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From the HAMB

From Dean Batchelor's The American Hot Rod, p. 60:

"Manuel Butkie's Backwards T modified roadster. The class rules allowed some streamlining ahead of the firewall, but from the firewall to the back of the body, it had to be stock configuration. I suggested to Butkie that the '27 T body was better aerodynamically if it were turned around. He did it, and I drove the modified roadster 148mph at an SCTA meet. Manuel is shown here at a Russetta meet. The sight of the car seemingly running backward through the timing traps was a bit unsettling to the timing crew." Dean Batchelor photo (courtesy of my crappy phone cam).