This isn’t Facebook… we don’t really allow meaningless posts about holidays. But, Vet Day is different not only because freedom isn’t free and all that, but also because hot rodding was birthed in large part by veterans. So, post your favorite Veteran’s hot rod. I’ll start… Alex Xydias of the US Army air corps and his streamliner.
This is my Uncle Lawrence B'Ville car after Korea - not my fave but just the one I can get to....his 1950 B'Ville roadster with belly pan by his budy Dick Bertilucci would be my fave.
Automotive Service Co. would be my granpa's shop in Sac Town.....Back from Korea with a Purple Heart.......maybe where he got his hardness.......
Not a hot rod but it was my late father’s and he was a Korean War vet and my favorite? (Please delete if stretched too far!)
When I was in a Navy P-3 squadron in the late '90's in Brunswick, ME, I hosted our car club, The Knuckle Busters, to an aircraft tour & photo op. That's my '55 Chevy in the center, 2nd row. My dad bought a new '57 210 after getting out of the Army.
Dean Batchelor. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/dean-batchelor-1927-1994.416152/ Dean flew B17s with the 92nd Bomb Group in WW2 The home of drag racing in the UK and the first permanent track in Europe is Santa Pod, named after Santa Ana Drags and the local village of Podington. It is run on what was the runway of RAF Podington which is where Dean would have flow from, as starting in 1943 it was the home of the 92nd Bomb Group.
I don't have any personal photos but If @Marty Strode is watching this I know he will have some great shots of our local veterans and their early cars, others too I'm sure. Thanks to all who have served to allow us the freedoms that HAMB members and others enjoy!
There's a large group of HAMB members that are Veterans, I'd like to wish them and all my fellow Veterans a Happy Veterans Day !
Hard to see on the back window of the T bird, but it’s there. There is also one on my ‘40 Olds, but I don’t have a picture…
I hope this qualifies. Not a famous person, not a famous car. My last HAMB friendly car. Seven years in the Corps. A year in RVN.
Frank Morimoto https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...lly-traditional-hotrods.995574/#post-11217654 Quoted below from an AHRF "Frank had already volunteered and joined the army on January 31, 1941—he intended to serve a year but did five. He ended up in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 442nd Infantry Combat Team—famous for their slogan, ‘Go For Broke’. This all-volunteer, Japanese-American combat team was memorialized in the 1951 movie ‘Go For Broke’ that was nominated for an Academy Award. The 442 were the most highly decorated unit for their size and length of service in the history of the U.S. Army, with one of the highest casualty rates." https://ahrf.com/frank-morimoto/ Incredibly difficult times that I thank and remember those on the Allied Fronts Here, Above and Beyond that served and or served and paid with their lives for Freedom that we have today... Lest We Forget and Thank You for your Service
No hot rod pic, but in the spirit of the thread... I bought an old style military cap to wear while driving my hot rod roadster. If I do. I mean, when I do. I'll need some white t-shirts...
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/old-hot-rods-photos.1038554/page-2#post-11762226 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/old-hot-rods-photos.1038554/page-2#post-11762226 Shared by The Late Hamber @Rockerhead and given some background by Hamber @JimmyB "You don't see many side pics of this '32, people seemed captivated by the front end. The '32 belonged to Pat Leighton, he designed the car during WW2 while a POW in a Japanese Prison Camp." Credit to Photographers, Owners
Aubrey Jack Delaney February 13, 1926 – August 27, 2013 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...enized-hotrods.1002926/page-202#post-14179924 This would be the Late Aubrey "Jack" Delaney's Hotrod...he was a member of the Bakersfield Coupe and Roadster Club later changed to the Smokers... RIP Hotrodder and thank you for your service... Credit to Photographers, Owners
Doug, I have a few, this is Rolla Vollstedt, with Jim Clark, at Riverside I believe, one of his many drivers through the years. Here is just part of his war story.
I spent two tours in Viet Nam. My avatar is in pieces, but I helped a friend of mine fix up a 33 pick up he bought out of Kansas several years ago. In the glove box was an insurance slip from 1955. From that he was able to locate the family of the person that built the truck. He was a copilot on a B29 that was shot down on his first mission over Japan. He was captured and was prisoner with his pilot and crew. His pilot wrote a book about their ordeal. (Proof Through the Night). He sold the truck in '55 to a friend that helped him build it and it was used as a service truck for his car shop in California.
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