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HENRY HIGGINS – ELIZA DOOLITTLE – 1,600 HORSE POWER — 2011 S.C.Nats.

Which of the two above titles best go together?

If you picked Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle you aren’t totally wrong. Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are the two main characters Lerner and Loewe’s iconic Broadway musical My Fair Lady. But hey,  AmericanCarsAmericanGirls.com isn’t about Broadway musicals.

If you picked Henry Higgins and 1,600 Horse Power you would be totally right. Pictured we have Henry, wife Sharon and their 1,600hp Chevy. They have 0wned the 1953 Chevy for seventeen years and had a frame off restoration that took five years. The convertible is powered by a blown 588 c.i. big block that makes 1,600hp with a 5sp manual transmisson.

While Henry Higgins can be a fictional character in a Broadway. The real Henry Higgins is a real car guy that did ALL the work himself to make his 1953 Chevy what it is today.

 

2011 Super Chevy Nationals, AutoShows.com, Pigeon Forge, Charlie Cobble, Columbiana Oh.

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Oh GREAT WAKES it’s WHITNEY

Fortunately for me Great Wakes was one of the sponsors for Smokin the Water because; Whitney is one of their employees. If they hadn’t she might not have been there. Great Wakes is a boating company located in Lenoir City, Tn and is the Knoxville metro area Malibu/Axis boat sales and service center. Whitney is posing with Ron Letsinger’s 1964 Impala convertible; more on the convertible in the next story. In addition to working at Great Wakes Whitney is a student at the University of Tennessee.

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A 1964 Chevy Impala

This car belongs to Ron Letsinger of Kingston, Tn.—kind of. The story Ron told me was that he bought the car from the original owners and has not titled it yet; thinking that the car will be worth more if the next owner will be buying the car from the original owner. Good luck Ron. The car has a 327c.i./300hp engine with a power glide transmission. The paper work shows that original owner traded a 1957 Bel Air convertible for the car. I hope this shows up on the picture. The Impala is in pristine condition. The only thing that makes the Impala look better is Whitney behind the wheel