Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

John The "Crazyman" Taylor, a legend from Australia

 

Headed too Woodstock.....

 

I can make out one name on the deck lid, Walthers, but the other name isn’t in focus. Didn’t Wally Parks have influence over HRM and they only featured NHRA race coverage? I remember a bunch of Street Roadsters but not this one, maybe it ran at AHRA or outlaw strips. Too bad it never got any ink, it’s a great looking car.

 

@40ragtopdown @6sally6 @Bandit Billy


Hello,

When we were racing the 58 Impala in the A/Stock class, we always lined up next to the Gas Coupes and Altered Coupes/Sedans in the staging/wait lanes. So, we had plenty of time to see what was a different build. Some were hot rods for the street and drags. Some were altered to the point that although it may look as if it could be driven on the street, it was an illusion. Usually a 25% set back allowed the motor to be pushed farther back into the chassis/body area. Stock it was not.

In our weekly Drag News papers that showed results from almost every dragstrip in the USA, we saw plenty of cars at different tracks across the USA and many in California. Up in the S.F. Bay area, an Altered that looked like our favorite local Model A sedan from Reath Automotive was in the results section. It had a distinct Woodpecker decal on the side and we knew the product the Altered was using was a Clay Smith Cam Company product, which was located several blocks from our Westside of Long Beach house.

This unusual Model A sedan needs a little more information. It was built and run by Ray Callejo from the SF Bay Area. It was in a lot of car shows and as the early Drag News ad/photo shows, competed in the Altered Sedan class in those early days.

The odd aluminum covering below the body and doors may be to cover up the other SBC injected motor sitting closer to the driver sitting in the far reaches of the sedan. As the photo looks, an altered set up with 25% set back was standard and this one was a good build from Ray Callejo. It has been well documented in various articles and photo arrays.

Jnaki

It was a popular Westcoast race car and was shown in many different magazines.
From other posts from the past:

Here are a couple of drawings and some actual facts found in my research of old Altered Coupes and Sedans. There were a few multiple engine Altereds and this was one of the most popular during our time at the drags and in car shows, but it was located in the S.F. Bay Area.

The drawings and info were posted in the Friday Art Show back in August, 2020. We had never seen it in person, despite the fact that they were sponsored by Clay Smith Cams from Long Beach, CA near our old house.

If anyone has a Bay Area color photo, I would be happy to change what I thought and a digital imaging company thought was the actual color from a B/W photo. In all of the stacks of old car magazines, there must be a color photo of the multiple engine sedan.

So, does anyone have a June 1961 Hot Rod Mag or October 1961 Car Craft Magazine for comparisons?

Old Friday Art:

Ray Callejo had/has a well rounded background in hot rods and drag racing. He was at the Fremont Dragstrip with his 1931 Model A Sedan and a 283 C.I. SBC that ran in the B/Altered class. This was the Altered Coupe and Sedan Class many years before they dropped the designation and included Altered Roadsters.

Ray Callejo Model A Fremont Drags
Clay Smith Cams located in the Westside of Long Beach.
The research shows that the copyright for all show photos belongs to a person that has not made them public.

The old designation of BA-7 is no longer correct and should have read A/A-7. (with 584 c.i.)

The Model A Sedan with the twin 292 SBC motors was featured in Car Craft and Hot Rod Magazines back in the early 1960s.It has been a long time.

Note:

If no one noticed, a change of front wheels and the Model A sedan could be mistaken for an early version of a competitive gas coupe for the once popular class of Gas Coupes and Sedans at all dragstrips across the USA.

 

Wicked looking...

 

Looks like the road to the Woodstock Music Festival.

 

Yes it it. What does that have to do with Traditional Hot Rods?