Art & Inspiration Traditional images that need no explanation.

My late buddy Ernie Martin's Deuce, from the 1960 Rod & Custom article. I used to see the car in our small town, and when I read the magazine I never forgot Ernie's name. I finally met him in 1983, and we built cars together for 37 years. I remembered the car having a white primer front bumper, but in the magazine they were both chrome. I asked Ern about it, and said, "did you notice in the magazine, you never saw both bumpers in the same picture"? Well, he only had one bumper at the time, and the great Peter Sukalac, allowed him to swap the bumper, front to rear, during the filming !

 

Subtle, but very nice.

 

Honest, it wasn't me. He went that way.

 

The "Orange Crate" in it's earlier days ?

 

Is that a 1932 DeSoto grill on the roadster pickup push car ?

 

Speed Gems, these lakes shots are incredible!

 

6 guys not working-check
Very dangerous puller mounting-check
Bald tires with non approved wheel chocks-check
Highly suspect modifications by hoodlums-check

Looks good to me. Just like I remember!!

 

It looks like the things that we did, too.