I have always loved this car. The #5 is my number, I have always favored five windows over three, and as I have gotten older I have come to terms with the fact that race cars get under my skin deeper than hot rods ever did. Add the Hawaiian connection on top of that and I never really stood a chance. What I did not know, somehow, was that the damn thing was yellow. In my head it was white. Always white. Locked in there like a bad memory you refuse to reexamine. I am not sure how I feel about the yellow, but I am also sure that it does not matter. The car already made its case a long time ago.
Also a fan of that yellow. There’s a real slick 5 window in a similar yellow I’ve seen lately that I absolutely love. yellow seems to be one of those colors that it’s either right or it’s wrong and the wrong gets picked a lot of the time.
Love the car - even the long nose. The color: have to be careful with some shades of yellow have a green tint. And parked on gr*** “pick up” green reflection. Believe yellow also attracts love of many bugs
Just because a TJJ Blog & its resultant H.A.M.B. thread can never have too many photos: still images from 'by Phil "Woody" Woodford (@portage)'s Vintage, Early Drag Racing In Montana-Yes, Montana! video on . . . or include some vintage color movie footage (starting at the 3 min 23 second mark): video by Phil "Woody" Woodford (@portage)
Damn, that video is AWESOME! 2 hours from where I live, I know exactly where that's at.....My uncle was probably there in a '57 Ford with a dual carb 312 (next car was a '64 Chevy II with a tunnel ram 409 that turned 10s), and I kept looking for my Merc in the video, has been in the state since new, and the last owner (Bill Austin) owned it since 1952 and put the 322 Nailhead in it that it's still got to this day. The old guys I run into now say it was one of the faster cars around in the mid '50s.....Would've been gold at the time, and unchopped....here he is in 1953 when he won his first car show with it, I believe he was 14 at the time.....We had a pretty serious hot rod scene back in the day, and I know where quite a few of the original cars from the area still are today.
I have always liked yellow and more than 40 years ago I bought a gallon of Nason to paint my model A pickup that I had driven for several years in red primer, I got talked in to painting it red and instantly hated my decision, I sold the truck a few weeks later. I still have that gallon of yellow paint, someday.......HRP
What a great story......and a GREAT setting with the beauty and wide open spaces of Montana on full display. Sitting here having flashbacks of several wonderful days meandering thru the state on our way our west to visit our daughter in Oregon. Those were the days.One scene that is still etched in my memory.....beautiful small stream running parallel to the two lane road.....railroad tracks and long coal train running on the other side of the road......beautiful weathered barn to our left.....black angus grazing close to the road.....hay baling in full swing on the left......and just down the road....a crop duster dive bombing a field and criss-crossing the highway. Big Sky.....and big memories
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