Shopping Cart Seats, from Rodding and Resyling, 1957

Thought this was interesting, so i scanned it.
Here's the cover:

Next post is the article:

 

HA! That's great!

 

hot rodders never cease to amaze me when it comes to creating something cool out of nothing.

 

Damn hooligans...they done ruint two perfectly good engine trolleys!
While that's open, post the feature on the Neuman Roadster! It's a fine read on high-end teenage rodding!

 

Those little books are the best!

 

That's F'ing amazing...I love the shape of it...

 

It's become much harder to find a "good" shopping cart-the ones I've picked up lately don't have the heavy duty wheels that the ones of 30 years ago had. In fact the weight of my EL-8 ran the plastic tread right off the swivel casters. And the design of the ones featured in the magazine doesn't exist in these parts.

 

Well shopping carts are the new bomber seats.

 

HAHAHA!!!!!!

 

"And the design of the ones featured in the magazine doesn't exist in these parts."

Uhh....I think they redesigned 'em to lower the theft rate.

 

you cant return to the womb , but i'll be damned if you cant return to the shopping cart seat.. haha

 

I have a friend who works in the s**** metal business in the next little town over, i think i might have him keep his eyes out for some good seat fodder!


The Neuman roadster is awesome, you're right Bruce. I will be glad to scan that article as well for you. There's also a great article in this particular R&R about grille treatments. Viva the little books!

 

that grill thing caught my attention too

 

by the way, did anyone find the Neuman roadster? I saw a post on here posing that same question from December 2004, but no definitive answers.

 

"DAMN HOT RODDERS! Ain't nuthin' but a bunch of vandals and thieves! Playin' that..... ROCK and ROLL music and drivin' jalopies all fast and everything! Now look! Stealin' shopping carts to make seats for those death traps! Heaven help us all!"

Spoken by the lady who say that magazine on a newstand when it first came out.

We've come a long way. Haven't we? Come on guys! Say we're good now!

 

Hmmm...What happens to old shoping carts? Is there a shopping cart Junk yard somewhere?

 

Funny you should ask that. You just jarred my memory! It just occurred to me that a friend of mine, mickey, up in Cedar Springs (by grand rapids) MI actually refurbishes old shopping carts at a shop. He's a welder there! How could i have forgotten that! Boy, if this shopping cart thing catches on, maybe they won't have to refurbish them. they can just sell them to hot rodders. haha

 

Someone did a tech here a year ago or so with late-model karts.

 

Very cool, i searched for keywords "shopping cart" and yielded no results earlier. Don't happen to have a link do you? I'd like to check that out.

 

Hog Mountain Dave is in the shopping cart biz.

 

hey big a, do you know Steve from Toronto? 54 chevy?

 

Remember the Yellow Pages? ;-)

Shopping cart repair by city at the bottom of this page:

http://www.superpages.com/yellowpages/C-Shopping+Cart+&+Basket+Repair/

 

yellow pages...yeah, weren't those in a big paper book of some kind

 

Don't think so. Don't know too many car people here.

 

it was worth a shot... if you see a flat black 54 chevy 4dr. turned 2 dr. kinda g***er styled with a bamboo sort of interior, that's Steve. He's a good guy.

 

Neuman was one of the rodders who did those interviews on the HAMB a year or so ago. I had just been reading that very mag, and of course I have the later R&C article when it had a Chevy engine. I asked, and he talked about the car and his hunt for it... sounded like he knew about where it was in I think Arizona, and I think he had clues and information he didn't want to discuss. I had the feeling the car was essentially located and the parties probably knew about one another but weren't talking to one another... just ***umptions on my part. It seemed he was pretty certain car still exists and is intact.

 

Now that is CREATIVE!

 

Figures, I could have bid on about 30 shopping carts at a surplus auction a while back. They sold for all of $100 for the lot.

That said, I don't think I've ever seen one with that shape to it. But it probably wouldn't be hard to bend up some tubing to match it.