The last Grasp Special '34 3 window build

Hi Geoff.The covers are great.Please keep them coming.Thanks for taking the time to do them and post them.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

 

No worries Leo, I am enjoying doing them; as you can probably tell.
Although from the lack of much written response, I think I am more enthusiastic than anyone else.
This next one is a bit plainer than the rest .
I forgot I even had this publication from 1970.

Geoff aka whodaky

 

I was looking at images on the HAMB yesterday looking for something to inspire me for a cover.
I was checking out some of the past Australian, River City Rodsters reliability runs and came across a shot of Peter Swifts '32 5W,.
Then I got to thinking, was his bucket ever featured on the cover of Custom Rodder? So I had my inspiration. I found an image of the bucket on line and worked some magic? Actually Peter's bucket is featured in the latest issue #6 of Australian Hot Rodder.
I think this is right up there with the favorites of these covers I have been doing. I think it has a great feel about it!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

That looks great Geoff, Peter, Bubby, and Corey will love it.

 

Thankyou Drewfus. I really like it.
The image of the 5W just has an old feel about it. The shot of the bucket in the garage is perfect. Then put them together on the early Custom Rodder cover and it just works.
Yeah I know the Swift clan will get a real kick out of. As will the Ford family, I suspect.
The more I look at that image, I can just see it sitting in a magazine rack at the local newsagents in the '60s

Geoff aka whodaky

 

Very cool whodaky. That one fits perfectly.

 

That will go over very well.

 

Thanks for the cover Geoff, I'm humbled and honored to have both my cars featured on one of your covers.
Interesting point, that Summer 1967 issue of Custom Rodder (Eddie's third mag) featured Russel Hicks pickup on the cover and that pic was shot just across the valley from us here in Harcourt North.
I do have one complaint though, you took a pic of my bucket off the cover of Rodding World and replaced it with GaryD's roadster LOL
BTW my bucket was never featured in Custom Rodder except for a page in the "Blast from the Past" many years later.
Excellent article on Eddie and Custom Rodder in Graham Smiths #6 issue of Australian Hot Rodder.
Thanks again Geoff,
Swifty

 

Peter I am glad you liked the cover.
Actually re the Australian Rodding World cover. I gained access to their deep dark archives and found in fact that there were 2 other possible covers that could have got the nod for that issue. So in the interests of Australian hot rodding history and perhaps folklore I thought I had best show the other 2. The first being the one I showed featuring Garyd's cool A V8 and the other one shown in this post.
That's my story and I am sticking to it. Of course it helps to have a very vivid and perhaps slightly warped sense of creative humor and imagination when coming up with this stuff. At no time through all of this do I want to offend anyone!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

And in the interests of satisfying peoples curiosity as to what Peter ( Swifty ) and I were on about. Here is the actual cover that was used all those years ago!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

Did you take that pic of the 32 roadster Geoff as at that time and place you were busily engaged in the engine bay of your coupe trying to ensure that you had enough motorvation to get you back home. And from what I was told the coupe didn't make it home that day!!

 

Yup that was the day Peter. My coupe that had been so reliable for so long. And as you are so aware it had been to hell and back on many occasions. But that day on the reliability run, it was anything but reliable.
Yes we left it at a service station, made our way home and rescued it the following morning. That's the condensed version.
But I do love that coupe, we have been through thick and thin together. It is a part of me and who I am!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

I was just going through a pile of Australian Hot Rods and came across a cover that was just screaming out to be used.

Geoff aka whodaky

 

wow how great is this, the SoCal coupe made a trip to Aus whilst the opera house was being constructed! That is some enginous hot rod strategising there Whodack! I'm hooking into your thought wavelength mate

 

Just checked the opera house was well into construction in 1966 ! Historically spot on mate !

 

ah ha Tom. As a 'phantom' magazine cover editor and chief, one must come up with new strategies to try and keep one's readership wondering.
The original cover featured a Ferrari where the the So Cal coupe is now placed and I didn't think that would be of real interest here.Maybe not my best cover ,but I like it for the fact that includes famous Australian land marks, that we as Australians can so relate to. Along with the presence of such an iconic American hot rod.
I am glad you can relate to the wavelength I am on Tom. I often wonder to myself is ' that wavelength' a good one or not. I always keep my mind active and at the moment these covers are adding fuel to that fire!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

Just completed another magazine cover!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

Cool,That manager of The Dago Speed Shop has some cool rides!..

 

Whodack wavelength = 1/frequency your frequency is off the charts man!!

Had a smashing time at Bendigo today caught up with so many friends and talked and talked and talked. I bought the bargain of the swap a 34 a frame front cut off ball end for 10 bucks!

 

Thanks for the replies guys.
Hey Al G. That's because Charlie s a cool guy. Been a long time since I have seen him, now that I think about it!
Damn Tom, now I am really worried about my mental state. ah ha.
Glad you had a good time at the swap meet. Always good therapy to catch up with friends.

Geoff aka whodaky

 

Just surfing ford barn and found this, doesn't it look familiar ?!?!??? Mmmmmm

 

Ahhhhh that's it, that's what I remember

 

Pick ups they just doing something to you ? (Just hoping that big daddy chimes in with some support on this theory? Big T can also contribute to because you had one for maybe just as long as I had mine!!)

Sorry I should have mentioned early pickups

 

Hey Tom . I agree they do look good when they are done just right and you had got yours looking pretty good I must say!
Hey was good to see you yesterday!

Geoff ak whodaky

 

Hey Tom if your reading this. You've probably got a lot on your mind at the moment. But here's a quick cover I just did to get you mind in a good place!

Geoff aka whodaky

 

The weather here today is terrible, so I thought I might do some more covers.

Geoff aka whodaky

 

And here's another for all you channeled hot rod fans out there.
I really like the blue 3W on this cover.

Geoff aka whodaky

 

just home from Bendigo swap onto the hamb and more covers nice job

 

Hey Tommy
I am a hearin ya re ol ford pickups.