ORIGINAL: UStik
Duane, is it possible you mean the picture posted by Ray in post #422 at page 17? Says modified Astro, was published April 1960, though.
Somewhere else was mentioned (also by Ray?) that MAN Feb 1957 specifies Smog Hog and MAN April 1958 specifies Astro Hog. Unfortunately, I don't know where it was posted (search might help), but at least the sources are known.
This is a long thread, and last night I went through 35 pages of it . I thought that someone said in 1958 he modified one pattern plane of the era, then the next year modified another, (maybe Smog Hog, then Astro Hog, I can't remember), but I can't find the reference for the year 1958. If there indeed WAS a reference to this, it must be obscure because it is not mentioned in any of the "time lines".
Tomorrow, I'm taking the Taurus-2 to a fly-in near Lexington, Kentucky. If conditions are right, we may attempt its first flight since the mid-1960s......please wish us luck.
Duane