Hot Rods So-Cal Coupe

I live near Scotts Valley CA, which is where Canepa Design is located. They are a high end car shop that restores, services and sells speciality cars. They have a showroom with some pretty interesting stuff, and a small museum upstairs. Both are free and open to the public. I stopped in Friday for a visit and took some pictures of the So-Cal '34 coupe that is in the museum upstairs. I thought I'd share them with you guys.

They have a Kurtis 500, a couple of vintage sprint cars and other interesting bits in the museum right now. They had a beautiful Miller race car a while back, I wish that was still there. If it's of interest I'll get some pics of the Kurtis next time...

The back window treatment (there is no window, of course) was something I hadn't noticed before.

 

Thanks

 

How come the rear window in the museum and the one on the salt are different. I saw the car at Bonneville when it was blue for years and don't remember the window that way.. I'll need to ask Jim at Bonneville next week if he is there...

 

It got an even yet deeper chop.

 

cool.

 

Supposedly Canepa Design has a cars and coffee event the second Saturday of each month April-October. The entire shop is opened up to walk around and look at the various project pretty impressive what the have and do there.

 

Iconic.

 

Here it is after the deeper chop when it was still run by So-Cal.

Mick

 

I see the sides too....didn't notice. My bad

 

Yeah, the cars and coffee thing is pretty cool. All kinds of stuff turns up in the spectator lot from Listers to rat rods to crazy exotics. The shop is pretty amazing. They have a reputation for getting real one one of a kind cars. Like this completely ORIGINAL '65 stingray with only 20,000 miles. None of the cars have price tags of course, it's about the car, not the cost.



I spent a while staring at this one, "rumored to have been originally built a the Barris shop in 1958".


If anyone is going to the next open house (October) I may see you there...

 

Thanks for sharing the up close and personal with these icons from the past.

 

I would like to se photos of the Kurtis 500.