[jmerson]

Roto, Yes he did. In fact he was running the place when it shut down. He also worked on the Class A hydro plane. T think it was the Miss Bud. He also tuned one of the Indy cars but i'm not sure if it was a Budweiser car. He showed me his credentials that allowed him to get into the pits at Indy. I've been told he was the person that first used Nitrus Oxide on a race car. Not sure and don't have any paper work to prove or disprove it. He was a very talented guy, a little ornery at times but a good guy.
He had a shop at 806 Glendale Ave in Sparks,NV just down the street from Summit Racing's store.
Getting back to the roadster, he had aowned it since 1951 and had driven it most ot those years. If it is in fact a '31 body i can only think that he probably swapped it out when he was a kid and kept it that way after he became a guru out of respect fot his humble beginning. He would certainly have known the difference especially with the doors overlaping the body.