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Brian Lohnes
What if some of the nation's greatest hot rodders were given the job of creating a promotional vehicle to sell car batteries in 1968? What would they do? What would they design? Who would be involved? Well, as it turns out, this actually happened and the result was one of the most unique and largely forgotten projects of the Ford Total Performance Era. It was called the Lead Wedge and this is its history.
A team lead by the legendary Danny Eames of Autolite tapped people like Larry Shinoda, Jerry Kugel, Jerry Eisert, and more to build the fastest battery powered vehicle in the world, all to promote a new line of Autolite High Performance batteries.
Part overgrown go-kart, part cutting edge design, the whole thing was built in two months from scratch and then it went to Bonneville to set records. Rooted in a history that began in 1902, this is an odd and interesting story in the world of American racing and speed.
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