[Bowlzeee]

This is the story that I got from multiple and recent telephone conversations with Gene Turnage. Gene told me that Steve Retton from Fairmont, WV offered them a lot of money for the car he and Clyde Brandon were racing at the time. They sold the car to Retton. That car was Glidden's old car. They immediately built a second car with tubs and a ladder bar with slider suspention and painted it the same as the first Glidden car. Red and Nitro 9 on the side. That was the car that went to Velde. It was not Gliddens car according to Turnage. We were racing Turnage for class one weekend in the second car, then racing Retton at PID the next weekend in the first car. Turnage told me that he raced Retton for clas at Englishtown in 1974. Two red 68 Mustangs with Nitro 9 on the side. Turnage beat Retton and Retton got pissed and said, " If I knew you were going to build another one, I wouldn't have bought the first one ". This is all from a recent phone conversation with Gene Turnage...