I'm not sure who is in that picture. There are lots of references to the car being the Dick Bergen / Doyle Gammell coupe. Doyle Gammel, one of the early members of the L.A. Roadsters, built his dark brown, full-fendered three-window back in the Sixties while he worked for Ed Roth. The top was chopped three inches in the back and three and a half in the front. The car sat lower than its contemporaries, with its polished Torq-Thrusts, Moon tank, dropped headlight bar and smaller headlights adding to its aggressive look. Doyle sold the car many years ago, but ended up missing it so much he built the one shown here. The new car is just like the original, right down to the Rochester-injected 283. After having been built and masterfully chopped by Dick Bergren and then sold to Doyle, this classic coupe made its magazine debut in the December 1963 issue of Rod & Custom, where it has appeared many times since, including the April, 1993 issue, which shows it after being bought and updated by Tom Schiffilea with a strong L-88 rat motor. The car now lives under the care of Bruce Meyer. https://public.fotki.com/LOUD-PEDAL...ford-/dick-bergren--doyle/dick-bergren-1.html
Cathedral City, CA Vernon Krings working on a car. This slide was created by Wilson Davis Ellis, an avid photographer from Cathedral City.
That is a picture of Dennis Deluca who owned the Gammell coupe in the late 60's. The photo was taken at Ft. Ord. Mick
Hello, In the early to mid 60s, some teenagers had photos on their walls. Some had posters, but the late night stories always were there, while those awful big roller hair curlers did their jobs. Then it was the large bonnet covers and motors that made huge sounds to drown out the radio sounds, too. If one’s mom was a cosmetologist, she may have had a sit down metal cone that covered the “curled” hair and was connected to the seat, just like in the salons of the time. T-Shirt or light blouse clothes in any season due to the warm air shooting on the head from the bonnetts or metal cones with more powerful motors. When I met my wife and we hung out in her room for awhile, this photo showed how she decorated her walls of the shared bedroom with her younger sister. Jnaki The posters were plastered on all 4 walls to create a rock and roll “cave” of sorts. Her blow up accessories gave way to some different photography. YRMV A time exposure photo with 35mm color slide film… Some posters are still rolled up and stored away. As my wife and I toured the L.A. /Hollywood scene, there were so many posters on telephone poles and were there for the viewing or taking. We kept most of them, put them on those walls. Later on when we had an apartment, then house, then kid and the kid grew up, he was into rock and roll music using our old LP albums. The other posters, we gave to our son for his teen bedroom + his later, office. The 60s posters and old telephone ads for concerts are still in the conditions we had back then. But, for some reason, they have not seen the light of day in a ton of years. Perhaps down the line, our granddaughter will one day find those and wonder what her grandparents did “waaaay” back then… ha!
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