Ferrari Mailing List: NFC: Trying to remember title of book

[Tom Reynolds (kjtar]

When I was in grade school, we were able to order paperback books through some 
service.  One of them was "The Red Car" which I recently found.  There was also 
another book I read as a kid about a kid who built a Model A
Ford, got into some kind of trouble, and was mentored by a crew cut guy who had 
a Scottish mechanic helper who hated the New York Yankees.  And, there was a 
contemporary of the kid, a "bad" kid, who had a car that he thought was really 
hot, but looked like a bathtub.  At the end of the story there was a hill climb 
and the "good" kid won, the other kid's car broke down...what was the name of 
that book?  There was a chopped A on the cover
in a kind of purple color, geez, I can picture it now...
HELP!  Anyone in their early to mid 60s or maybe late 50s, can you ID this 
book?  I think the mentor's name was Webb, he was married and had a very 
classic American car, maybe a Stutz, and there was a British dude in the book 
as well, with an ascot and everything, 
Tom Reynolds
Tulsa, OK