 MPH. I believe this photo was taken when Henslee won the Arizona State Championships in Top Eliminator in 1955
According to Paul's friend Jack Osborne, the car was built in Paul's garage. It was built on a tube frame fabricated from the wing pontoon struts of a PBY-5A Catalina flying boat, and the roadster body was channeled about 4 inches and a belly pan was added on.
Schiefer built the chassis, and used a Gordon Schroeder steering, Joaquin Arnett hairpins, and the front was a Chrysler tube axle..
Scheifer's roadster, once front engined, built in the late '40s, was constantly modified. This was one of the first direct drive cars, and the first modified roadster to hit 150mph, at Paradise Mesa.
According to an article published in Hot Rod Deluxe March 2016, George Barcout was racing Red Henslee's roadster down the 1/4 mile at Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in 1957 when a spectator unknowingly drove his Chevrolet sedan across the strip. Barcout T-boned the errant spectator, shattering the roadster into pieces all over the place.
Full history at http://www.kustomrama.com/index.php?title=Paul_Schiefer%27s_1925_Ford
http://www.dragracingonline.com/archive/special/vi_6-usn-thefirst-2.html
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/drag-cars-in-motion-picture-thread.228509/page-1464
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