From kits to cars - The Landmark
That’s what one of the cars Harold Rehrauer built can do. Princeton resident Harold Rehrauer has built two vintage cars of sorts, a 1933 Ford twodoor Victoria and a Factory Five 1933 “Street Ride” vehicle, both from kits that include the frame and... The Factory Five has a Ford Crate racing engine with 347 horsepower that makes it capable of reaching the speed of 60 miles per hour in four seconds, but Rehrauer said, “I haven’t tried that. “It’s like the Dodge Viper. You can get one built to your specifications but that’s extremely expensive, but there are an unbelievable amount of them being built to sell to people for show, the ‘trailer queens’ haul them from show to show. Rehrauer moved to Princeton nine years ago from Iowa, bringing with him the unfinished 1933 Ford Vic that he had purchased from a man in Illinois that had assembled part of the car. “I rented a Pensky truck to bring all my tools and had a car carrier hitched to the back to haul the Vic. Rehrauer had a 300-acre farm in Iowa, raising cows and corn, working nights and weekends in addition to his full-time job at the utility plant as vice president of field operations. “I was a nuclear power plant system engineer and they were building a plant so I stayed there for 34 years,” he explained. Rehrauer’s son lives in Princeton, so he and his wife Ruth moved to be closer to him and the grandchildren. Source: www.thelandmark.com
