- Credited with starting the T-bucket craze
- Hot Rod magazine cover in October 1955
- Featured on TV in “Mr. Kagle and the Baby Sitter” in 1956
- Paint, crab-claw flames and pinstripes by Dean Jeffries
- Car Craft cover: April, 1957
- Starred on the TV show “77 Sunset Strip,” in 1958, and was called “Kookie’s Kar” after show character Gerald “Kookie” Kookson III
- Sold to Jim “Street” Skonzakes for $3,000 in 1959
- Later painted Rose Pearl with Candy Red flames by Larry Watson’s House of Style
- The original, unforgettable and one-of-a-kind “Kookie’s Kar”