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Thanks Rusty-S for noticing the photo and post about my dad's old race car still up in the air at 610 Yale Street. Thanks also for going as far as to ask your parents about it. It wasn't a bright yellow, more a light yellow color. I can tell on Google Earth that it's white now, too. I spoke to Bill Raines' son by phone at his shop down the street, gosh, probably a year or two ago about it. He told me it looked different, but was still there and he recalled better than I do about all the work and the company that put it up there. That was when I decided to check it out on Google Earth for the first time. We decided it would be better off left there for people to see because it would be really expensive for me to greedily try to obtain it and keep it for sentimental value personally. I was so very close to my dad and still miss him a lot. If he were here, he'd be as tickled as I am that those two old sides of one of his old race cars that he put up so long ago is still there, that it's on this website and people still remember. I'll eventually get that photo posted...kind of busy managing a new company right now. The photo is from January, 1960-therefore, it is a black and white photo. The car couldn't have been up there too long prior to the photo because I would have been 7 years old at the time it was taken and I remember it being put up in the air and how he decided just where to cut the car apart, etc. I'm so glad I came across this site and the responses from people who remember my family and that old race car. I'd love to hear more comments or emails from anyone who knew my dad or David. Thanks everyone!

I'm not a computer genius, but I do alright. If someone could tell me how to on this site, step by step, to post the original photo I have of my dad's car on that pole at Satterwhite's Auto Shop at 610 Yale, I'll try sometime to do that. I have a printer with a scanner and a laptop with Windows 7 and everything I would need except the exact how to. The photo has the date Jan. 1960 printed on it. I was born in 1952 and remember the car going up, so it had to be in the late 1950's when it was put there. It shows really old cars in the auto sales lot, too, before he built the shop that is on the site now. I have other photos from prior to that of that previous car lot building he had there, etc.

And, to reply to the person who asked if my dad, Henry Satterwhite, had another shop ever on North Shepherd, the answer is no. It was always at 6th and Yale. I have photos of the old shop when it was up on the hill and and pics of his auto sales on the corner before he built the new shop down on that spot. Thanks loads for the interest and remembering. His daughter, Cindy.

I am Henry Satterwhite's daughter and David Satterwhite's sister (Cindy). Yes, that is my father's 52 Ford up there still on that pole (I was born that year). It was one of my dad's race cars (he welded the 2 sides together and Bill Raines Repair Shop can tell you what it took to get it up there). If you are facing the shop, there was a hill to the left where the original shop was and the car was even higher and upon a pole on that hill and not in front of the shop as far as I always remembered it. It did not move when dad built the new shop. I remember him building the new building. My dad had SATTERWHITE in big neon lit capital letters on the sides and I remember the car being yellow. I have an original photo of it blown up in my private stash of photos at home. He told me how he had made it. My father was a well respected businessman and an excellent automotive painter, radiator and body repairman. I was extremely close to him and went nearly everywhere with him. We especially liked to fly in his planes. He was also pretty hilarious quite a bit of the time. For instance, people had quite a few accidents at that red light at the corner of 6th and Yale because they were looking up at that car on the pole, run the red light and have a wreck. The wrecks weren't bad and that's not the reason he put the car up there, but he'd laugh everytime and, since part of the business was paint and body, he'd say it was there because of the problem it caused and it was therefore, good for business. He was joking I promise you. He was quite a character and my idol. My family all died, one by one, when I was in my twenties...first was mom, then dad, and then David. I have a picture of the car in my livingroom and many times, during the years, I've wished I could afford to buy it, take it down and bring it home to keep. However, it would be quite an ordeal and maybe it's better to let it stay there as a sort of old landmark of some kind. Besides, don't know where on earth I'd put it and I'd want to restore it to the original way it was. I have the original way it looked at home and I Google Earth it once in a while to make sure it's still there. Thanks for remembering the car, my dad and brother. You said you went to school with David, etc. JRH1948, so I'd love to chat sometime.