That's was only one of two cars that I know of that Al drove/owned, but didn't build. (The other was when he first started racing in late 1971 and was a former Lenny Martin #4 coupe that had also been run by Phil Meisner.) The picture above is from probably around August of the 1974 season. The #292 sedan had already been scrapped after a wicked flip down the frontstretch at East Windsor. Al bought the car in the picture just to finish up his first year in the modifieds, and I think it was a former Bobby Dragon(?) car. It started out as a red #37v for a week or two, and then Al stenciled the #292 on the sides of it with white paint.... and either that first night out as a #292, or possibly the time after, the result was a high flying frontstretch flip coming out of turn 4 at East Windsor... That was the end of the coupe above, and of Al's 1974 season. He'd be back in 1975 with a dark blue Gremlin homebuilt racer, that he built on a slightly smaller than scale chassis made by the late Mike Kostic.
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