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I saw Jack’s clone in Boston in January of which year I don’t remember. There was no one around it except maybe Jack. Unfortunately I was to shy at the time to talk to him about it. Missed opportunity on my part that I regret. I still wonder where it is now. Snowman ⛄️

 

Lol! Those were the days....

Over the years I have developed more respect for the guys that build clones. Mark Moriarity shared his Car Craft Dream Rod build book at Starbirds. I was blown away listening to all of the research it took to find the correct parts. I assumed since it was Kustom you just made what you needed. Mark showed me that is not true when you are building a true clone. I don't have the desire to go to the extremes to build a clone. But I have respect and very thankful for the guys that are willing to do it. It is a lot harder to clone a vehicle than to build the original.

Jack Walkers Hirohata clone was built and cloned the right way. Very thankful that Jack and Doug Thompson teamed up to build the Hirohata. It was a very influential kustom that kept our hobby growing. Sorry to repeat myself, being able to do this with limited research materials is even more incredible. We are Blessed to have computers but the telephone was a great but expensive resource. I guess you would call the land line phone old school.....