SHOW RODS 60 & 70s..stories - pics ?

for the record..Im lookin for 3 of these scoops for the pie wagon......Found them!!!thanksReed

 

Do you have any more pictures of the Uncertain T?

 

Yes i do.
chuck

 

Ive got these

 

Does anyone know if the Uncertain T survived? Actually, for that matter, did any of these cars survive?

 

yeah The Uncertian T is in Recitia, Ca. sittin in a garage as per a thread on the showrod web site,Hopefully Mr Scott will bring it out again story is he sold it to a friend and is getting it back..as to the rest of them seems most are around some where,check the thread on Petersons Musuem basement,many are sittin there....showrods are alive and well in the U.S.A.

 

I found this shirt for sale on ebay under t-bucket stuff

 

anybody know what show this was?? found this on the modelcar site SHOWRODS.........whats that truck in the background..front two arre kool too...also check out the model car & box of Moriarty's car

 

meatball I believe that is cecil the deisel in the background built by starbird

 

Art Himsl's "Alien",...won the Oakland Roadster show in 1969, it was on the cover of the first Rod & Custom magazine that I ever bought!,... Dragmaster T- bucket chassis, small block Ford and a custom fibreglass body,...anybody have any more pics of it?..., or it's matching trike?

 

this is in the photo of peterson's musseum basement.thats where its sittin now.........what bike???

 

I vaguely remember a trike with a matching paint job,...I think it might have been owned by Mickey Himsl.

 

these guys must have had squirt guns full of LSD.
and when one said something sensible during a build like
"lets just use a spring over front axle"
the others were like
"ok man, open up man"
I like to look at this stuff.

 

ok lets see..........better drugs,better paint,better booze.......and no resperators in the booth....= good 70s paint jobs

 

I heart showrods....

 

hahaha
ya man
my painter still runs those routes.
I get great work.
pannels, lace work, the endless line.
I'm into it man.
great post.

 

drugs are bad, mmkay

 

I must be lost, is this the "ugly ass customs" thread?

 

This is Cecil the Deisel

 

some of these cars are legendary in the kustom car kulture scene, i love lookin at them things. they are rolling works of art.

 

I am not sure if you wanted a rear shot of this car but here is one I have, it was in the background of another shot I took.

 

aw hell .even the partridge family got into the showcar scence..Groovy dude of course it aint the MONKEEMOBILE right Metalshapes

 

thanks gatvinzoom now I'm really convinced that isn't x-treme is the photo distorted or is the car crooked?

 

One..

CC

 

Distortion for some reason, probaly when I cropped and resized it.

 

wow great news for the show rod guys.I just talked to Gary McLean from the wire wheel fame,he's still makin wire wheels up to 14 inch wide.....YES!!!! he's doing tru-spokes and his famed McLean type wheels.....any size and off set !!

 

Here's some

 

Not a full on freak show car but I found this about four years ago. It made it's debut in 1976 at the Chicagoland autorama. It had the same paint job since that time. It also had a small snippet in 1977 street rodder from that show.
You can't see it in the photos but the paint had gotten pretty bad so I saved the parts I could to hang on the wall and the rest of her has been under a rebuild to a more tradtional style.

 

Another surf rod..

 

Hey I remember that truck, have you owned it long?