Saturday, July 29, 2023

imagine, for a moment, how cool it would be to take this 49 Kurtis onto El Mirage for fun!

The first of two “Front-wheel-drive Specials” built for Gil Pearson by Frank Kurtis, and among the last designed by legendary engineer Leo Goossen

Powered by a 270-cu. in. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine with twin Riley carburetors and Bosch mag

Used in the 1949 film, The Big Wheel, starring Mickey Rooney

Sympathetically preserved and subsequently exhibited at the 2001 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance





 https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/mo23/monterey/lots/r0189-1949-kurtis-kraft-pearson-fwd-special/1377160

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