I caught up with the car again, surprisingly enough, two years later:

Tuesday, May 3, 2016…

Another day which was to be tinged with disappointment despite the joy of meeting up with friends again and seeing more of their cars. We didn’t go all that far on this day:



The first call was to Bill Wiswidel’s facility in Holland. Jerry Entin joined me there and I had a good time catching up with both of them. At one point, Bill said to me, “You know that Plymouth GTX that you had a ride in last time?” He was, of course, referring to the car in which Pedro had taken down to the gas station to get some beer in Bozeman, Montana.

“I’ve got that now,” Bill said. No longer was it part of the Montana Dodge Boys inventory, but it sat in Bill’s shed alongside some very illustrious and diverse machinery.

In fact, to say Bill’s collection is ‘eclectic’ is definitely understating the case. From the obscure to the famous and much in between. The one I really liked, the Kurtis-Buick, was gone, but the Indy cars I’d seen the last two visits were still there. And this oddity had arrived…


Motorcycle power. Jerry shot this pic of me sitting on this strange vehicle, a new member of Bill's 'eclectic' collection.

...with motorcycle power and a leaning towards the drag strip. I think. Amid the various engines…


Engines and a picture. A couple of obviously hot V8 engines sit on the floor and an interesting-looking pic hangs on the wall.

...and the ex-Indy and F5000 Eisert-Chevrolet... (edit: Including New Zealand)


The Eisert Chev. Jerry and Bill beside the Eisert which was once used on the roads of Nebraska.

...and the other multitudes of things was a ’29 Ford hot-rod…


A-Model. Sporting the flathead 4, this A-model hot-rod is definitely 'old-school.'

...the Plymouth GTX with its huge Hemi engine…


Hemi GTX. I know this flies because I rode in it in Montana. Jerry peers under the hood of the Plymouth.