Walking in your father’s footsteps may be good for some people, but being in the seat of your father’s race car is infinitely better. That’s what cousins Rocky and Allen Platt have found with these replicas of their father’s cars they race in the Southeast Gasser Association. With Rocky behind the wheel of Huston Platt’s “Dixie Twister” and Allen in Hubert Platt’s “Georgia Shaker III,” they carry on a proud family tradition.
The catalyst behind the recreation of these historic outlaw A/FX machines began with Kelvin Cannon of Elizabethton, Tennessee, who had stumbled across some history of the original Dixie Twister fastback Chevy II. MORE......