Alex Budurin -- Kurtis-Buick  (?)

Budurin and his Kurtis in Turn 2.  He DNF'd in the race.  The race results show a connection with Bruce Kessler.  ??????

?????  Another question arises: this link shows Budurin's Kurtis at Santa Barbara, but the car's painted blue.  In Sunday's Ponoma race Budurin is shown as the only Kurtis runner, but in Saturday's race two others appeared and both DNF'd.  David McLenard (?) and Mickey Thompson are shown as driving Cadillac-powered cars.

Is this yellow Kurtis actually one of these others?
 

(2-28-12)   From Historian Ron Cummings:

"Every time that I saw the Alex Budurin Kurtis it was yellow and sported those bat wing front fenders. I do not know about the blue Kurtis.
 
Originally powered with a flathead Ford product, Max Balchowsky re-engined the Kurtis with a nailhead Buick. Max drove the car once at Paramount Ranch, with the Buick motor. It was later entered at Palm Springs as the Balchowsky-Buick, as was the car that became Old Yeller."
 
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