Thought I heard he sold it to pay the taxes on it.
Early vintage W-motor drag pictures
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He may have, I just remember that he really needed to sell the car.
Could be the declared value that was the problem. My buddy and I won a S3 Laguna years ago. Raffle stated value at $25,000. Up close the car was a bondo'd POS with nothing matching and a Mako paint job. Taxes were way more than what we thought the car was worth. Never got to see it up close before the drawing. When we went to claim the car, we were told about paying taxes up front. We finally told the Church we had the wrong ticket.
Back in Oct 1987, I won a BRAND NEW '88 Ford Ranger 
in a Crown Auto parts store drawing. They put a $8800. value on that POS! The Ford dealer that handled the transaction made me write a check $800. for sales taxes and license plates for my FREE TRUCK. By the time I paid the Federal and State taxes on my FREE TRUCK, it cost me $4200. Kept it 6 months before dumping it onto a family member at another loss. No free ride out there I guess.
in a Crown Auto parts store drawing. They put a $8800. value on that POS! The Ford dealer that handled the transaction made me write a check $800. for sales taxes and license plates for my FREE TRUCK. By the time I paid the Federal and State taxes on my FREE TRUCK, it cost me $4200. Kept it 6 months before dumping it onto a family member at another loss. No free ride out there I guess.
Last summer I bought tickets from Relay For Life, on a new John Deere Gator. I got lucky and won it. Last week I got the 1099. The gator was valued at $4500, so I will have to pay taxes on that. It's the little Gator, but my wife uses it a lot, calls it "hers"
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You know what Mearl, you won LIFE man!!!
That's cool, my folks live in McMinnville.looks like 62 Biscayne 409
looks like 62 Biscayne 409
Butch Leal's '62 Biscayne 409 (suddenly II) which went to Tom & Linda Jacobson (Ole Blue). Potter brother's Ford was Les Ritchey's ex 401 HP '61 starliner.
troublemaker427
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I knew about the Larry Leal , Jacobson connection but didn't realize the Potter car was Les' old Starliner. Les got a good bit of press with the car. That would be a cool Starliner to find!!
Are you sure about the Les Ritchey car? A guy that I knew from here in Chesterfield County Va. (his first name was Wally, can't remember his last name, he passed away about 2 years ago) bought Les's Starliner from him in the mid sixties. He and Wally Duncan, a local engine builder who is also passed away went to Ca. and got the car from Les. They hauled it home on a flat bed truck. Wally had a collection of Starliners up until the mid 2000's when his health failed and he moved into a nursing home. There were several Starliners, including the old race car parked in a field and in a shed on his property for years. After Wally went to the nursing home the cars got sold. A friend of mine both one and is working on restoring It. I have asked but no one seems to know who got the race car
A long time ago I had my 327 heads done at a machine shop in Seattle. The owner ran a '64 Hemi car new and knew the Potter brothers back then. The Potter brothers Ivan I believe knew Bill Ireland of Portland Oregon really well whom of course many of you know was a well known Ford drag racer. Bill Ireland was pretty tight with Ritchey and Performance & Associates out of Baldwin Park CA. That's where the connection in '62 was with the Starliner and the Potter bros was made. The Potter Bros put a a falcon front bumper on the Starliner for some reason as well when they raced it. They got a new '63 426 Plymouth Savoy a year later and not sure where the Starliner ended up. Keep in mind Ritchey had 2 Starliners's at Pomona in '61. The tri carbed 401 HP car and a 375 4 barrel version also.
troublemaker427
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Raj, would you happen to have any photos of Les' two Starliners. I never realized he had two but I find this very interesting.