Don Edmunds Super Modified

Don Edmunds has been involved in racing since the late 1940's,starting out racing midgets at Huntington Beach,and reaching the Indy 500 in 1957 where he won the award as "Rookie of the Year",though it would be his only start in the 500,failing to qualify in 1959. Edmunds honed his skills as a builder working for Indy car builder Eddie Kuzma while racing midgets and would found Edmunds Autoresearch in Anaheim CA. Specializing primarily in sprint car's and midget's, Edmunds built virtually every kind of open wheeled race car,from Indy cars to Super Vee,winning countless races. Edmunds was even the builder of Evel Kneivel's famed "Sky Cycle" for his famed Snake River Canyon jump in 1974. Monogram Models made a model kit of Don's 1966 Super Modified in 1/24 scale that has been reissued several times. The real car featured a 327 CI Chevy,Hilborn Fuel Injection,Halibrand wheels, Schneider cam & a Hunt magneto. Edmunds was the first to mass produce short track race cars, with a parts inventory for each type,hundreds of these Super Modifieds were sold all built with fibreglass bodies except the first, CBSM-1 which was built in aluminum. Don Edmunds was inducted into both the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame. After selling Autoresearch Don Edmunds turned his attention to building scale replica models of 1920-30's race cars as well as some 1/4 scale sprints.

Check out his site and see his craftmanship.
http://www.donedmunds.com/

To see pictures of this Super Modifed restored follow this link.

http://www.ewarbirds.org/automotive/1966edsupermod.html