Cars That Got Away
1958 LaDawri Conquest
I stumbled upon this LaDawri Conquest in a storage building at the local Moose lodge last summer. The photos are not the same one I had, the car in the photo is just a shell, mine was a complete street legal car that I owned in the summer of 1972. I traded a nice hopped up VW Beetle with a Paxton Super Charger for it. The Conquest had a Plymouth 440 with a Torqueflite Transmission and a Dana rear axel. I remember the drive shaft being about a foot long. The car was on a 1958 Ford frame, drum brakes at all corners, light and fast. Push the go pedal at 30 MPH and it would break the rear tires loose. Just crazy for a 20 year old as I was in 1972 to drive. I was in college then, off for the summer, working at a local factory making UAW wages as a summer fill in, which was really good money. September came around and I sold the Conquest and went back to school. Maybe that is why I am still alive today, but I do wish I had kept it, man that car was fast.
1957 LaDawri Conquest - conceptcarz.com
1958 LaDawri Conquest
I stumbled upon this LaDawri Conquest in a storage building at the local Moose lodge last summer. The photos are not the same one I had, the car in the photo is just a shell, mine was a complete street legal car that I owned in the summer of 1972. I traded a nice hopped up VW Beetle with a Paxton Super Charger for it. The Conquest had a Plymouth 440 with a Torqueflite Transmission and a Dana rear axel. I remember the drive shaft being about a foot long. The car was on a 1958 Ford frame, drum brakes at all corners, light and fast. Push the go pedal at 30 MPH and it would break the rear tires loose. Just crazy for a 20 year old as I was in 1972 to drive. I was in college then, off for the summer, working at a local factory making UAW wages as a summer fill in, which was really good money. September came around and I sold the Conquest and went back to school. Maybe that is why I am still alive today, but I do wish I had kept it, man that car was fast.
1957 LaDawri Conquest - conceptcarz.com
