Viva Las Vegas: Gene Winfield’s NASCAR-Spec Bonneville Racer

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Hot rod builder and salt-flats legend Gene Winfield has another Bonneville monster up his sleeve, having just completed work on this Brookfield-bodied 1932 Ford roadster. It’s running a race-shop-fresh Ford NASCAR engine donated whole by Robert Yates Racing, and it’ll be pushing over 800 horsepower. All the welding and fabrication was done by hard-partying father-son duo Charlie Webster Sr. and Jr., and the Ford is flaunting one of Winfield’s signature fade paint jobs. Just standing in front of this NASCAR-powered deuce while it’s taching up is more than enough to make you lose a few thousand brain cells—watch the soundwaves nearly shatter my camera lens! Can’t wait to see this wicked Ford blow some doors off on the salt flats at Speed Week in August.