 Built in 1955 by Dale Tholen
with full race Crosley
engine
and a 500 Fiat transmission. Was featured on the cover of Road
and Track March 1959. It extensively raced in California in the
50s and 60s. More Info.
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 Currently owned by Gerald
Davenport of KY. Gerald took it to the Bonneville Salt Flats and
ran 108 mph first time out. The pictures are from the 2005
Crosley Nationals.
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 Sold new at Charlie Nicholas
dealership in Fairmont Minnesota to Hegge's Phillips 66 station in
Lakefield MN, then sold to a collector in the Lakefield area. Jim
and Florence Killion of Mankato, Minnesota purchaced it in February
1975. Jim sold it to Karl Krotz in 1985, and he then sold it to
Gerald Davenport of Kentucky Crosley.
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 1939 Convertiable Coupe from a
past Nationals, and if I'm reading the
window card right it belongs to Donald Steward. If someone can give me
more info I'll add it.
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The HM.14 Pou du Ciel
Frenchman Henri Mignet attempted to design an airplane that almost
anyone could build and fly safely. He sought to give everyone access to
the skies. Pou du Ciel (literally "Sky Louse" but
the English coined the term "Flying Flea"). Hundreds of
people build and flew the Pou du Ciel in
France and Britain during the early 1930s.  I took these pictures on my visit
to the new National Air and Space
Museum at Dulles airport on April 2nd. I left in some of the
background so you can see the Flea is in good company.
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 Powel Crosley,
obtained a copy of Mignet's book "Le Sport de l'Air"
in 1935. The airplane immediately appealed to Crosley and he ordered
his personal pilot, Edward Nirmaier, to build one. With the help of Dan
Boedeker and Herb Junkin, Nirmaier began construction on October 1,
1935. Funded by Crosley the plane made it's first test flight a month
later. Powel never intended to sell the Flea, just promote it
as a plane for the common man. The whole story can be read on
the National
Air and Space Museum site.
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 Smoke is from Sebring Florida, and
as you can see is proud of his Hot
Shots heritage. Smoke is in the passenger seat while Bob (Ralph)
Deshon acts as Chauffeur. Bob is an old hand at driving Crosley
Hot Shots, he was one of the two drivers of #19 the Hot Shot that won
the first Sebring Race in 1950.
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 You saw the back of Smoke Stover's
1949 Hot Shot a few months ago when Julie and Pete Berard recreated a photo from almost 50 years ago using
The HS at the Florida meet.
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