37 for Sale on Ebay

Begorah, if I hadn’t sold me shillelagh, I’d buy this car and drive in the St . Patrick’s Day parade!

Pat and I looked at this car for an out of town buyer in 2015. The owner, who was the buyer at the Harrah’s auction, was legendary “Lightning Larry” Ragland, the only 5 time winner of the Baja 1000….(not in this car!). Larry took us on a ride around the neighborhood and it ran well. The only negative we saw were some paint cracking issues which are mentioned in the eBay write up but not clearly shown. I’ll attach a few photos which show the issues more clearly. For serious touring it would need new tires and some shakedown cruise time, but I thought it could be a good car to drive to Pierce meets.

Right fender paint cracking

Left fender paint cracks (rear).

Larry had some other nice cars, too!

The car was displayed at Harrah’s with a Travelodge trailer behind it. Here’s a picture taken in the mid 1980’s, right before the collection was starting to be dispersed.

David, from earlier photos I, too, thought the green was over the top, but seen in person it looked great. The car carries the color well, and is actually enhanced by it. Buy it, drive it, and bask in the attention!

Usually a headliner is of a lighter material than the seat upholstery. In this context, “lighter” means less heavy. Since the material has to hang, being lighter means that there’s less chance of sagging.

It’s been traditional in closed cars that the headliner was also a lighter (in shade) fabric, so that the car didn’t feel like being in a dark cave.

As far as originality on this car, I can’t comment. The Harrah’s restorations were excellent for the time period, but standards were different and it wasn’t as easy to reach out to owners of similar original cars.