[Verne_Frantz]

Sam,
As I recall, I think he did have a very strange nickname, but I forget it right now. I may have it on a taped conversation with one of his high school friends who lives in Jersey City. His parents lived in West Orange, and that's where he was with the car when new, before moving into the Island Heights home. That home was the family's "shore house", so he was down there quite often in the early years. For those early years he painted the wheels blue and ran baby moons.