Hubert Platt Pro Stock Maverick Photos

I donated, what were supposed to be, autographed photos of Hubert Platt's wheelstanding "Georgia Shaker" Boss 429 Maverick Pro Stocker for Gathering door prizes. Unfortunately, the pictures showed up w/o autographs and there was not enough time to correct the error prior to the show day.

Today, I received the autographed ones and will gladly send them to whoever won the regular pics, if they like. Just post here or PM me if you won them or know who did.

 

OK, times up, they will be donated to first who claims them, since no one replied......I claim them!!!

 

You are out of luck. I already received a PM from Steve Bucksken.

 

Dang that guy has to be the second luckiest guy, after Wilbur, I have ever seen!

 

Steve again!!!

 

I inadvertently parked my P.O.S. next to that car at Fun Ford a few years ago. Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum... lol

 

FYI Mr. Platts son has a Georgia Shaker site now.

http://www.georgiashaker.com/

 

Can you post the pictures here for everyone to see and enjoy?

 

You parked next to DRAG HAG back in '08. I don't know if it was Harold Dutton's old race car or not. My friend, Jimmy, use to own Harold's '67 DRAG HAG Fairlane after it was re-painted and re-badged as an LX. Jimmy's '70 Maverick that you parked next to in '09 is still running the same Boss 302 heads that Bud Moore built personally.

 

A few years ago I met an 80 year old plus gentleman at a drag strip reunion show here in Pennsylvania who had a beautiful tubbed out solid red small bumper Maverick. I sat down with him and had a long discussion about his Maverick and also his past drag racing days. He mentioned that he once bought a Thunderbolt Georgia Shaker. He changed it over to his own paint scheme and ran it on the circuit back in the days. Ha had a close to a life ending accident with the car breaking his neck in the process. The car then sat for 29 years before he decided to repair and restore it. He restored it as he had bought it from Platt - the Georgia Shaker. He ran the car in nostagia racing until he finally sent it over the block at Barrett/Jackson. I never heard of this guy or a car called the Georgia Shaker until I sat with him that day but his name is Lee Malkames and he lives in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

 

I don't think many (if any) of the original parts were on the restored car. Most consider it a rebody at best. I've really expected to read about legal actions regarding the claims of originality after the B&J auction.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=904364&d=1266626715

 

I guess Hubert had more than one car. I seen this one again last week.

 

I took several pics of that car at that show too. I miss going to those shows over there. Gotta make plans to go back some time.

 

Ray- Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville Georgia is a great show. No drag racing but a lot of early stock cars on display along with more 39-40, 55-57 Fords you can imagine. One would walk away thinking that every 427 powered Ford is at this show

 

When is that show Jeff?