I guarantee this post just created at least 100 new modifieds that will be built in the next year. I know I'm one of them. Great pics and thanks for one of the best threads of the year!!
GREAT Photos! Thank you for posting them. That V16 Marmon with the I beam running through the frame rails was one of my favorites.
Thank you !!!!!!!! You've made christmas come early for us all! Those would make an incredible subject for a Rodders Journal story I sure would like to find that 29 chev roadster.
Wow, this thread made front page news! Thank you Ryan & thank you to everyone for the top response. I have been umm-ing and arr-ing whether to post these, I guess I made the right decision then I posted most of the post WW2 photos here <--- yes there This Roadster owned by Chuck Spurgin and powered by Bob Giovanine's 1925 Chev 4 pot topped with a 3-port off an Oldsmobile, ended the 1948 SCTA season as Points Champion, they also broke their own record at every lakes meet that year. 1947 1948 1949
THAT"S what modifieds where all about !! Love that begining framework for body tin!! I want to go back in time and feel it!!
Always nice to have the REAL mcCoy to refer to when your trying to recreate something out of the past. Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. Frank
Awe-Inspiring! ....Ryan, remember that thank-ya post i sent. This is why! Thank YOU for sharing Jimmy B!
Jimmy, again, thankyou. This has to be one of the best collections of images I,ve ever seen. I now have that final image in my head of where my latest project is going. 5 months till the shakedown..........CHEERS!!!!
For those who are not familiar there is a book full of similar photos. "When the Hot Rods Ran"... and William Carrol is the author. Don't know where you'd get it - mine was a gift. But the book documents a 1938 trip to Muroc in a '36 Ford sedan... towing a modifed. Great book. In fact there is a shot of that wrecked '36 from a few different angles. Look closely at the photo in this post. The rear wheel is missing and someone is checking out the motor. Well in this book the motor has been worked over and the caption reads, "As soon as the car's occupants were taken away, eager hot rodders removed everything worth salvaging; including engine parts and straight wheels." Again, what a great bunch of photos. Thank you for sharing them.
Jimmy : Thanx for the link to your previous post :http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139291&&showall=1 Somehow I missed most of it .. Nice to see that Curt joined us (Hamb). I sure hope Curt stayed long enough to see how much we appreciate that he & you decided to share these pix .. Klaz
The Jalopy Journal
