Owner: Roger Hoffmann – California This 1954 Kurtis 500 KK is a one-off aluminum-bodied Kurtis sports car built by Frank Kurtis, Lou Borelli, “California Bill” Fisher, and Art Ingels. It still retains its original aluminum body built by California Metal Shaping, its original SCOT supercharged, high torque, short rocker arm 235 Chevy inline six, original 1932 Ford transmission (with 1937 gears), 1949 Lincoln drilled drum brakes, and original tubular chassis with torsion bar suspension. It is chassis # 51 of the 51 chassis kits built and sold by Kurtis. This is one of the very few Kurtis sports cars not to have a V8 engine. Rather, for this project, engine guru “California Bill” Fisher built up a highly evolved inline six, offset in the chassis to accommodate the side-mounted SCOT supercharger and Zenith carburetors. Virtually every original receipt was saved, as well as documenting photos of the body buck of the car, the build process, and shots of it being driven in Los Angeles. Owned for many years by noted collector Gene Cesari, it was restored and painted black.