Motorsport & Racing

Keeper of the Flame – The Spurgin-Giovanine Roadster

Ernie Nagamatsu
Dr. Nagamatsu, reliving history, behind the wheel of the 1948 Spurgin-Giovanine Roadster.

Racing swiftly in the swirling dust from the clay pans of the Dry Lakes of Southern California in the SCTA racing season of 1948… flashed the sleek silver aluminum and black Land Speed Racer that was the innovative Spurgin-Giovanine Roadster. The slippery racer was the legendary “Albata” Club Dry Lakes racer that established one of the most incredible feats in Dry Lakes Land Speed racing history…by breaking the existing record in each of the 6 scheduled Dry Lakes racing meets of 1948. “It was the little Chevy 4 motor that thought it could… and it did”

The Spurgin-Giovanine, in period.

 

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