{"id":491392,"date":"2010-07-01T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=40373"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:46:58","slug":"1954-swartley-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1954-swartley-special\/","title":{"rendered":"1954 Swartley Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terry Bennett says he grew up as both a nerd and a motor-head. It was hardly his fault. His father was a brilliant physician, his mother a concert-grade pianist, and he was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, soon to be the epicenter of sports car racing.<\/p>\n

Bennett began driving automobiles at age eight and bought his first car at age ten. \u201cIt was a 1928 Chevy coupe and I drove it home with a phone book on the seat,\u201d he said. \u201cI owned that car three times. I kept fixing it up and reselling it to another kid from school. Finally a grown up bought it from me and drove it away for good. Cars were always fascinating and have remained so. Now I have a 45,000 square-foot barn at my home in Rochester, New Hampshire, with 70 cars in it and 30 motorcycles. I am that level of crazy. I\u2019ve been at that level of crazy all of my life. I\u2019ve always bought cars that I thought were interesting, even if no one else wanted anything to do with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n