[Russ Dickey]

Chuck:
The one and only Super Coupe that Jeff mentioned was owned in the early 1980's by Craig Sutherland, whose family owns the chain of Sutherland Lumber Companies here in the midwest.

I was 12 years old in the summer of 1983, and one day my dad and I went down to the Sutherland's store on 9 hwy in Parkville, MO, to get some sheetrock. Out in front of the store was a plain white 2-car garage, which I always just thought was a demo-model of a do-it-yourself garage kit.

Well that particular day the garage doors of this 2-car garage were open, and as we drove by we spotted (much to our disbelief) a silver 289 USRRC roadster and this Daytona Super Coupe inside! My dad slammed on the brakes of our '65 Galaxie, and we got out to look at them. It just so happens I had a SAAC t-shirt on (which I probably wore every day), so Craig and the other guys that were with him recognized that we were enthusiasts, and gave us the grand tour. He even let me sit in both!

Needless to say, that one was more thing that cemented my passion for these cars. It's still hard to believe that both a 289 USRRC roadster, and the lone Super Coupe, which are worth many millions of dollars today, were just sitting down there all that time in that little 2-car demo garage, a few miles from my house.

Both these cars also saw vintage racing action here in Kansas City, when the Folly Vintage Grand Prix was held on the streets of downtown. In fact, during one Folly GP race, Bob Bondurant (driving the Super Coupe) and Dick Smith (in his #198) got a little too aggressive coming up the hill on Pershing Ave., and just about wiped each other out!

Russ