1932 Three-window #59C and #560C

1932 Three-window #59C and #560C

On loan courtesy of Keith Cornell:
Racing must have been in her blood. It was two weeks before the jalopy races at the county fair, and brothers Billy and Bob decided they could get the old car running that their grandfather had left them. They would paint her up and enter the race.
The brush-painted bright yellow and red “4B” on the doors was still there when Keith brought her home. Before she continued her racing career, he would build the second of the two Rolling Bones foundation hot rods.
As the 59C she would terrorize the highways from coast to coast with her running mate, the 575B. Then Keith caught the “salt fever“ that happens to so many who step foot on the salt flats of Bonneville. After several years of racing the flathead powered 232B roadster, Keith’s need-for-speed fever burned hot. It was time to make a change.
Enter the “beast.”
Keith Cornell’s 560 coupe is chopped six inches in front, 5-1/2 inches in back with the wheelbase stretched to 109.6 inches. She has an old-style dropped front end using a Ford V8 60-tube axle and a full belly pan. The power is supplied by a 1957 Ford 532 cubic inch Y-block with 576 horsepower, four-speed transmission and a V8 quick-change.
As for Keith’s need for speed, the 560 is considered the fastest naturally aspirated Y-block powered car in the world at 188.563 miles per hour.