Features Surreal Survivor

I'd leave it pretty much as is. The Kennedy Bros. collect/have some great stuff at their shop. Been a number of years since I was there but it certainly was nice seeing all they had stashed away

 

Now if you really want to be different, put an early small Y-block [1954 Mercury] in it with a BW 3 speed o/d trans and ride daddy ride. A flatty is my fave, but there's something neat about those first Y's too.

 

Hmmm ... it's heading to Minnesota? ... I wonder if Jeff @titus Bloedorn, Dale @thewildturkey46 Grau, John @Mpls 40 Sticha, or Garrett Jedlicki is its new owner ... ???

 

I would love to just sit in it for awhile! Cars like that have a certain ambiance to them that makes them so appealing.

 

I’d turn it into a hot rod.

 

I'd shove it in one of my dry outbuildings and let it sit till I got that 'he's gotta be fuckin' nuts', offer. It's already sat for 60-70 yrs, a few more ain't gonna hurt it.

 

I've become like Jerry Seinfeld with unrestored Porsche 356s when it comes to survivors like this. There is nothing wrong with driving a car with actual, original patina.

Mechanical rebuild, hold out for some original interior pieces that fit this car from other hot rods, and you're set. Value is in the dirt not in the shine...

 

I'd like to see a side shot so I can see how the windshield and top look in profile.

 

Leave it alone like others said. Dual exhaust hints at a V8 of some kind. Flatty preferred, maybe an early Olds'. I believe there's an old '32 interior in the classifieds now. VINTAGE dropped headlight bar. Get it running and safe and just clean it. New rubber. Drive the snot out of it. I'd even leave the jerry-rigged column drop. That thing is way cool. I would, but I don't think my left nut would be enough to buy it.
Andy

 

I bet that brought stupid money$$$$

 

Stupid money is just a figure of speech... if you want it!!

 

It didn't just show up at the Kennedy shop, what is the known history on the car?

 

Get it home,stuff it in a shed and read threads about "whatever happened to" and comments about hoarding.")

 

Leave the deuce alone, 59AB with all the requirements ie. carbs cam heads exhaust etc. What a great original rod . Park it where I could get clear shot with my 50 cal machine gun if a trailer parked nearby>…….._c’mon. ……….just serious

 

This baby really checks all the right boxes. It reminds me of the roadster Steve Wertheimer had "The Waco Kid" that was displayed at The Revolution Show at the power plant in original "as found" condition. I would be leaving it as found as much as possible. It is an honor to see this beauty, Thanx!

 

Yes, that’s pretty sweet.

 

If it were mine (unlikely unless it was a gift) I'd sell it to someone who likes 32s..... and I wouldn't care less what they did with it , it would then be the buyers car not mine!

 

I would wash it, gas it up, and drive it….it deserves that much at least…

 

Another awesome piece of hot rod history. Hope it stays that way.

 

WOW, what a time capsule!
There was a time when I might have done all sorts of unspeakable things to this car.
I'm better now.

 

I know it needs to remain virtually unchanged...but within a year, due to my habitual lack of self control, I'd probably have it looking like this.

 

It took 70 years to look that way people are building there cars to look that way. Get it running and leave the rest alone its only that way once.

 

My hunch would be that the new MN-based caretaker is @minnesotagarrett (that is his Instagram tag. I don’t know if he is on here)

What a neat car! The Kennedy Brothers sure do find the gold … and everything they touch it tops in my book.

 

Someone has been dabbling in too much acid

 

John -

That was my hunch as well ... I figured that when Garrett Jedlicki was in SoCal for this years GNRS (where he showed his @cole Foster built LaSalle), he might of struck a deal with the Kennedy Bros:

image & caption from minnesotagarrett's February 3rd 2022 Instagram post
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Its a great car, i cant confirm or deny who the new owner is , but can confirm its not me, nor Dales nor Jps

If i hadnt just bought my friend Louies survivor 32 ida been all over this one......

 

This car seems right enough to leave alone. Get it running, make it safe, and drive it. Looks like a killer time capsule.

Not all of them are that. Old, junky, poorly constructed and engineered, projects that have languished for decades. Those aren't survivors as much as they are victims dying a slow death. Those are the ones to blow apart and start from scratch with.

 

If Garrett is indeed the Roadster's new "caretaker", then I'm confident he "will do right" by this car ... as he's already got a traditionally-styled Deuce Roadster with shiny paint, upholstery, & an ARDUN:

@Gary Medley presents the 2016 Stroker McGurk Award to (builder) @cole Foster
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put dual carbs on it and call it a day