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<\/a><\/p>\nSince that time Fester has been meticulously examining the car and digging hard trying to figure out exactly what Phillips was building. Fester said, \u201cThere is no real consensus among the people I\u2019ve spoken with regarding what Jud intended for his Allied Coupe. Both A.J. Watson and Paul Diatlovich (who worked for Jud at one time) were aware of the car and independently recalled that Jud intended to use an Offenhauser 220 engine for power. Watson told me he thought Phillips was just building himself a sports car. While I\u2019m certainly in no position to argue with A.J. Watson, that idea just doesn\u2019t seem right. The car has so many non-street-friendly components, such as the five-gallon gas tank, it would have been totally impractical to drive on public roadways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fester continued, \u201cJud\u2019s focus during the time he was building the Allied was oval track-oriented with Bob Estes. At that time there was a specific class for dirt track sports cars; maybe that\u2019s what he was building? Estes was also a competitor at the Carrera Panamericana and perhaps that\u2019s the direction Jud was going. Given the horrendous turning radius of the steering setup it\u2019s entirely possible that Phillips may have wanted to build an Allied to race against Burke\u2019s car at Bonneville. Jud\u2019s widow Sally told me she knew nothing about the Allied Coupe, but his daughter Carol told me she recalled the car being under a tarp at her father\u2019s shop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fester intends to finish Jud Phillips\u2019 Allied Coupe to honor the car and its wonderful constructor. The builder\u2019s intent for this Allied Coupe has been a great conundrum for decades and Fester\u2019s own personal brain-teaser since 2007. Fester added: \u201cNever completed and very much a one-off, Jud\u2019s car could have been anything. However, with the constructor being a world-class racecar mechanic and builder and with the car design being so unfriendly for the street, my strong hunch is that Phillips built this one as a pure competition machine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What was Jud Phillips thinking? This has been the question that\u2019s tormented Bill Fester for nearly a decade. Fester, from Houston, Texas, is not your ordinary car collector. Although he and his wife are very much city dwellers, their domicile is not only home to a wonderful collection of four-, three-, and two-wheeled vehicles, but also to two-legged creatures in the form of Rhode Island Red Hens. Fester is Kevin Bacon-like in that he not only knows every car collector […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":551616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9494],"tags":[9495],"class_list":["post-495556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-of-the-day","tag-car-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"\n