I don't remember what year it was- maybe 57or 58....I was kinda young.....8 or 9.  I remember that Bob Pierson had a car that would run pretty fast and was shiny.  I talked to my Dad later about the car and Bob and he related the following:  ( not necessarily in order or verbatim with my presentation).

Bob Pierson...abt  1956.

    "Bob always loved cars, was always tinkering with them.  If he had a car that used a half a quart of oil between oil changes, he would tear down the engine and rebuild it."

  He was fanatical about his cars.  It was one summer I was staying with my dad's mother, Hallie, and walked down to the road that went by her house to watch the occasional car come by.  Bob went by and waved, I thought he must have been going 300 miles an hour...just a flash when he went by....I may be wrong, but I think the car was pink.....Either he or Norman Ristau had a pink car.

    He didn't like "tail-gaters" either according to my dad.  He told me that Bob had installed a bottle of oxygen under the driver's seat in his car with a tube that ran to the tailpipe behind the muffler.   When someone was tailgating him (driving to close to the rear of his car) he, would ease the car into neutral, race the engine and let off, open the valve on the oxygen bottle and stomp on the accelerator, the oxygen in the tail pipe would light all the non burned gas in the tailpipe and effectively make a flame thrower out of the exhaust system.  My dad said he was riding with Bob one time at night and he was bothered by a tail-gater.  He went through his routine  and burned off the paint of the trailing car's front end.

    Seems like there was a little competition between Bob and Norman on cars....and speed and noise level, etc...