[markjohnson]

Verne, I'm kinda honored to have your 409th post on this thread. Seen your photo this month in the new BowTie magazine with your gold '63. Congrats on the award. Here's one for you. I was at the midnight madness drags here in St. Louis and there happens to be a '62 Bel Air 409 Sport Coupe there with rusty tow bar tabs, ancient giant traction bars underneath and very old faded-out U.S. Nationals decals on the front vent windows. The car was faded out Honduras Maroon and did it sure look out of place among all the newer cars there that night. Somebody had a great find. I went out and bought a camera phone the next day because I'm sick of not being able to take photos when I run into stuff like this.