Hot Rods The Real Tijuana Taxi in Hop Up #3

hey can anyone who has Hop Up special #3 tell me the name of the shop that built the Real Tijuana Taxi, the yellow tub? thanks a lot, If anyone knows anything more about it feel free to chime in to please. i REALLY like that car, and would LOVE some more info on it.

 

It really was from Tijuana and a really good guy named Matt owns it now.

*****in' little car



Tim

 

thanks dude. Anyone else got any other info? like some pictures or anything? I was lookin through my friend's hop up, so sadly i dont own the issue...

 

Matt Gamble in San Luis Obispo. The car had been in storage 20 years in Paso.

 

Any pics of it?

 

this is all i can find... the cover

 

Here's a few. When we shot the car about 6 months ago, Matt had graduated Cal Poly SLO and was living in the San Fernando Valley working at Pratt & Whitney (it IS rocket science).





The magneto is rare. He had it running but something wasn't right, the driven gear was rattling something fierce on acceleration. Matt had already modified the cover to mount the mag so he pulled the gear and was running a stock dizzy so he could drive it for the shoot. The mag has been modified to work with the manual advance on the column.


Apparently this was taxi #8.


He knows the brodie knob doesn't belong but with the gl*** laid back, there's only about a quarter of an inch of clearance with the steering wheel and his fingers are at least 3/8.

 

AWESOME DUDE!!! thanks so much.... I love this car, cant get it out of my mind now after seein it the other day. Somethin about it, it may not be the best looking, but it doesnt even matter, that tub is what its all about..

 

i love the paint on that thing!,i wonder how many hours took the painter to achieve that finish

 

nice.

 

I agree, it's a pile.. a pile of neat parts but a pile nonetheless. I do have a certain amount of respect for Matt for leaving the body crusty. It wears its history proudly.. a true survivor.

haha, I'd say around 40 years. The paint is the best part.

 

Where is this tub now? Have always been a fan of it!

 

That tub is as cool as a cool thing!

 

Sitting in a storage place languishing for its owner to bust it back out. Paging Rocketman - Paging Rocketman......

 

Cool car but good gravy you went digging deep to drag this thread out of hibernation

 

Glad I stumbled across this thread. Saw a single photo of this awhile back but never knew anything else. Great build.

 

I thought the Herb Alpert owned the REAL Tijuana Taxi???
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Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head….