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
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