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1925 Ford Model T Roadster owned by Paul Schiefer of San Diego Roadster Club. According to Paul's friend Jack Osborne, the car was built in Paul's garage. It was built on a tube frame fabricated from the wing struts of a PBY-5A Catalina flying boat, and the roadster body was channeled about 4 inches. At the SCTA' July 18, 1948 meet Paul's roadster with Butch Ludwig behind the steering wheel was the fastest C-Class roadster at 148.02 mph. This was also Paul's best run in 1948. Paul used his roadster as a test vehicle for development of an aluminum flywheel which became the first major product of the Schiefer Manufacturing Company The Schiefer roadster is one of the few cars campaigned on the lakes and the strips that, within a decade, saw its first-year top speeds on the dry lakes exceeded by later 1/4-mile E.T.'s.
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