Ivo’s classic twin-Buick and later his Showboat, which featured four Buick engines and was a tribute to Ivo’s genius for synchronizing seemingly impossible combinations. The twin-engine Buick became the first gas-dragster to reach 160, 170, and 180 mph. In 1964, Ivo came home with the biggest prize from the historic tour of the United States Drag Racing Team in England when he defeated Garlits for overall honours and was crowned the International Drag Racer of the Year by NHRA and the British Hot Rod Association. In 1982, Ivo refurbished his famous four-engine ride that now had a Buick station-wagon body and went on tour. That year after his final tire-smoking run, at the Winston Finals at Orange County Int’l Raceway, he burned his driving gloves on the starting line.