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

any more?

 

bad ass thread !

 

Here are the three shots that I took.

 

Wow looks like one of the real car but I dont see the brackets for the roof ...maybe this is the drag/wheelie car Ive heard about.....damn I wish Dean Jefferies was on here,thanks for the pics..I wondwer if this is the one that was to be in alstralia

 

Let's see some more C cab show rods!

 

this is all I got today

 

I would never own one or drive one but I love lookin' at the show rods. Thanks for the memories guys.

 

I do I will and I still dig lookin at them.....

 

Here is one from back in the days at Minnesota World of Wheels

 

Also from Minnesota World of Wheels

 

anyone have a photo of the roach?.....i saw it in one of the showrods magazines..crazy

 

Is this it? We thought it was called the Roach Coach. I repaired the paint on It for Bob Larivee many years ago. We were loading it up for the next show.
RodP

 

cover of 1982 show world

 

that's it

 

I went to that show, was it really 28 years ago?

 

I wonder if Rod Powell ever did a bio/photo book of his work??

 

Stage Frieght

 

love that car,saw a pic of it in the basement of the Peterson in Hollyweird, remember the guy drivin it into the Portland roadster show one year,damn near freezin and rainin like hell said the truck broke up the road and he was runnin late.....still have a couple hotwheels of it thanks I forgott this one

 

Caspers Ghost

 

Many of these cars got scarry gaudy! But this thread reminds me of my childhood so I think I'll subscribe…

 

hell yeah join the party....its been going a year now

 

The "Roach Coach" build was contracted by Stan Peterson who owned the Roach T-shirt company in the 70's. Not sure who built it, but it may have been Dan Woods. Ed Newton had gone to Roach to be the creative director there after Roth Studios folded in the late 60's. Ed designed the Coach during his time there. It was quite a piece...too bad it wasn' seen more, but it came at the very end of the showrod era and no one cared about showrods any longer.

 

This car was originally built in Nor Cal as the Paddy Wagon. It seems to me that it may have been built by Art or Mickey Himsl.

At any rate, the builder sold it to Ray Farhner and I think he changed it into this version which was like a medicine show wagon, and then he later changed it into the Flower Truck as a part of his Boothill Express funeral procession (Boothill, Wake Wagon, Flower Truck and Escort 3 wheeler, the Escort Trike).

 

Dave Shuten made the cover of may 09 rod & custom.....too kool

 

Ray Farhner / Doug Thompson X-Ray from the cover of Rod & Custom, November 1963. Any other photos of the car out there?

 

Every time I see this damn thing it makes wanna build a C-cab!

 

Does any one have pics of roths, wishbone????

 

any of that 70's carl casper stuff..... as a kid that stuff was totally off the wall and cool as hell....the popcorn car , pool table car , pinball wizard , redd foxx wrecker , even that pac man ride by rod powell....something about a household item with a blown something and 15" wide cragars

 

1970 show world

 

Barris' Raiders Coach & Casper's Popcorn Wagon