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CUSTOMIZER STEVE FRISBLE LOCATES HIS HOLY GRAIL

(Editors Note: Steve Frisbie, owner of Steve’s Auto Restoration called one day to tell me about a 1901 Frisbie Red Devil. The car was built by a family relative in Cromwell, Connecticut, and Steve had recently purchased it. Even though it’s not a hot rod, it is undoubtedly an ancestor to them, and I thought our readers might enjoy this look into the past.)

The mystery involved with locating the Frisbie “Red Devil” 2-cylinder roadster started for me in November of 1984 when my mother, Lorraine Frisbie (now deceased), and I sent a letter inquiring about the

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