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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT BELLMERE

Synovum Care

Bellmere

A self contained community that
will break new ground in caring
for the aged and those living with
dementia

Traffic is heavy going into Chicago, and the
roads are packed with Chevys, Toyotas, Hondas
and a wicked-looking ’30 Ford Model A coupe
with a V-8 rumble. It’s a nice fall day and public
relations professional Molly Currey is heading to
her office in the Chevy-powered hot rod known
as Johnny Ray.

As long as she can remember, the Model A has
been part of her life. In the mid-1970s, her father,
Guy Morter — a mechanical engineer, racer and
mechanic — started building a hot rod in his
garage with only a kerosene torpedo heater to
keep the Wisconsin winter at bay. Just 2 years
old when the project began, Currey and Johnny
Ray grew up together in the center of
Wisconsin’s hot rod and racing culture.

Morter started with an original steel body from a
1930 Ford Model A, which he chopped and
channeled. To handle more power, he fabricated
a new chassis of rectangular steel tubing with a
dropped I-beam front axle and a narrowed 9-inch
Ford rear end with coil springs. He fabricated his
The small scale own firewall, center cross-member and steering

linkage from stainless steel.
development at
Bellmere will be a

world first

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