Bob Glidden Mustangs

[Bowlzeee]

Maybe you can find out from Mecum who the high bidder was...

[BRETV]

Bowlzeee,

I didn't mean my uncle's car that sold at Mecum, I was wondering the story and where about's of Retton's car. Thanks!





Bret Velde
2003 SS/LA

[Rusty Gillis]

Bob Glidden was at the Suffolk points meet in April 1970 driving the Bob Frensley Ford Mustang. He came in with a Bob Frensley Ford tilt cab semi car carrier that also had a Pro Stock Maverick on it but he did not race it. He had black eyes and said he had been in an accident with the Maverick. He raced SS/FA at Suffolk but right after that changed to SS/F after I set the record in SS/FA.

[CaptCobrajet]

The original Nitro 9 car that Brandon and Turnage had was the Glidden car, for sure. The second one was built in Nashville by Fred McMurtry IIRC......the second car was the one that Jeff Velde bought and raced. The first car changed hands a few times after Clyde and Gene sold it. Carl Holbrook did eventually end up with the Glidden car, which he eventually sold in '79 or thereabouts. I was a kid in the seventies.....I remember going to McMurtry's place with my dad when the car Jeff bought was being built. Brandon had referred my dad there to have work done on our '68 Mustang. Absolutely true that there were two......there was also a third car that I don't think they ever ran, but Gene Turnage is the best source of that info.

Blair Patrick